Joe Biden: I Chose Being Senator Over Having ‘a Real Job’
- Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:46am by
Billy Hallowell
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It’s not uncommon for Vice President Joe Biden to unleash humorous gaffes. While much of last week‘s coverage surrounding the nation’s second-in-command focused upon his call for a “global minimum tax,” some of his other oddball comments flew under the radar. On Thursday evening, the prominent politician made some curious comments about not wanting “a real job.”
According to press accounts, while praising Chicago’s former Mayor Richard M. Daley and former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Biden told the audience, ”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.”
While these comments were potentially made with humor in mind, they are certainly intriguing. After all, Obama and Biden have incessantly promised results to the American people (i.e. they have promised “to produce”).
The Huffington Post offers the full text of his quote:
“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. [Obama's] a little like my image of you, Richie. The one thing that always amazed me was the decisive moves you make. You just make the decisions … I consider Billy Daley one of my closest friends in the world.”
In this latter point, Biden praised Richard Daley for his calculation and compared Obama to the former mayor. While these are nice compliments, it’s also worth noting, though, that Biden ran for president in both 1988 and 2008. Wouldn’t this, too, require “decisive moves?” Didn’t Biden — at least based on his past campaign rhetoric — also want “a real job” (unless he doesn’t consider being the leader of the free world true deliverable employment)?
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York describes Biden’s career as follows:
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.
In addition to his “real job” talk, the vice-president talked about Obama’s re-election prospects and expressed some reservations about how world events could impact prospects this November.
“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.”
(H/T: Washington Examiner)
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Comments (179)
JamesR
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:32amShouldn’t the caption read – I chose being an idiot and then a congressman rather than having a real job.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:35amNo, that would be Ron Paul….
Report Post »budzy1911
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:42amIs that so you can get your RINO elected Time 2 end?
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:42amWas the late Thomas Carpano also a friend of Delaware Joe?
The Capanos went 62 miles (100 km) out to sea and pushed the cooler overboard. However, it floated, even after they shot the cooler. Thomas retrieved the cooler, took the body out, and wrapped the anchor chains around it. Gerry then was asked to help dispose of a blood-stained sofa and carpet in a dumpster, which was managed by another brother, Louis. Subsequently, Thomas ordered Louis to empty the dumpsters; Louis had them emptied out of their regular schedule. The cooler was found on July 4, 1996, by a local fisherman, Ken Chubb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Capano
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:52amNo larger Douche Bag has ever existed in American politics, than Joe Biden , he is a national embarrassment ……. Taxpayer Leech…….
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:55amYeah BUDZY. That might be correct. I‘ll put my RINO up against your carpet bag’ng libertarian/neo-lib/quasi-(little c) conservative (take your pick on description) RINO.
Report Post »Common Sense 24
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:05am5 guys on a train speeding toward a cliff. 1 guy is shoveling coal as fast as he can. 3 guys are arguing about how much coal they will shovel. The last guy is in the back of the engine yelling to put the brakes on. This is an illustration of our economy and the current group running for president. The saddest part is all the others refer to the guy in back yelling for the brakes as a nut job. The 4 people vying to be the one to pilot this train over the cliff are not alone. There is a whole host of back pocket media and uneducated mouth breathers out there who are in favor of the same thing. Snide comments don’t mean much sometimes when you merely look where they are coming from.
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:07amAnother one on government welfare, that doesn’t want to work.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:08amHey Joe, did you also choose to be a complete moron, or we’re just born an AssClown ???
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:23amHe makes Dan Quayle look like Einstein ………………
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:29amObama CHOSE Joe Biden. This choice and others (like appointing open Communists) speaks pointedly to Obama’s leadership failures.
36 years in politics?! America, what have we allowed to happen?
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:36am24. “..the guy in back yelling for the brakes as a nut job…”
The guy in the back you must be refering to Ron Paul (caboose might be fitting). Yes, we supposed “uneducated mouth breathers” have agreed that your stopped clock is right about a couple things, but yes… Ron Paul remains an unelectable nut. If you listen to Charles Manson long enough he has probably made a couple of astounding comments of his own… but remains a nut… a very dangerous nut.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:40amJoe Biden: I Chose Being DRUNK Over Having ‘a Job’
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:11amWe need term limits like we have here in Oklahoma. It’s harder to corrupt a part timer, rather than a lifer. Soon we will lose to great Senators, but if you change the rules one time – all is lost. People like Biden will dance with the Devil if he is the best partner arouind.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:28amSome people go through life and never do anything other than being a famous person. This is one of them, is this a great country or what, a total idiot can be rich and famous.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 12:30pmso whats the outrage over? it seems like a pretty honest statement from biden.
