By Jeffrey S. Solochek and Lisa Buie, Times staff writers
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
LAND O'LAKES — Vice President Joe Biden visited Oakstead Elementary on Tuesday to promote the American Jobs Act, a bill that includes funding to pay teachers and rebuild schools.
Before speaking to invited guests in the school media center, Biden visited Kelly Keene's fifth-grade portable classroom.
Camera-toting students took several pictures of the vice president, who sat in a student chair in the middle of the room, while peppering him with questions for more than half an hour.
They asked him about the most difficult things he does as vice president, and how he enjoys his job. Biden talked about his personal life, calling his job "cool." He also kept his focus on jobs, even with the children.
Biden said everybody wants to work, but jobs are difficult to come by "because of what we ...