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1 posted on 09/02/2008 7:53:39 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
First, in Washington you are permitted to enjoy wealth without ever being called wealthy provided simply that you haven't actually earned it in some unseemly way -- by, say, building up a business.

Brilliant observation!
2 posted on 09/02/2008 7:57:38 AM PDT by Mr. Binnacle (Baby, Everybody's Had to Fight to be Free - Tom Petty)
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To: shrinkermd

I consider Biden’s support of the LOST Treaty to be treason. Or is he that stupid?

He wants to put our Navy under partial control of the U.N., which is dominated by China, Russia and Muslim Countries.

So, treason or stupidity. Take your pick. If it is simply naive, then he should step down.


4 posted on 09/02/2008 8:03:07 AM PDT by whitedog57
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What a crock! Joe Biden is a compulsive liar, self aggrandizer, and a yellow belly sap sucker, who the Iranians sent running back to the U.S., with his wet tail between his legs, and yelping about how “all our problems with Iran, are all the U.S. Govt’s fault”.


5 posted on 09/02/2008 8:11:55 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand)
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I have a lot of differences with Biden’s views, but it’s ridiculous to portray him as “rich.” 165K is a squarely middle-class income in an expensive city like Washington. Don’t forget also that Biden, like most members of Congress, maintains two homes, one in DC and one in his home state.

Biden is conspicuous for having not enriched himself while in office.


6 posted on 09/02/2008 8:13:01 AM PDT by Poundstone
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8 posted on 09/02/2008 8:19:09 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: shrinkermd

Two minutes of the “class act” on the campaign trail:

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/biden-drinking-on-the-job/

Some posters are convinced he was drunk. I say that’s what this clown is like when he’s sober.


11 posted on 09/02/2008 8:34:12 AM PDT by freespirited
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...According to his most recent disclosure forms, Mr. Biden's income includes his Senate salary of $165,200 and a teaching stipend of $20,500 from Widener University. On top of this, he received $112,500 as the second half of a book advance. Even allowing for generous deductions, Mr. Biden's income comfortably locates him in the top 5% of American taxpayers...

Don't forget he has a Doctorate of Law degree. He knows how to play the "shell game" as well or better than any of the other dinosaur Congressmen that somehow keep getting re-elected.

On another note, do they (Dems) really believe he represents what they've been referring to as "change"?

14 posted on 09/02/2008 8:57:15 AM PDT by BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL (Never forget our troops or what they are doing for us...)
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I don’t understand how growing up in a town but moving out when you are 12 gives you “roots” there. I grew up in a couple of small towns, and I remember them fondly, but they don’t reflect who I am, if anything they reflect my parent’s choices.


17 posted on 09/02/2008 9:27:47 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: shrinkermd
It's okay to be wealthy as long as you're not a Republican !!!! <<>>
20 posted on 09/02/2008 12:30:07 PM PDT by Deetes ( (God Bless the Troops) .)
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The Man from Scranton
Joe Biden's mythical blue-collar roots

Steve Chapman | September 1, 2008

[Excerpt] The facts are there for anyone who wants to look at them. When Joe Biden Sr. died in 2002, his obituary in the News-Journal of Wilmington reported that when he married in 1941, "he was working as a sales representative for Amoco Oil Co. in Harrisburg."

It went on, "Biden also was an executive in a Boston-based company that supplied waterproof sealant for U.S. merchant marine ships built during World War II. After the war, he co-owned an airport and crop-dusting service on Long Island." Upon moving his family to Delaware, the News-Journal said, Biden "worked in the state first as a sales manager for auto dealerships and later in real-estate condominium sales."

Executive, co-owner, and manager? Those titles identify the jobholder as solidly middle class, if not better. They fall in the category of white-collar occupations, not blue-collar.

And Biden Sr. clearly knew the difference. In his book, Promises to Keep, Biden writes that his father was "the most elegantly dressed, perfectly manicured, perfectly tailored car sales manager Wilmington, Del., had ever seen."

Biden notes that he himself could have gone to the best public high school in Delaware. Instead, he enrolled at Archmere Academy, a Catholic prep school that made him think he had "died and gone to Yale." He took a summer job to help pay the steep tuition, which today amounts to $18,450 a year.

Link.

21 posted on 09/02/2008 12:40:53 PM PDT by aculeus
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