Joe Biden: Rich Guys Like Mitt Romney Just Don‘t Understand ’Middle Class Folks Like Me’
- Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:32pm by
Jason Howerton
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the National Council of La Raza convention at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher, Pool)
As Keith Koffler of the White House Dossier points out, Vice President Joe Biden actually thinks he’s part of the middle class. This, despite the fact he made nearly $400,000 in 2011, placing him comfortably in the “rich” category President Obama has created in his bid to raise taxes on the country’s top income earners making over $250,000-per-year.
However, addressing the National Council of La Raza in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Biden — without mentioning he and his wife had an adjusted income of $379,000, according to his 2011 tax return — suggested he is just your average middle class Joe (no pun intended).
“For middle class folks like me, and most of you, owning a home is maybe the most consequential element of our existence to be able to provide for our families,” he said.
He went on to say rich people or “these guys,” including GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, don‘t understand what it’s like for regular people in the middle class. Biden even quoted Romney as saying, “Let the market hit bottom,” in response to the housing crisis of 2008.
“That may be a sound business judgment if you’re running Bain Capital, but it’s not a sound judgment for the United States government to be encouraging,” Biden added, in his dramatic trademark tone.
Watch some of the video from Biden’s address, including his questionable claim that he is somehow part of the middle class:
More commentary from the Dossier:
If Biden feels he is middle class, it may be due to his apparent inability to manage his finances.
According to a Dec. 1, 2011 report by the Center for Responsive Politics, Biden actually has a negative net worth.
“On the other end of the Obama administration’s net worth spectrum are Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Both had enough liabilities to place their estimated worth in the negative.
Biden’s low estimated net worth is a result of relatively small income from assets and six liabilities which totaled an average of $337,000. These include mortgages and home equity loans with a bank in his home state of Delaware, two lines of credit and a loan borrowed from his life insurance policy.”
But if Biden considers himself middle class, Obama certainly does not. Obama’s proposal to jettison the Bush tax cuts for “the rich” pertains to those making more than $250,000 per year – whether they have somehow lost all their money or not.
Biden was apparently on a roll because in that same speech he also felt comfortable enough to make a sex joke.
“My mother said, and by the way, it was wonderful for children by the way–having your grandpop living with you, having your great aunt, your uncle, for real,” he said. “Those walls were awful thin, I wonder how the hell my parents did it! But that’s a different story. I know you don’t anything about that. I know none of you in your families have done the same thing.”
(H/T: Drudge)
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:02pmBiden is clueless in the jungle, and a mouthpiece for the admin anyway.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:12pmI swear his surgeon went just a little too deep with those awful plugs of Joe’s.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:16pmThe tax debate about the percentage that people pay is ridiculous. Rich people pay way more in taxes than middle class people do and Joe, you ain’t middle class. Stop the ridiculous lies about how much taxes the rich pay:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8uyB86XXE
AvengerK
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:19pm“All in all we’re going to be creating somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 jobs next month, I predict,” Biden said, according to a pool report, adding that he “got in trouble” for a job growth prediction last month. “Even some in the White House said, ‘Hey, don’t get ahead of yourself.’ Well, I’m here to tell you, some time in the next couple of months, we’re going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month.”- Joe Biden April 2010.
Fast Forward to June 2012 the market only created 80,000 jobs (for the second month in a row), 30% of which were temporary jobs. 85,000 people went on Social Security Disability.
Charles Krauthammer (a qualified psychiatrist) has the best summation of Joe Biden I’ve heard…“clownish”..“an unserious man who wants to be taken seriously”.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:24pmWonder what Joe Biteme has been drinking/smoking???? What a maroon!
Report Post »SavvyCowboy
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:39pmGod I‘m gonna miss ol’ “plugs” biteme when he leaves in January 2013. He’s been the BUTT of the WHITE House!! hahahhaha!!!!!
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 3:55pmNo Joe… You’re not middle class, you’re in a group labeled “ no class”.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 4:11pmI’m now reminded of a quote I once heard about a guy who was fired for being “dangerously stupid”.
Report Post »Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 5:36pmAnyone add up Joes retirement? Let’s see Senator and VP. How much per year including all the extra perks. This guy thinks you and I are stupid and he’s probably right. After all he is the VP and we are the slaves.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 6:43pmI love that man! He is the best thing to happen to Conservatives! He’s a human punch line!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 8:57pmI do not understand Communists! I do not understand a Self Centered Predator, who does not have confidence in their own ability to Achieve… rather, just wants others to Share their Achievements with them!
