shedd aquarium: Obama/Biden buying your votes with our tax dollars. More of same: McCain walks the walk. Pork in the Presidential Race: CCAGW鈥檚 2007 Congressional Ratings came out yesterday and you may be wondering how the Presidential nominees did. 鈥?Sen. Barack Obama鈥檚 (D-Ill.) 2007 rating was 10 percent, making his lifetime score 18 percent. The 2008 Congressional Pig Book contained 53 earmarks worth $97.4 million for Sen. Obama, including $1,648,850 for the Shedd Aquarium. 鈥?Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) received the worst possible rating in 2007 with 0 percent, while his lifetime rating is 22 percent. According to the Pig Book, Sen. Biden had 70 earmarks for a total of $119.7 million in fiscal year 2008, including $246,100 for the Grand Opera House in Wilmington. 鈥?Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) received a score of 100* percent and has a lifetime rating of 88, has never requested nor received a single earmark, and has pledged to veto any spending bill that contains any earmarks. *Sen. McCain was only present for 11 of the 35 Senate votes that CCAGW tallied. Therefore, he was not eligible for the Taxpayer Super Hero Award RECAP SCORE: Biden = 0 Obama = 10 McCain = 100 'nuff said! Source(s): http://swineline.org/ Palin vs. Obama/Biden Earmarks: Alaska has always been a top state in earmark spending due to the unique needs of a state twice the size of Texas. Last year, Governor Palin got the Alaska members of Congress to cut their earmarks in half. That is a major change from 'business as usual'. Just more evidence of her reform policies. REMEMBER: Governors cannot request/vote on earmarks! They can only suggest to their Federal representatives. For the leftists to say otherwise is just plain LYING! http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News鈥?/a>|||McCain will, just as he always HAS McCain has done more to cut government WASTEFUL spending than any other politician. He has saved taxpayers billions of dollars as a prominent member of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW). Cutting out wasteful government spending and eliminating earmarks and special interest funding. He's been doing this for over 20 years, and has won awards as 'taxpayer hero'. That is, and has always been one of his primary goals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htNDDGuye鈥?/a> http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer People need to pay attention to what the candidates have actually DONE, not just what they say they will DO |||Now these are facts!|||Easy Answer. Look at their records. John McCain will be the winner here. |||McCain for reform!|||When you look at the records, and what the candidates have actually accomplished, I dont know how anyone could possibly vote for anyone other than McCain/Palin.|||McCain/Palin can be the only choice in a matter of reducing federal spending. Obimbo, being a democrat, has never met a tax increase or spending increase that he didn't approve of!|||I find this most interesting. 2 of the Obama supporters apparently can't read or have the comprehension ratio of a nat. But then I digress. McCain always has and always will deal with earmarks in a way that no other politican has. That is why he is among the most disliked by his fellow Senators, He will take away there cash cows. Which means they will have to actually perform for once. They don't want McCain in., Because they know what he intends to do. They want Obama in for they know exactly what he will do. turn the faucet on and let the money flow.|||WOW! That doesn't' even require a Rocket Scientist to figure that one out. But I can see by the responses from the Obama supporters, their not even rated on paper airplanes, let alone anything bigger. Yes Sarah Palin did reduce the spending in Alaska. Obama just spent and spent and spent.Don't you just love the comparisons of a Governor with a Senator. The libs are shaking in their boots with fear because they see what should have been an easy victory slipping away. So I will have to go with McCain/Palin as the only ones who will work to reduce wasteful spending. |||SARAH PLAIN'S EARMARKS REQUESTS EXCEEDED ANYONE ELSE'S EARMARK REQUESTS IN THE WHOLE NATION.....HER EARMARKS WAS 10Xs THE AMOUNT OBAMA REQUESTED....OBAMA REQUESTED EARMARKS FOR A STATE WITH 12.8 MILLION PPL WHILE ALASKA HAS 660,00 PPL....DO THE REAL MATH!|||Obama will cut wasteful spending. McCain will not.