To quote Will Ferrell in Zoolander, "Doesn't anybody notice this? I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!"
As part of her executive experience that the McCain campaign so highly promotes, Sarah Palin requested millions in earmarks from Congress. Three of them, totaling nearly $2 million, were classified as "objectionable pork" by.... John McCain.
Reports the Chicago Tribune:
This year, Palin, who has been governor for nearly 22 months, defended earmarking as a vital part of the legislative system. "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship," she wrote in a newspaper column.
In 2001, McCain's list of spending that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla. The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 spending bill for an emergency communications center in town -- one that local law enforcement has said is redundant and creates confusion.McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure as mayor and cleared Congress soon after she left office in 2002. The funding was provided to help direct locally grown produce to schools, prisons and other government institutions, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group.
Come on, now.
Look, this means one of two things. Either John McCain barely looked into Palin's background and didn't realize he called her a Federal funding hog in the past. Or, McCain's team did vet her, knew she worked for everything McCain stood against, and he didn't give a damn that she wasn't the reformer he would make her out to be. If that's true, then he's saying he doesn't care because this was a craven political selection, not one based on principle or ability.
Whichever it is, it sure isn't good for McCain. But, he does need to answer this important question - did he vet her, or is he simply misrepresenting her to the nation?
Oh, and this has nothing to do with sexism. It has to do with the man topping the ticket, not doing his due diligence on his first major presidential decision.
After all these years, if they still believe we have not won, it may be time for them to look deep at their lack of leadership in the execution of the war.
Cheney
Gore
Quayle
H. Bush
Mondale
Ford
Rockefeller
The republicans are too funny. They can't be serious, right?
Today I watched Carly Fiorina from the McCain camp interviewed by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC.
Carly was asked about Sarah Palin and earmarks she lobbied for while she was mayor of Wasiila.
She explained Sarah was just doing what she could for her town.
But when she became Governor of Alaska she realized that earmarks corrupt people.
So does this mean Carly Fiorina just admitted Sarah Palin was corrupt !!!
Barrack Obama: If you don't start dealing with the issues that will defeat you (their lies, their slander, their pandering) then maybe you wouldn't be a good president after all. We need someone who stands up for the truth.