.’) 

                          
                                                                       
                               (Fox News: "

                            He is another cold warrior trying to restart the cold war to keep the military
                     industrial complex happy and rolling right along.  He is unwilling to tell the truth about
                    Georgia.   Thanks to the CIA who installed Saakashvili in power. Georgia is run by
                    this foolish young man who has started a stupid war against his much bigger neighbor
                   Russia.   More and more he has behaved like a tin-horn authoritarian dictator who will not
                   tolerate dissent and may even have his opponents killed.   Many more details can be
                   found on  http://www.tigersoftware.com/TigerBlogs/August-21-2008/index.html

                            True, for political advantage, Biden has properly said America is being financially
                    and morally exhausted by Bush's $3 trillion war in Iraq".  But he has given George Bush
                    every penny he wanted to wage this insane and corruptly waged war.

                            Calling himself a  "realist",  Biden is for the continued use of American military
                     force in faraway places, like Darfur, the Balkans and Afghanistan.  He will fit in perfectly
                     with the hawks and the military industrial complex.  The hundreds of US military bases a
                     round the workd are not threatened.  It will business as usual at the Pentagon and the CIA
                     with Biden near the center of US Governmental decision-making

                            Biden voted FOR the Bush war in Iraq. Now he has seen the light about Iraq.
                    He said last year that "the top officials in the Bush administration have privately
                    concluded they have lost Iraq and are simply trying to postpone disaster so the next
                    president will “be the guy landing helicopters inside the Green Zone, taking people
                    off the roof,” in a chaotic withdrawal reminiscent of Vietnam. He has called General
                    Petraeus "dead flat wrong" (sic) on Iraq.  The surge has not added security there..
                    Well duh?

                             I admit that he certainly has a much more nuanced view of "terrorism" and has
                    banned use of the phrase "war on terror" in his office.  Biden has said: "Terrorism
                    is a means, not an end, and very different groups and countries are using it toward
                    very different goals. If we can't even identify the enemy or describe the war we're fighting,
                    it's difficult to see how we will win."

                             Biden has received more than a million dollars between 2003 and 2008 from
                    financial and investment firms.  Bailouts will continue as usual for Wall Street.
                    "Over his long career in politics, Biden’s biggest financial supporter has been the giant
                    credit card company MBNA, which was also one of George W. Bush’s biggest donors
                    in 2000 and 2004. His son, Hunter Biden, was hired as a management trainee at MBNA
                    straight out of law school, and was quickly promoted to executive vice president. The younger
                    Biden has since left MBNA to establish his own lawyer-and-lobbying firm, but still receives
                    a $100,000 per year consulting fee from the bank, which has since been swallowed by Bank
                    of America. In 2006, Hunter Biden was appointed by President Bush to a five-year term on the
                    Amtrak Reform Board.

                                                         
                                                           http://therealjoebiden.wordpress.com/

                            Biden has not been the consumers' friend.  He has been in the pocket of credit card
                   companies, many of whom are incorporated in Delaware.   Biden was the most active
                   Democrat in the U.S. Senate during the battles over the federal bankruptcy bills.   Biden
                   helped predatory lenders get the bill they wanted.  The little guy got screwed.  Now the
                   entire national economy is paying the price .  Biden aggressively ramrodded the bankruptcy
                   bill through the Senate, despite opposition from all the major consumer groups, women’s
                   groups, bankruptcy attorneys, and labor organizations, and warnings from bankruptcy judges. 

                            Instead of leading the fight for universal medical insurance, he would bring coverage
                   only in extreme cases.  He is for the government paying hospital bills over $55,000.   There
                   is nothing in his views that would help working people get cheaper or affordable health
                   insurance.   He would allow people between 55 and 65 to "buy" into Medicare. 

                            Mr. Biden’s health plan excludes undocumented immigrants, except in emergency cases.
                    “Instead, deal with it through immigration bills, not health care.”  So, he would send "illegals"
                     back home untreated, even though they have been paying taxes all along.  He seems not to
                     care about those that will die on the way back to their native country?

                            Biden has hidden ties to Bush. Scooter Libby's wife has been a main Senate Staffer
                     for Senator Biden.

                            In fairness, Biden has regularly voted
                    1) to have a less regressive taxation system that will tax the very rich;.
                    2) to protect American workers in foreign trade agreements.
                    3) to protect the environment and the earth's animals and fishes.

                                                               McCain Is Worse

                               Criticisms of Obama do not make me a McCain supporter.  McCain would continue the
                     Iraq war until "we win".  He jokes about bombing Iran, no matter the loss of life.  He
                     has called Social Security a "disgrace".  McCain is very heavily dependent upon corporation
                     contributions and has surrounded himself with lobbyists like Phil Gramm, who created the Enron
                     loophole that has brought about the destructiveness of steeply higher energy prices in
                     California in 2001 in the US in 2008.   Obama would not call his wife a "cunt" in public like
                    McCain did.           
 

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• What Obama threw Under the Bus by picking Biden « The Political Inquirer
• NorthWest Florida Republican » Biden is the death knell for Obama’s bid for the Presidential office.
• locomotivebreath (mr. clean) 1901
• The Other McCain: D Minus-2: Gonzo on Veeps
• race42008.com » Blog Archive » Race 4 2008 Essential Reads: Joe Biden Edition
• This Will Be Fun « Tai-Chi Policy
• Choice of Biden Contradicts Obama’s Message « Verus Politics: Truth and Reason
  
  (Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/23/bidens-lobbying-ties/   )

                                       
                                 Obama Flip-Flops - http://jgapinoy.blogspot.com/2008/07/barack-and-forth.html
                                       
               
              Presidential candidates traditionally slide towards the center of the
         political spectrum after they secure the nominations of their parties. McCain
         is no exception.  I have no idea what his latest stance is on global warming.
         And being stubbornly wrong about the Iraq war is unforgiveable, to my
         thinking. 

              Obama finds it hard to admit that he is moving to the center to make himself
           more electable. Obama

            1) was against 1990s welfare reform, now for it. (This is a reasonable
            change in lightof new evidence. )
            2) was for Washington, DC gun ban, now against it.  (True and Sad.)
            3) was against death penalty for any reason,  now favors it for child rapists
             and Osama Bin Laden.  (A matter of conscience.)
             4) was against NAFTA, now more open to it if done conditionally. . 
             5) was against Cuban embargo, now for it. (Pure politics! Igh.)
             6) promised to accept campaign spending limits/matching funds if
             McCain did, now refuses to participate even though McCain is willing.
             7) was "strongly" against FISA, then voted for it.  (Very disappointing!
                     Obama taught Constitutional Law.  He should know Bush has 
                     eviscerated the bill of rights.)  
             8) was against homosexual marriage, now supports it.
             9) was against personally displaying patriotism via flag lapel pins, now wears one.
           10) was against Jerusalem being the undivided capital of Israel, now for it
           11) was for unconditional dialogue with Iran's President, now for conditions.
           12) was against Bush's faith-based initiatives, now for them.
           13) was for pulling troops out of Iraq per timetable, now "entirely conditions-based".
           14) said in June that "my party" wouldn't take money from lobbyists, but
            as of late July his campaign as well as his party have accepted tens of thousands of
            dollars from individual registered lobbyists
            15) was against all offshore drilling, now for it as long as it’s “carefully
            circumscribed”   (That's a reasonable change.)

                
                      

                                      
                                  

                       
                                                          
                                                
                                

                                                           
                                                                      
                                                 

                                                                      
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