The Pork Wars, Part 3

This type of critical examination of Palin’s record smacks of sexism – the McCain campaign.

Well now we know she not only likes moose, she loves pork.

Does America care that Palin and McCain are out right LYING to our faces? Or are we so blinded that it does not mater?

When she was Mayor of Wasilla, she ended up getting $5000 per person in ear-marks.
This is significantly more than the $1200 check she sent to each Alaskan resident from the ‘Windfall profits TAX’ that SHE IMPOSED on the oil companies.

McCain raises 5 million dollars in Obamas back yard of Chicago in 5 hours

More bad news for Obama campaign as they revel in pork and lard tirade :
Latest Gallup polls shows that majority of independents now prefer McCain over Obama, 52% to 37%
McCain 52%
Obama 37%
That is is 15% lead … checkmate.

“At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor — which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.”
What else can be said?
The Republican way, claim something and they do not have to defend it. IF they say it, it is true.

what changes
what answers
Mccain and Palin are playing people
what changes are they going to make…because so far they have not listed on change from the bush administration that deals with our economy and healthcare and taxes and social security…
what changes what answers…
they have none besides keeping us on the road to the cliff.
throw the bums out.

The whole state of Alaska is one big welfare state. McCain is against the windfall Tax on oil companies, saying it will raise the price of oil to the average citizen. Yet, this is exactly what Palin did in Alaska. The difference is of course she returns the money to Alaskans and the rest of us pay for it.

Thinking is linkless as per usual for obama fans

“Obama’s career “earmarks” … the figure … what is it?”
over 1 billion..
including 250 K raise for his wife

I think I love Palin’s picture in the Nowhere Alaska 99901 T shirt, she sporeted during her race for that states Governor’s job. Shows she is a liar about not supporting the beridge and how big a smart ass she is. Not to mention as Governor she didn’t send the money for that bridge back to Washington when they then decided not to build it.

Again McCain/Palin it doesn’t matter what any of your GOP cronies have to say your Popeye the sailor boy is behind where it actualy counts in the electoral race.

Well, McCain did say he’d make the worst offenders famous…

Alaska’s earmarks request allows them to then return tax dollars to its citizens. Well I think the OPM should audit how much ear mark monies have been given Alaska, then how much tax dollars Alaska has returned form its oil tax to its citizens, then send Alaska a bill for the return of all Federal money up to that state tax returned amount.

Who cares!
A lose now means the democrats will destroy themselfs with blame!
Hillary will never be the first female vp let alone the first female President!
God will be back in school!
Healthcare will be for people who work for it!
All illegals will be rounded up and kicked out!
You want a pay rise! Work harder do more hours!
GOP your time is now!

McCain/Plain
Not one of those three states is necessary to Obama to reach 270 electors. LOL

Palin put her budget online for the people to see how their money was being spent.
Obama needs to disclose his earmarks. One Billion in three years.
Millions to homes that became slums
Thousands to his wife’s employer
Thousands to Father Pfleger
Millions to a garden that never developed
Millions to Ayer’s Annenburg Project.
He wastes money–we saw it in Chicago and we saw it in Denver.
Obama will waste our money too.

Were Number 1 Were Number 1 Were Number 1 Were Number 1 a McC rally sounds like a pep rally at a football game. 26 years of do nothing and yet now he’s going to champion change yea right, lie some more Johnny boy Popeye.

How funny all these Clinton supporters are going to vote away Hillarys only chance at being the first female President.. Thinking its a protest vote on her behalf!Ppalin is a rockstar and libs are FOOLS!

So when Obama becomes president people can quit their jobs and let his big Gov’t take care of them.
$1000 carrot to people even if they don’t pay taxes
Free health insurance even illegals.
The rich and small business who worked hard will support those that didn’t.
I’m not rich but Income Redistribution is not the “change” I want.

