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Joe Biden Reminisces About Sitting in Rev Wright’s Church, Slams Romney in NAACP Speech

Joe Biden Reminisces About Sitting in Reverend Wrights Church, Slams Romney in NAACP SpeechVice President Joe Biden addresses the NAACP annual convention, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

(The Blaze/AP) – Vice President Joe Biden, filling in for President Obama, addressed the NAACP National Convention Thursday and argued a Mitt Romney presidency would be detrimental to America’s future.

But Biden curiously started his speech by reminiscing about sitting in Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church. It seems an odd thing to do as Obama has been trying to distance himself from the controversial figure since 2008. He also gave a special shout out to someone named “Mouse” who he said, “got my back a bunch of times.”

(Related: Jeremiah Wright: America‘s Elite Colleges Infect Black People’s Brains With ‘White Racist DNA’)

“It is not an exaggeration, were it not for the leadership of the NAACP, for the men and women who educated me when we‘d sit over in Reverend Wright’s church as we’re talking about desegregating the Rialto and the Queen movie theater. Remember Mouse, those days? I learned so much, I learned so much, and I owe so much.”

Watch the video here:

Biden addressed the annual convention the day after Romney said he’d do more for African-Americans than Obama, the nation’s first black president. Romney was booed when he said he‘d repeal Obama’s sweeping health care reform law but otherwise got a polite reception as he reached out to a traditionally Democratic voting bloc.

(Related: Romney Draws Boos After Hammering Obama on Black Unemployment, Health Care in NAACP Speech)

The vice president went on to explain two very different visions for the future — one with Romney as president and another with Obama as president in his second term.

Biden never directly responded to Romney’s argument that he could serve blacks better than Obama, choosing instead to dissect Romney’s policy proposals. He said the former Massachusetts governor’s agenda would hurt black working families, and he outlined detailed differences between Obama and Romney on health care, education, energy, women’s rights and research.

“We see a future… where every woman has unfettered access to contraception and family planning if she desires it. In short, we see America where our daughts have every, and i mean every, opportunity our sons have,” Biden said. ”Governor Romney and his allies in Congress see a different future for women in America.”

He then accused Romney of advocating social policies that are “basically a throwback to the 50s” and having a foreign policy similar to that of the “Cold War” of the 1960s because he sees Russia as a threat.

“This guy’s vision of the future of American foreign policy is mired in the Cold War and the Cold War is over,” Biden added.

Then there was this gem where Biden was addressing education: “Children should be educated to the degree they are educable.” Educable? Watch the video below:

Obama did not speak to the NAACP this year, appearing instead in a taped video message. In the brief remarks, Obama said: “I stand on your shoulders and at the NAACP you have always believed in the American promise.” He reiterated many of the themes of his re-election campaign, saying the nation needs to “build an economy where everyone can have the confidence that the hard work will also pay off.”

The president said he was sorry he couldn’t be there in person. Obama had no public events scheduled Thursday but was to be interviewed at the White House, along with first lady Michelle Obama, by Charlie Rose of CBS News.

In Obama’s absence, Biden defended the administration’s policies while warning of what a Romney presidency would bring to civil rights. He asked attendees to “imagine” what the Justice Department would be like under a Romney administration and “imagine when his senior adviser on the Constitution is Robert Bork,” the Republican Supreme Court nominee who was defeated by Democrats in 1987. Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time.

Biden said there was a lot more he could say on protecting voting rights but that he was “preaching to the choir.“ ”Say it, say it,” many in the crowded responded. As Biden was wrapping up, he said, “Let me close, my friends,” prompting members of the audience to boo and yell, “No!”

Biden then insinuated that Republicans were trying to diminish the voting rights of minorities, receiving sustained applause when he talked about the administration’s efforts to expand voting rights.

“Remember, remember what this at its core was all about, why this organization at its core was all about,” Biden said. “It was about the franchise. It was about the right to vote, because when you have a right to vote, you have a right to change things and we, the president and I and Eric [Holder] and all of us, we see a future when those rights are expanded not diminished.”

“Did you think we’d be fighting these battles again?” people in the crowd answered in unison, “No.”

Though his speech appeared to be well received by those in attendance, CBS reporter Rodney Hawkins reportedly tweeted, “Seats are pretty empty minutes before Biden is set to speak.” He included this photo:

(Source: Twitter)

This is a breaking story and updates will be added.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments (114)

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  • countryfirst
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Exactly The cold war is over, done by peace through strength. Not bowing to world leaders. I hope Romney goes on a No apology tour.

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:59pm

      I‘m not sure I’d say the cold war truely ended… It just kind of ‘froze to a stand still’… In no way would I believe that the ‘collapse’ of the Berlin Wall ended the war (as it had little effect on most of the nations who were originally involved in the cold war).

