OBAMA EARMARK REQUESTS: FY 2006 AND FY 2007

AGRICULTURE

Obama Requested $1.6 Million To The University Of Illinois College Of ACES For The Livestock Genome Sequencing Initiative. In 2006, Obama requested $1.6 million for the University Of Illinois College Of ACES and its effort to conduct research on the Livestock Genome Sequencing Initiative (LGSI). The LGSI is part of an international effort to identify every gene of the cattle and swine species by both its unique DNA sequence and location on specific chromosomes. In addition, LGSI research is building a database to identify the function of these genes. [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $2 Million For The Soybean Disease Biotechnology Center At The University Of Illinois College Of ACES. In 2006, Obama requested $2 million for the University of Illinois College of ACES and its continuing research efforts at the Soybean Disease Biotechnology Center (SDBC).  [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $3 Million The Future Foods Initiative At The University Of Illinois College Of ACES. [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $2.5 Million For The Illinois Program For Integrated Sustainable Agriculture At The University Of Illinois College Of ACES.  [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $2.5 Million For The Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance At The University Of Illinois College Of ACES.  [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $3 Million To Support The National Center For Food Safety & Technology At The Illinois Institute Of Technology.  [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $310,000 For The Slocum Watershed Management Project In Lake County.  [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $2,499,400 For The Food Stamp Participation Project Of The Illinois Department Of Human Services.  [3/31/06]

Obama Requested $1.75 Million For The Secure User Network For Food And Agriculture Response And Mobilization (SUN-FARM) For The Illinois Department Of Commerce And Economic Opportunity.  [3/31/06]

COMMERCE/JUSTICE/SCIENCE

Obama Requested $900,000 For The Women’s Sports Foundation’s Go Girl Go Chicago Initiative.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $550,000 For The John G. Shedd Aquarium’s At-Risk Youth Monitoring Initiative.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $350,000 For Guardian Angel Community Services To Support Its Transitional Housing For Women And Children Suffering Domestic Violence Program.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $300,000 To Support The A Child Is Missing (ACIM) Program.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For The Village of Franklin Park To Support Its Law Enforcement Strategic Technology Program.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $3 million For The DuPage, Kane & Kendall County Sheriff’s Offices To Support The Tri-County In Car Video Camera Project.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $62 million For The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy Project.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $1.75 million For The Northern Illinois Technology Triangle.  [ 4/6/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For McHenry County’s Integrated Criminal Justice Information System.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $450,000 For The South Suburban Association of Chiefs of Police To Support Its Center For Law Enforcement Technology Collaboration.  [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $675,000 For The Metro Chicago Youth For Christ Juvenile Justice Ministry Gang Prevention Program. [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For The Chicago Botanical Garden To Support Its Seed Bank And Plant Conservation Center. [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The Lakeview Museum To support Its Planetarium For Central Illinois Regional Museum. [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $2 million For The University of Illinois At Chicago Prisoner Reentry, Family And Communities National Resource Center. [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $750,000 For The Windy City Harvest To Support Its Windy City Harvest Resource Center. [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $1.9 Million For The Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago To Support Its National Coordinated Law-Related Education Program. [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $3 million For The Museum Of Science and Industry’s Expansion Of Its Center For Human Exploration/Henry Crown Space Center. [4/6/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For McHenry County’s Law Enforcement Communication System.  [4/6/06]

DEFENSE

Obama Requested $4.3 Million And Helped Secure $1.8 Million For The Air Force ALERT System. [ 2006]

Obama Requested $10 Million And Helped Secure $5.85 Million For The Rock Island Arsenal’s Arsenal Support Program Initiative (ASPI). [2006]

Obama Requested $3 Million And Helped Secure $1.95 Million For The Compact Tactical Laser Program. [2006]

Obama Requested $7.5 Million And Helped Secure $4.9 Million For The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research.[2006]

Obama Requested $2 Million And Helped Secure $1 Million For HUMVEE Hybrid Electronic Conversion Technology.[2006]

Obama Requested $5 Million And Helped Secure $1 Million For The Fuel Cells for Mobile Robotics Systems Project At Chicago State University.[2006]

Obama Requested $8 Million And Helped Secure $1.3 Million For The High Explosive Air Burst Technology Program.[2006]

Obama Requested $7 million And Helped Secure $6.3 Million For Rock Island Arsenal Industrial Preparedness Items. [2006]

