By: jackie.sauter

Ever since I missed dining next to VP Joe Biden and his wife Jill by mere minutes (they patronized Booeymonger deli in Chevy Chase for brunch recently), I’ve been hoping for re-do. What are the perks of Bethesda living, after all, if not an occasional political-celebrity sighting?

Maybe if I’d hung around the Bethesda office of Gelman, Rosenberg and Freedman, I’d have gotten lucky.

The Bidens used the Montgomery Co. CPA firm to prepare their 2008 taxes (PDF). For the nosy journalist in all of us, the couple collectively made $269,256 in ’08 – an impressive sum, but peanuts compared to the Obamas’ 2.7 million (PDF).

To their credit, the Obamas were generous with their earnings, donating $172,050 to charity, compared to the Bidens’ $1,885.