Lying as usual, Sen. Obama said...

...that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a supporter of the "Bridge to Nowhere." As reported by ABC News, he said:

Obama also mocked the new TV ad put out by the McCain campaign claiming that Gov. Sarah Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere."

"I gotta admit these folks are shameless," Obama said, "because the record is indisputable," he said, describing how Palin had originally supported the project.

"I wouldn’t do that," Obama said. "I mean, I'm not perfect --"

"Yes, you are!" shouted a woman in the crowd.

"No, no, no, no," Obama said. "Talk to Michelle, she’ll tell you. But what I'm not going to do, I'm not going to describe in an ad that I did something that is opposite of what I did."

The problem with Obama's pretended honesty is simply that the Alaska Democratic Party agreed with Palin's claim, or at least it agreed before Obama and his media spin doctors got them to remove their description of the events from the Web yesterday.

Here is the description, from the now-deleted "Retire Ted" page of the Democratic Party's campaign against Sen. Ted Stevens:

The Gravina Island Bridge initially received $223 million in 2005 via earmarks by Alaska Senators Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski. The bridge would have connected Ketchikan, Alaska with its local airport on nearby Gravina Island (population 50). Congress stripped the earmark after a national uproar about it but appropriated the money anyway for unspecified transportation uses. Former Gov. Frank Murkowski’s administration set aside about $113 million of the appropriation for the Ketchikan bridge. However, Gov. Sarah Palin said the $398 million bridge was $329 million short of full funding, and only $36 million in federal funds were set aside for it. She said it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any more money for it and that the state had higher priorities.

But guess who DID support the Bridge to Nowhere? That's right, the same Sen. Obama, in return for support for his earmarks.

Ugly business, politics. I'm sure I'll have to make the same posts about McCain.

Update: If Obama wanted to say something true, he could say that Gov. Palin didn't turn down the money, because she didn't. She just used it for another project. But I don't think truth is high on his list of priorities.