Palin Drops Reference To "Bridge To Nowhere" In Speech

NY Times:

In speech after speech to crowds in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in recent days, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, has made sure to mention the so-called Bridge to Nowhere, the Alaska project that has become the symbol of earmarks, and what she portrays as her "thanks but no thanks" position on it.

When she landed in Fairbanks in her home state on Wednesday night, though, the bridge was notably absent from an (otherwise mostly similar) speech she made inside an airplane hangar before her homestate crowd.

Ever since she first said it, two weeks ago, critics have questioned her claim that she "told Congress, 'thanks but no thanks on that Bridge to Nowhere.'"

Read the whole story: NY Times

Comments

[edwarvir]

Come clean Sarah where's our money? you didn't build the bridge but
you kept the money. That's not right! Give us back our tax dollars. What the
heck are you building a bridge to NO where anyway. RULE #1 don't say
it because your lies will catch up with you.

SHOW US OUR MONEY.

[KarlaElisa]

There is a petition you can sign online demanding Sarah give the money back:

http://www.petitiononline.com/giveback/petition.html

[brueso]

thanks! and I'll pass it on!

[catinca]

If she removes all lies from her "standard" speech she'll look like McCain cuz she'll have nothing to say.

[lovethesinner]

McCain seems to have transformed into a hybrid Joseph Goebbles/Miss Teen USA with this recent interview in Portland, Maine:

http://www.wcsh6.com/video/default.aspx?maven_playerId=immersiveplayer&maven_referralObject=850878100

When asked, "What experience does [Palin] have in the area of national security", McCain replies: "Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America."

That isn't "straight talk" my friends, that's A BIG LIE. http://www.answers.com/topic/big-lie

[obamasOHangel]

In her ABC interview she kept repeating that Energy mantra too.

[ShamusNYC]

That's the "I don't like that question, so let me give a more believable lie to another question"

I'm sure that Al Gore knows more about Energy than her. So does T.Boone Pickens, So does the chairman of Duke Energy, as well as a huge number of oil executives, and so on, and so on, etc...

We're talking about a woman who doesn't believe in global warming...

[justobserve]

She believes in oil drill even in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.

[frappe]

So she finally caught on that people knew she was lying and thought better of it? What an inspiration.

[DCtrain]

Sure, people in Alaska know the truth, and she's been lieing through her teeth about her bridge.

[SurrealPumpkin]

It's simple, she was talking to the home crowd. They watched and heard her change from "for" to "against" the bridge.

[JR49]

GO SARAH GO!!! Russia is waiting for moose stew!!!!
Here is excerpt from Gibson/Palin and I don't need to read more or hear more to know that this woman is scariest ever person to be allowed running for VP:
When Gibson said if under the NATO treaty, the United States would have to go to war if Russia again invaded Georgia, Palin responded: "Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help.

"And we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable," she told Gibson.

[evekendall]

And Charlie responded with one word: "Unprovoked?"

[Bluejay0023]

Sounds like shes repeating a line, and not actually responding as to what she really thinks --- but then again what do you expect from a puppet.

[ShamusNYC]

She's starting to remind me of a doll with a pull string - pull on the string and she'll repeat a standard party line.

[helonias]

So someone tweaked her jaw activation button operator.

Hooray

[Ave-Gabrielle]

Records show that Sarah Palin said thanks but no thanks, but she accepted the MONEY for the Bridge to Nowhere. Will Charlie Gibson ask her about this? Will Biden question her on this? Her thanks but no thanks is a lie and she HAS to know that there is a money trail. Millions she accepted from the government--but in words only she said no thanks. When will someone with guts and courage call her out like they slammed Barack over his psycho Reverend. My Reverend is nuts too but I kept going to his church for a long time (worked with the kids there). But Barack got ravaged over it, THEN the accusations of him being a Muslim when he's been a Christian all his life. The press saturated the media with lies about Barack but won't saturate the media with the truth about Sarah Palin. Hum. Wonder why? The New Yorker isn't going to do a cartoon on Sarah Palin standing in front of a closet with bones and bodies falling out--her trying to push the truthS back in and shut the door.

[irishcat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxocYwiSLtM

[StormyWeathers]

--------- BREAKING NEWS ---------

LEHMAN BROTHER’S SELL-OFF!!

Another economic failure, Bush Presidency has been like Cancer to the economy and American Relations a around the world!!!! McCain.Pal­in = Same

“Enough” Eight is enough!

[mistlesuede]

Perhaps she was informed of what Keith Olberman said last evening. He is going to start donating a tidy sum to charity every time she continued to use that story after it was proven that she was lying.
That witch certainly wouldn't want any charity getting anything for free!

[Bluejay0023]

LOL

[Waltb31]

Hey, give her a break. It took some time for Charlie Black, Rick Davis, and Karl Rove to reprogram her. They had to change her memory banks and reboot her.
There will be the need for partial readjustments and recalibration as the days pass on... They can't let her stand in the rain though; she may short out.

[eladora]

Obama should run the commercial of Mcbush saying that bridge could have contributed to the bridge collapse in MN.. over and over and over.

[VOTER]

Sorry, Sarah but it's TATTOOED TO YOUR FOREHEAD.

A moniker for life......

Yup, Yup