'Obama/Biden — Left And Lefter'

You've probably heard of "Dumb and Dumber." Investor's Business Daily would like to introduce you to "Left and Lefter."

From a recent editorial:

The Democratic convention is about to nominate two of the three most liberal members of the U.S. Senate as its presidential ticket. In some ways, Barack Obama's running mate is further left than he is.

Sen. Barack Obama is the No. 1 liberal in the U.S. Senate. His new running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, is ranked the No. 3 most liberal member of the Senate.

The newspaper points out another disturbing fact about Sen. Biden: He is owned by the credit card industry, the very same industry that preys on working people that Biden is supposed to represent.

From the editorial:

Barack Obama in 2005 voted against the "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act." So did Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and John Kerry, D-Mass.

As recently as last month, Obama even attacked his GOP opponent Sen. John McCain for voting for it. "While I was opposing the credit-card industry's bankruptcy bill that made it harder for working families to climb out of debt, (McCain) was supporting it," Obama said, "and he even opposed helping families who were only in bankruptcy because of medical bills they couldn't pay."

But now Obama has a running mate who did vote for "the credit-card industry's bankruptcy bill" (as he pocketed more campaign cash from the credit card industry than almost anyone) — a law that President Bill Clinton in 2000 pocket-vetoed because, as Clinton said at the time, it was "tilting the playing field against those debtors who genuinely turn to bankruptcy for a fresh start."

It seems that the "regular Joe" Sen. Obama is running with is just as radical as he is, if not more so — except when he gets paid off by a big industry to stick it to working families.

Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.