All in the Family-Jill Biden

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Imagine believing in your husband so much that you not only encourage him to run for president, but spend every weekend -- after a full work-week -- flying to Iowa to campaign on his behalf. Welcome to the life of Dr. Jill Biden.

"It's a little challenging in that I'm always changing hats," she said. "I'm grading papers in the car between campaign stops... It's a little hard to transition some of the time, but life is never dull."

Lynda Waddington :: All in the Family: Jill Biden
Jill, spouse of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, has been an educator for 27 years. She has taught as a reading specialist, as a high school English teacher, in a mental health institution and, for the past 15 years, at a community college. Even now, in the thick of a presidential campaign, she continues to spend five days a week in the classroom before traveling to Iowa on weekends. She also proudly admits that she brought all of this on herself.

"Actually, this time, we went to Joe and asked him to run," she said. "After Bush won again I was flabbergasted. I mean, I didn't know anybody at all who voted for Bush. I just didn't think he could win again. I was so disappointed in the fact that John Kerry didn't win and that Bush's policies were going to continue.

"We talked as a family before Joe even knew about it and we went to Joe two years ago and said, 'We think you are the only one that can pull together the red states and the blue states and build consensus on issues that are important. We think you should run.' And, he did."

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