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Biden’s Lobbyist Son Exploits Daddy’s Connections.

Sen. Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbyist son of his Democratic running mate, R. Hunter Biden is one of many relatives of members of Congress who work as lobbyists. according to a Washington Post article published on August

27 coincidentally the day Biden will speak at the Democrat Convention in Denver. The incestuous relationship has been good for Hunter who has brought in $3.5 million for his lobbying firm while Dad has raked in $6.9 million in contributions from lobbyists since 1989. Hunter’s clients have bagged $2.7 million in earmarks in the last fiscal year.

Obama requested $1.4 million including $900,000 to establish an early-childhood teacher training center “to meet the demand in the southwest Chicago metropolitan area,” according to a news release on the Web site of Obama’s Senate office. Obama requested the early-childhood money in both 2006 and 2007. Obama also in June 2007 sought $500,000 for a skills laboratory for a nursing school, which has one of the largest nursing programs in the state. Both were Hunter clients.

Hunter Biden has done consulting work for mega credit card company MBNA, the largest employer in Delaware and since bought by B of A. At the same time daddy Biden was working to pass a law making it more difficult for people to file for personal bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 which benefited MBNA. The Consumer Foundation of America, a consumer group that opposed the bill. “Senator Biden provided a lot of political cover for the credit card industry because they wanted to show that the proposal had bipartisan support. He aggressively undermined the opposition to the bill.”

Over the past two decades, MBNA employees have given more than $200,000 to Biden’s Senate campaigns, more than workers from any other company.

Hunter Biden also lobbied for Napster, the music-sharing Web site that ran afoul of intellectual-property laws. Sen. Biden at the time was a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees laws governing intellectual-property rights.

When Obama introduced Biden as his running mate, he said: “He (Biden) has brought change to Washington, but Washington hasn’t changed him.”

Like they say in Arkansas “incest is best; keep it in the family.”