You know how everyone is always mocking Vice President Joe Biden for being just another middle class guy with no dreams and no aspirations? No? Well, in case anybody ever does, Biden wants them to know he’s tired of all the imaginary derision over his humble life status (video via Dan Halper):
“I get tired of being called ‘Middle Class Joe,’ like that somehow I’m just Joe and I don’t dream. C’mon man. Look, you’re the ones that built this country. This valley built this country,” Biden said to cheers.
Actually, according to Nexis, the only person who has referred to Biden as “middle class Joe” has been Biden himself. In an early April speech on college affordability, he said, “I always get criticized for being middle class Joe, which I’m proud of, but I’m middle class Joe and I always talk about the middle class.”
And: “I know I’m characterized in the press as, you know, middle class Joe, like . . . I’m not sophisticated,” he complained last September.
The vice president’s sensitivity to perceived insults about his allegedly middle class status seems to go back to 2009. At a conference that May, Biden referred to himself as “old middle class Joe,” before launching into an indignant rant about how he’s always being put down for it.
“If I — if I heard one more thing about the scrappy kid from Scranton, Pennsylvania, and carrying a lunch bucket — I never carried a lunch bucket, but I guess I’m the middle class guy,” he said. “By the way, I’m proud of that. I’m proud of that.”
This is really one of the flimsiest and most condescending attempts to appeal to the “average voter” since Obama’s phony “funny-sounding name” bit. If Biden is really so paranoid of getting picked on as “middle class Joe,” he might want to play up the fact that he owns a home valued at nearly $3 million, served in the Senate for three decades, earned $379,035 in income last year, and currently lives in the Naval Observatory.
Hmmm, "Stupid Joe", "Joe the Clueless", "Foot-in-the-Mouth Joe" yes, but "Middle Class Joe"? I can't think of anyone, including DemoKKK-rats who would call him that.
A Naval Observatory with a once-secret VIP bunker under it. n nI still can't believe that he told the media about it — and wouldn't have been at all surprised had he given them a tour of it had anyone asked. Of all the stupid things this administration has done — and they have done more than their share — this is the absolute most stupid. n nIt's not that he would be stupid enough to reveal this state secret as much that after having revealed it to him, no one then sat him down and had the conversation that one would have with a small child, something to the effect of "and we aren't going to talk about this, right?" n nSay what you want about Dan Quayle, he wouldn't have done something like this….