Lies, Lipstick, And Bull... uhhh, dogs... yeah, dogs

I've been hearing from most of the liberal media about how Sarah Palin was in favor of the "Bridge To Nowhere" that we hear some much about, even though she says that she killed the project. The fact of the matter is that, yes, initially, she was in favor of this bridge to a small community, which is, by definition, not "nowhere." As time went by, and she learned more about the project, and the Alaska State DOT told her that this project was very low priority for them, she did, indeed, kill the project. Now, I understand, she brought it up, and it's totally valid for people to ask about, but how about some honesty in the reporting of it? They will go on to say that she still sought "earmarks" for other road projects in Alaska, claiming that this proves that she is not serious about reforming Washington and lowering wasteful earmark spending. The truth, though, is that the roads are one of the legitimate area's that the Federal Government is supposed to spend money on. These same liberals don't seem to care at all when money is wasted on all kinds of things that the Government has no business, nor even authority, truth be told, being involved in, but, since a Republican is involved in this one, they have to make it sound like it's such a terrible thing.

And, since I'm on the topic of the "bridge to nowhere," let's take a look at it. The Federal Government was allocating $250 Million to the project, which is a lot of money, at least to you and me. This bridge has become the poster project of wasteful spending, and it is presented as though projects like this are why our Federal Budget is such a mess, leaving the distinct impression that if we got rid of these earmarks, everything would be ok. The fact is that the cost of this project, and others like it, besides being legitimate Federal expenditures, are absolutely dwarfed by wasteful spending on entitlement programs, and pet social programs, which cost literally Trillions of dollars. I'd take a hundred "Bridges to Nowhere" if they would cut these crazy, way out of control, social programs.

On the lipstick front, Sarah Palin had a great ad lib line in her Convention Speech, right after she said that she was a Hockey Mom, she stated that the difference between a Hockey Mom and Bulldog was lipstick. It was a pretty funny line, as delivered, and a lot of people really liked it. Then, this week, Barack Obama was trying to say that McCain doesn't plan to bring any real change to Washington, and stated that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. This started a lot of squealing (pun intended) that he had called Gov. Palin a pig.

Let's break this down a little bit. The statement that Obama made here is a very old adage, and has been used many, many times over the years, even by John McCain himself. Personally, I don't think that he meant what is being implied here. I think he just used this old adage, in a very classic way, and was just very absent minded about the fact that it was going to be taken as an attack on Sarah Palin. That doesn't say much for his judgement, or for his being very politically astute, I mean, honestly, do we really want someone speaking for us on the world stage who will make absent minded statements without realizing that he could be offending some other nation or world leader?

More telling though, to my mind, was the crowds reaction. They went wild, obviously taking this to be an attack, calling Gov. Palin a pig. This tells us how the mind of the far leftist really works. Now, if they disagree with Gov. Palin on the issues, that's fine, they don't have to like her, but to cheer when they think someone has called her a pig? That's really disgusting. I think this reflects far more on the type of person who supports Barack Obama, than it does on Obama himself, with regards to this specific instance.

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Update:
Obama has now made a statement about the Lipstick Controversy. And what does he do? He blames the McCain campaign for making too big of a deal about it. He's saying that nobody should have even mentioned it, and basically, how dare they question him on anything.

This man is utterly incapable of just coming out and saying, look, I didn't think that line through before I spoke, I shouldn't have used that phrase at that time and I certainly didn't mean to call her a pig. Then he could have just moved on. Instead, he has to come out and be indignant, and talk about special interests and stuff.

I'm also really sick of Obama calling the American people a special interest. Whenever something happens that is good for the regular, hardworking people in this country, Obama calls it pandering to special interests. We are NOT a special interest. As far as our Government is concerned, we are the ONLY interest!