It's Palin ...
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2minkey
bootlicker
the point, gonz, is that the story keeps changing and details have obviously been manipulated to make her seem like something far more heroic and chock full of lofty principles than she actually is.
the bridge to nowhere flip-flop.
the continuing iraq visit revisions.
and perhaps many more flip flops.
you all can deny these things as long you want. and you'll be just as foolish as those on the opposite side of the aisle that deny there was any significance to the relationship between obama and rev. wright. so if anybody wants to be as dumb as them, hey, hop right on board, the wagon's about to hit the slugtrail!
the bridge to nowhere flip-flop.
the continuing iraq visit revisions.
and perhaps many more flip flops.
you all can deny these things as long you want. and you'll be just as foolish as those on the opposite side of the aisle that deny there was any significance to the relationship between obama and rev. wright. so if anybody wants to be as dumb as them, hey, hop right on board, the wagon's about to hit the slugtrail!
Cerise
Well-Known Member
Cha ching!
Who exactly do you think the dims will be offering up for slaughter, err, I mean, for V.P. at that point in time? Biden or da 'Beast??
Cerise
Well-Known Member
But did she ever claim "I went to Iraq."? If so I'm sure there's a link somewhere.
And you don't have to be able to type to use a computer. Lots of people who can't type use one.
Are you trying to diminish the reason he can't keep his arms at shoulder height for an extended time?? As in, well, Stephen Hawking doesn't have a problem with using a computer so what's the big deal???? Nice.
jimpeel
Well-Known Member
She never said she visited iraq. Her staff incorrectly stated she had. She said she visited Kuwait.
"Oooo! Oooo! Oooo! Someone other than Palin said she visited Iraq. Palin is a liar!"
Cerise
Well-Known Member
Wait, according to The Trail she actually did go to Iraq, didn't she? You must've thought she visited the wounded troops like He-who-is-soon-to-be-on-the-trail-back-home.....Oh, my bad. She did make some visits, and He played horse w/himself.
It's only the dims who are obsessed with her physicality.
It's only the dims who are obsessed with her physicality.
Cerise
Well-Known Member
Because it's a non-issue, Jackson.
spike
New Member
And yet he did visit troops. You knew that right?
spike
New Member
Oh, it's a big issue. She was lying about it again just today. The media is calling her on her lies now.
2minkey
bootlicker
Cerise
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Cerise
Well-Known Member
Care to 'splain exactly what your objection is?
2minkey
bootlicker
yeah, she's a fucking liar.
she acts like she "killed it" yet she supported it for quite some time.
why aren't YOU paying attention to this? you think you're a conservative? how could you possibly support such a disgusting use of earmarks? oh, really, because sarah palin is not the conservative she claims to be?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm889.cfm
oops! sorry for citing a liberal source!
dated 2005.
in 2006 palin was still supporting it.
and now she's trying to be the pork-killing hero.
horseshit.
utter, pathetic horseshit.
but hey, don't bother learning anything about this! just vote for caribou barbie and all our troubles will fix themselves!
please, let me know how she didn't support this and didn't pull a john kerry. prove it to me.
i won't hold my breath.
she acts like she "killed it" yet she supported it for quite some time.
why aren't YOU paying attention to this? you think you're a conservative? how could you possibly support such a disgusting use of earmarks? oh, really, because sarah palin is not the conservative she claims to be?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm889.cfm
oops! sorry for citing a liberal source!
dated 2005.
in 2006 palin was still supporting it.
and now she's trying to be the pork-killing hero.
horseshit.
utter, pathetic horseshit.
but hey, don't bother learning anything about this! just vote for caribou barbie and all our troubles will fix themselves!
please, let me know how she didn't support this and didn't pull a john kerry. prove it to me.
i won't hold my breath.
2minkey
bootlicker
oops. i guess you're right.
Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark.
Steven Silver was a former chief of staff for Stevens. After he was hired, Wasilla obtained funding for several projects in 2002, including an additional $600,000 in transportation funding.
That year, a local water and sewer project received $1.5 million, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, which combs federal spending measures to identify projects inserted by congressional members.
When Palin spoke after McCain introduced her as his running mate at a rally in Ohio last week, she made fun of earmarking. She said she had rejected $223 million in federal funds for a bridge linking Ketchikan to an island with an airport and 50 residents, referring to it by its derogatory label: the "bridge to nowhere."
In the nationally televised speech, she stood by McCain and said, "I've championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress thanks, but no thanks, on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said, we'd build it ourselves."
However, as a candidate for governor in 2006, Palin had backed funding for the bridge. After her election, she killed the much-ridiculed project when it became clear the state had other priorities. She said she would use the federal funds to fill those needs.