Obama Requested $5 Million And Received $3.3 Million For The Technology, Research, Education, And Commercialization Center At The University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign. [2006]

Obama Requested $5.8 Million For the Copper Antimicrobial Research Program. [4/3/06]

Obama Requested $8 Million For Human Genome Expression Through The University Of Illinois At Chicago. [4/3/06]

Obama requested $7.5 Million For Advanced Pathogen Titer Diagnostic The University Of Illinois at Chicago.[4/3/06]

Obama Requested $4.8 Million For A Light Emitting Diode Healing Program At The University Of Illinois At Chicago.[4/3/06]

Obama Requested $5.2 Million For A Copper Air Quality Program. [4/3/06]

Obama Requested $4.2 Million For Advance Technology Research On Fabrication At Remote Sites.[4/3/06]

Obama Requested $6 Million For Work On The Roof For Building 299 At Rock Island Arsenal.[4/3/06]

Obama Requested $3 Million For Improvements In Heating And Cooling At Rock Island Arsenal Facility.[4/3/06]

ENERGY & WATER

Obama Requested $784,000 In Funding For The Final Phase Of The Upper Mississippi River Comprehensive Plan.[4/19/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For Water Distribution Upgrades In The Village Of Oakwood. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For A Regional Waterways System In The City Of Monmouth. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $2 Million For Reconstruction Of A Water Distribution System In The City Of Shawneetown. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million To Support The Bubbly Creek Restoration Project In The City Of Chicago. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $750,000 For An Arts And Science “Green Building” At Quincy University. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $5 Million For The Illinois Department Of Natural Resources Demonstration Asian Carp barrier Project. [ 4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million To Support The Asian Carp Barrier Operations And Maintenance Funds For The Illinois Department Of Natural Resources. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For Peoria County’s Senachine Creek River Restoration Project. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $300,000 For McHenry County’s Groundwater/Stormwater Protection Investigation. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $750,000 For A Neuroscience Laboratory At Dominican University. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For Construction Of A New Hospital Pavilion At The University Of Chicago.[4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For An Intensive Care Unit Expansion And Renovation Project At St. Mary Medical Center. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $2.5 Million For A Science Storms Program At Chicago’s Museum Of Science And Industry. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $300,000 For The Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The Heartland Water Resource Council (HWRC) For Storm Water Management Assistance For The Turkey Creek Watershed. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $6.1 Million For The Illinois Department Of Natural Resources’ Upper Des Plaines River Basin Feasibility Study (Levee 37). [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $300,000 For The Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ Expanded Study of Phase II of the Des Plaines River. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $2 Million For The Thorek Memorial Hospital Cancer Treatment Center. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1.3 Million For Will County’s Flood Studies Project. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $600,000 For The International Arid Lands Consortium’s For Research And Demonstration Projects On Providing Water Resources For Arid Lands. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $2 Million For The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to support its National Corn to Ethanol Research Center at SIU-Edwardsville. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $4 Million For The Illinois Department of Natural Resources For New Gates At The East End of The Chicago River Lock. [4/7/06]

HOMELAND SECURITY

Obama Requested $900,000 For Governors State University’s Homeland Security And Disaster Management Center For Excellence In Learning, Research And Outreach. [4/3/06]

Obama Requested $800,000 For Wireless Communications Technology For The Will County Sheriff’s Office. [4/3/06]

INTERIOR

Northeastern Illinois Sewer Consortium Receive $3.5 million To Support Its Northeastern Illinois Sewer Consortium Project. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $2 million For Olympia Fields To Support Its Storm Water Conveyance Improvements. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1 million For The Village Of Park Forest To Support Its Sanitary Sewer Upgrades. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $7 million For The Wheaton Sanitary District to support its Water Environment Research Foundation. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $120,000 For The Water Environment Research Foundation To Support Its Countywide Wetland Preservation And Restoration Plan. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1, 953, 331 For Will County To Support Its Ridgewood Water And Sewage Project. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $405,000 For The Village Of Olympia Fields To Support Its Water Pumping System Improvement Program. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $750,000 For The Lakeview Museum’s Illinois River Interpretive Center. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $2 million For Lake County’s Watershed Plan Implementation Project. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For The Village of Park Forest To Support Its Water Main Distribution System. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign To Support Its Midwest Technology Assistance Center For Small Public Water Systems. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $700,000 For The Village Of Riverdale’s Illinois Pacesetter Sewer/Water Project. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $8 Million For The City Of Chicago’s Drinking Water Security Initiative. [4/7/06]

