I’m totally amazed at how the lefties here a pretending that there is no way whatsoever that Obama’s comment could have been a double entendre

Barack Obama is criticizing the McCain campaign for manufacturing outrage over a perfectly innocent but intentionally and maliciously misinterpreted comment.

Isn’t it time we call a spade a spade and recognize that this just another case of the pot calling the kettle black?

Gov Palin may have lobbied for it or asked for it, that I do not know but I doubt it. In any case, it was Ted that wanted it and asked for it.

Pork is allowed in Congress unfortunately. If pork is allowed and Congress says ok, what’s the problem? Is that Sarahs problem? No. I don’t see a lot of Governeors arguing with the State’s US Senators and Congress people to stop getting money for the state. That is illogical.

In this case, people questioned why that pork was in there and Congress took it out. Sarah Palin may have said she didn’t want it but she is not in Congress and therefore can not put it in or out of a spending bill. She can only lobby one way or the other. She is saying she lobbied to take it out. Good for her. Is that a lie, that she didn’t ask to take it out? I don’t know but I’ll take her at her word because she is charismatic and good looking and a minority, and smart and ….a conservative. Wow. Why actually dig deeper than that. Sound familiar Libs?

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Whoops..another sexist line. I have been watching to much of the Obama campaign.

In my humble opinion, he’s not deserving of much of the vitriol he receives here. I frequently disagree with him, but he is civil and reasonable.

To be fair, I wasn’t really either yesterday, until I calmed down a bit. This story really got my blood boiling.

My apologies, esp to aj, who didn’t deserve what I wrote.

Chapoutier reminds me of those cretins who still obsess over the 2000 election, claiming, in the face of facts to the contrary, that it was stolen, repeating fiction to themselves until they believe it.

– lonewolf

No, you’re thinking of lgm. Chapoutier actually raises important questions that we should be considering, and is willing to admit the fault of the Democratic candidates when faced with them.

In my humble opinion, he’s not deserving of much of the vitriol he receives here. I frequently disagree with him, but he is civil and reasonable.

If we are really interested in the best for our nation, we should be just as interested in our candidates’ faults as in those of their opponents.

But does Obama proof-read what he’s given to say? Was he speaking off the cuff? Did he not watch Palin’s speech?

Seriously, guys, even if he didn’t mean it that way he must have known how it was going to be interpreted. It either shows that he’s totally callous, or seriously stupid.

After all the manufactured outrage his folks have generated during this campaign, I don’t really mind if McCain’s people took his fumble and run with it. His mistake. Man up, apologize, at least say, “hey I didn’t mean it and sorry it looked like that.” Don’t act outraged yourself. You should have known how it was going to be interpreted, and you still did it. Stupid. Deal with the consequences or make some sort of non-apology apology and be done with it.

The bottom line is: Obama and Biden voted for the bridge. Palin did not vote for the bridge, and in the end she killed the project.

She did not kill the project. She was still campaigning for it in 2006 when the project was effectively killed in Congress in 2005. She came out against it only after it was already dead and public opinion had turned definitively against it.

Do you really think that states, whose taxpayers send billions to the feds, are supposed to reject ALL money that comes back to them?

I do if they are going to run on a platform of being a pork reformer.