John McCain made a big fuss in the debate last night when he claimed Barack Obama earmarked $3-million for an "overhead projector." Took me right back to junior high, when the only piece of equipment we had that was cheesier than the overhead projector was the film strip projector. 3-million bucks?!?! There had to be more to the story....
And, of course, there is:
And, of course, there is:
It turns out that that "overhead projector" John McCain claimed Barack Obama tried to get a $3 million earmark for was actually money to rebuild Chicago's Adler Planetarium, the oldest planetarium in
the United States.
McCain's "overhead projector" is the apparatus that runs the planetarium, which is a bit like calling the Palomar Observatory a new set of glasses.
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