2008 Election Bits: Senator Biden's Commuting Choice

Facts:
1. Strong Amtrak Links
Biden even has a family connection to Amtrak. His younger son, Hunter, is a lobbyist and the vice chairman of Amtrak's board of directors.

"Rail-Riding Biden Is a Strong Backer Of Amtrak in Senate"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090102391.html

2. Senator's renting cost is NOT expensable in DC and it is NOT cheap. Some senators rented a basement for $600/month and got hammered.

"How and Where Our Representatives in D.C. live"
http://www.startribune.com/politics/23999229.html

3. Biden's Daily-$200-plus-commuting-expense is paid by the tax-payers.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/expend_detail.php?cid=N00001669&excode=A10&cycle=2008&page=8

Comments:
It is one thing to make an economic choice based on your level of income and life-style preference; it is another to politically profit from a practical choice.
Senator Biden was praised for his 20 years' Acela-riding for two points:
1. keeping him in touch with real people and working class roots;
2. the human touch emmitting from the claimed intention of being with his kids after his wife passed away in an accident.
I found both unrooted.
Anybody who had experience of riding Acela knows how riduculous the first point is: the Acela folks are anything but "working class". You want to get in touch with "real people"? Go take a grey hound, go take a Chinatown bus!
And about the second point, putting the warm-and-fuzzy stuff aside, isn't the Acela commuting costing him precious 3 being-with-kids-hours per day compared with moving to DC?

RNC 2008 Day 1: Palin's daughter's belly v.s. Obama

At this round of the election, the theme is:
Palin's daughter's belly v.s. Obama.

Just look at how many Obama-lovers are studying those old pictures with microscope, trying to figure out if and when Palinand/or her daughter got pregnant.... so much more devotion than to Obama's chanting... it is just hilarious.

So this rumor came along like this:

有人注意到在大会上是Bristol一直抱着Trig, 这些liberal的屁股就开始思考，为什么
是Bristol抱着呢？是不是有猫腻？为什么Palin自己不抱着？为什么另一个穿红衣的女
儿不抱?
啊, Eureka!
于是Palin代女生子的谣言就诞生了。

其实有正常大脑的人稍微想一想就知道，Palin在宣布大会上一身suit当然不会一直抱
着一个孩子，所以必须得是另一个家庭成员抱着孩子。
Palin当然不会让老公一直抱着孩子，不能把老公搞成家庭妇男形象, 显得自己是女强
人；
既然Palin不打算也不可能在郑重其事的VP宣布大会上宣布Bristol怀孕了,当然就是
Bristol抱着孩子,这样同时可以掩饰她的腹部,一举两得.

誓死捍卫黑八的黑卫兵们, 现在是急火攻心,护主心切,脑子里充满了和黑八作对的牛鬼
蛇神的幻影. 这么显然的道理, 居然能演绎成那样离奇的谣言,真是本次选举的一大奇
闻.

公平起见,也要给黑八credit: 今早黑八出来, 把自己的poker face摆上, 也承认这些
谣言太不堪了,"My mom gave my birth when she was 18.". 不过NBC的那个bitch也义
正词严的质问GOP的发言人,"为什么宣布大会上Palin不主动告诉大家Bristol怀孕了?
一定要等到大家发现了才承认???"这种逻辑真是正常人用屁股都想不出来. 看来黑八有
必要issue一个人民日报的社论,号召信徒们不要搞这么低级趣味的冬冬了...