Pork Barrel Spending
From The McCain Report
A Flood of Hypocrisy in Miami
Today Senator Obama blamed John McCain for the flooding in the Midwest:
And just the other day, Senator McCain traveled to Iowa to express his sympathies for the victims of the recent flooding. I'm sure they appreciated the sentiment, but they probably would have appreciated it more if he hadn't voted against funding for levees and flood control programs, which he seems to consider pork.
It's an absurd charge. John McCain voted to prioritize work on the very levees that failed in this flooding, Obama voted against that amendment. John McCain worked in bipartisan fashion with Senators Feingold and McCaskill to get the measure passed. Obama voted the party line. McCaskill also happens to be a national co-chair on Obama's campaign, and a Democratic Senator from one of the states most effected by the flooding. If Obama really believes that John McCain is responsible for the flooding in Iowa, it follows that McCaskill and Feingold are as well. In fact, the blame lies with those who voted for a bill that was described by Time magazine when it first passed as,
"a lousy bill, stuffed with more pork than Sonny's Barbecue, coddling a dysfunctional agency, perpetuating a dysfunctional system...[it] just sets the stage for future Katrinas.”
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This is just further evidence of Obama's lack of experience and spouting off without checking in to the details. Here, he has even maligned his fellow democrat senators. As Goldfarb pointed out, Claire McCaskill is from Missouri and co-chair on Obama's campaign.
Is this the kind of judgement and decision making that makes a president? Could Obama make the same kind of inflammatory remarks while dealing with foreign leaders? That type of mistake could cost this nation dearly when it comes to our foreign policy objectives. I don't believe that a lot of world leaders would have the same amount of patience with Barack Obama that he seems to receive from his supporters and the MSM. They may take advantage of his ignorance though and where does that leave us?
The devil is in the details.Learning,understanding,and knowing how to use the details is something that seems to have escaped Obama's abilities.
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OK-It's not a high tech game of destruction but it's a clever idea none the less.
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Here is a local news report on John McCain's Town Hall Meeting today, March 14, 2008, near Philadelphia, PA. McCain hits Obama and Clinton hard on Iraq and also has strong words against Congress' decision to maintain Pork Barrel Spending Earmarks.
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Here is video from WBAY-Green Bay, of Sen. John McCain campaigning in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, February 15, 2008. Here McCain makes it clear he will veto Pork Barrel Spending as President:
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Here is proof that John McCain practices what he preaches when it comes to earmarks, the practice of adding pork barrel funding to bills as they make their way through Congress. McCain has denounced the practice, and promises to end it once he becomes President. This quote from a Newsday article indicates McCain has taken no earmarks, while both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have:
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton ranked among the top 10 senators who secured the most funding for local projects last year through the controversial practice known as "earmarks," according to a nonpartisan study released Thursday.
The New York senator, listed at No. 9, secured about $342 million last year in project funding. Clinton's rival, Sen. Barack Obama, tallied $91 million in earmarks for his home state of Illinois. The Republican front-runner, Arizona Sen. John McCain, rejects the use of earmarks and took zero.
This can be a powerful way for McCain to expose Obama, in particular, as being anything but a candidate of change from the corrupt ways of Washington. He should make good use of it.
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