Obama Requested $1.5 million For The Illinois State Geological Survey To Support Its Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition Project. [4/7/06]

LABOR/HEALTH/EDUCATION

Obama Requested $1 Million For The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urban Teaching and Leadership Center. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For Kids Voting USA. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $200,000 For The Teen Challenge Faith-Based Drug Abuse Treatment And Prevention Program In Illinois. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $3 Million For The Safer Foundation. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For Goodwill Industries Of Metropolitan Chicago. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $335,000 For The Chicago Zoological Society Of The Brookfield Zoo To Support Its Excellence Through Diversity Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For National-Louis University To Support Its Center for City Schools’ Secondary Reading Initiative. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The Salud Latina Resource Center To Support Its Community Health Programs. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $2 million For The Illinois State University Institutes For Mathematics And Science Teachers Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $2.5 million For Illinois State University’s Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline Programs and Partnerships Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The Illinois Downstate Assistive Technology Evaluation, Training And Device Loan Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1.2 Million For The ACCESS Community Health Network Behavioral Health Care Activities. [4/5/06]

Obama requested $200,000 For the Knowledge Is Power Program’s (KIPP) Ascend Charter School in Chicago. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $2.2 Million For The Center For Neighborhood Technology’s Information For Communities Project. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $2 Million for Chicago Public Schools’ CPS Reading Initiative (CRI). [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $250,000 For The Chicago Park District’s Obesity Prevention-Affordable Fitness Centers. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For Alton Memorial Hospital To Support Its Riverbend Stroke Center. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1 million For The Lakeview Museum To support Its K-12 Education And Outreach Program At The Central Illinois Regional Museum. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For McHenry County’s Job Readiness Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $300,000 For The Lawson House YMCA’s Targeted Case Management Service For Veterans. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $4 million For The Children’s Memorial Medical Center’s Electronic Medical Record Project. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1 million For The Chicago State University (CSU) HIV/AIDS Policy And Research Institute. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1 million For Chicago State University’s (CSU) Establishment Of A School Of Pharmacy. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Online Science Teacher Certification Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $250,000 For McHenry County’s Mental Health Court. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $450,000 For Swedish American Health System’s Davis Junction Rural Health Center Clinic. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $360,000 For Library And Technology Learning Center At Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $800,000 For A Training And Resource Center Of The Swedish Covenant Hospital. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $300,000 For An Extended-Day And Extended Year Academic Program At The Chicago Jesuit Academy. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $900,000 For An Early Childhood Professional Development Center At Saint Xavier University. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $700,000 For Youth Conservation Corps, Inc. For A GED Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1.8 Million For The Illinois Department Of Public Health To Conduct A Men’s Health Pilot Project. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $700,000 For Expansion Of The Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant Project By The Illinois Department Of Public Health. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The Uhlich Children’s Network To Support Its Adolescent Mental Health Service Support Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $2.5 Million For The Children’s Hospital Of Illinois’ Replacement Project. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $942,400 For Cyber Seniors, Inc.’s Senior Power Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $5 Million For Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Prentice Woman’s Hospital. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For Catholic Charities’ St. Leo Residence For Veterans And VA Clinic And Resources Center. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $650,000 For A Real-time Writers And Captioning Program At Sparks College. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $5 Million For Loyola University’s Center For Public Service. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $500,000 For The Children’s Health Fund’s Chicago Children’s Health Project. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $2 Million For The Illinois Primary Health Care Association’s Electronic Health Records Project.[4/5/06]

Obama Requested $5 Million For The City Colleges Of Chicago To Support Project ALIGN. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $6 Million For The Midwest Emergency Department Services’ Rural Emergency Access Safety Net Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $200,000 For The Guardian Angel Community Service’s Before-And-After School Enrichment Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $162,000 To The Cristo Rey Jesuit High School For Its Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Work Study Internship Program. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1.95 Million For The Will County Health Department To Support Its Mentally Ill Substance Abuse Programs.[4/5/06]

Obama Requested $312,202 For Helen Wheeler Center For Community Mental Health’s Child And Family Services Program.[4/5/06]

Obama Requested $250,000 For The Beecher hall At Illinois College.[4/5/06]

Obama Requested $1 Million For A Center For Communicative Disorders At Augustana College.[4/5/06]

Obama Requested $400,000 For The Carr Center Second Floor Renovation Of Seguin Services. [4/5/06]

Obama Requested $2.5 Million For The Center For Excellence In Health Professionals Education At Governors State University.

