Obama Aides Defend Bank’s Pay to Biden Son

[Winston.]

Source: New York Times

During the years that Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. was helping the credit card industry win passage of a law making it harder for consumers to file for bankruptcy protection, his son had a consulting agreement that lasted five years with one of the largest companies pushing for the changes, aides to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign acknowledged Sunday.

Mr. Biden’s support for the bankruptcy changes, which were signed into law in 2005, puts him at odds with Mr. Obama of Illinois, who opposed the bill and has criticized the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, for supporting it. Consumer advocates and other Democratic allies remain sharply critical of Mr. Biden’s actions, saying in recent days that they could hamper the campaign’s efforts to attack the Republicans over their handling of the nation’s credit crisis.

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[Mz Pip]

1. Now for an equal time article on John McCain's son

but I won't hold my breath.

[napi21]

2. The only problem I have with the bankruptcy bill is that there isn't

a waiver for medical expenses. There really were and ARE people who abuse and misuse credit, and neither you, I or the banks should have to bail them out of their mess.

[depakid]

6. And there are also welfare queens who abused the system....

[Grinchie]

3. This is why Obama choosing a DLC stooge is incomprehensible

Biden is no better than Hillary, so why didn't Obama just cut his own legs off in one clean swoop by choosing Hilary, instead of innoculating himself with gangrene by choosing the ultimate insider Biden?

Everyone needs to research Joe Biden and not be swept up in the mortal fear that you must support an innappropriate VP in order to win this year.

Even Kucinich as VP could win, but now we have the DLC burrowing in for another 4 years.

The bankrupcty bill is just the tip of the Iceberg when people start looking at Bidens record of being Corporate friendly.

[WriteDown]

4. No kidding....

I think Hillary would have been the best choice, but your idea of a Kucinich VP is intriguing.

[aquart]

7. This is where Hillary supporters are so much more relaxed.

We weren't fooled by chanting and "CHANGE!" crap.

Now buckle down and deal with the real. We're going to have plenty of change in spite of ourselves. We're broke, in debt, and our climate is changing. We also have MILLIONS of regulations to re-instate. Hundreds of judgeships to appoint. Prosecutors.

UTOPIA AIN'T HAPPENING.

It never was. But Bush is leaving us a ten-mile high pile of shit to shovel. You can vote Democratic or you can drown in shit.

This is the year you better hope your Congressman isn't bewitched by Obama because somebody is going to have to watch what he does and make it better.

[Pete2069]

5. Why do we continually go with the flow and attack our

Why do we continually going with the flow and attacks on our
candidates by/for/with the republican's BS.
We need to get off of defending our democrats which have a
tooth pick in their eye and talk about the planks which are in
eyes of McCain , Bush , Cheney , Rice , news Media and the
rest of this criminal administration.
God isn't running in this election ,,, people are...
Republicans are keeping us defending our democrats with
non-issues and attacking each other , while they receive a
free ticket/pass on their destruction of our economy,
constiution/freedom , social programs , military and mading us
renters to other nations & the elite in our own country.

[Pete2069]

8. By the way

Where are all the great selections that the republicans have
for president and vice president!!!
We are belittling our own candidates for the likes of these
criminal republicans that are up for selection for VP.
When are we going to give Obama and our democrats some help
and attack the republicans in the same manner which
"we" are doing to our democrats.
McCain and his picks for VP have a lot of corruption values to
expose.
Republicans just keep us off balance with the personal BS
about our candidates to keep their crimes out of the news and
we keep running with it.
You know we have republican trolls on our boards that are
posting this BS to get us going and laughing their butts off.

[Fumesucker]

12. Actually the saying is:

Luke 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

Which essentially means before we criticize others we should be squeaky clean.

Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

[The Stranger]

9. Whatever happened to that lobbyist John McCain was fucking?

Did the corporate media ever get an interview with her?

No? How about just a statement? Not even a denial from her?

[Pete2069]

10. First time I have seen a losing candidate

This is the first time I have seen a losing candidate try to
run the policies of the winner.
What is it about losing the election that the Hillary
supporters don't understand?
Hillary was a republicans before she became a democrats or did
she really change.
Looks as if she gave McSame all of his campaign attack ads he
needed against Obama, and they are yelling about this
campaign.
Are Hillary losers in the same elite group with incomes in
which they can afford to re-elect McSame and a continuation of
Bush rape of American and it's citizens.
Just who are they kidding , when they say they will not vote
or vote for McCain.
No wonder the Republicans can get by with their criminal
crimes , we are starting to be the problem..
Majority of the democrats don't even vote and then some say
they will vote for McCain for spite.
What kind of party do we really have when the say I will cut
my nose off the spite my face......  

[tanyev]

11. Whaa? This story has nothing to do with Hillary supporters.