But Biden Is More Generous With Other People's Money

Sarah Palin and the First Dude gave more to charity in the last two years than Joe Biden gave in the last ten, despite his higher income.  But he supports higher taxes on other people, so we know he is truly compassionate and giving.  Just not out of his own pocket.

INSUFFICIENTLY HERALDED:  One of the great things about the Palin candidacy is that we aren't forced to endure more whining from Michelle about the high cost of piano lessons and the horrors of student loans.

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[hit and run]

Charity, schmarity.

Paying taxes is patriotic.

Right?

[BAW]

When I heard this story reported it came with a statement from the Obama/Biden campaign saying that Biden gives cash at his church and he and his wife give their time. (Like he goes to that restaurant that isn't there and hangs out at Home Depot.) But what I was reminded of is a picture I have seen of Palin working at a building site that I believe was a Habitat for Humanity project.

Sorry Joe, Sarah wins again.

[BumperStickerist]

Well, Sarah didn't pay her taxes ...

... or didn't pay sufficient taxes at the time she and Todd filed for an extension

... or they had an accountant who said "Hey! write a check for $2,000 and that'll cover it."

or something.

Anyway, if they haven't all ready, teh Leftards will be shrieking that Sarah's a tax dodger.

Despite the fact that it's the tax preparer certifies the result.

One particularly disturbed Leftard who's blogging at The Atlantic will be shrieking that Sarah's claim that Trig is her baby should be investigated by the IRS.

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[Elroy Jetson]

OT alert!
It looks like Palin is going to force the Obama/Ayers issue.
See Drudge.

[centralcal]

Bumper, I believe you are being snarky about the leftard blogger at The Atlantic. However, your snark may prove to be quite prescient. Sullivan is becoming more deranged every day.

[bio mom]

I am very worried about Joe Biden being a heartbeat away from the presidency.

[TGO]

So Sarah's witchdoctor contributions are subsidized by American taxpayers?

[Rick Ballard]

bio mom,

It is pretty scary. If something happened to Obama then Pelosi would have Biden declared brain dead and take over. Who could argue with her?

[pagar]

I'm hearing something about Hannity on Fox at 9 PM EST Sunday--1 hr on Obama and all his shady or worse, friends.

[Antimedia]

If we had an unbiased media in this country, McCain would be leading by 20 points. As it is, the alternative media is raising enough issues that the truth may still get through to the average American before the election.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I posted this link last night in a mostly dead thread, but I think it needs more discussion.

Obama Claims He Never Worked For Acorn

From Obama campaign’s disinformation website, Fight The Smears:

Barack Obama Never Organized with ACORN

Discredited Republican voter-suppression guru Ken Blackwell is attacking Barack Obama with naked lies about his supposed connection to ACORN.

• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN community organizer.
• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
• Fact: ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.

From a thirteen year old article from the Chicago Reader:

By Hank De Zutter
December 8, 1995

… Another strong supporter of Obama’s work–as an organizer, as a lawyer, and now as a candidate–is Madeline Talbott, lead organizer of the feisty ACORN community organization, a group that’s a thorn in the side of most elected officials. “I can’t repeat what most ACORN members think and say about politicians. But Barack has proven himself among our members. He is committed to organizing, to building a democracy. Above all else, he is a good listener, and we accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer.”

Obama continues his organizing work largely through classes for future leaders identified by ACORN and the Centers for New Horizons on the south side. Conducting a session in a New Horizons classroom, Obama, tall and thin, looks very much like an Ivy League graduate student. Dressed casually prep, his tie loosened and his top shirt button unfastened, he leads eight black women from the Grand Boulevard community through a discussion of “what folks should know” about who in Chicago has power and why they have it. It’s one of his favorite topics, and the class bubbles with suggestions about how “they” got to be high and mighty…

And never mind that Project Vote is simply a front for ACORN.

Be sure to also read this followup post:

Obama Ran ACORN Power Training Classes

[matt]

psychologically, this is interesting. Both Obama and Biden gave almost nothing to charity, and yet they are the ones who get the "compassion" vote? Our values have become pretty skewed.......

[clarice]

Well, Rick, how could she avoid the same diagnosis. Did yousee a pic of her yesterday BTW? Looks like she's wearing a cheap wig to hide the lobotomy scars.

[TGO]

Unrepentant Felons for McCain!!!

link

[Lori]

I find it interesting that leftists like TGO believe that the Watergate break-in is morally comparable to planning and carrying out terrorist acts that intentionally kill innocent people. Good luck with that argument with anyone but leftists.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Ace is live blogging from the Palin Rally in Carson, CA. My son is at the rally too.

