Palin backed ‘Road to Nowhere.’
Palin backed ‘Road to Nowhere.’
Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) is now widely known to have twice lied about her strong support for the “Bridge to Nowhere.” Less well-known is her support for “another massive, widely criticized transportation project” dubbed the “Road to Nowhere.” The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reports:
The “Road To Nowhere” is a $375 million “mega-project” designed to connect Juneau to the towns of Haines and Skagway via 50 miles of new road. [...]
According to the Alaska Transportation Priorities Project, a group promoting “sensible transportation systems in the state,” the Road to Nowhere is an irresponsible waste. [...]
The Governor came into office saying she supported the road, which was started under her predecessor Frank Murkowski. In an October 2006 questionnaire by Anchorage Daily News, she simply wrote “Yes” when asked “Do you support building a road from Juneau to Skagway?”
More on Palin’s record in The Sarah Palin Digest.
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At some point, I imagine the corporate media will start to roll out some positive things Palin has done for Alaska. If they can find anything.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pmPalin has much to supply in the way of truth and information about herself, but the McCain campaign is not allowing her to speak to the press. Canned speeches only for Palin.
America will not be told the full story of Sarah Palin; it seems like the push is on to sell the public a pig in a poke, and the yokels are lining up to buy.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:23 pmDid McSame just say Palin has worked with her hands and nose? A little trouble reading the teleprompter there, gramps?
September 4th, 2008 at 10:30 pmDid I just see a sign that says ‘Peace’? Wow, there sure are far from the party of ‘peace’.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pmOf course she would support a road to Skagway. That’s appropriate.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:33 pmA “Big Lie” “babe”.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:57 pm“I was blessed by misfortune.”
If misfortune is a “blessing,” I don’t want to be religious.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pmI’m watching McCain and he nucking futs. He’s gone on for five minutes on that POW experience of which he rarely speaks.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:59 pmHow low did they have to build that podium to make McCain look tall?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pmWell, now we can get down to the real issues, and show America how out of touch these republicans are.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:06 pmDoes MCain get paid for those thumbs-up he keeps giving the crowd?
I’ve counted about thirty-seven.
Talk about a one trick pony…
September 4th, 2008 at 11:08 pmFight these balloons with me!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:08 pmWayne A. Schneider Says:
“I was blessed by misfortune.”
If misfortune is a “blessing,” I don’t want to be religious.
As one who has experienced some misfortune, I will assume you are willfully missing the point. Either that or you are very shallow, which your previous posts never led me to believe.
The blizzard of anti-Palin threads following last night is very telling. The left is hearing footsteps.
Let the games begin.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pmHam it up, folks. This is your last hurrah. After November, it’ll be crying time again.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pmMcCain’s speech nearly put me to sleep :(
September 4th, 2008 at 11:14 pmThe blizzard of anti-Palin threads following last night is very telling. The left is hearing footsteps.
Dancing footsteps, remembering how badly the polling shows republicans will do in the House and Senate. Even if McCain wins, he’ll be powerless with a veto-proof House and senate.
Let the games begin, indeed.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:16 pmMcSame could have at least thanked his captors for his political career.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pmIt scared me to death. After eight years of Bush “unity”, I don’t want to see how McCain vanquishes partisan rancor. It might involve weapons.
When McCain walked off the stage he greeted an Asian couple. Was that Rev. Moon and his wife? I’ll have to look at the CSPAN video after they post it.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:20 pmDid anyone hear any policy specifics? The Right made a lot of noise about Obama being light on specifics in his speech, yet I don’t believe McCain mentioned one.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pmThank goodness this lie-a-thon is over! I can’t wait for Keith to skewer and debunk these corrupt bullshitters tomorrow night on Countdown.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pmBob Hussein:
September 4th, 2008 at 11:22 pmI caught the hands and nose thing too. Did he practice this thing? I prefer the boy whose descendants were on the Mayflower. l might have fallen asleep in the middle of his statement, but I believe he was looking for the word ancestor.
Boehner’s at a taller podium? What the…
September 4th, 2008 at 11:22 pmBarfly:
September 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pmPolicy? what the hell is that? Is that anything like platitudes?
