Or something. Honestly, I’m having a hard time figuring out what’s up Biden’s bonnet in this attempt to attack Bain Capital.
Vice President Joe Biden offered a defense Tuesday of the Obama campaign’s questioning of Mitt Romney’s business experience, saying that the Republican candidate’s specific experiences are what make him a bad fit for the Oval Office.
“Your job as president is to promote the common good. That doesn’t mean the private equity guys are bad guys. They are not,” he said in a campaign speech in Keene, N.H. “But that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber. And, by the way, there are a lot of awful smart plumbers.”
Plumbers don’t promote the common good now? Plumbers can’t be president because they haven’t spent their lives in politics? What the…
There’s video at the link. Biden clearly isn’t speaking out on his own, since he’s evidently sober and he’s saying almost the same thing Obama said after the NATO meeting yesterday. Obama just neglected to directly insult honest workers who keep civilization from being overrun by clogged sinks and backed up toilets. And who, by the way, are people who provide services that we will always need, and who earn their livings by working with their minds and their hands. Team Obama actually wants to argue that because Romney worked in the private sector for 25 years, he never had the “greater good” in mind and shouldn’t be president? Seriously?
And Obama’s policy, which Biden supports, of killing off the US coal industry one regulation at a time constitutes proper looking out for the common good?
The spectacle of two particularly unaccomplished career politicians ripping one of the captains of capitalism for being successful ought to elicit nothing but derision out of the media and the American public. But the fact is, those two are currently president and veep. And they’re showing the entire world just how bright neither one of them is with this kind of rhetoric. That makes their cluelessness downright terrifying.
Update: I suppose we should take a small victory from President Obama repudiating Jim Clyburn’s “Romney the corporate rapist” comment. They do have a line, it seems.
Well, I would bet that I could throw a dart at a board full of plumber’s names who own their own businesses and take the first ten names I hit…and if I asked that plumber to submit a budget…he could get at least ONE member of the Democratic Party to vote for it.
In three years, the “common good” clowns have failed to get a single vote. Their cronies in the Senate are too lazy and irresponsible to even put one up.
If a plumber ran his business that way…like a community organ grinder…he would be out in the streets begging for handouts instead of working for a living and hiring people on his payroll.
You have to be able to read a balance sheet and a profit and loss statement to be a plumber. You only have to read Rules for Radicals to be a community organizer.
Look, these people don’t like capitalism and are trying to overthrow it. We get it. It’s the pretending that they aren’t against it that’s even more disingenuous. They said from the get-go…don’t go into business, they have attacked business at every turn.
They put the Workers Party ahead of other creditors, they sent the NLRB dogs after a private company and they worship Mao and Lenin. Ok. You are small c communists and you hate the free market.
So, quit hiding your true intentions. We saw the pat of Medevev’s knee. Wait til my SECOND TERM…you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Let’s get your TRUE agenda out on the table and let capitalism and the free market fight back. Oh, right. Your Propaganda and Lies Ministry would never let that happen.
I think I remember FDR on TV talking about this once. With a corpse man. To all of our 57 states. Good thing it takes so much to be on the Democratic ticket, otherwise people might think we voted for incompetent clowns.
At this point, Joe Biden is proof that a baboon could be president. Or at least be his running mate.
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
— John W(illiam) Gardner
Only a politician and/or government employee knows what’s best for people… it’s the Democrats’ whole argument.
Someone once said, that he’d rather be governed by the first 10 names in the phone book, than by any 10 professors at Harvard. At this point, I’d rather be governed by the first 2 names in a directory of plumbers than the two clowns now at the head of the Administration.
It was William F. Buckley, and he said something like “I’d rather be governed by the 1,000 names (or was it 500?) in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard.”
Langenbahn – Thanks. I forgot it was WFB.
Flip side: Probably two Presidents since WWII with enough brains and common sense to be plumbers. One Democrat, one Republican. Maybe one more. Your guess.
he’s right. it takes an affirmative action promoted privileged pampered socialist/marxist kenyan to be the u.s. president. much better.
watching rock hudson try a pickup line on a woman in a western tonite reminded be of o-barry. talk about reading a line w/o any real idea about what … never mind, i always liked rock. he fooled lots of people too, for years. when more about his real hidden life became public many refused to believe it, at first.
lotsa similarities methinks.
Actually, at this time of history, it’s critical that the next President be a plumber. To clear the piping system of our government and economy of the excrement the current and most of the recent administrations have clogged it with.
Take no comfort from that “repudiation”. The initial story ALWAYS goes farther than the retraction. They know that and operate on that philosophy.
Vice President Biden:
“Your job as president is to promote the common good. That doesn’t mean the private equity guys are bad guys. They are not,” he said in a campaign speech in Keene, N.H. “But that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber. And, by the way, there are a lot of awful smart plumbers.”
But what qualified Obama to be President? Four years ago I compared the job experience of US Senators who later became President, using the following metric:Vice President experience,Cabinet experience, House of Representatives experience, Governor experience, Military officer experience.
There was only one US Senator who became President who scored a 0 for having none of the above experience: Warren Harding. Very few consider Harding to have been a good President.
That also described Barack Obama’s experience.
At lease Warren Harding had executive experience, as he ran a newspaper for about 10 years.
Vice President Biden ignores Romney’s term as Governor of Massachusetts. But no one ever accused Slow Joe of having incisive thoughts.
“But that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber.”–The Mouth Without a Brain
Last time I checked all you had to be was 35, a U.S. citizen from birth, had to live in the U.S. for 14 years, and you can’t hold the office for more than two terms. Those are the qualifications.
As far as capability goes, it’s hard to see how a plumber could do a worse job than any Democrat that’s ever held the office.
Marx and Biden are polar opposites on this issue: Marx claimed that ONLY manual workers should have political power.
Looking at the current political class, I tend to think that, just possibly, Marxism is the lesser evil.
That’s an interesting thought. How come so many leftists in this country are the opposite of proletarian? They claim to work for the good of the proletariat, yet they wouldn’t want to BE the proletariat. I think I’d rather deal with a filthy-rich business executive/politician who’s honest about who he is than a filthy-rich politician/politician who claims to be one of Us. Class in America is confusing.
Of course you’ll have realized that my comment was tongue-in-cheek.
No doubt, Marx wanted the world to be ruled by smartass intellectuals like himself, not by people who get their hands dirty.
But unlike Biden, Marx had the good sense to keep this thought to himself.
You have a point that class in America is confusing. I like Angelo Codevilla’s class analysis, but a Marxist would say that I like it because it suits my class interests.
Joe the Plumber, definitely smarter than Sheriff Joe, smarter than O-bah-muhh too.
“Your job as president is to promote the common good.”
So Biden admits that Obama can’t do his job? Interesting…
Shouldn’t your headline read “Biden, history: Plumbers can’t be President”