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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNaomi Biden about her father, Hunter
Though the whole world knows his name, no one knows who he is.
Here's a thread on my dad, Hunter Biden - free of charge to the taxpayers and free of the corrosive influence of power-at-all-costs politics. The truth of a man filled with love, integrity, and human struggles:
My dad has never sought the spotlight. Growing up, when I attended political events with my pop people would ask if I was Beaus daughter or Beaus brother's daughter. He liked it that way. He found his purpose in doing everything in his power to help Beau achieve his dream.
He and Beau were one. One heart, one soul, one mind.
They grew up with the weight of knowing that each day they lived was a day that their sister, my namesake, and their mother lost. But they had each other and that would be enough. They would make sure it was enough.
After graduating college, not certain what he could do well but certain he wanted to do good, he joined the Jesuit Volunteer Core - A catholic organization working on behalf of marginalized groups and devoted to community and social justice. This is where he would meet my mom.
His dream was to attend Yale Law School, but he was rejected. He started his 1L year at Georgetown instead, he and my mom simultaneously preparing for the start of a family. I was born not just the day of, but in the middle of his civil procedure final exam.
He left the exam and rushed to meet my mother in the hospital. A good family friend still likes to joke about picking him up to take him to the hospital - dressed in a suit too big for him and still in the early days of a life of unknowable adventure.
Later that year, he applied to Yale as a transfer student. He thought he had no chance, but my mom believed in him and, more importantly, them together. For his personal statement, he wrote a poem. Something they encourage you strongly against doing.
He received a letter from Yale saying that the dedication and hard work he had devoted to his study of the law at Georgetown made him more than qualified, but that the poem, unlike anything else they had ever received, earned him a spot at Yale Law.
The 3 of us moved to New Haven into a house that, although no bigger than my freshman year dorm room, was all we needed to call home. Every night they put me to sleep to our anthem - 3 Is A Magic Number, from Schoolhouse Rock.
Supporting the three of us off nothing more than his student loans and the cash he saved working summers through high school and college (often w/ beau, including at a meat packing plant - long story lol), he* graduated from Yale Law.
*the three of us
After graduation, he put his dreams on hold to take a job that would ensure that anything was possible for me and my sisters. He used that money to pay off not only his own student loans, but my uncle Beaus college and law school loans so that he could pursue his dreams too.
When my uncle got sick, my dad never missed a single doctors appointment or chemo treatment. When he got sicker, my dad lived out of a suitcase and slept in the chair next to his hospital bed for two months. He held his hand as he lost his brother and a big piece of himself too.
The pain he has endured would be enough to make a lesser man give up on life all together. But despite the best efforts of an cruel few to destroy a private man, he is sober, happy, and as at peace as ever today because as long his family needs him, he has not lost his purpose.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)chowder66
(9,093 posts)MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)He sounds like a Biden.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,228 posts)To lose his mother and baby sister in that horrible car accident, to be seriously injured with Beau, then to lose Beau to cancer. He's been through SO MUCH (so has Joe). Yes, he's had his challenges, but in the end, he is a BIDEN. Unless the Trump spawn want be to be held to the same standards, I suggest they all STFU.
And the Bidens have never pushed the "racehorse theory" of genetics.
soldierant
(6,940 posts)I would have said "Well played," but this is not a game.
Tanuki
(14,926 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)They are cruel. They are unthinking. They do not see people, but objects for their own use.
That's the difference between the Bidens and the Trumps. Each person has to choose who they want to be associated with.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Hekate
(90,924 posts)Bettie
(16,138 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 23, 2020, 06:53 PM - Edit history (1)
Also, shallow, but what a handsome young man he was and his daughter was cute as can be.
ETA: I do not mean that Mr. Biden is shallow, but that I am talking about his looks. FFS.
niyad
(113,700 posts)Bettie
(16,138 posts)someone's looks or clothing, since they have little to do with who they actually are.
There are people who do not fit our society's view of attractiveness who are amazing people and people who, while outwardly fitting the definition of beauty are horrible inside inside.
So, shallow, as in not looking below the surface.
By all accounts he is a fine man.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Shallow? The memories I have of my father in a sweaty khaki shirt & pants with concrete splattered on his cuffs when he got home from work are some of my most cherished.
Bettie
(16,138 posts)I was for mentioning his looks.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Not even sure where you are coming from or why.
You cannot judge a book by it's cover - or anyone by a picture, or their looks - that is just plain wrong. It's something the Killer Clown would do.
My advice is self delete all these posts - you are digging a hole for yourself big time.
But good luck and vote JoE!
Bettie
(16,138 posts)It was shallow on my part to comment on his looks.
People are more than the surface, there are wonderful people who are not conventionally attractive and conventionally beautiful people who are awful.
Thus, it was shallow of me to comment on looks.
Jeez. Why do some people go immediately to malicious intent?
ms liberty
(8,615 posts)I don't think he wanted to get it. Now me, I got it even without your edits. I also thought immediately that he (Hunter) was incredibly attractive in that photo.
Bettie
(16,138 posts)Again, good to know I'm not losing it.
AZ8theist
(5,521 posts)Seems more than a few DUers around here don't understand the written word. Or sarcasm. Or humor. Or anything.
Frustrating.
Bettie
(16,138 posts)everyone is on edge with all the stuff happening in our country.
Thank you!
mahina
(17,725 posts)I understand, I skim sometimes too. But give it a go.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Bettie
(16,138 posts)very much.
I did not think it was unclear at all. I see comments like this regularly and I don't assume that the person is trying to be malicious.
Again, thanks.
dflprincess
(28,089 posts)For what it's worth, I had the same thought about the picture.
Bettie
(16,138 posts)because I didn't think it was unclear either.
I generally don't comment on people's appearance, but this was such a wonderful picture and they looked so happy and beautiful, I couldn't resist.
And you know, if I had simply commented that they were attractive, someone would have got mad that I commented on appearance. Sigh. Can't win, everyone is too tense these days.
tblue37
(65,502 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)Nothing handed to him, worked for everything.
Bettie
(16,138 posts)and about him being with his brother every day when he was ill. Made me cry.
SallyHemmings
(1,823 posts)Just trying to get through life, find a way like the rest of us mere mortals.
The Biden name was no doubt a blessing and a curse.
I wish him and his family peace.
Bettie
(16,138 posts)Oh, wait, I'm pretty sure they've already had their children sign NDA's.
AZ8theist
(5,521 posts)Uday and Kusay Doturd are useless, low life scum. Never worked a day in their miserable lives for anything. Compared to the Biden kids, they are nothing but trailer trash.
And to think the rubes want Uday to take over for Dead Leader some day....
colorado_ufo
(5,739 posts)As I wrote in another post, we need a new Greatest Generation.
Hunter:
niyad
(113,700 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,662 posts)such wonderful people
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)niyad
(113,700 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)niyad
(113,700 posts)Cassidy
(202 posts)His treatment by the R's is just one more sign of their intractable cruelty.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Still crying. Beautiful and sad.
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)takes a strong and good man to live in a shadow like that.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Sucha NastyWoman
(2,759 posts)But without the money.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden and others.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)PatSeg
(47,691 posts)This family touches me in ways no one else can.