Blame the wicked for those East Coast storms! Cheering during prayer? Must be an Assembly of God thing…
September 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pmPolicy? what the hell is that? Is that anything like platitudes?
Even Bobo Brooks just admitted his speech was ineffective in that regard.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pmIs that all the GOP have for us? It’s no wonder they have locked Grandpa McCain away–the man has no intellectual depth and appears to be losing ground.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:26 pmNow Boehner can light up a cigarette from those companies John McCain fought.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pmAnd now they’re parading the future GOP congressional losers before the stand.
Oh, the irony.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pmJust in that regard? I guess it was effective for insomniacs.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pm. . . and you thought Reagan and Bush were stupid.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:31 pmAfter Palin’s speech, Obama’s campaign made 1 million in one day. This reflects what a frightful, lying, unkempt, scathing fool Palin is.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:32 pmRussian agression?!!! Are you kidding me?!!! They simply came to the aid of the South Ossetians after Georgia bombed them and slaughtered 2000 people in the middle of the night. Georgian troops killed some 75 Russian peacekeepers. That’s why the Russians kicked their ass.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:32 pmThis should be good when those emails come out.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:38 pmhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20651.htm
I’m kind of amazed that anyone would come to sites of this nature and not expect negative threads on a Republican vice presidential nominee. There’d probably be less of them if McCain’s camp did any vetting of their choice, but that’s another story.
That’s how proper risk communications work. You don’t just sit on your hands and hope people just find out about these things. They need resources for that. It’d happen if McCain/Palin even had 10% of the population’s attention simply because people who come to these sites disagree with these politicians to begin with.
I really don’t think any of it implies much more than that.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:40 pmMost of the commentary after McNumbNuts’ speech is respectful and almost “damning with faint praise”. I think we are witnessing a “Happy Warrior” moment.
As I said on another thread, it is nice that McNumbNuts could live long enough to deliver his own eulogy. It appears that the post-speech commentary is respecting his last wishes . . . before they happily lay his presidential bid to rest.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:45 pmHere’s Obama on O’Reilly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6gMeIJySU
PEACE
September 4th, 2008 at 11:48 pmGood speech, pushed all the buttons. Again, though, I too missed any specifics. I didn’t catch it all. It seems to be a familiar theme of gov’t doesn’t work let us prove it to you. I’m glad he got the POW thing out, can we move on now?
It’s like the kids kick the ball through your window so they get they one they all hate to get it back. Does he have a story for you.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:49 pmIs there anything in Palin’s bio that isn’t fabricated?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:56 pmspencers mom Says:
Here’s Obama on O’Reilly:
Obama seems to have flipped on his original contention that the surge has been unsuccessful.
He was playing to the audience; and knowing it’s a Fox crowd, he attempted to build a bridge to them, without realizing he’s undercut his progressive supporters by doing it.
God, I hate this presidential election.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:01 amJon Elliott mentioned Palin would not be interviewed by the news media. Am I to believe these people expect to get elected on image alone? A very fake misleading image?
Ed Shultz will have a town hall meeting in Alaska, to be aired on his Sept 15th show, to find out what the people think of Palin. I am wondering how many rich righties will buy up the tickets to protect the Palin image.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:06 amListening to Rush on Fox. It’s been many years since I have heard this idiot speak. Just amazing. Picking Biden means Obama doesn’t have a clue? He’s now talking about Biden being dropped from the ticket. Unbelievable. I’m pretty sure Obama is thinking nothing of the sort.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:08 amSome idiot named Michael tried to claim it was “certainly the greatest speech of his career” on PBS, then Mark Shields spent bout seven minutes demonstrating exactly what an asinine statement that was. Even that gasbag Dave Brooks couldn’t manage to spout the party line with any enthusiasm.
I’ve seen John McCain give some very good speeches. And his new alter-ego, Flippy McSpin, has at least managed some passion. Tonight’s speech wouldn’t get above a “low C” even when compared to only his own body of work.
Other than the little burst when he mentioned Ms.Palin,the only real excitement I saw was during his final appeal to “stand up and fight” at the very end. Which is doubly ironic because the audience didn’t just sit on their hands for his politicking. They, doubtless a majority of “True Christians”, saved their roaring and applause for a call to battle. Plus those ridiculous “U.S.A.” chants when the heckling started.