Explain it to me Joe!
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:32pmwtf, lol and stfu Joe.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:38amwasn’t he just lately bragging about how rich he was?
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 7:55amHAHAHAHA! More “Lunch Bucket Joe” nonsense. Hey, Joe-did ya hear your hometown of Scranton, PA is going broke? Maybe YOU should lend them some of YOUR money.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:16am“Middle Class Folks Like Me”
Report Post »Leeches aren’t “middle” class, they’re Clitellata.
barber2
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:00pmJoe Biden’s role is to make Obama look smart. ( One can only wonder : is he deliberately lying or is he really this dumb ? )
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:16pmWhen you look at Biden, Pelosi, Wasserman/Shultz, Waters, Sharpton, etc., can you see anything but baffoons and liars? They don’t even make sense. It must be a mental illness, how else can you explain sooooo many lying idiots.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:29pmBoth..he deliberately lies AND is that stupid.
Look Biden was picked by Obama as the VP because Obama was being hammered for having no foreign policy credentials during the 2008 campaign. For some unfathomable reason, democrats perceived Joe Biden as having those credentials..and so the lie was bought and sold on the American people of Biden’s “credentials” in foreign policy. I guess this why Biden was the preferred head of state for al Qaeda who made it explicit that they saw him as utterly incompetent and a help to their cause and so mulled the idea of taking out Obama to have Biden replace him.
The man is a clown. He is an insult to the American people. When he says “I’m here to tell you”..run like hell because the bullsh#t is about to pour out.
He’s the dolt that started the leaks about the Bin Laden operation in Abbottabad that resulted in a helicopter full of the SEALs that brought down OBL being shot down in Afghanistan a few weeks later. Biden just couldn’t keep his stupid mouth shut..he had to strut and preen and it cost lives. Biden’s an idiot of the first order. He’ll say anything to pander to a crowd. I effing cringe when he says “Well I’m here to tell you”.
Report Post »Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 5:41pmThese people are sharper than you and I. They get free housing, free security, free travel, free meals, free utilites, free communications, free entertainment, free healthcare, free retirement income and benefits, and a free burial plus they are paid to spend your money everyday. What better life could you ask for? It’s all free. Who’s the dumbie?
Report Post »Caballosinnombre
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:59pmHe’s his own Saturday Night Live skit.
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:58pmI,don’t understand you either Joe the clown,you never stop lying.You are a middle class dirtbag.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:58pmBiden lives in a MANSION with a guest HOUSE. He has never worked in the private sector. I wonder where all the money came from??
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:13pmMy guess…the unions…just a guess though!
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:56pmIt’s official, his hair plugs have grown into him brain…what a jackwagon
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:13pmSitcom cast in unison: “That’s Joe”…(cue laughtrack and sitcom theme music).
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:54pmWhat a buffoon. He has been on the public dime for most of his life and out of that has managed to own a multimillion dollar home. This guy is not only out of touch but is also clueless. To quote Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon!”.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:53pmI believe more Democrats in Congress are millionaire that Republicans. Wasn’t President Kennedy and Ted Kennedy in the 1% and they never complained. Soros is stinking rich. At least Romney does good things with his money unlike Georgie boy Soros who wants to destroy America and bring about a NWO. Old Soros is feeding Obama and Obama’s MSM tons of money to bring about his dream. Democrats are such hypocrits and liars.
Report Post »snapperman
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:51pmAnd I don’t know many middle class people with the real estate Joe has – including a free house on his property which he rents out (rather than lends) to the Secret Service.
Report Post »lexington_green
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:20pmdidn‘t this bum say a few weeks back that he doesn’t live a middle-class lifestyle anymore? idiot.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:51pmJoe Biden is nothing but a lair- He has lived off the people ot the USA his whole life. He is one of the dumbest people to hold the office of VP. Liberal pig
Report Post »RonniBlueEyes
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:51pmIf Joe Biden is middle class, I’m poverty stricken.
Report Post »the_system_disconnect
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:50pmMitt Romney’s NAACP speech is actually pretty damn good. It shows that he has what I thought he was missing, some grit. >:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAhJh0ADd9k
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:48pmWhy doesn’t Andrea Mitchell play that clip and laugh her snarky laugh?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:47pmCould someone tell old Joe that his boss says more than 250 k is rich and he makes a lot more than that. More lies.