Report Post »commonsensefreethinker1
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 12:43pmI do’nt believe in Heaven or Hell but these guys Bin biden and Osama obama are the poster children for Satan if he did if fact exist. If and when the oh,bummercare fails would’t be surprised if they try to ban sugar in america. These bozos gotta go!!
Report Post »Common Sense 24
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 1:28pmTime:
Report Post »Please explain what you believe supposedly makes him an unelectable nut. My guess is that you are one of those oh so wonderful dregs of society suckling at the taxpayer teet and fear losing your free lunch paid for by us working folks. What else could bring such unfounded vitriol as the thought of losing your “Obama stash money”?
ashestoashes
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 3:45pm@BUD I think TIMETOEND might just be one of those Rhinos..lol
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 4:40pmAnd, then… the Democrats made him Vice President!
Report Post »natasha_badenov
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 6:53pmGreat post, jamesr.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:19pmJoe’s never had a real job…
Report Post »James
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:36pmwell put there jamesr
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:30amInteresting that our Obama apologists who comment here are always so intellectually superior. So culturally elite . So “above” believing in God and attending church services. So willing to support such paragons of wisdom as old Joe . Birds of a feather….
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:59amWhat a D bag
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:09amBARBER. Biden can only be described as a buffoon. They should have his pic right next to the word in the dictionary. He’s an absolutely perfect example in the use of this word. Very fitting.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:29amThese people are sickening, no class crooks. I remember reading about the Andrew Jackson era when a bunch about like this invaded the White House and were so uncouth and ingorant it was talked about for years. Many who were coming there were about like these people only this modern bunch of ignorants are people who people parrot the same party line of the Marxists and socialists. The socialists now in the White house are just the Marxists lite, who will eventually line up with the Marxists. When we get these people out of our White House, we better totally clean house because they are like a virus. These people are suffering from massive DA (dumb azz) and were perfect for those who wanted to institute a Socialist and eventually Marxist government on the shores of this country. They are not leaders, but breeders of filth, and are common to the point of being scrapped from the bottom of the barrell. Their ideas of loyalty is sucking up to the most successful. They do not have natural affection in their hearts, and they are psychopaths who never got to kill openly. They cause mass damage to people without so much as a look of compassion. These are perfect for those trying to change this country in a European type failure.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 2:25pmNo surprise. It was Andrew Jackson who killed off so many Cherokee Indians on the “Trail of Tears” when he had the forced moved to Oklahoma. Funny how many people and our history doesn’t point fingers at Andrew Jackson for his part in my ancestors near demise.
Report Post »What are they doing in D. C. now?
Leadthemtothelight
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:45pmJoe Biden is the poster child for what is broken in our government and society today. The only surprising thing here is that he is being so open and honest about it. I cannot help but have faith that we will be delivered from all of this soon. Stay strong in your faiths people. Remember the trials and tribulations that Job witnessed…in the end God will be with us.
Report Post »pdw
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:26amWhen Dem’s leave public office they are hired to work in their NEWS network so even with all that money coming in they are again overpaid. But they seem to love to point their fingers at those that make more or less than they do because they are envious.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:24amHa, ha, ha, ha…..what a jerk! and the world laughs on………ugh!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 2:07pmThe sham he’s promoting is a REAL job? This man probably could not compete in the private sector, so government was the only place he could go.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:22amNot only could Joe not compete in the private sector he chose a job where he voted for his own pay raises, his pension plan and his medical insurance plan. He got lots of vacation time and paid holidays special treatment when he helped passed laws that applied to everyone but members of congress.
Joe may be dumb but he ain’t stupid.
OMG 2012
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:24amJoke Biden strikes again! Bada dup..dup..Ting!
Report Post »dianna9490
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:23amOdummer has a dumber than dumb – Amazeing! This is the administration of the DUMBEST PEOPLE THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN! You talking about makeing HISTORY!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:11amditto.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:13amIf we can impeach them, then we shouldn’t have to pay them.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:21amSeeing how the Senate had cooked the rules to require a super majority to do anything the Vice-President has nothing to do but attend funerals and raise money for campaigns. So Biden can just go around letting his ignorance hang out.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:19amJoe what‘s the BFD we know you’re a dry drunk moron soon to be fired.
