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"If Barack Obama wants to rail against Sarah Palin&amp;#x27;s record on earmarks he&amp;#x27;d better be prepared to defend why he allocated hundreds of millions of tax dollars for his own pet-projects.Yes, Palin did indicate some support for a bridge in Ketchikan when she was campaigning for governor. Regardless, when it really counted, she opposed the bridge flat-out. Mind you, that was after Obama voted for the $400 million Bridge to Nowhere and sending all that money up to Alaska in the U.S. Senate. So it might be more correct to say &amp;amp;quot;He was FOR it, before SHE was against it.&amp;amp;quot; As Governor, Palin vetoed $231 million worth of pork from the proposed state budget her first year in office. The next year, state legislators reinserted many of those same earmarks into the budget and asked the Governor to okay $58 billion to pay them. She vetoed them again. The Democrats are trying to blame Palin for all of Alaska&amp;#x27;s earmarks, but Congress is responsible for serving up that pork. (And it&amp;#x27;s worth noting that Alaska&amp;#x27;s senators are not in good standing with the GOP&amp;#x27;s fiscal conservatives.) As senator, Obama requested more than $740 million for his pet-projects, including a $1 million earmark for the hospital where his wife was working, and a $750,000 earmark to pay for the renovation of a space center named after top Obama donor James S. Crown&amp;#x27;s grandfather, Henry Crown. (Here&amp;#x27;s a good list of his earmarks if you want to look.) And since Obama is bringing it up, he ought to explain why he sought more than $3.4 million earmarks for Joe Biden&amp;#x27;s lobbyist son, Hunter? I thought Obama detested lobbyists and those kind of cozy relationships. So, again, does Barack Obama really want to have this conversation? Yes? Okay, good. I&amp;#x27;d love to hear why Obama thinks his pork is a national priority&amp;amp;nbsp; that should be funded above all other spending. Bonus points if he tell would match McCain-Palin and tell us what earmarks he would veto as President. &amp;amp;#8212;Amanda"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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