Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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"Business dealings of Biden family could be problematic for him."
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
7:59 PM
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From the Los Angeles Times:
When Joe Biden's brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to a law firm that had lobbied the Delaware senator's office on an important piece of business in Congress -- and in fact had recently benefited from his vote. The firm promised James and Hunter Biden that it would invest $2 million, and quickly delivered half of it.
That deal eventually fell through and the money was returned. But it highlighted the close ties that Joe Biden and his family have developed with SimmonsCooper, an Illinois law firm that specializes in asbestos litigation -- a multimillion-dollar line of business that was under threat in Congress.
In addition to providing financing for the hedge fund deal, SimmonsCooper picked the law firm of another of Biden's sons, Beau, to work with it on dozens of asbestos cases in Delaware. "It was only natural that we worked with my friend Beau Biden and his firm," said Jeffrey Cooper, former managing partner of SimmonsCooper.
There's lots more. Read the whole thing. Did Obama's team blow the vetting, or just assume that the MSM had done it during the primaries?
If McCain's veep is a good debater, expect this story to make its way into the showdown between the veep nominees.
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I don't listen to Rush very often but caught a bit today while fetching some lunch. He was going on about Biden's support for the Bankruptcy Act of 2005, and suggesting it was a liberal bill and that he voted for it because his son was a lobbyist for MBNA. He added that this bill was responsible for the current mortgage crisis.
I admit, I was very disappointed and angered by Biden's vote for this bill at the time. It should be repealed. But I understand why he did it with thousands of constituents employed by the major credit card companies headquartered in Wilmington (for reasons going back to a 1978 Supreme court ruling on exporting interest rates and the astronomical interest rates of the 1980s). The bills (HR685 and S256) were both sponsored entirely by and supported primarily by Republicans (all 229 Republicans in the house voted for it as did all Republican Senators).
The only part Limbaugh got right was that Biden's son was at MBNA. It was actually as a "consultant", not a "lobbyist". As a former credit card company executive with over 25 years in the business, I was astounded by Limbaugh's outright fabrications on this topic. If this is indicative of the level of accuracy with which he pontificates on other topics, listeners who actually believe what he is saying could easily be the most misinformed people on the planet. |
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Appreciate your rationality, but your admonishing the loon that "your time would be better spent in a country where you could live in content(ment) and happiness" is wasted effort. The leftists in this country are incapable of contentment and happiness. They are ALWAYS angry about something, and would be lost without that anger.
To me, it appears the left is like a bunch of teenagers full of angst toward their parents (the right). Lose the angst and leftists (with a conscience) turn into conservatives, hence "neocons", hence leftists' particular visciousness toward that particular breed of the right.
Your point about moderation is well put.
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are ALL that I've imagined.
Gotta scamper off to my Homies in the 'Hood to do today's VIGFM* now, Babycakes.
*Vast Inexpressable GOOD For Mankind* |
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equates to corporatism and militarism?
You may be right that the American people are willing to buy into more of that at this time. (It is, after all, the devil they know.)
But I don't think that means the end of the Democratic Party.
It just means that the process of the People waking up is taking a long time.
Eventually they are bound to stop chanting "thank you sir may i have another."
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Fascism, you affable Left-Loonie, in this current world, is best illustrated by our Dark Age Death Worshiping Enemies. Al-Qaeda & their Offshoots. The Taliban. The Radical-Islamists who wish us DEAD. Further, Fascism was the Baathist Butchers' Pit of Saddam's Iraq. Fascism is Baathist Syria, Islamist Iran and PLO-Hamas Palestine. Hezzbollah sections of Lebanon.
THOSE are Contemporary Fascism. We Conservatives, Neoconservatives and Joe Lieberman GET IT. Your Morally Adrift Left-Hole In the Sand-Wishful Thinkers & Dreamers DON'T Get It. That you don't is inexcusable, shameful, maddening and sad. Your side MUST NOT have Executive Power. The American People will tell you that overwhelmingly in November. When your heads are handed to you--metaphorically, unlike what Fascists would offer--remember that Free Americans, practicing Liberty, gave you the lesson.