Report Post »NCREPUB
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:19amhttp://www.reallyreality.com/f10/black-folk-dont-know-how-run-no-nation-1463/
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:18amJoe… has got to be the best “choice” for V.P. .. EVER..!
Report Post »Talk a about.. Job Security
kickagrandma
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:35amYou are so right….
Report Post »onlygodrules
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:14amno wonder we aa a country are where we are and numbskulls keep electing these idiots…geeez
Report Post »joxer
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:13amOur standards in our leaders have gone way down, Biden is almost unreal. Scary!
Report Post »go2gym
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:12amYea, insult the job once you’re out of it and one where you took up space for 36 years and deprived the nation of what would have been one of our best Supreme Court Justices, Judge Bork.
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:11amHey Billy Hallowell. How about getting your stories from the source, instead of huffpo you idiot.Please Glenn,get some “real” reporters on the staff st the Blaze,clean this up like you said you would………huffpo, my God………..
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:03am.
Report Post »And we have to pay for this idiot, for the rest of his life……………
unsafe
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:49amMaybe it well be a very short life ..
Report Post »RougeFastFingers
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:03amAt least he’s being honest for a change.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:12amHe‘s trying to be self deprecating but he’s too phony he can’t pull it off.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:21amHe’s just doing what all deceitful Communists do. The difference between him and the rest of the NWO crew is that he‘s so narcissistic that he’s always telling the truth instead of projecting the truth of his ways onto the other side in the form of accusations.
What a boob. And a dangerous one at that.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:02amThe majority of voters in Delaware must be drooling idiots to elect that guy to 6 terms.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:04amJoe Biden, America’s first alcoholic Vice President. Obama must be desperate to allow Biden out in public.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:05amI think LBJ was an alcoholic too, probably others.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:14amWas my first thought as well, GONZ. It is shocking how these lunatics keep getting re-elected over and over again.
What will be worse though than the Delaware voters re-electing Biden Senator for all those years will be when they re-elect Obama/Biden.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:01ambiden finally speaks the truth! he also decided to go straight for corruption, greed, and self-service.
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:01amI hope he won’t be able to draw unemployment when he loses his job in November. He has cost the taxpayers enough already.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:00amIt was either the Senate or the Circus.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:06amI believe those two entities are synonymous
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:58amCan somebody PLEASE do something with this man? What an embarrassment he continues to be for this country. obamamama and the choirboys chose biden as veep because they knew no one would, well, you know. Had hillarybillary been the veep? Now that’s a whole different banana.
JESUS GOD, I know we are supposed to thank YOU in all things, LORD. That is YOUR will for us. But GOD, YOU must have been looking at one of YOUR “over the top” sunsets when YOU said that and not at this poor excuse for a human being. Oh, YOU say, he was exactly what YOU meant? Oh, boy.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:02am.
Report Post »KICKAGRANDMA if I could I’d stick his head in a boot, and treat him like a barn cat….OUCH!!!!
progressiveslayer
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:52amJoe when did you decide to become a drunk you half wit?
Report Post »possom
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:52amSince this isn‘t a real job they shouldn’t get payed, have benefit’s, retirement or any of the other perk’s that come with it, Just think how much money would be saved if we quit paying these leach’s!
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:02amPay them the median income from the area they rep. They can use the VA for medical. Pay social security for retirement. No other compensation.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:35amBECKOFILE
True Statement!
Report Post »We The People, not We The Gubberment
greatgrandma
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:58amObama said that our military should buy their own health insurance. After all THEY did Volunteer to go into the service.
Report Post »Really? Didn’t HE volunteer to run for President? So does that mean we don’t have to pay for HIS health care once out of office? Or any of them. Theirs is an elected position, not a job job. Once out of office they should not get any entitlements. Zero, Zip…………. and let’s get these offices on term limits.
PA PATRIOT
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:49amI consider Billy Daley one of my closest friends in the world.”
The politics of Politics can be a very dangerous place.
Report Post »Billy’s superman cape is home to many cowards.
Time to rid the vermon from the castle.
oldguy49
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:56amterm limits……………………………..
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:02amHe also gifted us with the comment that he and the One also turned to John Corzine for financial advice and we see how well that has turned out for the investors in MF Global and the country.
Report Post »If it is not a “real” job then maybe we should give him a not-real pension, not-real healthcare, and not-real salary.
Baddoggy
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:49amA@@ Clown.
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