LOL@Palin Thread

[geerussell]

For one, it's already been proven that she did NOT in fact support the Bridge to Nowhere, even the Democrats who opposed her in Alaska on that issue have already said she was not in favor it.

"I'm not going to stand in the way of progress that our congressional delegation and the position of strength that they have right now."

"In September, 2006, Palin showed up in Ketchikan on her gubernatorial campaign and said the bridge was essential for the town's prosperity."

That's what she said about the bridge before it became a national embarassment and it certainly doesn't sound like "thanks but no thanks" to me.

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

That's what she said about the bridge before it became a national embarassment and it certainly doesn't sound like "thanks but no thanks" to me.

"Governor Palin acted like a responsible and effective executive. After taking office and examining the project closely, she consistently opposed funding the 'Bridge to Nowhere' and ultimately canceled the wasteful project."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...083102017.html

She was in favor of it before seeing how much it would set them back...

Can't blame her for being fiscially responsible. Obama proclaming she's a liar is really making him look bad right now...

[Glenn]

LOL@"you can put lipstick on a pig..."

[WTFchris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...083102017.html

She was in favor of it before seeing how much it would set them back...

Can't blame her for being fiscially responsible. Obama proclaming she's a liar is really making him look bad right now...

Making the correct call in the end doesn't erase the support the rest of the time. She knew were she stood on the issue all that time before changing her mind, or she shouldn't have said a damn thing about it if she didn't know.

[xanadu]

Can't blame her for being fiscially responsible. Obama proclaming she's a liar is really making him look bad right now...

Most of the objective sources in your link point to her lying. Your quote in defense of Palin is from the mccain campaign, which is obviously not a neutral source. The WSJ (as repub as it gets) has called her claims out as outrageous. It basically says that she and mccain are lying about the bridge and lying about obama's earmark requests.

Record Contradicts Palin's 'Bridge' Claims
By ELIZABETH HOLMES and LAURA MECKLER
September 9, 2008

The Bridge to Nowhere argument isn't going much of anywhere.

Despite significant evidence to the contrary, the McCain campaign continues to assert that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the federal government "thanks but no thanks" to the now-famous bridge to an island in her home state.

But Gov. Palin's claim comes with a serious caveat. She endorsed the multimillion dollar project during her gubernatorial race in 2006. And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere.

"We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge," Gov. Palin said in August 2006, according to the local newspaper, "and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative." The bridge would have linked Ketchikan to the airport on Gravina Island. Travelers from Ketchikan (pop. 7,500) now rely on ferries.

"You can't just make stuff up. You can't just recreate yourself. The American people aren't stupid," he said. It's like "being for it before you were against it," Sen. Obama said, a reference to a damaging statement John Kerry made in 2004.


The McCain campaign jumped back with spokesman Brian Rogers calling the attacks "hysterical." "The only people 'lying' about spending are the Obama campaign. The only explanation for their hysterical attacks is that they're afraid that when John McCain and Sarah Palin are in the White House, Barack Obama's nearly $1 billion in earmark spending will stop dead in its tracks," Mr. Rogers said.

At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/...901411709.html

[Fool]

I'm guessing he won't read that for the second time.

[Uncle Mxy]

Dems and their stories...

The important LOL@Palin factor wasn't so much what the story, but who was reporting it. The Christian Science Monitor isn't a Democratic rag, and isn't in the business of sensationalist attacks. It is, in fact, one of the crowds Palin is supposed to appeal to. When they're on her case... heh...

[Uncle Mxy]

Palin gets criticized by the family court judge for emotionally abusive behavior as part of Troopergate...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/158140

[Uncle Mxy]

[Fool]

He'll never work for Disney again.