Toast. Clueless, Empty-Suited TOAST. That's what the Soros-Left-Morally Bankrupt-in-Wartime Democrats will be. Good Luck on Reconstruction. |
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Luv ya, Briggsy, but you're capable of making delicate, sensitive, fuzzballish Neo very freaking tired. My God, Kid, you exceed even my time-tested Briggsy-Measurements for Stupid.
Awwww, Hell, maybe I ought to thank you for so clearly stating the Moral Vacuum which the Left inhabits. "Fascism", in Lefty World, is this Liberty-Loving, Freedom-Loving GREATEST NATION Ever on Earth, as currently seen by you, under the dreaded Bush & Cheney. The cure for this Horror is Barack Hussein Obama: Community Organizer, Saul Alinsky Socialist Disciple-Activist, Faithful Follower & Friend of a Batsh!! Crazy-America-Loathing Liberation Theology Pastor, Chicago by-the-numbers Ward Politico, State Senator of the CYA-Kind who voted "Present" when anything crept near controversy, Backbench Fledgling U.S.Senator of 140-days of working attendance whose sub-committee he--as chairman--never called to meet, Friend-Colleague-Defender of Weather Underground Maoist Bombers, Champion of American Weakness & Twaddle in a Time of Vast Danger, Disrespector of American Exceptionalism & Liberty, NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE that would qualify him for more than Manager of a Circle-K Mini Mart, Unapologetic-Disser of The Surge that has brought us Victory in Iraq, Vapid Historical Thinking or Knowledge to a SHOCKING Degree, Etc, Etc, Etc...
He will be the Agent of Change for your Party, I promise, by bring it to Crashing Defeat in the Presidential Election in November. A LONG Overdue Wake-Up Call for Sanity to reappear in Denocratland. |
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Pathetic Liberal.
Yep, he just keeps spewing after he openly declared that he had, "better things to do with his time".
He declared that he was "scalin' back".
It is abundantly clear that he was emoting again---as he so often does---as is the hallmark of narcissists.
The world revolves around him and he continually needs to remind everyone about that.
Pathetic Liberal, "scalin' back"?
What he meant to say was that he was gonna lose some weight; shed some pounds, push the plate back from his monstrous appetite for attention.
"Scalin' back."
Yeah, in his dreams. |
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Yep, that's about right. Obama's getting buried and we're barely breaking a sweat this election, so awful is the democrat candidate.
One can only hope that the donkey debacle results in a purge of the leftist freaks running the show so that we can have two decent (in all senses of the word) political parties.
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..by the graveyard. We are only now beginning to fight. Sleaze ain't gonna work this time around. Nor is playacting at honor. McCain endured. Good for him. But he's not a high character guy. Morally, he's an average guy who got caught and endured five years of NV brutality. And, as Kerry put it so eloquently, Candidate McCain's main debate is with Senator McCain. He's not a maverick--he's a flunky. Everyone is getting wise to him. You guys got the media going for you, but this time, Americans are gonna see past the noise, past the flimflam. This time, America is choosing the better angels of her nature--which means you're--and everything you stand for--the odd man out.. |
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Great. You folks have some tough-guy actors. Well, acting is believing.
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"We've got problems for which McCain AIN'T the remedy and Obama IS."
Obama definitely has the remedy for bad graphic design in presidential campaigns. I'll give him that.
All our other problems, not so much... |
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... burnt Kenyan toast in the morning.
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It IS counterproductive to point out questionable Biden 'favors'. Whether true or not is irrelevant. Every congressman has contact with lobbyists.
Any possible 'payoff' is countered by the inevitable public perception that republicans are engaged in a smear, which will certainly be charged.
Fortunately, Biden will provide plenty of ammunition as he already has in the primaries.
Biden will be easy to goad into opening his mouth and sticking his foot into it. He can't help it. He's not in control of his ego and he speaks before thinking. |
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"love it or leave it" choice. I'm staying and speaking out. At least for awhile.
We've got problems for which McCain AIN'T the remedy and Obama IS.
What do you suppose Ike was warning us about when he referred to the "military industrial complex?"
He could see it back then, and it has become even more insidious since he said it. |
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News from the Hollywood McCain fundraiser (this will make you laugh):
Moments later, Robert Duvall and James Caan walk slowly past the front desk, their younger wives following two paces behind. The two Hollywood veterans--who starred together in The Godfather--are laughing heartily as they passed. I interrupt them to ask what they thought about McCain. Caan is surprised that McCain was so funny, Duvall is not.
