My, My, My!! It would appear that even the candidate ....

.... who offers us all 'HOPE' and 'CHANGE' has his feet firmly planted in the soft clay of so many other career politicians. This one, although young, seems to be a fast learner! Skipping down the Senate corridor last night asking his brethren and sistren to put a stop to those ugly 'earmarks', a pork trough from which he has fed heavily to the tune of milion$ and million$ of dollar$.! From NationalReveiwOnline"

Thursday, March 13, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

One of Obama's Earmark Requests Was for the Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama

Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006.

You know who works for the University of Chicago Hospital?

Michelle Obama. She's vice president of community affairs.

As Byron noted, "In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office."

Looks like that raise was worth it.

03/13 04:48 PM

Don't forget to click on that link of his earmarks in the first sentence ---- very interesting! And here I was hopin' that we might actually have a new breed of politician on our hands. Seems like we just have a new height of hypocrisy! tsk tsk Kind of gives a whole new meaning to that favorite word of his......"Audacity!"