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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 6:55:41 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

A CBS News poll released Wednesday found that Mr. Obama’s favorability rating, at 48 percent, is the highest it has ever been in polls conducted by CBS and The New York Times. At the same time, the number of voters who hold an unfavorable view of Mr. McCain — 42 percent — is as high as it has been since CBS News and The Times began asking the question about Mr. McCain in 1999, the first time he ran for president. The CBS News poll showed that Mr. Obama has a nine percentage-point lead over Mr. McCain — 49 percent to 40 percent. It is the first time Mr. Obama has held a statistically significant lead over Mr. McCain this year in polls conducted by CBS or joint polls by CBS and The Times. And a series of polls taken in highly contested states released by other organizations on Tuesday suggested that Mr. Obama was building leads in states including Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 7:15:21 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

As a working attorney collecting SS and a working wife you must be worth well over 1.2 millions dollars including your property. If not, being over 70 years old you must have employed poor spending/saving/investment practices.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 7:19:07 AM
From: tonto	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

Sounds about right. They made some good decisions... Now about your lie...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 8:03:45 AM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224724

Vatican official attacks U.S. Democrats as “party of death” October 1st, 2008 blogs.reuters.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 9:56:30 AM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224724

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 9:58:05 AM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224724

Congress Needs An Ethics Bailout ibdeditorials.com After the 2006 election giving Democrats a majority in both Houses of Congress for the first time in more than a decade, the incoming speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, promised that "the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history." It hasn't turned out that way. Barely a month before presidential and congressional elections comes a cherry on top of the layers of congressional Democratic ethical lapses of the 110th Congress — a new scandal involving the speaker's own campaign cash. <snip> The most ethical Congress in history? With Chris Dodd, D-Conn., still serving as Senate Banking Committee chairman, who took a sweetheart loan deal from Countrywide mortgage? With Kent Conrad, D-N.D., still Senate Budget Committee chairman, who did the same? How about Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., whose freezer in his Washington, D.C., home was found by the FBI to contain $90,000 in cash? He may be indicted by a grand jury on 16 corruption charges, but he still takes to the floor of the House of Representatives and votes as a member of this self-styled most ethical Congress ever. Adding mirth to the muck, Jefferson was reportedly pressured, unsuccessfully, to resign his House Ways and Means Committee seat by none other than that panel's chairman, Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. (Jefferson was later thrown off). Maybe that's what Rangel was busy with when he forgot to report to the IRS the $75,000 in rental income for his Dominican Republic beach house. No sign of scandal shaming Rangel into stepping down. Voters will have no shortage of things to think about as they step into the voting booth next month. One of them should be the Democratic Congress' shattered promise of setting and keeping the highest ethical standards.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 10:57:10 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224724

But these days, his kitchen table can be found in a 6,800-square-foot custom-built colonial-style house on four lakefront acres, a property worth close to $3 million. kennyliar: read this in NYTIMES 10/2/2008 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. 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. “He was a V.I.P., so he was treated accordingly by the bank,” said Ronald Tennant, a former loan officer who handled the mortgages Mr. Biden used to build his house. The bank did not give him a below-market interest rate, a perk that has caused embarrassment for some other members of Congress. But, Mr. Tennant said, “We paid particularly close attention to make sure everything came out right.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/2/2008 12:14:43 PM
From: MJ	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

Kenneth Why are you trying to make Sarah Palin and her family look wealthy when she isn't? 1.5 million in worth is not hard to come by. 1.5 million is like $10,500 or about $20,500. for a family 50 years ago. As a lawyer you are likely worth much more-------have you touted up your own assets-------10 million and more? No doubt. Stop whining about a family that has contributed so much to their home state of Alaska and to the nation. You are really being an MCP -------don't like the thought of Sarah Palin, a real woman becoming Vice President of the USA----do you? mj

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49784)	10/3/2008 12:31:33 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224724

kennyliar: read this in NYTIMES 10/2/2008 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. 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. “He was a V.I.P., so he was treated accordingly by the bank,” said Ronald Tennant, a former loan officer who handled the mortgages Mr. Biden used to build his house. The bank did not give him a below-market interest rate, a perk that has caused embarrassment for some other members of Congress. But, Mr. Tennant said, “We paid particularly close attention to make sure everything came out right.”