By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday defended two debunked television ads attacking Democrat Barack Obama and claimed erroneously that running mate Sarah Palin never sought money for lawmakers' pet projects as Alaska governor.
Palin sought $197 million in so-called "earmarks" for 2009. In the previous budget year, she asked for earmarks worth $256 million. Earmarking is the much-maligned practice in Congress of directing federal money to local projects that are often criticized as wasteful.
McCain made the comments during a feisty grilling on ABC's The View, where the panel of female hosts pressed him on Palin's religious views, his position on abortion rights and whether he had traded in his maverick ways to placate conservatives.
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