He’s Still Special: Biden: I don't want 'real job…you have to produce'

[Conan71]

Of course I'm sure this has been taken out of context 

Vice President Joe Biden offered a frank assessment of his career in remarks at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night.  According to a White House pool report, Biden, surrounded by the city's movers and shakers, praised former Mayor Richard M. Daley and then said: "I never had an interest in being a mayor 'cause that's a real job.  You have to produce.  That's why I was able to be a senator for 36 years."

Biden was elected to the Senate in November 1972, when he was 29 years old.  When he took office in January 1973, he had turned 30, the minimum age set in the Constitution for membership in the Senate.  Biden served in the Senate from that time until January 2009, when he became vice president.

From an opposite perspective, Biden's remarks recalled the criticism Sarah Palin, a former mayor herself, once made in 2008 about then-candidate Barack Obama's qualifications to be president.  "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," Palin told a cheering at the Republican National Committee that year.  Now, Biden says being a mayor was something to be avoided "'cause that's a real job."

At the fundraiser, Biden also assessed his and Obama's re-election prospects.  He expressed confidence in their chances against any of the Republican candidates, but also concerns about the campaign being overtaken by events.  "I don't think we'll be beaten by those candidates," Biden said.  "I think we'll be beaten -- if we are -- by something happening in the Eurozone, or something happening in the Gulf, which could be difficult for us, or this barrage of Super PAC money.  But even with that, I feel good."

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Yeah, because we all know losing the election couldn't be the fault of two men who never produced anything in their entire lives.

[Gaspar]

Of course I'm sure this has been taken out of context 

Yeah, because we all know losing the election couldn't be the fault of two men who never produced anything in their entire lives.

Pour a few drinks in him and he's hilarious.

I'm gonna miss that guy.

[Hoss]

Pour a few drinks in him and he's hilarious.

I'm gonna miss that guy.

Unless the Repubs find someone more viable to appeal to the indies, you may not miss him at all...

[dbacks fan]

Who is this Joe Biden guy?

[TheMindWillNotLetGo]

Of course I'm sure this has been taken out of context 

Yeah, because we all know losing the election couldn't be the fault of two men who never produced anything in their entire lives.

I see that article as one or both of two things:

1) a prime example of how dry wit does not translate to the written page.

and/or

2) a politician gladhanding

In either case, I fail to see this as newsworthy.

[nathanm]

Yeah, because we all know losing the election couldn't be the fault of two men who never produced anything in their entire lives.

I think that applies to most of us who aren't working in a factory or in food service.

[guido911]

Ya know who is a legal scholar? Al Franken...

"He has been one of the leading legal scholars," Biden said of Franken today, according to the pool report. He also said that Franken "is deadly serious" as a senator. He made the comments while recalling concerns that then-candidate Franken could not be taken seriously as a Senate candidate given his SNL work.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/biden-al-franken-leading-legal-scholar/475576

Crazy Uncle Joe at it again...

[AquaMan]

I see that article as one or both of two things:

1) a prime example of how dry wit does not translate to the written page.

and/or

2) a politician gladhanding

In either case, I fail to see this as newsworthy.

1)Dry wit is not on the menu around here.

2)If this had been Will Rogers, and it sounds like something he would say, we would all be grinning and laughing.

3.Your failure to see this as newsworthy is no failure at all.

[Teatownclown]

[Conan71]

Okay Joe, here's your Crayons and some shiny things, go back to your room.

[Townsend]

Okay Joe, here's your Crayons and some shiny things, go back to your room.

Looks like both sides are saying the same thing about each other.  I wonder who will be the most convincing.

[Gaspar]

Yesterday he called to congratulate the wrong guy in the Boston Mayoral race.  Now he's going to visit some Martinez guy that he thinks is president of Panama.

We really need to do a better job of screening who we give an Obamaphone to!

Either that, or we just give the NSA the authority to disconnect his calls before they become embarrassing.

[Conan71]

Yesterday he called to congratulate the wrong guy in the Boston Mayoral race.  Now he's going to visit some Martinez guy that he thinks is president of Panama.

We really need to do a better job of screening who we give an Obamaphone to!

Either that, or we just give the NSA the authority to disconnect his calls before they become embarrassing.

"You won!! That's a big bucking deal!!"