Building that Bridge to Nowhere
The McCain folks really ARE on the bridge to nowhere. As of today (Friday, October 10), the Senator and his feckless running mate continue to bash Senator Obama for asking for planetarium funding (not to mention ranting about the whole Ayers thing, which is a non-starter for a majority of voters).
Apparently fact-checking isn’t part of Senator John McCain’s skill set. Nor do his handlers seem to have grasped the truth of the matter about the planetarium funding that didn’t actually happen. As countless numbers of us have shown in OUR fact-checking since Tuesday (which Mr. McCain’s handlers could easily do if they cared to), the funding never happened. Yes, Senator Obama asked for it, but so did other elected officials of BOTH parties.
Asking for earmark funding is part and parcel of any Senator’s job (and Mr. McCain has done quite well in the past with his spending requests for his home state, despite his much-vaunted bragging against earmarks).
The bottom line is that I don’t know what’s more despicable: bashing education and planetariums, or continuing to do so even after the facts are known (facts which can be found in the Congressional Record). Then again, watching the campaign incite voters with overt racism is pretty despicable, too. If this is all they have to run on, their well is running dry. We should be a nation/world of people looking FORWARD and working together to solve problems and provide good educations for all, not a mob ruled by hatred and ignorance.
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