Liar Liar

The republican nominees are avoiding the truth of their own records in order to compete with the Obama ticket in the battle over who will bring necessary "change" to Washington. Sarah Palin is consistently claiming not only to have opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere" but to have been the reason behind the closure of the project. In fact, she was not only very much in favor of this $223 million earmark, but she accepted federal money on behalf of the state as Governor and kept it after the project fell through! And the project was only stopped because the cost projections rose well above their original $223 million dollar estimate (as opposed to Sarah Palin acting as 'maverick' governor and defeating the proposition of her own accord). In actuality, the end of the bridge project came when federal government refused to send over $100 dollars in addition to the previous $223 to Alaska for this bridge to a small island of roughly 100 residents. (a link to Paul Krane's article at Washingtonpost.com which provides further proof, quotations, and background on this subject is given at the bottom of this posting).
The obvious truth is that John Mccain and Sarah Palin are not nearly as different from the current administration as they so vocally expresses they are.
Fact: Seven of John Mccain's campaign advisors are Washington lobbyists working on behalf of corporate interests (the interests of American citizens can wait in line behind them).
How will it be possible for Mccain to go to Washington and shake anything up on behalf of the American people when he already owes loads of political favors to the corporate lobbyists who got him elected? When compared with the fact that Barack Obama has zero lobbyists running his campaign and has refused to accept any campaign financing from lobbyists, it seems clear that Obama is more apt to affect serious changes in Washington on behalf of the American people.
Yet as we see in the campaign stops and television ads, the republicans persist in manipulating the truth in order to portray themselves as agents of change. The Mccain camp must believe they can convince American voters of ideas simply by bombarding the airwaves with empty, foundationless slogans that contradict their own personal records. Are the American people ignorant enough to play into this strategy?


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/08/stevens_no_action_for_bridge_t.html