Report Post »RIDEMODELS
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:45pmGeorge Soros and Warren Buffet are some of the poor middle class people they like to hang with…….Obama and Biden are putting black people right where he wants them….With his poor half brother in Africa.
Do your own research people……don’t people want to know things for themselves anymore??
Report Post »jonboy1903
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:00pmJoe “Plugs” Biden is Middle Class? I think he is senile and doesn’t understand anymore. Middle Class does not mean you are half-way up your communist leaders buttocks with only your feet remaining outside. Middle Class people are not elitists, we don’t make millions of dollars a year or hang out with Dictators from the Middle East or sell our people from liberty into slavery for political gain.
Report Post »loggs14
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:45pmBiden you are not middle class – I am very sure you have NO CLASS… what a true goober… This what happens when the dumbest man in the Senate picks the second most dumbest man in the Senate to be his VP candidate…
Report Post »BryanB
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:42pmThe Democrats should never let Joe Biden speak in public………
Report Post »RIDEMODELS
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:41pmYeah rich white women drink wine on daytime TV or sit around griping about their taxes…….While black people are suing each other over a few hundred dollars…..
Biden is the rich……he has always been an out of touch rich idiot and is only in place because black people cannot wake up and see what these white people do to them, while they get richer…
He is begging for your black help to make himself richer, and you will still be poor as you were all the time.
Wake up before you get used up…….
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:40pmHey Joe……I thought you just said you were a rich guy who had a big house. I’m not a blue collar guy…..I believe that’s what you said. Just another flub from a big dummy.
Report Post »kmiller1970
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:40pmBiden is a prime example of a man that thinks that he is brilliant and that we are all idiots and that we are going to believe the absolute BS that comes out of his mouth. If I were in that audinece I would have been insulted by this man’s arrogance.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:40pmThats okay Joe…nobody understands you!
Report Post »RIDEMODELS
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:50pmJoe cannot hear you….He has too much money coming out of his EARS!!
Just a regular Joe….yeah sure….Joe is a rich establishment mouth piece who wants to hang on to his power and wealth……He does not care about the middle class unless he is getting taxes from them.
Boot the BUMBS!!
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:41pmThats OK Joe we know you are a alien living on another planet.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:38pmSay what you want about the poorest members of Congress and Joe Biden… but they aren’t beholden to special interests like 90% of our federal government.
I’ll trust Barney Frank over John Kerry any day…
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:43pmExcuse me…but Joe Biden has been sucking on the government tit his entire adult life…at least Kerry married into money…really you would trust Joe more…. the guy is a baffoon!…he has brought nothing except idiocy to the office of vice president…amazing how some see things!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:43pmYou’ll trust Barney Frank. Well why not, he did a heck of a job with Fannie and Freddie. You’re a glutton for punishment pal.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:55pmBarney Frank did a heck of a job on Fannie? How that’s funny!!!!!!
Report Post »jonboy1903
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:08pmThat’s funny, I would trust fatassBarney or KetchupKerry any further than I could throw them. Both are life-long crooks and thieves living off the taxpayers.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:37pmOld Joey lunch pail would be driving a bus with Ralph Kramden if it wasn’t for that lucky break he got…40 years ago.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:45pmDitto that, if it were not for the public dime slot he fell into, he couldn’t qualify for garbage detail.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:48pmEvery job he has ever had, he was incompetent. The only way to get rid of him was to promote him out. Whalla! He only has one more job that is available. Oh Oh!!!
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 3:06pm“To the moon, Biden”…..and join Newt’s vision of “The Moon-Beam” settlement.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:36pm3 words what a bufoon!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:35pmSoros is another one of those poor, misunderstood, middle-class people.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:26pmPerfect now Biden, Gates and the Hollywood crowd are telling me what is a middle class. They would not know what a middle class is. For Biden stopping at a farm, or someones back yard, or going once to a corner store doesn’t make him an expert on middle class. I want a president that knows how to be an honest CEO and I am hoping tha Mitt will be one.
Also if these people who believe this dribble were given a million or two dollars, I will bet that they will abandon this nonsense of who is poor and who is rich. They will cross the tracks and hide in the bushes with their moneey, but then a year later they will be back saying the real rich took my money and I want more.
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