Posted on 09/06/2008 1:34:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama took his first direct swipe at Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday, criticizing her for supporting congressional earmarks before opposing them.
“I know the governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is change,” Obama said at a town hall meeting here. “And that is great. She is a skillful politician. But when you [have] 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,” Obama continued. “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.”
The comments were his harshest attack yet on Palin, who sought millions of dollars in earmarks as mayor of Wasilla but later began criticizing them as governor. The Obama campaign has been searching for an effective line of attack against Palin since she burst onto the national scene a week ago as John McCain’s running mate.
The McCain campaign issued a statement that accused Obama of distorting the Republicans' record on earmarks, and hit back at him for pursuing the spending requests as an Illinois senator.
"Barack Obama has requested the equivalent of $1 million 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 Gov. Palin has vetoed hundreds of millions in government spending, including killing the infamous 'bridge to nowhere,'" spokesman Tucker Bounds said. "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."
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He hits like a girl .
You really want to go there, Barry?
What a doofus. I don’t know why his campaign is having him run against the VP candidate but I love it!
Yep.
You know,um,uhh,um,you know,umm,uhhh,umm,you know.
Even Rev. Wright's words?
You mean like:
Birth certificates
Statements like "I've said the surge was a huge success
Community Activities Director qualifies you for the POTUS
Etc.
Etc.
pathetic.
This tells us more than any poll result could: Palin is having a huge impact, and they’re seeing this in their own internal numbers. Right now, they’re literally begging Hillary to go attack dog on Palin for them.
WTH?? This? Coming from OBAMA? Oh my- how many changes has he ALREADY made on his own policies?
“......That is not change, come on,” Obama continued. “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.......”
I read it four times. If that’s the best he can do, he’s in for a hard lesson.
Isn’t that depth of thinking above his pay grade?
He sounds incoherent here, and has been making terrible flubs since last Friday.
Here in PA., he called our Penn State team “The Nitally Lions.”
He lost about a million PA. votes right there!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Ooh, that was HARD, Barry.
Was it a self-serving earmark, like the one you gave your wife’s employer after they doubled her salary?
OTOH, Obama in 200 days in office, like real recently, pulled off $1MM per day in earmarks. Like real recently.
Briar Patch, Obie, Palin’s running for VP.
Why isn’t Biden playing the attack dog versus the PitBullBarracuda?
Stupid man.
Weak.
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