Effective at what? — Making himself look like boob?

(CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden joked Sunday that he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would run for the White House in 2016 “as a team,” and in a Tuesday interview, Clinton suggested they are indeed a solid team.

“We’ve been on the same team in the Senate, we’re on the same time now with President Obama,” she told CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty. “No matter what I do in future I’d love to have Joe be on the team because he is a great and effective person who cares deeply about our country.”

Clinton has repeatedly shot down suggestions that she would run in 2016, most recently while traveling in Kolkata, India this weekend.

“I’m very flattered but I feel like it’s time for me to kind of step off the high wire,” she said. I’ve been involved at the highest levels of American politics for 20 years now.”