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Joe Biden: I wouldn't want 'a real job'
WorldNetDaily ^ | April 1, 2012 | Drew Zahn

Posted on 04/01/2012 11:39:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Vice President Joe Biden, long known for making embarrassing verbal gaffes, echoed the cynical criticism many people levy against career politicians, stating he had stayed in the Senate for 36 years because he didn’t want to get “a real job.”

Biden was speaking to a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night, when he turned to praise the work of Richard M. Daley, the city’s former mayor of over 20 years.

“I never had an interest in being a mayor, ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce,” Biden said, according to a White House pool report. “That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.”

Biden was elected to the Senate in 1972 directly from the county council of New Castle County in Delaware at the age of 29. He turned 30 – the minimum age to become a senator – less than two months before taking office. Biden then served continuously as Delaware’s senator until 2009, when he became Barack Obama’s vice president.

Byron York of the Washington Examiner notes that Biden’s remarks recalled criticism Sarah Palin, a former mayor, posited at the 2008 Republican National Convention against Barack Obama. Both had been charged with inexperience – Palin as a former small-town mayor with only a couple of years under her belt as Alaska’s governor, Obama as a former community organizer with only a couple years under his belt as a U.S. senator.

“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer,” Palin said, “except that you have actual responsibilities.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Delaware; Campaign News; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2012; biden; obama; palin
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If we had real journalists this would be a story for days. Don't hold your breath.
1 posted on 04/01/2012 11:39:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe he can get a pretend job in prison.


2 posted on 04/01/2012 11:49:22 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

To quote Bugs Bunny: What a maroon!


3 posted on 04/01/2012 11:51:19 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you,Pumpkin. You are the best cat in the world. You're my Sweet Pea.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The real question: Who would hire him????? And for what? I would not trust him to walk my dog.


4 posted on 04/01/2012 11:54:39 PM PDT by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

LOL


5 posted on 04/01/2012 11:55:59 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

Nah,What’s up,doc?

That “maroon” thing always comes to mind when someone says something really stupid.


6 posted on 04/02/2012 12:02:54 AM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you,Pumpkin. You are the best cat in the world. You're my Sweet Pea.)
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To: NCDave

I’m sure your dog has more brains than “Bosniacs” Biden.


7 posted on 04/02/2012 12:03:43 AM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you,Pumpkin. You are the best cat in the world. You're my Sweet Pea.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Think and be ready ... we could use a little help here, ;o)

Top Ten Things Dick Cheney is gonna do now that he has a new heart!

#1 Drill baby drill.
#2 Kick Bill Mahers ass.
#3 Take Joe Biden Quail hunting.
#4 Front row tickets for Drop Kick Murphys

8 posted on 04/02/2012 12:14:33 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In only ten more months he can start blaming his
incompetence on comrade obama instead of GWB.


9 posted on 04/02/2012 12:42:16 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You have to hand it to liberals; At least they let the mentally challenged get involved in politics as well.


10 posted on 04/02/2012 12:45:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between lose and loose.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought court jester WAS a real job.


11 posted on 04/02/2012 1:57:34 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: stylecouncilor
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12 posted on 04/02/2012 2:27:28 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump


13 posted on 04/02/2012 3:26:12 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: Liberty Valance

It’s hard to look manly on a segway.


14 posted on 04/02/2012 3:38:47 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What kind of Job could Joe get?
He does not seem qualified to do ANYTHING.
I guess he could be the doofus in a stand up comedy pair....maybe Costello from Abbot and Costello.


15 posted on 04/02/2012 3:56:30 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Biden: head of the Occupy Dunce Cap movement...


16 posted on 04/02/2012 4:21:55 AM PDT by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Worthless, useless POS. Why do the people of Delaware keep sending that fool/idiot/buffoon back for so many 6yr terms? Are there that many lib-dems there? Don’t know; must be if they have done so. Answered my own question.


17 posted on 04/02/2012 4:23:25 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'd vote for a "orange juice can", before 0bummer&HisRegimeFromHell, gets another 4yrs. Can-> later.)
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****Why do the people of Delaware keep sending that fool/idiot/buffoon back for so many 6yr terms?****

To keep him out of Delaware and punish the rest of us!


18 posted on 04/02/2012 4:33:15 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Newtrition - soul food for a starving America.)
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To: carriage_hill

Biden is by far the most worthless, useless dumbest Vice President in history. The leftest state run media always made fun of Dan Quayle, but Quayle has always been way smarter than the clown buffoon Biden.


19 posted on 04/02/2012 4:50:43 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I remember when Biden was nominated, our local political reporter laughed, saying Biden was a gaffe machine. Having been intensely interested in politics for the past three decades, I was surprised to hear it, thanks to the LSM covering for him.


20 posted on 04/02/2012 5:00:06 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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