Obama Accuses Palin Of Being In Favor Of Pork Despite Having Passed $740 Million Earmarks Himself
Including one earmark worth $1 million for his wife’s employer right after she got a 120% raise.
Obama then opened up rare criticism on VP nominee Sarah Palin, “I know the governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is change. And that is great. She is a skillful politician. But when you 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. 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.”
Actually, according to the McCain team (via press release), even if Palin is guilty of securing some earmarks in Alaska (and she is, though I’d remind you that not all earmarks are bad earmarks) it would still be change because the McCain/Palin ticket is responsible for a hell of a lot less pork than Obama/Biden:
Barack Obama has requested the equivalent of one million dollars in new pork barrel spending for every working day he’s been in the U.S Senate, while John McCain has never once asked for an earmark, and Governor Palin has vetoed hundreds of millions in government spending including killing the infamous “bridge to nowhere”. Just like so many other issues Barack Obama is all talk, has no record to back it up and isn’t ready to make change.
Just to drive that point home: Every single working day in the Senate for Barack Obama costs the taxpayers $1 million in pork.
And he’s accusing Sarah Palin of being a big government spender.
I honestly have to think that Republicans were sitting around waiting for Obama to go down this road. I mean, this is about as bad as Obama saying Palin is inexperienced.