I’m no Democrat (I support Bob Barr), but it amazes me that McCain/Palin supporters hear the M-P campaign’s lies and distortions about “reforming” and “taking on the big boys” and simply roll over with their bellies and paws in the air. All they ever do in response is say something negative about Obama (eg Trettion over there). Can you actually defend Palin as a reformer when it has now been proven both that she kept the $$ for the “bridge to nowhere” and has requested so much pork during her career? (Or are you going to try to argue that the Wall Street Journal is a liberal rag? Good luck.) So what if Obama has requested pork if Palin has requested even more? Obama requesting less pork than Palin doesn’t prove that Palin is a “reformer,” in any universe.
Defend her and McCain on something where you won’t have to deny the truth *or* slander Obama. Obama’s job as a community organizer, even if he had accomplished nothing, doesn’t make her a great mayor. (Especially with that sports complex she didn’t close out the paperwork for, leading to double the costs.) Repeatedly appealing to Obama’s supposed faults instead of her supposed actual, truthful strengths just makes you (and her) look weak.
Go ahead–keep defending them as they outright lie about their commitment to no-pork, small government, fiscal responsibility, and taking on the big-boy, back-scratching culture. I don’t see any evidence that Sarah Palin stands for any of this. And her hiding from the press — as if only the people who see her give speeches in person are those “real people” she would defend in Washington — suggests to me arrogance and fear, not honesty and boldness.
I’m sick of being lied to. I’m sick of candidates and candidates’ supporters having nothing but attacks because they can’t factually defend their own positions. That’s why I support Barr, when McCain could have had my vote.

First of all I am a white college educated medical professional woman registered Republican.
I have researched extensively and I discovered Sarah Palin has done done what she claims. Actually found she is lying in her political claims. John McCain supporting her false claims!!
Bridge to Nowehre she totally supported publicly and only changed positions once bill was dead in Washington. Then she jumped ship and says publicly she is against. She kills bill at state level. All after bill was dead in Washington.
Clams she didn’t want Bridge is in all ways a lie! I have searched her history up in Alaska and found she has done this severtal times before.
Sarah Palin asked for lots of earmarks for Alaska! This is lie saying she is not doing.
I am sad to discover my own Republican party is lying to American voters. Specifically John McCain and Sarah Palin are/were. My excitement sure disappeared quickly once I discovered truth. And yes, anyone can verify I am registered Republican and have been for years. I am for true facts and these two are not telling truth to us!

“his is an historical election. It is the first time a Presidential candidate ran against the opposing Vice-Presidential Candidate.”
Well geeevillll, that’s what happens when a so called man (McCain) hides behind a woman’s skirts (Palin).

Obama has done absolutely nothing to fight corruption in Chicago.
He constantly points to one thing he has done to prove reform–an ethics bill many years ago that was actually someone else’s bill.
McCain/Palin actually have proof of reform. Obama as usual–all talk.

“I believe on the topic of reform the choice is between McCain who’s taken zero earmarks in 20+ years to Obama who takes $1M/day for his friends in family”.
I think the choice is between liars like McCain/Palin and people that want better for the middle class Obama/Biden.

Too bad the WSJ op-ed is misleading. I’m sure it wasn’t a news article because it wasn’t fact-checked.
1. Obama has indeed requested almost $1 billion in earmarks in his first *three years* in the Senate. This year, he got smart and decided he couldn’t do that anymore and claim to be a guardian of the people’s money.
2. When running for governor, Palin said that if Congress passed the earmark (which she did not request) she would not stand in its way. The funds were coming to Alaska as part of its federal tranportation grant; the earmark specified that it had to be spent on the BtN. The “she kept the money anyway” meme is bogus. Alaska was getting the money for transportation, earmark or no earmark.
3. When she was elected and saw that the bridge was going to be far too expensive and that Alaska would have to pony up funds, she decided that the funds were best spent finding another way to solve the problem and she killed the project.
4. Obama and Biden both voted to keep the money for the BtN when it was proposed by Coburn to redirect it to Katrina aid. Palin did not have a vote in that matter.
I think both sides on this issue have cut corners in trying to simplify their description of what happened, but that’s the story as I read it.

Looks like this may be the Non Story of the year., But It does put Palin in a good light in a stormy media cycle. Has anyone else seen this story that Palin might be pregnant again?

A majority of Americans (52%) now consider John McCain a strong and decisive leader, while 41% say the same about Barack Obama.
That is a 11% lead !!!

“1. Obama has indeed requested almost $1 billion in earmarks in his first *three years* in the Senate. This year, he got smart and decided he couldn’t do that anymore and claim to be a guardian of the people’s money.”

CNN has interviewed Palin’s ex-aid, who clearly explained that the bridge that Palin supported in 2006 was not the one she looked at when she got into her office. The former is only half the budget, and was considered necessary for transportation purpose. The latter, was way over a waste, and that’s why Palin killed it. She said we need a bridge, and we can build one on our own.
The MSM has completely lost their credibility – so many of friends now treat everything they talk about Palin with suspicion.
The MSM bias is a reason that Obama has been pumped up so high, now he is going to have a spectacular fall.

