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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The public obviously doesn't see it for what it is, or you wouldn't likely be here trying to defend a bald-face liar.
Oh, we've looked at what's been presented to us, and upon further investigation have found that they have
Actually yes, I do know what the costs are associated with flying corporate-class aircraft.
Thanks for such a thoughtful, illuminating response.
And yet for all that goodness she's completely failed to mention in any of her BtN speeches that she ended up taking the money for it in the end, leaving her gullible audience to believe that she didn't on the basis of her "No Thanks" soundbite.
Dishonesty at work.
~mark~
If those details are so favorable to her, why isn't she advertising them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k
Here is your proof. Just her, herself in church edorsing the pipeline she is now "against". You know... if you would watch the news, read your newspaper, I know you can find this proof yourself without me handing it to you. This argument is NOT tired infact, it is just beginning. She should not be our next VP as well as McCain should not be our president. Democrat do not have to lie, we have your republican nominees lying on camera for us. Your party is the ones lying.
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Ah, that nice little qualifier again, one which can mean anything or nothing depending of course on whether you like or dislike the earmark in question.
You think her speech would have been better if she gave every detail rather than the bottom line? Have you ever given a speech?
This is something that seems nonsensical to me: Why WOULDN'T she say that she took the money? How could it possibly be unflattering to her for people to know that she did her job and did it well? That's what I don't understand, how you think this is an issue? You throw accusations at her as if it was bad that she didn't tell the whole story, when the story as a whole is VERY IMPRESSIVE.
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