      Now things are starting to thaw between many of the powers involved. Cuba is still a problem, North Korea is still a problem (the cold war has never truly ended bewteen us and them), China is starting to flex its muscles at us… Russia is starting to go back to its cold war ways. Cuba is still not our friends… How many more communist/socialist countries can we name that still have America in their sights?

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:01pm

      Micheal Barry played that opening duet song from “ all in the family yesterday ” on his radio show, when it got to the part where Archie sings, ” didn’t need no welfare states, ” followed by Edith singing, “ everybody pull his weight ” I almost started crying…..we have gone from , soaring Eagles to dependent PIDGEONS…..in my lifetime, and I’m still pretty young……this is all by design, I now feel like we actually lost the cold war…..

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Is joe secretly working for the Romney campaign ?

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:36pm

      He’l lprobably nominate Rick Santorum as his running mate.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:48pm

      BIDEN is the best anti-Obama tool we have.

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    • Make them stop
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:45pm

      That’s Crazy Uncle Joe.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:20pm

      The two pictures of Plugs are significant.
      The first shows the size shoe Joe is used to stuffing into his mouth.
      The second shows him opening wide for said footwear.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:42pm

      “And he sold his soul to the company store” comes to mind every time I hear Biden lie and make a dam fool of himself. You have a young wifie Joe, stop acting like an old idiot. Even your hair plugs don’t help you.
      There is no woman in this country who does not have unfettered access to birth control. I resent hearing you making this statement.

      In fact, I resent you and what you stand for. You were chosen because you‘re such a fool and that’s what O needed at the time. He‘s a liar and you’re the fool and that makes a good combination for anything except the White House. Hit the Road Jack.

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    • Ramrod64
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:35pm

      the only people who know what Joes talking about is the little space-aliens that occupy his head!!!

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  • Altair
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:43pm

    I’m sick to death of the unmitigated race crap. White America elected a black president; 13% of the population, the blacks, didn’t do it alone, although a guaranteed 13% block vote of an electorate is a pitiful commentary on the collective intelligence of 100% of said block.

    “He then accused Romney of advocating social policies that are “basically a throwback to the 50s.”

    I’m getting that way, too

    The 1850s.

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    • adastra2005
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:11pm

      Well said.

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    • Popp40
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:15pm

      But did you get what Obama said in his recorded video…In the brief remarks, Obama said: “I stand on your shoulders and at the NAACP you have always believed in the American promise.”

      They don’t realize by him standing on their shoulder that they are beneath him and he is holding them down.

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    • DIR
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:47pm

      @POPP40: They don’t realize by him (Obama) standing on their shoulder that they are beneath him and he is holding them down.

      Worse, O is like a huge bird, he’s crapping all over them. They apparently like it though? I can hardly imagine, the sink, the flies.

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    • cosette
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:36pm

      Joe Biden = Life insurance for Ovomit, and comic relief for the rest of us.

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    • ImaCountess
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:27pm

      Yeah…‘the 1850s’ So basically the left is saying, “Stay away from the blacks…they’re our property.”

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    • Ramrod64
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:32pm

      what I got was a bad feeling that if he is re-elected we will not have a country.

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:42pm

    My daughter now calls any major screw up a Biden. I hope it catches on

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  • HKS
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:42pm

    Psst, hey Joe, your white, don’t tell anyone.

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    • IOWAGIR
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:47pm

      OMG! That is what I was thinking. Every time he speaks to a group of Blacks he turns on the brother talk. What is up with that. How insulting. And do they not catch on? Someone needs to slap the **** out of him for that.

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    • timarina
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:12pm

      hint: your is one word. you’re is another. they don’t mean the same thing.

      why are all racists so illiterate?

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:19pm

      Yeah, about as insulting as when Hillary tried to talk like a black person at a meeting in 08 when she was running, trying to kiss up to the blacks. She sounded like an idiot.
      I‘ve often wondered if they didn’t feel insulted and being mocked?

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:33pm

    I wish that fifty foot hand behind him would swat him like fly…….whammmm

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  • JohnLarson
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:32pm

    Say whatever you want about Joe, but he’s a nice friendly well-meaning guy.

    You can exactly fear monger about Joe fricken Biden.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:48pm

      No, he’s a dipsh@t……

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    • JohnLarson
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:55pm

      The right wing would hate anyone who was Obama’s vice president, even if the liberal Reagan came back from the dead and served.

      That says nothing about Joe himself.

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    • mrqstixx
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:36pm

      Uhhh. No !

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:32pm

    See, NAACP, Joe is just one of the brothers. Love that Rev. Wright, right guys?

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:48pm

      The NAACP didn’t “see” … the auditorium was almost empty … he must have been talkin to the mouse running around the floor.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:29pm

    Yeah joe, keep bringing up rev wright…….I’m sure the Obama campaign loves you for that…..idiot.

