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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Your false facts and spin have been unveiled. We have rehashed this over and over and your view has been proven incorrect. Give it up. Your side lost this one...
No matter how you spin it - her statements are true.
Obviously the public doesn't see it, or simply prefers to ignore it.
Her statements are half-true, at best.
News agencies aren't calling her a liar - the left wing bloggers are. It has been proven that she did not lie.
Facts:
1. She killed the "Bridge to Nowhere". (No lie there)
2. She made a statement in support of it when she was running for office. She NEVER claimed that she DIDN'T ever make a statement in support of it when she was running for office : She did not lie.
4. When she saw that the budget for the bridge was bloated, she responsibly allocated the funds to other infrastructure where they would have been more responsibly spent, saying "No thanks" to the bridge. She never said that she didn't use the funds for other infrastructure where the money would be better spent: Thus, no lie.
5. She told congress thanks for the funds for infrastructure - but no thanks to the bridge. No lie.
Now you can spin all you want and invent motives all you want. You can't change the facts. Facts are stubborn things.
Most people aren't running for an office where the stakes are so high.
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