Clearly this man is in touch with the average American. Obviously there’s no profession more respected and more envied amongst blue collar workers than trial lawyers. Why, they’re liked just a little less than, say, Lucifer.

“I think we’re going to be up very late counting votes,” Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., told a kettle of lawyers  Tuesday night at a fundraiser for the Democratic Victory Fund hosted by the American Association of Justice in Washington, D.C. “And so, your help means a big deal. The last help we need you for, is you’re the best legal minds in the country. We’re going to need you going into election time, because we’re going to mobilize thousands of lawyers to make sure they don’t steal another election.”

Translation: We’re going to need you to challenge every single vote that wasn’t cast for The Messiah. No one could possibly vote against him, so it must be a stolen vote.

“He has never, never, never, never, never, never, never shared the values set that you share,” Biden said. “He’s an honorable, decent man, but John McCain truly believes, truly believes that you are corporate America’s problem,” he said to the trial lawyers. “And thank God you are.”

Could we get that into a pro-McCain commerial stat? McCain doesn’t share the set of values that trial lawyers have? Is his goal to compliment the Republican nominee?

Biden said that he’s “done more than any other senator combined” for trial lawyers.

“There are two people — you’ve heard me say it before — two groups that stand between us and the barbarians at the gate,” Biden said. “It’s you and organized labor. That’s it. That is it. So, mark my words, mark my words, if we lose this election, you are going to continue to see a continuation of the onslaught on everything we care about. For real. For real. So, I’m not only thanking you for your help. I would think you’re all absolutely brain-dead if you didn’t help. And I mean it.”

The only ones standing between Americans and barbarians are trial lawyers and labor unions? Seriously? Writes Kat-Mo:

There are five people in my family who come to mind when I think about standing between me and “the barbarians at the gate”. Their names did not end with “esq”. They begin with “Sgt”, “Cpt”, “E4″, “T2″ and “S1″.

Joe Biden may need a translator for that one.