What was Joe Biden before joining the democrats? A law clerk, fresh out of school, for 18 months.
He is a career politician who has made his monwy selling bullshit to idiots who still think he is going to tax hia friends after 40 years.
Biden earned a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. He ranked 76th in a class of 85 students after failing a course because he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at law school.[25] He was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1969.[4]
Biden clerked at a Wilmington law firm headed by prominent local Republican William Prickett in 1968 and, he later said, "thought of myself as a Republican".[33][34] He disliked incumbent Democratic Delaware governor Charles L. Terry's conservative racial politics and supported a more liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who defeated Terry in 1968.[33] Local Republicans attempted to recruit Biden, but he registered as an Independent because of his distaste for Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon.[33]
In 1969, Biden practiced law, first as a public defender and then at a law firm headed by a locally active Democrat,[35][33] who named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying to reform and revitalize the state party;[36] Biden subsequently reregistered as a Democrat.[33] He and another attorney also formed a law firm.[35] Corporate law did not appeal to him, and criminal law did not pay well.[13] He supplemented his income by managing properties.[37]
Biden ran for the 4th district seat on the New Castle County Council in 1970 on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the suburbs.[38][39] The seat had been held by Republican Henry R. Folsom, who was running in the 5th District following a reapportionment of council districts.[40][41][42] Biden won the general election, defeating Republican Lawrence T. Messick, and took office on January 5, 1971.[43][44] He served until January 1, 1973, and was succeeded by Democrat Francis R. Swift.[45][46] During his time on the county council, Biden opposed large highway projects, which he argued might disrupt Wilmington neighborhoods.[46]