The new McCain ad
Meanwhile we should all remember these words from Obama a few months ago:
I’ve worked to reduce the power of special interests and the power of lobbyists.
~~~The Democratic National Committee will uphold the same standard: We will not take a dime from Washington lobbyists or special interest PACs. … They will not fund my party!
But he picks a running mate who has taken quite a bit of money from those lobbyists and special interests:
Biden has accepted $5,133,072 in contributions from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003. Obama does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists.
And he has one other weakness that hasn’t received much attention to date. One of Biden’s sons, Hunter, is a registered Washington lobbyist in a year in which Obama has been excoriating lobbyists and the culture of corruption in Washington. The younger Biden is a name partner at the firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP, and seems to have specialized in lobbying for just the kind of earmark spending by Congress that Obama has vowed to slash. Republican insiders say the party is likely to make an issue of Biden’s family lobbying ties.
Also expect to hear more about Biden’s close ties with credit card companies. His largest contributor (based on total contributions by employees) over the past five years has been MBNA, the Delaware-based bank aquired in 2005 by Bank of America than until then was the world’s largest independent credit card issuer and a major supporter of the 2005 bankruptcy bill that Biden crossed the aisle to support.
I don’t think we could of gotten luckier with this pick. Everytime I think Obama can’t be that stupid he goes ahead and proves me wrong. Think about it. Biden is 66, McCain is 72. Those “he’s too old” attacks have now left the building. He has admitted he tends to get over the top when he is angry.
”I exaggerate when I’m angry,”
He has his own lies to deal with:
The tape, which was made available by C-SPAN in response to a reporter’s request, showed a testy exchange in response to a question about his law school record from a man identified only as ”Frank.” Mr. Biden looked at his questioner and said: ”I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do.”
He then went on to say that he ”went to law school on a full academic scholarship – the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship,” Mr. Biden said. He also said that he ”ended up in the top half” of his class and won a prize in an international moot court competition. In college, Mr. Biden said in the appearance, he was ”the outstanding student in the political science department” and ”graduated with three degrees from college.” Comments on Assertions
In his statement today, Mr. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: ”I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inaccurate.”
On Iraq he has been the opposite of Obama:
In Washington, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden (D-Del.) said yesterday that “there probably will be a war with Iraq.”
“The only question is, is it alone, is it with others and how long and how costly will it be?” he said on NBC’s Meet the Press.
The chances that Hussein would surrender his suspected weapons of mass destruction are very low, and “we have no choice but to eliminate that threat,” Biden said. “I think Saddam either has to be separated from his weapons or taken out of power.”
More:
Biden in October of 2002: “We must be clear with the American people that we are committing to Iraq for the long haul; not just the day after, but the decade after.”
Biden, on Obama’s Iraq plan in August 2007: “I don’t want [my son] going [to Iraq],” Delaware Sen. Joe Biden said from the campaign trail Wednesday, according to a report on Radio Iowa. “But I tell you what, I don’t want my grandson or my granddaughters going back in 15 years and so how we leave makes a big difference.” Biden criticized Democratic rivals such as Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama who have voted against Iraq funding bills to try to pressure President Bush to end the war. “There’s no political point worth my son’s life,” Biden said, according to Radio Iowa. “There’s no political point worth anybody’s life out there. None.”
Biden to the Brookings Institution in 2005: “We can call it quits and withdraw from Iraq. I think that would be a gigantic mistake. Or we can set a deadline for pulling out, which I fear will only encourage our enemies to wait us out — equally a mistake.”
Oh, and lets not forget about his foreign policy ah, cough….excellence….cough.
I’m sure more will come out about Biden in the days ahead but in the end we have to ask how did we get so lucky to have a man like Obama picked as the Democrat nominee? The man is a walking disaster.
Joe Biden as VP……wow
Two words to Barack….Thank you!
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Nice. Democrats now have Obama bin Biden. Change? Hope? Biden is twice a loser in Democrat presidential campaigns and this year gave up the campaign ghost in January with just about the lowest ratings ever.
