McCain's Earmark Lie

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McCain's Earmark Lie
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Mon, 09-15-2008 - 9:19pm
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McCain's Earmark Lie: Palin actually grubs $1 mil/day as Gov. by Kagro X

Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 03:00:11 PM PDT

The Wall Street Journal:




Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.



It's been 652 days since Earmark Queen Sarah Palin took office as Governor of Alaska.



In that time, she's hustled for $453,000,000 in federal lipstick pork.



That's $694,785.28 a day. Six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents. Every day. Even Sundays!



Palin was grubbing six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents out of the federal trough on the very day when John McCain looked America in the eye and said she was taking zero.



And she took it again today, too.



And she took it on every one of the 312 nights she spent at home and billed the Alaskan taxpayers for it.



So why say it's a million dollars a day? Well, first, let me show you what Slick Sarah Palin is telling people:




On the campaign trail, Gov. Palin has repeatedly attacked Sen. Obama on earmarks. "Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in three years. That's about a million for every working day," she said at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.



Ohhhh, this feels like it's going to get embarrassing in a second....



And, behold! Look what "The Math" says!



It is difficult to compare Sen. Obama's earmark record with Gov. Palin's -- their states differ in size, for instance, and the two candidates play different roles in the process. But using the same calculation that the McCain campaign uses, the total amount of earmarked dollars divided by the number of working days while each held office (assuming a five-day workweek, every week, for both), Gov. Palin sought $980,000 per workday, compared with roughly $893,000 for Sen. Obama.



Not only is Palin taking much more, but oh my word if the million dollar figure doesn't actually fit her sooooo much better than the person she's trying to use it against! What a surprise!



So that's almost a million dollars a day, whether she showed up at the office or not. A million bucks, plus $60 in her pocket for defrosting one of her own mooseburgers for lunch.



And really, Palin must be asking herself, why not chisel the Alaska state government a little bit? After all:




The state's earmark requests stand out in part because its state government is among the wealthiest in the U.S. Flush with oil and gas royalties, it doesn't impose income or sales taxes. In fact, money flows the other way: Every man, woman and child this year got a check for $3,200.



Gosh, but they're such rugged individualists up there! They're gonna launch themselves into orbit with those bootstraps, don'tcha know?



A million dollars a day. From you and me. Plus $3,200 in the bank for each one of 'em. And $60 in Sarah's pocket for every lunch at home. (Like every working mom, of course!)



It's the new fiscal responsibility, in John McCain's seven house-owning, $5 million middle class living world!





But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness

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Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 2:47am

Whoo, that was some thread to read through.


Sounds to me most (NOT ALL) posters have their nails dug so deeply into one side or another that they are losing sight of something that I, personally, find extremely important: objectivity in judgments.

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Registered: 09-19-2008
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 2:51am

Wow...thanks...please Sir...may I have some more? LOL!

We can just see little Barry jumping up and down saying "I want to be President! I want to be President! I know, I'll run on a platform of "change" and "reaching across the aisle," It'll be great!" And then someone asks him, "Um...have you ever reached across the aisle?" Suddenly Barry's stops jumping..."Oh, crap! I've been a Democrat lackey for the 15 minutes I've been here! I'd better hurry up and get some Republican to throw me a bone." And then he runs out and finds the first Republican who knows his name and begs to be allowed to jump on an amendment to an already successful bill that pretty much does nothing and enforces it's provisions by...er...I guess it really doesn't.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021467.php

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Registered: 11-08-2003
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 3:00am

Sorry, but being friends with terrorists who attacked America and racists who hate America trump whatever is rattling around in your kool-aid filled imagination.


Man, are you stretching the truth by a country mile!!

 Rose

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Registered: 11-08-2003
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 3:17am

That’s fine with me…as long as she doesn’t hang out with racists, America-haters, terrorists and an “angry black woman.” LOL!


The you have a problem! She does hang out with racists, America haters and would be terrorists. Obama doesn't hang out with terrorists or America haters. Michelle's comment has been twisted to mean something other than what she meant. She is not an "angry black woman", the conservative spin is an act of desperation.


Not all Alaskan's like Palin:http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/525008.html


"I think America does not understand how absolutely extreme her positions are - even to the right of George Bush and John McCain," Norton said. "She is frightening."


Anne Applegate-Scott, a 44-year-old attorney and stay-at-home mom, held a sign that said, "I don't vote for liars." Applegate-Scott said she actually voted for Palin for governor but won't vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. Palin, she thinks, has become a "product" of McCain handlers and they won't let her talk to the media.


When Palin does talk, Applegate-Scott accused her of lying about her record....


 Rose

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Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 3:25am

I understand your point.


At the same time, instead of listening to what someone, somewhere had to say about Palin's consistency, why not just look at her record yourself (they're public), and then judge it against what she has said publically, to form your own opinion?

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Registered: 11-08-2003
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 3:54am
My opinions of her are based on many factors. I always use as many sources as possible, as we all should. I really try to keep an open mind, which is why I am an Independent. I vote for whomever I think will do the best job, regardless of party affiliation.

 Rose

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Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 4:01am

Thanks for your reply!


I am not comfortable with Palin either, mostly because of her associations, her personal-life,

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Registered: 09-19-2008
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 4:04am

*** LOL. Really? I find it amusing, you bothered addressing my non-questions.

I usually try to answer any question raised...even the inane ones. BTW, is this your way of "not playing my game?" LOL!

*** Please feel free to keep up your dumb sarcastism.

I play to my audience. ; )

*** I know your blinders won't allow you to see the truth. I'm used to that from the lemming conservatives, who only see what they want.

"Hope and Change"...LOL!!!

*** BTW, I never said she belonged to the anti-American group her husband belonged to. Your link was un-necessary.

Sorry, I was thrown by the…”They don't mind having a VP who participated in the Secessionist organization herself.”…usually when one “participates” in a group it’s usually because they’re a member.

*** A picture of Obama is hardly comparable to a video with a close up of Palin giving the welcome speech to the anti-American's convention. Good try, but as usual, way off the mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI

A local politician giving a speech to a local organization…makes one shudder. LOL!

<<< Palin ran the town of Wasilla...and did such a good job that they re-elected her. Then they elected her governor...and now she's had such an impressive record of success that she's been tapped for the VP of the US.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

I guess the truth is funny! LOL!

*** edited by me I forgot a word

The word was "wrong." ; )

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Registered: 11-08-2003
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 4:24am
Your whole post and suppositions are wrong. When someone's spouse belongs to an organization, they often participate in functions, without being a member themselves. You do have a knack for jumping to the wrong conclusions. BTW, you are your best audience, and yes, you do post to amuse yourself.

 Rose

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Registered: 09-19-2008
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 4:56am

*** Your whole post and suppositions are wrong.

Wow...and from a liberal with no evidence to support her claims...whodathunkit?

*** When someone's spouse belongs to an organization, they often participate in functions, without being a member themselves.

No they don't.

*** You do have a knack for jumping to the wrong conclusions.

Except that I'm right most of the time. LOL!

*** BTW, you are your best audience, and yes, you do post to amuse yourself.

Of course...but If I was only posting for myself I'd use bigger words and forego the crayon font. ; )

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