The money largely flowed from the coffers of Mr. Biden's failed presidential campaign during the past two years to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings.

Putting family members and their companies on the political payroll is legal if the work is legitimate and charged at market rates, according to the Federal Election Commission. Still, public watchdog groups have long criticized such arrangements.

I'm thinking Hypocrisy Watch is on a hair trigger...

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as rife with potential conflicts of interest.

If this had been discovered by Democrats that Palin/McCain was doing this, the Democrats would be screaming to high heaven...

Michale.....

I wouldn't say it is "insurmountable"... never underestimate the power of stupid.

When the GOP was railing and decrying all of those college edjumicated types, they wound up leaving themselves stocked full of people like this:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=12456

As noted, the "flag" that the poster was railing against at the Obama Ohio event not being the American flag, but some "version" of it? It is...

It is the OHIO state flag.

Welcome to the power of stupid...