JOE BIDEN'S NEIGHBORHOOD

Joe Biden has a habit of keeping it real by always giving a shout out to the people in his "neighborhood". At the vice-presidential debate, Biden showed America how down to earth he was by stating:

“Look, the people in my neighborhood, they get it. They get it. They know they’ve been getting the short end of the stick. So walk with me in my neighborhood..”

Yesterday, he again played the salt of the earth card by attacking Joe the plumber. Said Biden:

"I don't have any Joe the Plumbers in my neighborhood that make $250,000 a year and are worried..."The Joe the Plumbers in my neighborhood, the Joe the Cops in my neighborhood, the Joe the Grocery Store Owners in my neighborhood, they make -- like 98 percent of the small businesses -- less than $250,000 a year and they're going to do very well under us"

Hmmm...Sounds like Joe lives in a real blue collar kinda place. Doesn't it? My interest in piqued. Let's take a walk in Joe neighborhood. Shall we?

Here's Joe Biden's neighborhood:



Mr. Biden’s 6,800-square-foot colonial-style house sits on four lakefront acres that he bought in March 1996 for $350,000. It's now worth $1,383,599.00.



Just the other day, Biden criticized McCain for not calling him out about Ayers during the second debate. Said Joe:

“In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”

Yeah Joe. I'll bet that's right. Looks like some real hardcore, hard-hitting types in that neighborhood of yours. "Short end of the stick"? It doesn't look like anyone in Joe's neighborhood is getting the short end of the stick. And where does he come off talking about how well people who earn less than $250,000 a year are going to do under him and Obama? Show me any of those types in your neighborhood. Go ahead Joe. Show me. It was Biden that said paying more taxes is patriotic. As I see it, there are some real America-hatin' mo fos in Joe's neighborhood.

AMERICAN HOSTAGES RETURN HOME

What a Fourth of July these guys are going to have.

COPS AND DRUNKS

Mature, graphic, etc...

HOW THEY FINALLY GOT A PIECE OF THE PIE: OBAMA GETS SWEETHEART MORTGAGE LOAN

Now they up in the big leagues...gettin' their turn and bat...

Shortly after joining the U.S. Senate and while enjoying a surge in income, Barack Obama bought a $1.65 million restored Georgian mansion in
an upscale Chicago neighborhood. To finance the purchase, he secured a $1.32
million loan from Northern Trust in Illinois.

The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an
interest rate of 5.625 percent on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, below the
average for such loans at the time in Chicago. The loan was unusually large,
known in banker lingo as a "super super jumbo." Obama paid no origination fee or
discount points, as some consumers do to reduce their interest rates.

In Obama's case, he received a lower rate than the average offered at
the time in Chicago for similarly structured jumbo loans. He secured his final
mortgage commitment on June 8, 2005, and during that week, rates on similar
loans for which information is available averaged 5.93 percent, according to HSH
Associates, which surveys lenders. Another survey firm, Bankrate.com, placed the average at 6 percent.

"It's certainly safe to say that this borrower did better than
average," said Keith Gumbinger, an HSH vice president, noting that consumer rates
vary widely. "It's a good deal."

The Obama campaign called the rate "consistent with Northern Trust
policies, and it reflected the base rate set for that period discounted to
address the competition for the account and other opportunities, such as
personal financial services, that the relationship would bring to Northern
Trust."

When the Obamas secured the loan, their income had risen dramatically.
Obama assumed his Senate seat in January 2005, with an annual salary of
$162,100. That same month, Random House agreed to reissue an Obama memoir, for which it
originally paid $40,000, as part of a $2.27 million deal that included two
future nonfiction books and a children's book.

Around the same time, the University of Chicago Hospitals promoted Michelle Obama to a vice president and more than doubled her pay,
to $317,000.

The couple wanted to step up from their $415,000 condo. They chose a
house with six bedrooms, four fireplaces, a four-car garage and 5 1/2 baths,
including a double steam shower and a marble powder room. It had a wine cellar,
a music room, a library, a solarium, beveled glass doors and a granite-floored
kitchen.

Fish don't fry in that kitchen.