Ask yourself if you have ever seen an article this nice about Sarah Palin by the Grey Lady. Ask yourself why this artice just happens to come out the day of the VP debates. A bit of Biden Luv from the New York Times: An Everyman on the Trail, With Perks at Home
For the millions of voters getting to know him, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, portrays himself at times as an average guy who takes the train to work, frets about money and basically has led a middle-class life.
“Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen table is like mine,†Mr. Biden said when Senator Barack Obama introduced him as his running mate. “You sit there at night after you put the kids to bed and you talk, you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills.â€
He’s a swell guy, eh?
Although he is among the least wealthy members of the millionaires club that is the United States Senate — he and his wife, Jill, a college professor, earn about $250,000 a year — Mr. Biden maintains a lifestyle that is more comfortable than the impression he may have given on the campaign trail. A review of his finances found that when it comes to some of his largest expenses, like the purchase and upkeep of his home and his use of Amtrak trains to get around, he has benefited from resources and relationships not available to average Americans.
As a secure incumbent who has rarely faced serious competition during 35 years in the Senate, Mr. Biden has been able to dip into his campaign treasury to spend thousands of dollars on home landscaping and some of his Amtrak travel between Wilmington, Del., where he lives, and Washington. And the acquisition of his waterfront property a decade ago involved wealthy businessmen and campaign supporters, some of them bankers with an interest in legislation before the Senate, who bought his old house for top dollar, sold him four acres at cost and lent him $500,000 to build his new home.
Hmm, that would seem to be problematic. Is yardwork the reason people donate to his campaigns? As for the waterfront property, that seems to be exactly the kind of issue that Obama rails about (though we know he doesn’t mean it.) I bet the Times has something to say on this obvious lapse in ethics
There is nothing to suggest Mr. Biden bent any rules in the sale, purchase and financing of his homes. Rather, he appears to have benefited at times from the simple fact of who he is: a United States senator, not just “Amtrak Joe,†the train-riding everyman that the Obama-Biden campaign has deployed to rally middle-class voters.
Ah. It’s OK, then. Sarah Palin fires a guy who refused to fire a trooper – who happened to be her ex-brother in law – who tazed a 10 year old, drank before and during shifts, illegally shot animals, etc, but, according to all the Liberal media, there is a problem with that.
Interestingly, throught the who article, which is about telling us what an average Joe Joe is, we get a look at Joe’s finances, and realize that this guy just isn’t very good with money. Good thing he is just running for the job of VP, eh?
So, where is the article on Palin? That post is up next.
