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 Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject: Palin/McSame Have More In Common |
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Sounds like old McSame and Mz. Palin have something else in common-- they like to flipflop, pander, and downright lie- depending on which way the winds blowing at the minute... 
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Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans
Mon Sep 1, 2008 10:44am EDT
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" has upset many Alaskans.
During her first speech after being named as McCain's surprise pick as a running mate, Palin said she had told Congress "'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere."
In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor.
The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects.
When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.
"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN3125537020080901 |
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OT....I think you can stop the negative press.....To be honest,if Obama/biden can not beat NcCain/Palin....Then they do not deserve to be leaders...For Obama to lose the that circus act would be imbarrasing.....Imagine making such an impressive speech that the repubs had to change their whole political direction to combat it....I have nothing against Palin but she is just a sale picth,a hail mary as Steve wrote...imagine being so weak in the candidate for president that you have to now sell the VP candidate.I feel bad for miss Palin,Is she really the best candidate for VP with-in the conservative ranks?Or just a billboard to try and sell votes?
Obama's speech may be known as the most powerful speech ever delievered in American politics.....It forced his opponet to no longer trust in himself and that man's party is now selling the the american public on a VP rather then thier presidental candidate....
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: Re: Palin/McSame Have More In Common |
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Sounds like old McSame and Mz. Palin have something else in common-- they like to flipflop, pander, and downright lie- depending on which way the winds blowing at the minute...
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Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans
Mon Sep 1, 2008 10:44am EDT
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" has upset many Alaskans.
During her first speech after being named as McCain's surprise pick as a running mate, Palin said she had told Congress "'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere."
In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor.
The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects.
When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.
"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.
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The truth is, if any liberal cares about the truth, is that she was for the bridge initially. That was BEFORE the final tally after revisions came in and they found they were over $300 million short. At that point, how can anybody be for a project when you have to pony up an additional $300 million? That is when she axed the project.
No, she did not refurn the money to Washington because WASHINGTON TOLD ALASKA THAT THEY DIDNT' HAVE TO. Put yourself in her shoes; The feds give you a check for a project that she can't fund and then tells you that you don't have to use the money for that project and that you can keep it. She looks around and sees a long list of things that need done that could use that money. You're going to send the money back?
These damn libs are trying to raise a big stink about Palin doing what any decent governor working for his state would do, yet they won't raise an eyebrow over Obama proposing spending that will break the country in a week? They've got no comment on his vote for infanticide? He's gotten proved to be a novice idiot twice now on foreign relations ( the surge and Georgia) and you don't read a word? It just makes me want to retch.
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| one time long ago, there was a young man in northeastern MT that was so lazy and couldnt see his feet and couldn't get a job putting together farm machinery at Mr. Swanson's that he became a deputy sherrif. Then low and behold there was no decent competion that he became the sherrif. Now, I see he is the research guru for the "hold my hand out and the gov't will support me" party. I am glad to see the lifetime of driving around in a county vehichle will do for a persons inttelect. And now I am doing the same as he has been to Palin. I appologize for stooping but I just enjoy it like he does. Thank you for your support.
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| Did I not say this at the beginning.....we just need to hide and watch on this one. |
If they would have had anything it would have been out.
These pathetic child attackers are now in the manufacturing mode. It is amazing what a little muslim money can manufacture.
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