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Obama’s pork hypocrisy

How dare I challenge The One’s claims that Gov. Palin is a porkmistress, while He is of unsoiled hands?  Well, this might explain how:

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama tried to direct more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to a Chicago museum whose chairman is one of the Illinois senator’s largest campaign fundraisers…

The planetarium’s chairman, then and still, is Frank Clark, chief executive of ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Energy. He has pledged to raise more than $200,000 for Mr. Obama’s run for the White House.

Moreover, the Adler Planetarium is represented by the lobbying firm National Group LLP, co-founded by William Oldaker, who helped launch Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s political action committee in 2005. Mr. Oldaker, a partner with the Delaware Democrat’s son in another Washington lobbying and law firm, is no longer involved with Mr. Biden’s PAC, Unite Our States…

Two years earlier, Mr. Obama sought $300,000 for the Adler in another unsuccessful earmark request.

I’m sure this was just a big ol’ coinkidink, right?  Right??

Besides, what a difference a year makes, huh?  Barry O decides to be a champion crusader against pork this year…a stark contrast of mere months ago.  Nicely done, Uhhhhhhhhhbama.

September 12, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Obama, corruption, hypocrisy, pork