Posted on 10/15/2008 2:59:31 AM PDT by markedmannerf
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as rife with potential conflicts of interest.
Getty Images FAMILY: Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s son, Hunter Biden, was at a campaign stop with his father in December. The candidate's sister, Valerie Biden Owens, is his longtime campaign manager.
The money largely flowed from the coffers of Mr. Biden's failed presidential campaign during the past two years to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings.
The senator from Delaware also directed campaign legal work to a Washington lobbying and law firm founded by his son R. Hunter Biden, the disclosures show.
Putting family members and their companies on the political payroll is legal if the work is legitimate and charged at market rates, according to the Federal Election Commission. Still, public watchdog groups have long criticized such arrangements.
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Nice.
Morning Ping
Obama Chum to watch — Auchi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2070992/replies?c=36
Iraqi Billionaire Threatens Reporters Investigating Rezko Affair [Accuracy In Media]
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/iraqi-billionaire-threatens-reporters-investigating-rezko-affair/
Friends & Associates of Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by Brown Deer
Heavy with images
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104019/posts
Florida Democrat Congressman Mahoney’s 2nd Affair Revealed By Staffer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2105949/posts
Report: Credit card fraud for Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105340/posts
Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month — a $2300 donation to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Obama’s Weatherman shows which way the wind blows [Obama ADMITTED seeking marxists]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105942/posts
“Starting college in 1979, Obama describes how he chose his friends carefully: “The more politically active black students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performers.” He describes how they discussed “neo-colonialism, Frantz Fanon (the Black Power hero and apostle of cleansing violence) ... [snip]
McCain’s brother blasts campaign [Queensbury Rules Alert]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105943/posts
“Make ads that show John not as crank and curmudgeon but as a great leader for his time.”
RNC: Obama’s ACORN Tree
The link to post 6 gives you paragraph breaks:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105860/posts?page=6#6
Obama/ACORN: A side by side History (documented)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105002/posts
Sen. Cornyn Seeks Nationwide Criminal Probe of ACORN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105511/posts
Palin: Obama must ‘rein in’ ACORN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105516/posts
Hot key word: ACORN
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/acorn/index
Palin has checkered history on ethics issues (BARF Alert!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105595/posts
“ ... improperly used her City Hall office and equipment, city records show ...”
“Her husband, Todd, has accepted free trips from a mining company to look at their proposed new site.”
[And she misused a government klenex to clean her glasses.]
Rev. Wright Appears in an Ad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105570/posts
Rev’rund Jesse Jackson: Zionists [Jews] will lose their clout under Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105577/posts
[An Oldie to show race baiting hypocracy]
The Senate Holds Another ‘Community Organizer’: Robert Byrd of the KKK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080020/posts
[Why didn’t BO reject the endorsement of a former klansman?]
Icelandic Shoppers Splurge as Currency Woes Reduce Food Imports (no credit = no food country wide)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2105174/posts?page=1
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Poll workers clash at Falls nursing home (Obama’s Thugocracy in Action)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2105053/posts?page=1
George Manos, the 75-year-old Republican, told police that Edith Walker, the 73-year-old Democrat, jumped on his back and struck him in the head three to four times with her
fists. Manos said two other elections workers had to pull Walker off his back, according to a report filed with Cuyahoga Falls police. Manos said it happened after he accused Walker of ballot tampering, and he wants to prosecute.
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They came for Jessica, and I will not be silent [WND]
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77825
Audio interview of Phil Berg - Obama citizenship -DNC and RNC roles
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105093/posts
Phillip Berg Lawsuit Getting Airtime on Fox Toledo News Channel(Getting Traction?) Video at Link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104878/posts
Feds and Rezko Piecing Together Ayers, Giannoulias and Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105013/posts
The October Surprise? Obama’s Secret Squeeze, Vera Baker
[DISTRACTION ALERT]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2105944/posts
Muslims in fed terror probe making donations to Obama [August Oldie]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2070992/posts?page=36
Tuesday Morning Ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2104774/posts?page=49#49
[Also, by ‘viewing replies’ you might find more links]
Ping. [links above]
Bump
It’s not only a matter of our nation having people foolish enough to believe in any ticket having Biden, it is that their foolishness is more foolish than any fools before them.
Iraqi Billionaire Threatens Reporters Investigating Rezko Affair
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2067776/posts
Important key word: Auchi
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/auchi/index
I’m glad the Washington Times is on the Hunter Biden scandal. [Why I chose this page for morning ping. FRegards ...]
Yet, he and Michelle speak out against getting involved in the world of finance.
Are they trying to eliminate the competition?
YouTube (1 minute overview) Obama the Money Changer in the Temple
Make it a commercial. Title it DEMOCRAT CORRUPTION.
clearly this is not nearly as important as exposing Palin’s power-drunk quest to abuse her authority for wanting to fire a nice innocent Alaskan trooper who never hurt anyone. /s
I’ve been wondering why some of the dirt is coming out now. Do they feel pretty confident that the fix is in, so it’s safe to report a little of this now?
We do live in interesting times.
Love your tag line.
The Corrupt party of Democrats but even when they get caught with hundreds of thousands in bribe money in their freezers they still claim righteousness and the foolish American lemmings reelect them
When will Conservatives wake and and realize that the greatest hypocrisy from the left is that they only hold Republicans and Conservatives accountable. They never hold their own accountable and Conservatives because of their nature do hold their own accountable so only Republicans and Conservatives get held to account the rats get away with everything. In thier mind a murdering Democrat trumps a pro-life Republican every time.
He’s a great family man and politics in the northeast is a family business.
bttt
LOL!! Not a chance. If the election were held tomorrow, McCain/Palin would win.
From your lips to God’s ears.
It’s not about my lips. Look at where the two camps are campaigning. And then smile as you think about the $160 million in reserve for battleground advertising over the last two or so weeks.
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