Who does he think he’s fooling with the BS semantics?

PLYMOUTH — Vice President Joe Biden lobbied for the American Jobs Act at Plymouth State University today and defended financing it through a tax increase for millionaires.

During prepared remarks to students on campus, Biden made no mention of the killing of former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.

Biden, a former U.S. senator from Delaware, will later this afternoon file candidacy papers for President Barack Obama and he to be on the New Hampshire presidential primary ballot.

Obama has embraced the U.S. Senate taking up pieces of the Jobs Act next week after a bid to end a filibuster failed.

The first proposal would renew federal aid to the states to prevent the layoff of school teachers, police officers and firefighters.

The Senate plan would pay for the near-$500 billion program through raising by one-half of 1 percent the income tax for individuals making more than $1 million.

“It doesn’t seem to me to be much of a hardship and I honest to God believe that millionaires think it’s fair,” Biden declared. “I don’t think they believe it is soaking the rich.”

Biden rejected that the White House strategy is “class warfare,” instead calling it shared responsibility.

“This bill says the people who have the most should chip in a little more. This isn’t class warfare,” Biden said.