This year she submitted to Congress a list of Alaska projects worth $197.8 million, including $2 million to research crab productivity in the Bering Sea and $7.4 million to improve runway lighting at eight Alaska airports. A spokesman said she cut the original list of 54 projects to 31.
"So while Sen. McCain was going after cutting earmarks in Washington," said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense, "Gov. Palin was going after getting earmarks."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,5932587.story
Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark.
Steven Silver was a former chief of staff for Stevens. After he was hired, Wasilla obtained funding for several projects in 2002, including an additional $600,000 in transportation funding.
That year, a local water and sewer project received $1.5 million, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, which combs federal spending measures to identify projects inserted by congressional members.
When Palin spoke after McCain introduced her as his running mate at a rally in Ohio last week, she made fun of earmarking. She said she had rejected $223 million in federal funds for a bridge linking Ketchikan to an island with an airport and 50 residents, referring to it by its derogatory label: the "bridge to nowhere."
In the nationally televised speech, she stood by McCain and said, "I've championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress thanks, but no thanks, on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said, we'd build it ourselves."
However, as a candidate for governor in 2006, Palin had backed funding for the bridge. After her election, she killed the much-ridiculed project when it became clear the state had other priorities. She said she would use the federal funds to fill those needs.
This year she submitted to Congress a list of Alaska projects worth $197.8 million, including $2 million to research crab productivity in the Bering Sea and $7.4 million to improve runway lighting at eight Alaska airports. A spokesman said she cut the original list of 54 projects to 31.
"So while Sen. McCain was going after cutting earmarks in Washington," said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense, "Gov. Palin was going after getting earmarks."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,5932587.story
jimpeel
Well-Known Member
You're just making that up, aren't you?
2minkey
bootlicker
(CBS) Its one of those claims that gets so much applause.
"I told Congress 'thanks but no thanks,' to that bridge to nowhere," Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has said over and over on the campaign trail, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports.
Palin just won't let it go. But the truth is the governor never rebuffed Congress. Here are the facts.
After a year of supporting the proposed bridge, near Ketchikan, Palin pulled state funds from the project, which killed the bridge for good, but she never said "no thanks" to the Federal funds promised by Congress - $233 million.
In fact, here's the list of how Palin is spending those federal tax dollars - on other highway projects around Alaska. As a candidate for governor, she defended every dollar for roads and bridges the state could wrangle from Washington, according to the Congressional Record and the Alaska Department of Transportation.
"I'm not going to stand in the way of progress that our Congressional delegation in the position of strength that they have right now, they are making those efforts for the state of Alaska," Palin said.
Now however, Palin is on a Republican ticket that's promising to reform all earmark spending - all of those federal grants aimed at specific local projects.
And McCain's credibility here is excellent.
"My friends, I have never asked for nor received a single earmark pork-barrel project for my state of Arizona," McCain said.
Palin's record on earmarks is mixed. Compared to the previous governor, Palin's earmarks are down 44 percent, but stills totals more than $450 million over two years.
By repeating the claim she said no thanks to the bridge, the implication is that she confronted a spendthrift Congress recklessly wasting money.
The record shows she wanted that bridge until the end and kept the money.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/09/eveningnews/main4433129.shtml?source=mostpop_story
"I told Congress 'thanks but no thanks,' to that bridge to nowhere," Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has said over and over on the campaign trail, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports.
Palin just won't let it go. But the truth is the governor never rebuffed Congress. Here are the facts.
After a year of supporting the proposed bridge, near Ketchikan, Palin pulled state funds from the project, which killed the bridge for good, but she never said "no thanks" to the Federal funds promised by Congress - $233 million.
In fact, here's the list of how Palin is spending those federal tax dollars - on other highway projects around Alaska. As a candidate for governor, she defended every dollar for roads and bridges the state could wrangle from Washington, according to the Congressional Record and the Alaska Department of Transportation.
"I'm not going to stand in the way of progress that our Congressional delegation in the position of strength that they have right now, they are making those efforts for the state of Alaska," Palin said.
Now however, Palin is on a Republican ticket that's promising to reform all earmark spending - all of those federal grants aimed at specific local projects.
And McCain's credibility here is excellent.
"My friends, I have never asked for nor received a single earmark pork-barrel project for my state of Arizona," McCain said.
Palin's record on earmarks is mixed. Compared to the previous governor, Palin's earmarks are down 44 percent, but stills totals more than $450 million over two years.
By repeating the claim she said no thanks to the bridge, the implication is that she confronted a spendthrift Congress recklessly wasting money.
The record shows she wanted that bridge until the end and kept the money.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/09/eveningnews/main4433129.shtml?source=mostpop_story
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