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No, Jophiel, I am not saying that we need to keep pork in the budget. What I am saying is that it is easy to point out someone else's excesses and somehow fail to notice your own. And in Obama's case this was a glaring ommision in his editorial piece
I think for an editorial piece, you're looking for generlaziations, not explicit examples for every individual state. He used the alaskas bridge to nowhere because the entire country knows about it. If he used a pork project from Ill most people would scratch their heads and go "huh"?
If he were to write a larger piece, citing examples I am sure he would get down to the nitty gritty of where each state could cut spending, his own at the top of the list. But to declare that he has no ground to stand on for not using an example that would not stir the majority of the Americans to think is ludicrous. No one would care about some project we know nothing of in Ill, but we do understand the inanity of the Alaskan bridge