[ccmay]

In a world of limitless demand and limited resources, hard decisions and compromises and trade-offs have to be made.

What may have seemed like a good idea when she was first running for office may have started to stink as she looked into the financial and logistic details of the issue more deeply. Therefore, she changed her mind and exercised the executive power entrusted to her by the people of Alaska.

No story.

Obama would have voted "Present" on the bridge. The money would have been siphoned off by consultants and community organizers, and the bridge would never have been built regardless.

-ccm

[muawiyah]

Part of the problem was that Alaska's Senators (and one Representative) had not first gotten the allocation under the classification of "Mass Transit".

Now there would have been the magic words. That'd slipped right under the noses of the MSM pundits.

Or, maybe they'd gotten the bridge if they'd called it "The Harvey Milk Memorial".

[jokyfo]

Obama voted FOR the bridge.