Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. is our 47th Vice President. He served in the United States Senate from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009 when he was elected as the Vice President of the United States of America. His career as a United States Senator is the 14th longest in our nation's history.
Although he has had a long and illustrious career, he has had a few problems with some of the things that he has said. For instance, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, in Washington, DC, March 17, 2010, Vice President Biden is quoted as saying: "His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And...although, she's...wait...your mom's still...your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul."
On October 15, 2008, Vice President Biden, in Athens, Ohio, while speaking of Senator John McCain and his bid for the White House, remarked: "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
What about this gaffe while being interviewed by Katie Couric of CBS News on September 22, 2008: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." Mr. Vice President, are you aware that FDR was not the President of the United States when the stock market crashed in 1929? Are you aware that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time?
Well, these gaffes may seem minor to some. However, Vice President Biden said something more recently while there was an open microphone nearby. While congratulating President Barack Hussein Obama at the signing of his new health care reform bill in Washington, DC, March 23, 2010, Vice President Biden said: "This is a big f****** deal!"
As a professing Catholic man, Vice President Joe Biden would do well to read his Bible more often and surrender himself to what it is that Jesus Christ has taught us in Matthew 15:16-20:
16 Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.
