More Lies and Corruption

I'm not sure there's much difference between any of the politicians other than their personalities. A week or so ago I posted a link to Judicial Watch. a site that highlighted ten of the most corrupt politicians in Washington. I focused on Hillary Clinton but if you didn't go to the site to follow up, it's important to know, now that he's the new hot-topic in the race, that Barrack Obama was also listed. Here's what Judicial Watch had to say...

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): A “Dishonorable Mention” last year, Senator Obama moves onto the “ten most wanted” list in 2007. In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin “Tony” Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of the company’s shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.

Well, John McCain (on the Republican side now) is also out there lying up a storm. It's hard to tell - was he just forgetful (too old to be President) or is he really telling bold-faced lies? The following is from the American Progress Progress Report of January 7, 2008.

In last night's Fox News GOP presidential forum, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared that, as president, he would eliminate "wasteful spending," citing his track record fighting against earmarks as evidence. "I'm proud to tell you," McCain said at the forum, "in 24 years as a member of Congress, I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state and I guarantee you I'll veto those bills." McCain's claims are patently false. In 2006, he and Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) teamed up to funnel $10 million toward the University of Arizona for an academic center named after the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Three years earlier, McCain slipped $14.3 million into a defense appropriations bill to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As Roll Call reported, the project "was not requested by President Bush or fully authorized by the Senate Armed Services Committee -- two of McCain's criteria for identifying so-called 'pork .'" The move heartened notorious porker Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), who noted, "One man's pork is another man's alternate white meat ."