That Was Then, This is Now
Sep. 11th, 2008 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerYou can't make stuff like this up.
McCain Criticized Wasilla Earmarks in 2001 - CNN - 10 Sep 08
"Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized two of his future running mate's hometown projects in broadsides in 2001 against congressional 'pork-barrel' spending, records from the Arizona senator's office show."
"In a 2001 statement opposing a transportation spending bill McCain singled out for criticism about $3 million worth of those projects. McCain's list of 'objectionable' spending included a $2.5 million road project for the town that then had a population of 5,500, as well as a $450,000 appropriation for an agricultural processing plant there."
"Palin not only sought money from Alaska's congressional delegation, but she hired the former chief of staff to veteran Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens -- now under indictment in a wide-ranging corruption probe -- for help. The result was that Wasilla won $600,000 for a new bus facility, $1.75 million to upgrade its dispatch center and $2.4 million to improve water and sewer facilities.
'We did well,' Palin scrawled in the margins of a City Council memo on federal funds from 1999."
The post-convention surge along with the Palin phenomena has changed the Pollster.com electoral college numbers a bit. From 260 leaning Obama it has shifted to 243. 270 wins the whole taco. If they can hold Ohio (20) and Michigan (17), where they have thin leads, Obama will still win. Colorado (9), New Hampshire (4) and Montana (3) are all still slightly for Obama. Looks like Obama has weathered the initial post-convention storm on the electoral college level. McCain has moved ahead in the popular vote.
McCain Criticized Wasilla Earmarks in 2001 - CNN - 10 Sep 08
"Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized two of his future running mate's hometown projects in broadsides in 2001 against congressional 'pork-barrel' spending, records from the Arizona senator's office show."
"In a 2001 statement opposing a transportation spending bill McCain singled out for criticism about $3 million worth of those projects. McCain's list of 'objectionable' spending included a $2.5 million road project for the town that then had a population of 5,500, as well as a $450,000 appropriation for an agricultural processing plant there."
"Palin not only sought money from Alaska's congressional delegation, but she hired the former chief of staff to veteran Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens -- now under indictment in a wide-ranging corruption probe -- for help. The result was that Wasilla won $600,000 for a new bus facility, $1.75 million to upgrade its dispatch center and $2.4 million to improve water and sewer facilities.
'We did well,' Palin scrawled in the margins of a City Council memo on federal funds from 1999."
The post-convention surge along with the Palin phenomena has changed the Pollster.com electoral college numbers a bit. From 260 leaning Obama it has shifted to 243. 270 wins the whole taco. If they can hold Ohio (20) and Michigan (17), where they have thin leads, Obama will still win. Colorado (9), New Hampshire (4) and Montana (3) are all still slightly for Obama. Looks like Obama has weathered the initial post-convention storm on the electoral college level. McCain has moved ahead in the popular vote.
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Re: I'd like to ask a follow-up
Date: 2008-09-12 03:26 am (UTC)It's all b.s. as you know.
That would be a good follow up question. Maybe she wouldn't blink and would say that that oil is ours and we'll have to nuke them if they don't give it up for our national security.
Sounds like she stuck to her talking points and didn't get off the shelf and give too much in the way of original answers. Exactly what she has to do in the next couple of weeks. We'll see.