Obama’s TV ad people should make an ad showing a Ford Mavrick struck from behind bursting in flames and have the caption Change you could be burned by MCCain/Palin.

Republicans=liars=Abuse of Power
Ask Senator McCain about how he tried to physically assault and then tried to financially ruin councilwoman Kathy Dubs because she dared point out that a land deal he tried to cut for the state was for his personal profit.

The media should vet Obama! He has been cuddled by the media as their God-child who must be protected from scrutiny! Now, the media wants blood from Palin! Draw some from Obama, get to his Harvard funding, his earmarks/pork barrell – hidden in legislation tag ons! ($1million a day of taxpayer money for Obama)! Cha-Cha-Ching.. Change that you can believe in!
At least Palin Pipeline benefits the whole country and may be exactly what this country needs to wean itself off foreign suppliers. Way to go Palin! That is real change we can look forward to!

McCain/Palin 2008,
That is the problem with you Republicans. You treat elections like football games and chess matches instead of discussing issues. I thought you guys were about reform? Seems to me it is the same old crap. Repubulicans message has always been to do nothing and that is exactly how they govern.

SpaceCat,
What is sexism is McCain’s dog and pony show he is doing with Palin right now. Scrutinatization of public official’s record is an obligation the media has to the public.

How is McCain going to rid Washington of special interests when his campaign is run by lobbyists? During his Georgia sabre-rattling, his chief mouthpiece on the matter had been paid $800,000 for lobbying on behalf of the Goverment of Georgia! Other members have his staff have lobbied for some of the world’s most brutal dictators and thugs.
Palin is now an anti-earmark crusader! When did this transformation occur? As Mayor of a town of 6 or 7,000 people she paid a lobbyist associated with Good Government Hero Jack Abramhoff $2.7 million to drag in $27 million worth of pork.
This is complete and utter b.s. Hats off to the WSJ for calling them out on this.

Upshot of yesterday’s comments and this Op-Ed: McCain/Palin want to raise interest rates. That’s their ownership society: you’re on your own.

OBAMA = $1 BILLION IN EARMARKS SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN THE SENATE………OBAMA IS THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE.

Obama’s record? Since Jan 2005 he has personally sponsored 136 bills, 122 which haven’t even made it out of committee (see GovTrack.org) We already know the number of times he voted present so he wouldn’t have to commit to a vote. There’s not any tactic he won’t engage in including lies and innuendo and there are numerous articles – Obama hid a $832,000 made to ACORN (See Wash Post Article dated 8/22/2008.) – now Obama is making an amendment to FEC over this ‘slip’. He and Biden represent change? He’s voted with his party 98% of the time – is that change:? Is that reaching across to get things done in a bipartisan manner? He says change but he uses the old tax and tax policy which will only further depress teh economy. Sarah Palin did take on the establlished network as did John McCain. Obama says he takes a stance against lobbying? See see Wash POst article dated 8/27/08 -’Obama gave Biden’s son’s client’s 3.4 million .’ JOe Biden’s son is a lobbyist and Obama has sought 3.4 million for client’s of that son. Read the article yourself. Obama says he’s against lobbyists – apparently not! Biden has collected 6.9 million from lobbyists since 1989. Don’t take my word for it – read the article WaPo (Washington Post August 27, 2008.) Apparently Obama’s not as against lobbyists as he likes to say… Obama’s sent 30 lawyers to Anchorage to get dirt on Palin – 30 lawyers – Obama will do anything and I think that’s scary. I know you will rationalize away anything for Obama but does this not bother you? So your guy Obama is the biggest liar of them all. Obama is Change? The only change he preresents is a like a quick change artist.

Seems to me that the way to stop McCain\Palin demagoguery on earmarks is
to agree with them…..Then go about
listing every single earmark (including those in Alaska) and simply ask whether they were benefial or not to the people received them. And, if they believed they beneficial, how would they otherwise have been funded. The reason earmarks are used so rampantly is that politicians no the projects in the earmark, no matter how beneficial to their constituents, would never pass on its own. Does it reduce spending to cut all earmarks? Yes. Does it benefit the common good? Maybe not.

Bush-McFailin’ 08
“Because God Wants It That Way!”