Obama is out on the campaign trail today cricizing Governor Palin for taking earmarks and then claiming to be for change. How strange. In the last three years, even when he was not in Washington most of the time, Senator Obama requested $740 million of earmarks -- far more than the small amount that Governor Palin's town and state received while she was in office. This $740 million figure is the official one released by the Obama campaign last Spring. the have been questions raised whether or not there actually were more requests by Senator Obama than these.
During the last three years Senator McCain requested no earmarks. During the twenty years preceeding this period, Senator McCain requested no earmarks. So McCain asked for no earmarks, Governor Palin took some for Alaska and Wasila, and Obama asked for three quarters of a billion dollars of earmarks in only three years. And Obama is the one cricizing the others for claiming to be for change when they were involved with earmarks. This is more than a case of the pot calling the kettle black (and no, that is not a racist remark). It is a case of Obama's hubris getting the better of him. If the ten percent of the media which is not in the tank for Obama publicizes the comparative records, Obama will clearly be shown to have put his foot in his mouth.
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I generally agree with your views and find your blog a welcome respite from much of the nonsense out there.
I do disagree somewhat with this entry. If Palin claimed that she didn't take earmarks and she did, Obama in my view may properly point that out, even if he took earmarks himself. His point is that Palin was representing herself to be something that she was not.
I'm not sure precisely what Palin and Obama said in each of a number of statements pm this subject. My point is only that having taken earmarks doesn't disqualify Obama from pointing out a half-truth or worse by Pailin, if in fact that can be established.
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