Obama’s Dilema – Part. 1 (Obama, Biden helped keep Bridge to Nowhere)

Although Democratic vice presidential 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.

                                

             ”Psst…Holy crap Joe, they’re starting to catch onto us”

Yes Both of them voted to keep the project alive…not once, but twice!

What’s even worse is that the two 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.

Both Obama and Biden voted for the final transportation bill that included the $223 million earmark for the Alaska project.

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 when it needed it most…AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA!

But Biden and Obama and 80 of their colleagues rejected the measure, an amendment to a massive 2005 transportation bill that funded thousands of projects across the country.

“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.”

PERSONALLY…I find this quite amusing other than suprising. This isnt the first time that Obama has critisized his opponent about doing or not doing something before letting the public know that he HIMSELF did/didnt do THE SAME FREAKING THING. hahahahaha

~Source: CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/biden.earmarks/index.html)