As predictably disappointing as the speakers were, I couldn’t help but be struck by the ferocity of the Faithful. They have certainly not lost their venom since Jerry and Ronnie set them loose on a complacent nation. It seems they booed everything which hinted at helping people and cheered that which would deprive someone, anyone, of anything to which the Reichwhiners don’t think they are entitled. (Sorry about the awful syntax. I tried.)
“Spend what you want to kill people but not one penny to help them“. That remains the mantra of the Evangelicons. Fortunately, they are just about all the GOP has left. It may be impossible to reason with them but, we can certainly outnumber them. And I like our chances.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:18 ambarfly Says:
He was playing to the audience; and knowing it’s a Fox crowd, he attempted to build a bridge to them, without realizing he’s undercut his progressive supporters by doing it.
God, I hate this presidential election.
I lost Obama on two very important issues. First his caving in on the 4th Amendment destruction of the FISA immunity bill, and his lying about what happened in Russia, agreeing with the lies of the Bushies, as did Biden and the McCain crew. They are now using Russia as an election point.
If Obama picked an true antiwar VP instead of Warmonger Biden, and stuck with the progressive ideas that he hoodwinked the public with to get the nomination, he would have 8-10% more than he has now.
Seriously, the Military and Israel win with whoever wins. If Obama wins, the telecoms will have free reign to spy on us all and the war will continue forever in Afghanistan. If McCain wins, the oil companies and military wins.
Palin is just a ratings boost, and this Fundamentalist Pig can’t change the high probability that Obama will win, unless Diebold comes to the rescue.
Either way, what a crap election. Does anyone follow the Constitution or is truly anti-war?
Oh yeah, Russ Feingold, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, and Cynthia McKinney.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:24 am“We’re on the road, the road to nowhere…” – from a song by the Talking Heads some twenty or so years ago. Was this the “road to nowhere” that McBarracuda was supporting?
September 5th, 2008 at 12:41 amWhen the now overdue vetting of Failin’ Palin is done, she will make Spiro Agnew look like a piker.
This yapping little pit-bull-in-lipstick has burst on the scene with a wildly overblown label as a “reformer”. Her support of the Bridge to Nowhere is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the skeletons that will fall out of her closet now that the door is being opened.
Alaskan politics has always been a snakepit and she is as dirty as the rest of the “Alaska-firsters” in the biggest pork barrel state in the Union. The media is finally on the scent. The story has nothing to do with her family problems. Leave that alone — it is a distraction at best and a reason for her to play a “victim card” at worst.
Ultimately, Failin’ Palin is not all that important in and of herself — although there should be no debate about her total lack of readiness to assume the duties of the president if it were necessary. It is that she was a disastrous choice on the merits because of her policies, actions and beliefs as practiced during the limited scope of “experience” that she has had. This was McNumbNuts’ first “presidential” decision to put her on the ticket. He failed that test miserably.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:53 amSpencers Mom…Thanks for the O’Reilly interview. Bozo. Did he actually call himself a “journalist?”
September 5th, 2008 at 12:56 amBrain From Planet Arous Says: #43
That’s why I’m pulling for Jesse Ventura in 2012. I’m tired of corporate owned politicians. I’m tired of Israel and war and how scared we’re supposed to be of everything and the worthless MSM that does nothing but shill for them and all the lemmings in this country that actually believe that these people care about them instead of the money. And especially the Nazi Gestapo tactics of our police during both conventions.
Here’s Jesse at the Ron Paul counter convention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eCo6ocBEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOd5SB6xXww
Parts one and two.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:57 amTomorrow, I’m going to start my volunteering at the Dem offices here…10am. I can hardly wait! I live in AZ…McCain heaven, though for the life of me, I honestly don’t know why they like him…I guess he’s like an old sweater..but he hasn’t done a single thing for this state.Then, if I get really inspired, I may go down to picket in front of his office. That scares me though, because you have to figure that everyone here packs a gun…they would shoot you for less.This truly is “The Wild West”…bullgoose looney.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:05 am.