Have a look. Washington Post poll shows, “Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as his running mate is unlikely to shake-up the presidential horse race.” And, “the choice would make them [voters] less likely to vote Democratic on Election Day.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2008/08/new_data_impact_of_biden.html?hpid=topnews
Have a laugh: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/8/23/11532/4129
Where’s Hillary? Only a few DELEGATES away?
Got the same video up at my site Curt………..Just about says it all.
Morrissey over at Hot Air (via Powerline), is already posting some of the gaffes that Biden (Obama’s 302nd foreign policy advisor) has made in the past.
A McCain / Romney ticket should be just the right recipe to put these two liberals into the history books of another losing combination with the help of the Hill n Bill Show in Denver.
Nightmare thought: It’s 3am and Biden gets a TEXT MESSAGE from Obama—-“The Iranians have just launched a nuke headed for Israel—-what should I do?
RETURN MESSAGE: “Call the Crawford Ranch”
What Biden REALLY thinks:
This is an article by Jim Geraghty at National Review Online entitled, ” ‘Just Words’ That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget”. Pretty great, I think:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRhNzJlMWY5NjdiNzhjMTRkYjMzNjYwOGJmYzNjMTY
Actually, I was hoping he’d pick Joe Biden…I don’t think there’s any balance there that would be appealing to the more conservative Democrats. Barack needed some balance to his most extreme liberal leaning voting record. They are just both liberal lefties, IMHO, so nothing new. And, really, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot, I think, who Obama picked since he is still who he is. Ya can’t change a tigers’ stripes!
They’re Baaaaaack!
The two biggest media cheerleaders for Barack Obama are back in full swing this morning. I can’t say enough how wonderful it’s been having the Olympics replace the two biggest blowhards television has produced. Chrissy (Obama sends a shiver up my leg) Matthews and Keith (I hate Bush to the 10th power) Olbermann are in full kiss-ass mode calling the Obama/Biden pair the “dream team”. Olby just said not minutes ago that “last night Biden wanted to leave his driveway and drive straight to the White House and tell Bush (paraphrasing) that he knows what the world needs” implying that Biden is the gift to the worlds (and Obama’s) foreign policy woes.
My ears ache…………
I love the smell of fatuousness in the morning… It. Smells. Like. Victory!
Has Joe Biden ever been talked about in depth? No.
Joe Biden (U. of Delaware, Syracuse Law): Biden, 65, the longest-serving U.S. senator in Delaware history, practiced law briefly in Wilmington before a stint in local politics led to Biden, at age 29, becoming one of the youngest U.S. senators in history.
Isn’t it strange that 50% of the stocks listed are incorporated in Delaware Joe Biden’s state? 60% of these corporations are fortune five hundred companies.
Here is a good one
Why incorporate in Delaware? Delaware has a separate Court of Chancery, a business court. The Court does not use juries and the judges are appointed on merit, not elected. Because there are no juries, decisions from the Chancery Court are issued as written opinions. Because of that, Delaware has a large body of written legal precedent to rely upon.
Delaware’s General Corporation Laws make it the friendliest state in America for corporations.
Wow, America there is some thing way out of balance here. What the heck is a Chancery Court?
Some said that Biden is not the status quo heck this guy highly and likely has been supporting corporate America for decades. Sorry but here is one nice talking guy has a nice family and son about to serve in Iraq but for this very superficial and simple dynamical back ground check by Joe six pack, this Joe Biden is appearing as one cool grease ball. Something the electorate might not want. Hell, this guy seems to be involved in his Delaware corporate stuff for decades. A life time under the Mainstream Media protection or Obama is going to determine how to dismantle a hardwired system installed for decades with little vented Court systems that don’t use Juries. Honestly I never knew this before and it stinks, especially if Obama is embracing this non jury justice system. Its no wonder our country is screwed up.
Biden said everybody thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and no
doubt he had WMDs at the end of Clinton’s term because Albright went to UN Annan
to discuss the seriousness of weapons of mass destruction. Saddam was not
stupid he could have hidden them or moved them to Syria or some place. Here’s
one for the WMDs conspiracy believers. In Chicago, Bill Clinton admitted that WMDS
were sold to Saddam under his administration and was booed off the stage. It was
the deal of the century and Clinton sold us out.