Obama's On A Real "Bridge To Nowhere"

Okay, so the latest hotbed issue where Barack Obama thinks he can take VP candidate Sarah Palin to task is on this entire "Bridge to Nowhere" issue.  Once again, like all other attempts to discredit Palin, this one also backfires and makes her look even more appealing.  Heaven forbid a politician is even more fiscally responsible with federal monies that expected!  We can't have that, can we? So here are the FACTS about the entire "Bridge to Nowhere" issue that ends up working in Sarah Palin's favor.

When Sarah Palin was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, there was a proposal on the table to allocate $400 million dollars of federal funds to construct a bridge from the Alaskan mainland to a remote island. The island has only 50 inhabitants and an airplane landing strip. During the gubernatorial debates, Palin was asked about this proposal and said it sounded like a good idea.

However, once Palin won the governor's race and took office, she realized that there were much better ways Alaska could use federal funding than by building this "Bridge to Nowhere." When she actually had the money in front of her, she realized what a huge waste it would be to use this "earmark" funding for such a project when there were more important priorities. She thus opted to use the funding for other projects. I bet that she also actually, heaven forbid, LISTENED to her constituents, many of whom agreed that other things should take priority when it comes to how Alaska spends its federal dollars.

The Obama campaign argues, in the words of Obama himself, that this was "shameless" and that Sarah Palin is trying to "reinvent herself." Yet he fails to mention what exactly is so shameless about a governor deciding not to waste government money on such a needless project, even if the project sounded like a good idea before. When it came time to make the decision on how to spend the money, Palin decided she was going to keep her promise to the Alaskan people to make the state more fiscally responsible. This isn't reinventing yourself; it's keeping your word.

So this is an example of why, in and of itself, it's not a bad thing for politicians to "flip flop" sometimes. It always depends on each individual case: What are they specifically choosing to "flip" away from, and what specifically do they "flop" to instead? If the "flop" is to making more responsible fiscal decisions, that is admirable. Again, heaven forbid that a governor is even BETTER at fiscal responsibility than anticipated.

Another example of a good "flip flop" are the throngs of voters, particularly white females, who in recent weeks have chosen to "flip" away from supporting Obama, and "flop" to supporting McCain instead.

So if Barack Obama wants to make a big deal about this issue, thinking it somehow makes Sarah Palin look bad, he is the one on a real "bridge to nowhere" that he constructed all on his own.

Sorry Mr. Obama, but you're now 0 for about 6,752 (and counting) on your attempts to attack Mrs. Palin's record.

You'll need to try again and move on to something else.