[TGO]

I find it interesting

I know what you mean, but boy oh boy, it would be even more interesting if I had actually said that.

[PeterUK]

Errol Garner didn't need no steenkin' piano lessons.

[Lori]

TGO-you are implying it by using the phrase "unrepentant felons" when we call Ayers an "unrepentant terrorist". Otherwise, what is the point of your post?

[TGO]

Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains Significant Margin NEW

October 4, 2008

Registered voters say they would vote for Barack Obama (50%) over John McCain (42%) if the election were held today. Obama has held a statistically significant lead for eight consecutive days.

Rasmussen

. . . . McCain Obama Spread

10/04/2008 45% 51% Obama +6

10/03/2008 44% 51% Obama +7

10/02/2008 44% 51% Obama +7

10/01/2008 45% 51% Obama +6

09/30/2008 45% 51% Obama +6

09/29/2008 45% 50% Obama +5

09/28/2008 44% 50% Obama +6

09/27/2008 44% 50% Obama +6

09/26/2008 45% 50% Obama +5

[PeterUK]

You have to forgive TGO, never been the same since is was issued with the Troll Gimp Outfit.

[ben]

Ok so the guy is the Messiah and has spent hundreds of millions and has the entire MSM on his side and is ahead by 6 points or so, well within reach? Let's see if TGO is going to be posting polls when they narrow, which they surely will....

[Usher #8]

"...a statement from the Obama/Biden campaign saying that Biden gives cash at his church..."

I heard that Biden actually takes money out when the basket is passed around. The campaign clarifies that Joe is just getting change back.

[Harry Johnson]

"Rasmussen

. . . . McCain Obama Spread

10/04/2008 45% 51% Obama +6"

Flashback:

"AP Poll: Kerry Holds Small Lead Over Bush

Thursday, October 07, 2004

Among 944 likely voters, the Kerry-Edwards ticket led Bush-Cheney 50 percent to 46 percent. The Oct. 4-6 survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points."

LUN

[TGO]

electoral college- 2008 vs 2004

[ben]

The small Obama lead right now is based entirely on the fallacy that Republicans were responsible for the finance debacle, actually caused by the mortgage crisis where we know the Dems are to blame. That perception could change. Dick Morris thinks Obama has peaked too early.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

This is a shocker. According to Ace, Palin was introduced by NOW and ""There's a special place in hell for women who don't support women."

[Cecil Turner]

Interesting graph. There's little doubt the public is blaming the GOP for the Democrat-engineered GSE meltdown. (The talking heads try to pretend it's the debate, but the timing is obviously wrong.) I don't know if that meme can hold through the election, but if it does, look out! It'd be nice if elections were decided on something besides leftist MSM [redundant] propaganda, but . . .

[ben]

"TGO believe that the Watergate break-in is morally comparable to planning and carrying out terrorist acts that intentionally kill innocent people. Good luck with that argument with anyone but leftists."

That has been the centerpiece of his defense of Obama. But TGO's ignorance is shared by a lot of people or Obama wouldn't have so much support. Unfortunately there is trend towards assigning moral equivalence to completely disparate situations. It's the "we deserved 9/11" syndrome

[Fisher]

Good to see our lady go after the Ayers connection. She needs to beef that up with bullets ala Kurtz. Be specific! Ask Obama specific questions and DO NOT LET THEM GO UN-ANSWERED FOR A NEWS CYCLE. Period!

Start hitting the ENTIRE Democratic party on their lapdog performance back in 2004 with F/F. Again - BE SPECIFIC!!! Tell people to YouTube the now-classic videos of Barney and Maxine and Meeks tearing the regulator whistleblowers a new one.

THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT PEOPLE!!!

[ben]

"Unrepentant Felons for McCain!!!"

TGO is probably from the bottom of the troll gene pool, but this is typical of how delusional people get. Obama would easily win the felon vote because Democrats are traditionally more lenient on crime and the death penalty and favor prisoner rights to the detriment of victim's rights. In fact, Democrats are trying to give felons the right to vote in every state.

[TGO]

Democrats are traditionally more lenient on crime

Scooter begs to differ.

[Cecil Turner]

How 'bout: "they're more lenient on actual criminals"?

[Barney Frank]

Democrats are traditionally more lenient on crime

Should read; Democrats are traditionally more lenient on Democrat crime.

