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bushmeister0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:34 PM Original message |
That didn't take long. Bloomberg: Biden's son a lobbyist. for Amtrak, Biden uses Amtrak. |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't think the McCain camp wants to get too far into candidates' CHILDREN's bios. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. Eh, McCain's son mysteriously stepped down suddenly from a Nevada |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. OMFG, that is just AWFUL Lobbying for public transportation!!!! |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Shout it on the rooftops n/t |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. IIRC, he's taken the Amtrak for 30 years? |
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seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. Is that the son who is going to Iraq soon? |
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gblady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. the other son, I believe... |
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bushmeister0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. No, that's Joseph Robinette “Beau” Biden III. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. No - his other son, Beau, is the one being deployed. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. Since I support Amtrak that is not an issue for me. I seriously doubt |
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bushmeister0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. yeah, but this sort of thing is designed to make people think |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. " 'they're all the same. They all do it' etc. " |
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seafan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. McCain HATES Amtrak. He really doesn't want to open this door. |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Anyone who hates passenger trains is inhuman. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. Big AMTRAK! Oh noes! |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. Part and parcel of the DC culture |
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Stop Cornyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
17. In the primary, Biden took the highest percentage of his funding from lobbyists. |
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Stop Cornyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. You will hear endlessly how "Biden never profited from his tenure in the Senate;" you will seldom |
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bushmeister0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I don't think Biden is all that bad. |
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Stop Cornyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:28 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Someone like Bayh would have been marginally worse ideologically, but at least Bayh would have made |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
20. Ben Stevens is under investigation for corruption. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
21. Yah - because Amtrak's influence on the government is just SOOO huge! |
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bushmeister0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Oh, you have no idea! |
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