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We know everything Palin has ever done in her life, but the media seems to be completely ignoring Biden and his sons lobbying.
If the fact that Palin asked for earmarks hurts McCain's ability to fight against earmarks wouldn't the fact that Biden's son is a lobbyist hurt Obama's anti-lobbyist argument??
Let's also not forget the earmark money that Obama steered towards one of Biden's sons.
If Obama wants to talk about change then he should understand that Biden is exactly the kind of Washington insider that we need to change.
35 years in office.
One son serves as AG for Delaware.
The other is the founder of a lobbying firm.
How is electing a life long politician who has turned politics into the family business 'change'?
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If the fact that Palin asked for earmarks hurts McCain's ability to fight against earmarks wouldn't the fact that Biden's son is a lobbyist hurt Obama's anti-lobbyist argument??
Let's also not forget the earmark money that Obama steered towards one of Biden's sons.
If Obama wants to talk about change then he should understand that Biden is exactly the kind of Washington insider that we need to change.
35 years in office.
One son serves as AG for Delaware.
The other is the founder of a lobbying firm.
How is electing a life long politician who has turned politics into the family business 'change'?
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link 2If Barack Obama really wants to fix "the broken politics of Washington," he could start with his running mate, Beltway insider Joe Biden.
Indeed, the Delaware senator's Capitol Hill seniority has proven to be a dividend to his family - including his son, Hunter, a multimillion-dollar DC lobbyist.
As The Los Angeles Times reported, Hunter Biden and his uncle - Joe Biden's brother - got $2 million in financing (to buy a premium hedge fund) from a law firm that has lobbied the senator's office on a key bill, and benefited nicely from Biden's vote.
That firm, SimmonsCooper - one of the nation's leading tort-law firms - used as its local counsel in Delaware a law firm whose partners included another Biden son, Beau, who'd obtained the contract.
SimmonsCooper and the Biden family are old friends, the paper reports.
The firm and its employees have given more than $200,000 to Joe Biden's campaigns - his largest contributor. Biden is the biggest recipient of SimmonsCooper's largesse.
Those donations began after Biden fought efforts by the asbestos industry to get lawsuits against it out of court by creating a trust fund to handle mesothelioma claims. SimmonsCooper spent $6.4 million lobbying senators, including Biden, to kill the plan.
Much longer article at link.Sen. Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbyist son of his Democratic running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, records show. Obama succeeded in getting $192,000 for one of the clients, St. Xavier University in suburban Chicago.