CNN: Biden (and Obama) voted to keep the “Bridge to Nowhere” project alive…
September 24, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
It seems Obama and his mentor, Joe Biden worked to keep the “Bridge to Nowhere” project alive, this is the same project that Sarah Palin killed when she became the Governor.
What is even more amazing is that CNN itself reported on this piece of news. I mean, earlier this week, MSNBC called Biden out, today CNN calls Obama and Biden out, what on earth is happening?
Anyway, here are a few excerpts from the CNN story:
Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice.
and
Both Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment that would have diverted federal funding for the bridge to repair a Louisiana span badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Senate records show.
An amendment offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, would have stripped the money appropriated to connect the Alaskan coastal city of Ketchikan to its airport on sparsely populated Gravina Island and diverted the money to Louisiana.
But Biden andObama and 80 of their colleagues rejected the measure, an amendment to a massive 2005 transportation bill that funded thousands of projects across the country.
and the coup de gras:
“That is probably the most disturbing element of this and the campaigning on the Bridge to Nowhere,” said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a taxpayer watchdog group. “Because, yes, they had a chance to vote specifically against the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska to redirect the money to people, to bridges and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina going in to New Orleans, and they chose not to.”
For a video of hypocrisy in action, here is Joe Biden blasting Sarah Palin on the bridge to nowhere:
Never thought I’d say it in 2008, but kudos to CNN…
Posted by PUMA PUNDIT
Pork. Pork. Pork.
Maybe, just maybe, the MSM is going to all start picking up on this kind of thing. News agencies seem to behave like lemmings, in the sense that they all report on what they all think are the big stories. If a couple more major networks start reporting on this kind of thing, it might get to a critical mass and everybody will be reporting it.
Let’s hope so…
Obviously, Obama and Biden don’t care about the bridge issue at all. They only care about pointing out some perceived inconsistency or hypocrisy in Sarah Palin. Of course, that notion is premised on the idea that no one sincerely can have a change of heart. Biden better hope that’s not true since he practically gave a glowing endorsement of John McCain in the primaries.
Now the Obama campaign essentially has to argue, “We never said that we opposed to the Bridge of Nowhere. In fact, we voted for the bridge even when Katrina victims needed the money much more, but don’t forget that Sarah Palin changed her mind! Changing your mind is the worst thing you can do!”
That’s just a pathetic stance. They should have realized that they’d be under fire for this. His campaign isn’t stupid, which is why Obama’s handlers didn’t jump too much on Palin’s church ’scandal,’ if you can call it that, because Obama’s church scandal was far worse. And in this case, I think Obama’s and Biden’s failure to divert the money to Katrina victims is the more interesting, and more detrimental, story to come out of the Bridge to Nowhere fiasco.
Can’t wait to see how the NoBama worshippers spin THIS one!!!
the chickensssssss are coming homeeeeeee to ROOST!
This is an amazing post - I can’t believe I haven’t commented on this before.
I wonder why the Obamamaniacs haven’t responded to this. Where is Mangela with her incompetent rehetoric.
I can hear her cutting and pasting now. …
NEW DISCUSSION:
I found a very……..interesting (to say the least) post on a Anti-Obama site today. The blogowner commented:
A poll going around asks the question “Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as President of the United States? Her response was,
“The “correct” answer, according to these young “feminists,” is no. So please, tell me again how it helps all women to encourage sexism by questioning Palin’s basic qualifications and competency?”
So my question to you guys is, how exactly is someone questioning a candidates basic qualifications and competency encouraging sexism?
~Roza