Told Them Thanks But No Thanks
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| Sun, 09-14-2008 - 1:18am |
Well, Palin is on her own on the campaign trail. And...she's telling the same old, same old about the bridge to nowhere:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/13/1394679.aspx
Palin's 'Bridge to Nowhere' line returns
Posted: Saturday, September 13, 2008
Mark Murray
From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- In her first solo campaign rally outside of Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin drew an enthusiastic crowd at the Pony Express Pavilion Saturday and returned to a familiar refrain about the ��Bridge to Nowhere.â€
Palin has come under fire in recent days for misleadingly saying she told Congress “thanks but no thanks,†refusing an earmark for a bridge to a sparsely inhabited island in her home state. Independent groups and media fact-checkers have said Palin advocated for the federal earmark before opposing it, only ended after Congress had essentially killed it, and kept the $223 million for the appropriation after the project was killed.
Palin had cut the refrain from her speech during her three-day visit to Alaska. But she came back to it today, citing it as an example of earmark reform she and McCain would push for in the White House.
“I told Congress thanks but no thanks to that Bridge to Nowhere -- that if our state wanted to build that bridge, we would build it ourselves," she said.
Palin did not deviate much from the speech she had given the last two weeks on the road with McCain. She reiterated a line that she put the governor’s luxury jet on eBay. While accurate, the jet wasn’t sold on eBay.
Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said on stage that 10,000 people were in the crowd, but parks officials said the pavilion held only 3,500 people. The audience consisted of significantly more women than McCain-Palin joint rallies over the last two weeks, and Palin addressed her historic candidacy head on.
“The women of America aren’t finished yet, this November, with your help, we’re gonna shatter one glass ceiling once and for all,†she said.
Palin also acknowledged the presence of Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.>>>
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*** Incorrigible
But true. ; )
She repeats it over and over because it's true. And...if she had, in fact, been caught in a lie, she would have stopped saying it, especially by now. Your side's lies and distortions do not frighten her. She is strong.
Go Sarah Go!
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
One more thing... She didn't have to tell the people of Alaska about it while she was there, because THEY ALREADY KNOW!
And, in Alaska, her approval ratings are back up around 80%
No, it is false. There is a tiny grain of truth in it - that she eventually, long after it had become a political liability - decided to "turn against it," but she a) kept all the money, b) campaigned on it vigorously and over an extended period of time while she was a gubernatorial candidate, and c) is now trying to suggest that it was she (not congress) who originally killed the bill (by not mentioning that congress pulled the plug first).
And both she and Old Man McCain are increasingly getting called on it. I know that irritates the HECK out of most GoOPers....but them's da breaks.
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
I think that her statement has been debunked/deconstructed over the last couple of weeks:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep08/0,4670,BridgetoNowhereFactCheck,00.html
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/gop_convention_spin_part_ii.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/09/sarah_palin_and_the_bridge_to.html
http://www.politifact.org/truth-o-meter/statements/680/
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/07/palin-bridge-fact-check/
She is truth-encumbered, or as we say here in Maryland, "a liar."
Sopal
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