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  • Dde13
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:29pm

    He Didn’t use any facts about the black unemployment or People are able to live independent lives without the aid of the government. since he and his commie boss were elected. oh wait, the dems are all about you NEED US, WE KNOW BETTER THAN YOU…..
    When he talks he reminds of coaches at half time when your down Big and need a miricale to Win. I guess if you YELL what you say it MUST BE TRUE.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:26pm

    I have to wonder at times if Biden is the worst opponent of the Obama administration; by default and cluelessness or by design via manipulation by others of the Leftists who want Obama ousted, such as Hillary and Napoletano.

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  • Ted Zeppelin
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:25pm

    Joe Biden is an icon for success in the Communist Party. Joe knows filthy politics as an experienced praticioner.

    Like the majortiy of over paid government employees, Joe couldn’t be successful outside the bureaucracy and certainly has no business sense. He couldn’t sell Vasolene at a Gay Pride Picnic without taking it in the shorts.

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:24pm

    From what I heard of the Speech it really came down to this:
    You Got A Fellow Black into the Highest Office In the Land!
    Race Uber Alles.
    Race is Everything Enlightened Self Interest is to be Ignored.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:21pm

    Looks like about twenty people showed up to see this moron speak…..they have got to see the writing on the wall…..I predict a landslide loss for socialism, and the coat tails will reach to city councils and judges…”…and dog catcher…”.

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  • lessoneleg
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Jumpin’ Joe Biden in the Afro-centric Church, what a laugh, huh? Talk about a ******* in a house of ill repute.
    Hello Joe, ah, you aren’t wanted there. In fact, listen to the words coming out of the mouth of the Pastor Leader Rev. Wright. White Devils are causing his bretheran all this hard ship, White Devils are swindelling his Peoples. White Devils are to be removed and replaced by a Super Colony of Brotha‘s and Sista’s. Listen Joe to the words of the supportive New Black Panthers. If you aren‘t it’s so grossly offending that Blacks can say all that and more without a whisper of racism (Black Racism) from your liberal media.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:23pm

      SO does this mean the G** D*** chickens are going to roost in Bidens head?
      He embarrasses me everytime he speaks.
      OMG 2012

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Comrades, I swear that Joe Biden was selected more as Dear Leader’s life insurance policy than for any other reason!
    How anyone this dumb can become VP tells you just how bad a shape this country is in!

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    • timarina
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:51pm

      Oh yeah, he must be real dumb. Elected to the Senate 7 times. What have you accomplished, Hisoryguy48? You know, if you hate our great nation that much, you can just leave. We won’t miss you one bit.

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  • strawberry411a
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:16pm

    This guy would sell his soul for a 20 dollar bill. White liberals are to blame for the state this country is in, not the millions of criminal minorities infesting the cities.

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  • dublinthewagons
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:10pm

    He is talking about this communist administrations rights being expanded. Not the American peoples rights. Bide is catholic what is he doing setting in Rev. Wrights church? Can he prove he has ever set in on Wrights cermons, or just more lies on lies on lies.

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  • jackact
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:07pm

    Ha ha ha….Biden pandering to the black vote he ready has.
    But it won’t be enough.
    Who knew ‘lying’ Biden enjoyed black liberation Ideology hate speech?
    Racist.

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:16pm

      From what I am hearing … it didn’t wash .. the NAACP members wanted the hear from Obama and got Biteme.

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  • BehindTheMouth
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:07pm

    Is that picture for real? If so that is way to funny…..

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  • LB
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:06pm

    I think he had a brain transplant when he had his plugs done. They used the brain of a jackle.

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    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:12pm

      Biden has a brand new brain. It has never been used. It never will be used

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  • Crazy Times
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:04pm

    “It was about the right to vote,because when you have a right to vote you, have a right to change things and we, the president and I and Eric [Hodler] and all of us, we see a future when those rights are expanded not diminished.”

    – Oh gee. I hope they expand the right to vote to where i can vote for King Kong to be Mayor of the Moon…

    This man is insults US (yes, that can be interterpreted both ways) every time he speaks…

    Hopefully US will expand our rights come November, see if Joey-Joe feels diminished then….

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:00pm

    Hey Mouse! I sure as heck would not want to be part of a group identified as the educators Joe Biden. It’s not a resume enhancer.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:58am

    Joe Biden is reason enough to NOT vote for Obama ……..

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:13pm

      Absolutely……………….look at the empty seats…lol

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  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:57am

    What a disgusting P O S ..

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  • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:56am

    Ever notice how Biden’s eyes turn black as night when he rages in speeches? I do believe he is possessed by Satan. For real.

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    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:18pm

      His speeches remind me of a braying jackazz, edumicted in a mental institution.

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