Duvall, who just finished doing the voiceovers for the McCain videos that will be show next week at the Republican National Convention, points to McCain's national security experience. "He's an American hero. He's got character. He's been around." Duvall pauses. "The other guy? I just don't know."...
Duvall then picks up our conversation from where we left it before the interruption. He is incensed by comments Gore Vidal made about McCain back in June. Vidal had questioned McCain's heroism. "Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?"
Duvall doesn't think much of Vidal, whom he called "an American icon-slash-dilettante." It's not only John McCain who could kick Vidal's a$$.
"His 96 year-old mother could beat the crap out of Gore Vidal with her shoe," Duvall says. "And you can quote me on that."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/0 00/015/473ldzno.asp?pg=2
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I think this is a good link for you to consider:
http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson082208.html
Note: your link could be made about any country :)
We live in a world full of democracies which have varying degrees of capitalism and socialistic ideas. Due to culture difference, each democracy has it's own flavor.
Perhaps, America is not a flavor you like, and you might want to try another. It makes sense to me, that if you are lucky enough to be born in a free society in which you are disgruntled with, you have the opportunity to choose another free society that will make you happy.
America has a more conservative culture, and I think spending time trying to remake a civilization in the image of another is a time that is wasted. Your time would be better spent in a country where you could live in content and happiness.
We live in great times where free societies are abundant, and we can choose the one of our liking.
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http://oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm |
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This video is rated NL -not liberal :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbW64215HA8
This is a great political video, send it to your friends. |
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"For example, historically, fascism comes from the left and not from the right. The American constitution was found on the right, and not on the left. Cuba, China, Soviet Union, Germany in WWI and WWII were\are governments created from the left."
Uh oh, facts and logic.
*Briggsy's head explodes*
P.S. "fascist" is a word the Left likes to use to describe anyone who disagrees with them. |
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"The forces pulling us toward fascism require that the wheel be turned DECIDEDLY left."
Well, the forces pulling us toward fascism would certainly *like* that the wheel be turned decidedly left, but sensible Americans (like me) have been telling them where to stick it for years.
Sorry, comrade. You're in the wrong country for a pinko revolution. |
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I was in India for 8 months training folks for new technologies two years ago. I talked to many people while I was there helping them.
America is the light on the hill, and America inspires people around the world to expect great things of themselves. It is something Americans should be proud of. The statue of liberty has real meaning...ask those folks in Georgia, Poland or the Ukraine.
The extreme left and extreme right seem to be so submerged in their own ideologies they have blinders on.
For example, historically, fascism comes from the left and not from the right. The American constitution was found on the right, and not on the left. Cuba, China, Soviet Union, Germany in WWI and WWII were\are governments created from the left.
On the far right, we see the pre-WWII isolationism, and yet we are in a world of globalization.
I don't know why you see fascism in America. I don't see fascism, and I can guarantee you that those folks I helped in India didn't see fascism either.
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has really become unhinged at this point. He hasn't mentioned anything about McCain is weeks other than "he's the lesser of two evils." Rousing support.
He's pretty convinced he's the next Pope now, screaming about how other people aren't Catholic enough. Hugh, religion and belief are personal things. Shut up. You're not god, despite what Romney whispers in your ears. Do you masturbate? Is that Christian? go away you sycophant, keep your intrepertation of other people's souls to yourself. |
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Now we all know that the MSM will never bring this up on Joe and they will cover the Dems' rear ends as they have with Ayers, Rezko, Wright and their socialist pacifist balderdash. C'mon Hugh. You have been around. MSNBC would slash their wrists before they would ever have any damaging news for a Dem Lion , say like Teddy the K, SFRAN Nan, Reid, Edwards, Barney Frank et al. Only Pubs get the long knives out and even when they resign or repent, boy howdy do they still get put in the proverbial wood chipper. Sorry, but Biden will only be judged by his big mouth not any scandal. |
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It shows how empty the Republicans are on ideas. Is this all you got Hugh? Where is the Republican plan for this country? Only for so long can you blame every ill on the Democrats. After almost 8 years in complete control of Washington what have they accomplished? You expect the American people to gloss over the last 8 years because Obama worked on a charitable board with a person who over 30 years ago set off some bombs that killed nobody and never intended to harm anyone (only people killed where idiots who made the bombs, they would call before exploding the bombs warning that an explosion was coming) Oh yea, you have some flimsy case on Rezko, in which Obama was never charged with anything, and a wacko Pastor. And with that elect Mccain. Wow what a convincing argument. |
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The forces pulling us toward fascism require that the wheel be turned DECIDEDLY left.
