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Posted on 05/22/2012 7:03:26 PM PDT by tobyhill
Vice President Biden on Tuesday weighed in on the ongoing debate over Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, arguing at a New Hampshire campaign event that the presumptive GOP nominee’s investment-firm background no more qualifies him to serve as president than would experience working as a plumber.
“Your job as president is to promote the common good,” he said, comparing the job of a president to that of a private equity mogul. “That doesn’t mean that private equity guys are bad guys; they’re not. But that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber!”
Biden, who spoke to a crowd of over 450 supporters and students at Keene State College, called the private-equity business itself “legitimate,” but pushed the administration’s argument that its imperative of wealth creation for investors doesn’t translate to the skill set of a national leader.
“Folks, making money for your investors, as Romney did very well, is not the president’s job,” he said. “The president has a different job.”
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And being a 36-year Amtrak bar-car commuter to the Senate makes you what?
And what were Obama’s qualifications for being president?
Joe the question should be how could a “community organizer” compare to someone who has run a business, run a state and saved the Olympics?
And Rimshot’s hairplugs ‘no more qualifies him to be vice president than being a hair dresser’. Rimshot’s hairplugs are either too tight or he’s starting to worry about Hillary taking his job.
He’s black.
Obviously the Obama regime has serious contempt for the average hard working man. Successful plumbers are exceptionally hard working individuals and are excellent representatives of the American “can do” work ethic.
I’m not a big Romney supporter but his qualifications are certainly better than O’s. If he wasn’t a RINO he would be perfect.
If we use the NY Times' new classification system that would be the first "white african American president" [lower cases all intentional]
I guess the dems have given up on the plumber vote.
Whats wrong with being a plumber? It is a much more honorable profession than management consultant, or investment banker pimp whore.
Interesting choice of professions for this comparison. As it happens, Joe the Plumber would have been much better than Obama, and Joe Biden seems oblivious to that obvious fact.
I love it! These lines just don’t make themself up!
Zer0’s experience is:
Never wrote a paper whilst the Head of Harvard’s law school!
Never had a job where anyone ever reported to him.
Never worked in the private sector.
Failed (per his personal account) at being a “community organizer”.
Voted “present” in many IL legislative votes, while the rest of his tenure has been “lost”!
Attended the US Senate for a few days, before the One declared that he was ripe for the Presidency!
Never even set up a lemonaid stand to learn how to count ‘change’, or ‘hope’ for that matter!
And he questions his opponent? And the unwashed lap it up!
(Is this about Joe the Plumber?). No job is stupid or dishonorable, I wish Biden’s own plumbing to go to crap and a nice boycott on repairs to his problem.
Interesting how democrates get away with belittling soldiers and workers like that after saying they are the party of the little people.
American idolers are idiots for voting in self hate like this.
What a dumb cluck Biden is.
Come on, fair 's fair. Obama did some hack work in landlord tenant court for that Chicago slumlord Rezko.
So Biden is now confessing that Obama was unqualified for public office?!!
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