# Joe Biden congratulates the wrong guy for winning the Boston mayoral election **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-congratulates-the-wrong-guy-for-winning-the-boston-mayoral-election/673311 "2013-11-07T04:35:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-congratulates-the-wrong-guy-for-winning-the-boston-mayoral-election/673311/1 "2013-11-07T04:35:50Z")
From [here](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/joe-biden-calls-wrong-marty-walsh-99496.html?hp=l7): > [@](#): > > After Democrat Martin Walsh won Boston’s mayoral race on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden called to congratulate him. The problem? He called the wrong Martin Walsh. > “You son of a gun, Marty! You did it," Biden told the not-mayor-elect Walsh, according to the Boston Globe. Anyone else picture Biden, flying up the B-W Parkway in his Trans Am, Marlboro red between his lips, half-empty can of High Life between his knees, Foghat blasting from the tape deck and making this call to the wrong Marty Walsh? I love our vice president! And I love [the Onion](http://www.theonion.com/topics/joe-biden/) for making him so _real_. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-congratulates-the-wrong-guy-for-winning-the-boston-mayoral-election/673311/2 "2013-11-07T04:44:40Z")
I’m just annoyed that the [Marty Walsh I know](http://www.geekhousebikes.com/about/) (very slightly) in Boston never got a phone call. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-congratulates-the-wrong-guy-for-winning-the-boston-mayoral-election/673311/3 "2013-11-07T04:59:15Z")
Shouldn’t there be a separate forum for him. Mundane Biden Stuff I Must Share? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-congratulates-the-wrong-guy-for-winning-the-boston-mayoral-election/673311/4 "2013-11-07T05:16:10Z")
Aw, cut the dude some slack, youse guyz. [He’s not a technology geek!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706590) This isn’t the guy who invented [del]paper clips[/del] the Internet, here. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-congratulates-the-wrong-guy-for-winning-the-boston-mayoral-election/673311/5 "2013-11-07T11:53:53Z")
From what I heard on the news last night, Biden wasn’t the only guy making that mistake. Not to mention the various not-that-Rob-Ford dudes on Twitter who get harassed every time that asshole crack-smoking criminal-associating mayor puts his foot in something. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-congratulates-the-wrong-guy-for-winning-the-boston-mayoral-election/673311/6 "2013-11-07T13:22:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > And I love [the Onion](http://www.theonion.com/topics/joe-biden/) for making him so _real_. My favorite is _“Obama Issues Presidential Pardon To Get Biden Out Of Jail For Third Time This Year”_.