According to Politico, Obama today attacked Palin for accepting money from Congress when she was a mayor:
Barack Obama took his first direct swipe at Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday, criticizing her for supporting congressional earmarks before opposing them. “I know the governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is change,” Obama said at a town hall meeting here. “And that is great. She is a skillful politician. But when you [have] been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person.
“That is not change, come on,” Obama continued. “I mean, words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just make stuff up. We have a choice to make and the choice is clear.”
(Once gain, a great example of how the "orator" Obama can't speak clearly, but I digress).
So, Obama says that it isn't change if you took earmarks. Then how to explain this from the New York Times? Obama Lists His Earmarks:
Senator Barack Obama on Thursday released a list of $740 million in earmarked spending requests that he had made over the last three years, and his campaign challenged Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to do the same.
SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY MILLION DOLLARS. That's a lot of "change". Come on Obama, you can't "make stuff up". The choice is clear. McCain asked for ZERO dollars for earmarks.
Obama has a history of getting taxpayer money for his friends and supporters, first in the illinois state senate and then as a U.S. Senator. He wouldn't vote against earmarks, and the ethics reforms he supported didn't include earmarks.
Even today, the Democratic congress has allowed earmarks to be added to bills in secret in the conference committees.
Obama made a big mistake discussing earmarks. He is tainted on that subject, and it is clear he is not the change we need.
2 comments:
Obama can’t compare himself with John McCain? No you are right there.
Academically Obama was in the top of his class in Harvard, McCain was in the bottom of his class.
After waiting for her POW husband, the first Mrs McCain gets dumped for a much younger woman, showing McCain has great family values. President Regan was very upset with McCain’s treatment of the wife.
McCain gets mixed up in the infamous Keating 5 (with his 2nd wife and father in law) causing a financial disaster for so many citizens.
McCain tells a HORRID joke about young Chelea Clinton (when she is just a child) at a Republican fundraiser, proving he has no class whatsoever. Who makes fun of a child??
McCain picks VP running mate who attempts who has no regard for our country or our constitution, case in point: she tried to censor books in the library, a violation of the First Amendment, and she supports the AIP, an organization that wants Alaska to secede from the USA.
I won't get into a point-by-point refutation, just point out a couple of things you got wrong as as examples.
Although if you could post Obama's transcripts for us to show that he was "top of his class", that would be newsworthy.
Palin never asked to censor a single book. BTW, the county library "censors" books all the time, by chosing which books will be bought and which won't be bought. They do so using criteria, and those criteria should be subject to the will of the people as represented by their elected representatives.
But in fact Palin never once asked for a single book to be banned, and never mentioned a single book she wanted to ban. That was true both of the librarian she dismissed, and the librarian that replaced her.
Also, Palin had nothing to do with AIP, nor was she ever a member of the AIP.
Now, maybe I should excuse you, since it's not your fault you believe what you read in the New York Times. They had to issue a retraction on the story about the AIP.
You may be took young to remember the actual "Keating 5" scandal. It was a Democrat scandal. But the Democrats were anxious not to look like a corrupt party, so they drug McCain into it. The Senate Ethics committee investigated the affair, and concluded that McCain did absolutely nothing wrong.
However, McCain himself felt that he did, as he provided the appearance of impropriety. It was this that has driven him to the extreme of supporting the ill-fated Campaign Finance Reform.
Oh, and her name is Chelsea, not "Chelea". And children should be off-limits.
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