The theme song of
McBush/Falin’08
Road to Nowhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXsuAey-NE
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September 5th, 2008 at 1:07 amIn case you haven’t seen this, it’s great. Obama on Palin’s “Community Organizer” jab.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:20 amThat O’Reilly interview was just terrible. If Obama didn’t give him short pat answers that he liked he wouldn’t let him finish. He asked highly biased questions that set Obama up to fail if he didn’t give him the answer he was fishing for.
What a nut.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:52 amPalin is big TROUBLE and completely unqualified:
http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/letter-by-alaskan-man-who-has-known-sarah-palin-since-1972/
September 5th, 2008 at 3:21 amNo Sara you are not a pitbull with lipstick, you’re a pig with lipstick. That’s right I said it. You lie like a cheap rug. This women will do or say anything to get elected. If she does God help our country. She’s is not more qualified than a pitbull who looks like a pig with lipstick on.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:31 amSara Palin: “Tonya Harding with a speechwriter.”
September 5th, 2008 at 7:52 amMcSame: Well, you saw it.
‘…Road to nowhere’,
September 5th, 2008 at 7:57 amIt might be helpful to Sarah & McCain in their ‘Going nowhere’ run for presidency.
ChrisSEA Says:
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That O’Reilly interview was just terrible. If Obama didn’t give him short pat answers that he liked he wouldn’t let him finish. He asked highly biased questions that set Obama up to fail if he didn’t give him the answer he was fishing for.
What a nut.
I thought the same thing.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:07 amFYI. Here is the link to a lengthy letter written by a Wasilla resident with no axe to grind about Palin –>http://www.crosscut.com/politics-government/17341
Personally, I find it very revealing about her personality, style and “supposed” political philosophy and executive experience.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:32 amThe RNC convention was the Randomized National Convention.
They presented every conceivable notion on how to govern, because they have no clue.
The part I caught on the radio was McSchizophrenic saying individuals, blah, blah.
The whole Republican meme of, society should empower individuals to better themselves for the sake of themselves even at the expense of society, can be refuted by nature.
If we look at life on earth, it started with unicellular orgnanisms. Eventually, when clumped together, groupings of cells fared better in the environement, they were able to better survive, so they EVOLVED, this then gave rise to various forms of Multi-cellular organisms. This evolutionary advantage kept producing varied forms of multicellular organisms, until we reach human.
For humans to now take the notion that it is better off NOT being part of the society that worries about the weakest amongst us, is ludicrous on its face.
The only unicellular organism that now tries to exist on its own is TOXIC to the human body, and is usually a biological infection, viral infection or are parasitic in form.
So, here we see EXACTLY the Republican platform. They wish to foster PARACITISM on the body social. They wish to take without giving back, as they consider it their Gawd given right to exist on their own, except where they need the social fabric to exist. You know roads, water, public services, etc, etc.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:37 amThe Republicans are truly parsitic to humanity.
For an excellent rundown on Sarah Palin and the Bridge to Nowhere, read The Daily Howler for yesterday and the two days previous:
September 5th, 2008 at 10:35 amhere,
here, and here.
Came out yesterday that a sports stadium Palin was involved in is a “money pit”. That was a quote. Also, why two newspapers called her on par with Dan Quayle. We don’t need another bush learning on the job. And believe me bush was a TERRIBLE governor. So much for executive decision making.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:44 amThought the same about Obama interview with o’reilly. And what is with a 10 minute interview ? Just o’reilly trying to milk it for higher ratings I think, drawing it out over 4 days, what an ass !
September 5th, 2008 at 10:47 amThere’s a lot wrong with her, but what’s the big deal with this one?
September 5th, 2008 at 10:51 amThe CSPAN video ends before McCain goes off to greet the Asian couple. Thus, I can’t research further whether that was Reverend Moon.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:52 amMcCain’s campaign take, Palin’s defense, take from the Taxpayers for Common Sense and info that the money was still spent on Alaskan infrastructure, not sent back to the federal government (all from a washington post article):
September 5th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
During her speech, Palin said:
September 5th, 2008 at 2:55 pm“I told the Congress “thanks, but no thanks,” for that Bridge to Nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, we’d build it ourselves.”
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Notice that she didn’t say the “Bridge to Nowhere” was a bad idea. But she said that she would saddle the State of Alaska with funding it.
Of course, we all know she was for federal funding of the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.