TRANSPORTATION/HUD

Obama Requested $200,000 For The Peoria County’s Get The Lead Out Program In Peoria County, Illinois. [7/14/06]

Obama Requested $200,000 For The City Of Rock Island’s The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center. [7/14/06]

Obama Requested $200,000 For The Decatur Lakefront Development Project. [7/14/06]

Obama Requested $200,000 In Funding For The Shawneetown Community Center And Children’s Park.[7/14/06]

Frank Rich bemoans in the New York Times:

A McCain victory on Election Day will usher in a Palin presidency, with McCain serving as a transitional front man, an even weaker Bush to her Cheney.

You know if I believed Frank Rich, I’d probably quit my job and move to Colorado to help Palin begin the first of her 3-4 terms in the White House.

Does he even believe that? Palin is not on the ticket at the behest of shadowy forces but of McCain himself. The left has gone from suggesting Palin is a lightweight who doesn’t belong on the ticket to turning her into Machivelli in high heels. Astounding! Even more astounding, Rich seems to suggest that Palin is both at the same time.

How can Obama win?

How do you run against that flashy flimflam? You don’t. Karl Rove for once gave the Democrats a real tip rather than a bum steer when he wrote last weekthat if Obama wants to win, “he needs to remember he’s running against John McCain for president,” not Palin for vice president. Obama should keep stepping up the blitz on McCain’s flip-flops, confusion, ignorance and blurriness on major issues (from education to an exit date from Iraq), rather than her gaffes and résumé. If he focuses voters on the 2008 McCain, the Palin question will take care of itself.

You hear that folks, the focus needs to be on McCain, not Palin. This is why Frank Rich spent the first 15 paragraphs talking about Palin. Thus is illustrated, the challenge of the Obama campaign.

Smart liberals know that running against Palin is a losing proposition. They know their best shot is to make this race about the top of the ticket. They know where their focus should be? They can’t keep it there. The left is acting like moths drawn to a flame. They can’t help themselves. They seem powerless to stop bashing Sarah Palin for two reasons.

First, Sarah Palin is a woman and self-described feminist, but she doesn’t fit their definition. At her core, she’s a threat to their power base. The left manages to keep many women on their side through the presumptive idea that this is what women are supposed to believe. You’re supposed to be pro-choice, bitter, and hateful towards men. Governor Palin is pro-life and neither bitter nor misanthropic. As Vice-President, she’d be the most powerful woman in the world and a role model for women everywhere. Egads, can  you imagine the long-term damage to the left? 

Second, is her serious Christianity. One has to be clear on this, because the media likes to play semantics games. How can you say there’s a bias against Christians, 80% of the country identifies as Christian.Christian self-identification does not lead to media bias, as long as Christian self-identification is treated with the less seriousness than some folks treat Oktoberfest. However, Palin’s faith is real, Palin has joined organizations centered around her faith. She believes in a God that plans the steps of man.

Perhaps, the most disturbing thing to the leftist mind from her speech to the graduating class at Master’s Academy was her declaration that she could do the best she could as Governor with infrastructure, law enforcement, and education but that it wouldn’t do much good if the hearts of people in the State wern’t right with God.

The statement was not theocracy (as she put the challenge of reaching people on the students and not the state), but of the limits of government’s power. This is the ultimate heresy to the far left. If the power to solve society’s ills is not found in the government, if man is more than a carefully balanced hierarchy of needs and wants than liberalism is bankrupt.

At the core of leftism is the belief that man’s ultimate problem is a lack of material things: health care, education, and money. It’s the government’s job to solve these problems. Modern liberalism exalts the almighty state as the key to the betterment of man. It is the statism that dominates from one coast to another.

In direct opposition to that worldview, Governor Palin sees that there are some things government can and should do: roads, law enforcement,  and insuring public education is provided. But government can’t solve the most basic, fundamental problem of man. It can’t fix our lives.

For this reason, life moths kamikazing themselves into a buglight, the left and the media will continue to make Governor Palin the focal point of the campaign. The desire to destroy Governor Palin and all she represents is emotionally superseding the goal of winning this election.