Biden: Romney’s Bain experience ‘no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber’

WASHINGTON POST ^ | 5/22/2012 | Felicia Sonmez

[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.”

[garbanzo]

Did everyone in Democratic party forget Romney actually ran a state unlike Obama who ran nothing at all before he was elected?

[Vide]

If Romney has the nuts, he should run with this, hard:

"I'm proud to say that I'm as qualified to be President as a plumber, or an electrician, or a nurse,...."

(Anything but bloodsucking attorney or community organizer.)

[deweyfrank]

Some of my best friends are plumbers! Biden, you are a d**k h**d.

[Michael Barnes]

His whole legacy as President in the next few months will be, “First Black President”, end of story.

Yup, his legacy will be a lie due to his WHITE mother.

[CT]

Being a hair-plug testimonial and 7-11 customer doesn't get you box seats at the ball game either, Gomer.

[Jonty30]

I disagree. If you’re a successful CEO, you’ve learned how to pick qualified people for your department. This is an advantage Romney would have over Obama, who hasn’t run anything in his life.

[GilesB]

May I state this clearly:
The average US plumber is FAR better qualified to serve as president than either the current occupant of the White House or Biden.

[tobyhill]

“Update, July 25: Three weeks after we posted this story, the Obama campaign listed some additional jobs the candidate held during his college years. Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said that Obama had three summer jobs Vietor didn’t tell us about for our original article: one at a gift shop in Hawaii after his first year of college; another making sandwiches at a deli counter, also in Hawaii; and a third with a company that processed health records of police or firefighters. In addition, Vietor said, during one school year Obama worked as a telemarketer selling New York Times subscriptions over the phone. Without additional information, which we have asked for but which, so far, has not been provided by the campaign, we haven’t been able to independently verify this information.”

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/07/obamas-work-claim/

Obama’s resume.

[CrazyIvan]

I’d be careful about mentioning plumbers if my name was so similar to bidet. Kind of invites jokes.

[taterjay]

Joe the Plumber was the one that exposed Obama’s true thinking concerning wealth. Didn’t Slow Joe just tell us the other day about his parents and grandparents telling him he could be anything he wanted to be because he lived in AMerica. Sorry plumbers, but you are no longer qualified to become president. Joe told us so.

[deweyfrank]

I’ve never been called Gomer before. But I did have box seats at the Phillies/Nats game last night.

[golf lover]

If all the politicians disappeared the world wouldn’t miss a beat. If all the plumbers disappeared we would be up to our necks in SH*T!

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Obama was never even a plummer! I would trust Joe the Plummer over this community organizer. As we have seen, Obama just isn’t up for the job.

[magellan]

Let’s talk qualifications:

35 years of age.

Natural Born Citizen.

Questions?

[magellan]

Let’s talk qualifications:

35 years of age.

Natural Born Citizen.

Questions?

[Brandonmark]

Which one was more qualified?
(Hint: the one on the right)

[LtKerst]

“Rimshot”

Thats a good one...Haa Haa Haa!

I think there could be someone who could be worse than Obama......

As Bugs Bunny would say...”What a Maroon”

He He He...

[Hammer Tym]

Does Plugs realize that some plumbers are members of UNIONS, who launder money for the DNC? Probably not...

[capydick]

What a dumb ass - my plumber would be a better President than the current occupant. And - he’s disparaging plumbers with this statement but is too stupid to realize it.

[TexasRepublic]

Fubo never ran so much as a lemonade stand.