[Dr. Weevil]

During the 2000 Florida recounts, it was discovered that hundreds of convicted felons had voted in Florida. Of course, we don't know how they voted, but it's not hard to come up with an estimate. As I recall, roughly 3/4 were registered as Democrats, 1/8 as Republicans, and 1/8 were independents.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Well Fox just quoted the NYT that the Obama/Ayers relationship is no big deal.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Update from Cahlihfornia

Pics via Ace of the Carson rally.

[ben]

"Well Fox just quoted the NYT that the Obama/Ayers relationship is no big deal."

Dang, if the NYT says so, must be true...no bias there...

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Via Instapundit:

JACK KELLY -- HUNTING MR. GOOD WILL: Mr. Good Will - who lists his employer as "Loving" and his profession as "You" - has contributed 1,000 times to the Barack Obama campaign. "CNN recently sent a reporter to Little Diomede Island, the westernmost part of Alaska (2.4 miles from Russia) to determine whether Sarah Palin had ever been there to see Russia with her own eyes. But CNN - and the rest of the media - have been incurious about the Obama campaign's fund-raising."

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Tapper: McCain 'About to Open Up a Can of Whoop-ass on Obama'

[boris]

The McCain campaign should quote that at every opportunity "The New York Times claims that Obama's 4 year working relationship with a 60s radical who's bombs killed three pepole is no big deal". Then Johm McCain should tell the viewers that he had a 5 year relationship with much worse torturing killer communists and would never try to make an issue out of Obama's associations.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

I love it when newspapers let reporters do stories about things of which they're totally ignorant:

Many deductions put Palins in 15% bracket

....For the 2007 tax year, Todd Palin's self-employment brought him $66,893 in gross receipts: $49,893 from fishing and $17,000 from snowmachine racing. But the returns show he claimed so many deductions that he reported only $15,513 net profit from the fishing operation and claimed a $9,639 loss from his racing, leaving him with an overall net income of $5,874.

...."This is a lady who screams about everyone in federal government taking advantage, and she's taking every advantage she can," said Sheldon Cohen, an IRS commissioner in the Johnson administration who has contributed to the Obama-Biden campaign. "The question is, is he in the racing business or is it a hobby?"

First, the headline writer confuses 'tax bracket' with tax rate. Which could have been cleared up with a simple Google search.

Second, business income is found by deducting from gross receipts, BUSINESS EXPENSES; things like rent, interest expense, depreciation, electricity.... Expenses, not 'deductions'.

There's nothing unusual in what Todd Palin reported. Sheldon Cohen is an idiot.

[syn]

"Democrats are traditionally more lenient on Democrat crime."

It helps that the majority of Democrat politicians have law degrees and know how to get around the laws while working with media venues which are majority Democrat.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

McCain was busy being tortured during the time that Ayers and all the various radical groups were wrecking havoc in America. He missed it all, including the race riots that burned so many U.S. cities. Those of us who lived thru that time and lived in some of those cities know the danger. I don't think McCain realizes just how bad it was while he was the guest of the VC. America changed drastically between 1967 and 1973.

[bgates]

I love it when newspapers let reporters do stories about things of which they're totally ignorant
What alternative do they have?

This is a lady who screams about everyone in federal government taking advantage, and she's taking every advantage she can
Palin complains about Democrats like Rangel hiding investment income for decades, or like Frank sleeping with executives of government finance companies he regulates, or like Dodd getting sweetheart mortgage deals from private sector companies he regulates - yet she has the nerve to have a spouse take legitimate business expenses.

[Ralph L]

I don't think McCain realizes ...
I assume that's why he could even speak to John Kerry.

[MayBee]

"This is a lady who screams about everyone in federal government taking advantage, and she's taking every advantage she can," said Sheldon Cohen, an IRS commissioner in the Johnson administration who has contributed to the Obama-Biden campaign.

But she's for low taxes, right?
The thing that I scream about is people that want everyone to pay more taxes while they personally take every deduction possible, or incorporate themselves to lower their rates.

[Ralph L]

I'm watching CNN. They're not making even a pretense of objectivity.

[Ralph L]

They literally tried to shout down Diana West about the Dems' part in the bad loans. She did make the point well, and brought up Bill Clinton's comment on it.

[BumperStickerist]

Ace is live blogging from the Palin Rally in Carson, CA. My son is at the rally too.

Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal)

So long as your son is not a hobo, he should be okay. {little AoS blog-humor there)

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And, the fact that Obama has, year to date, spent $439,840,235 for the sole purpose of touting his credentials as President - and managed around 50% should speak *volumes* about His leadership ability.

Half a Billion for this? Gawd - Obama is a one man semi-demi-hemiquaver of an economic stimulus package for Boooosh.
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