If we turn INTO this skid, we are going to fly right off the cliff. |
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Oh, hughie! You and your political instincts! I can't wait to see where this (doesn't) go. |
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I'm non-partisan. I look at which candidate is closest to my values.
My biggest problem with Obama is his Chicago roots. Obama has had a number of opportunities in his life to walk down the center as a reformer, and he didn't do it. For example, there was a time in Chicago when dems and republicans came together to try and reform the Chicago machine, and Obama made the choice of siding with the Chicago machine. His friendships reflect his choices in life.
Amercia is right of center, and McCain is right of center, and I am center. Obama is to far to the left to be an option for me.
I can vote for a moderate, left of center democrat. If people would be moderate in there views we could work together, and McCain is right of center...the question is....where is the left of center democrat to create viable working partner? The socialistic lefties own the democratic party, and nobody can work with them. We have to come to the middle if we are going to compromise...extreme lefties just won't budge.
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Hugh says:
"If McCain's veep is a good debater, expect this story to make its way into the showdown between the veep nominees."
What do you mean if??? McCain's VP better be an excellent debater.
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A judge obstructing justice as a political favor.
Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown. (Texas) |
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I would also like to clarify her pro-choice stance.
"In the past years NARAL has given her ratings of 0%, 7%, 20%, and 0%, indicating that her voting record mostly favored enacting proposed abortion restrictions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchinson
Kay is where I am on the abortion issue. I'm technically pro-choice, but I believe in restrictions.
Personally, I think a woman should take a day after pill if she doesn't want to get pregnant or abort early, and once the child is in the 2nd trimester it should be born unless the life of the mother is at stake.
Some folks here might even call this a pro-life stance, but Kay and I are for restrictions. Obama would let an infant die after birth...that's not pro-choice that is infanticide.
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He is such an idiot.
Can Bidden really work for the "Clean & Articulate" babakazama?
Would he let babakazama go out with his daughter?
Couldn't babakazama just get a little DNA from a dead mosquito and clone Moe Howard before November? |
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Your a fool or an A$$
All charges on McCain were dropped. Funny I'm not even a mccain fan, but I do know more than you fool!
Hey why don't you bring up ALL the DEM's in the Keating mess???
What cat got your mouth! |
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Kay Bailey Hutchison was acquitted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchinson
"Following Onion's ruling, Earle declined to proceed with his case. Though he had intended to continue the case later, Onion declined to give Earle that opportunity. The judge instead swore in a jury and immediately ordered the panel to acquit Hutchison when no evidence had been presented to them by Earle. The acquittal barred any future prosecution of Hutchison."
Obamites trying to smear a woman VP is not going to go over well with Hillary voters :)
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K B Hutchison (not Hutchinson) was indicted by a grand jury and supports Roe v. Wade.
Back to the drawing board. |
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Jimmy P on Kudlow and company broke some news saying Romney was out, and Kay Bailey Hutchinson was now on the top of the list.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=834233778&play=1
The announcement is toward the end of the video.
The Troll Dems should NOT watch this video given the good business numbers that came out today. As well as the poll numbers which show McCain and Obama are tied on the women vote which is an historic event at this point.
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with whom this story harms Biden.
Has Hugh given up on Romney as McCain's VP?
Romney can't really talk about hedge funds and venture capital.
He already has a wheeler dealer image problem, and would want to steer clear of that area.
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Two words for you Hugh: Charles Keating.
Lets hope that lobbyists make it into the debate. Because we can start with Charles Keating and not even get to McCain's running mate. Instead, we can then talk about his wife and her connections to lobbyists and Charles Keating. That will most certainly derail the image of John McCain and his "straight talk express" as it would seem most voters have no idea of just how tainted Senator McCain is.
Bring it on Hugh! |
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