The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports:

Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to make a campaign stop in Dubuque on Wednesday, June 27, campaign officials have confirmed. …

Biden is making three eastern Iowa stops in two days — in Waterloo, Dubuque and Clinton — as part of the “Strengthening the Middle Class Tour.”

According to Obama’s campaign, the vice president will be highlighting what the White House described as the president’s ongoing efforts to grow Iowa’s rural economy and bolster the middle-class security for Iowa’s and America’s working-class families.

“Strengthening the middle class”? “Grow Iowa’s rural economy” (and presumably other states)? You mean like working to make sure gas jumps far past $4 a gallon? Pushing forms of energy that mean higher energy bills? Letting the environmentalists run amuck to make farming more and more difficult? Raising taxes on businesses that employ, you know, the middle class? The Obama administration has a funny definition of “strengthening.”

I’m also concerned that my IQ will be lower after hearing Biden speak. To paraphrase myself, Biden makes Dan Quayle look like a summa cum laude college graduate. Wednesdays are my Monday, except that with Independence Day coming I lose a day out of my week.

On the other hand, I’ve never seen a vice president in person. I saw presidential candidate George W. Bush twice in 2000 before he was elected president. I also saw presidential candidate Bob Dole in 1996 before he was not elected president. In the past month I have met not only Gov. Scott Walker, but four of his Cabinet secretaries. (What is this, an election year?)