Attention

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent our advertisers

Monday, April 02, 2012

Joe Biden: I Wouldn't Want 'A Real Job'

Vice President Joe Biden, long known for making embarrassing verbal gaffes, echoed the cynical criticism many people levy against career politicians, stating he had stayed in the Senate for 36 years because he didn’t want to get “a real job.”

Biden was speaking to a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night, when he turned to praise the work of Richard M. Daley, the city’s former mayor of over 20 years.

“I never had an interest in being a mayor, ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce,” Biden said, according to a White House pool report. “That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.”

Biden was elected to the Senate in 1972 directly from the county council of New Castle County in Delaware at the age of 29. He turned 30 – the minimum age to become a senator – less than two months before taking office. Biden then served continuously as Delaware’s senator until 2009, when he became Barack Obama’s vice president.

More

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's a good thing joe because you probably wouldn't be hired and if you were you probably couldn't keep the job. oh well...

Anonymous said...

He had better stay with the government because he doesn't have enough sense to get a "real" job.