At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.
Oooohhhhhh!!!!
Gov. Palin's claim comes with a serious caveat. She endorsed the multimillion dollar project during her gubernatorial race in 2006. And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere.
Whatchu talkin bout Willis?
"You can't just make stuff up. You can't just recreate yourself. The American people aren't stupid," he said. It's like "being for it before you were against it," Sen. Obama said, a reference to a damaging statement John Kerry made in 2004.
Downtown baby!
... Obama staffer emailed a photo of Gov. Palin holding up a T-shirt that was made shortly after the bridge caught national attention. It reads "NOWHERE ALASKA" and "99901," the zip code of Ketchikan.
OH Snap!
Update [2008-9-9 2:30:51 by Paul Anderson]: More rogering from the corporate news. Is a new FLIPFLOPPER meme taking hold?
From comment by hungrycoyote:
The McCain camp has made her signature issue shutting down the Bridge to Nowhere. But as The New Republic put it today that's just "a naked lie." And pretty much the same thing has been written today in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the AP, the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday even Fox's Chris Wallace called out Rick Davis on it. (Do send more examples when you find them.)
Meme Taking Hold?
Update [2008-9-9 3:11:30 by Paul Anderson]:
As rasbobbo has pointed out to me, WSJ misquoted Barack by saying "the American people aren't that stupid." There was no that.
I believe this is correct.
Please write to Elizabeth Holmes and Laura Meckler by clicking on the link above Chris and Cube up top... and scroll to the end of the article where links to their emails are found (first time Ms Holmes and Meckler have ever been in the same sentence as Ice Cube... Westsiiide Connect!). I have removed the "that" until someone shows me that it should be there.
Thanks :)
Update [2008-9-9 4:35:30 by Paul Anderson]: hungrycoyote confirms WSJ's error with video below
Update [2008-9-9 12:58:6 by Paul Anderson]: WSJ fixed their error. Thanks WSJ
Update [2008-9-11 14:42:29 by Paul Anderson]: WSJ scrubbed their article. I have updated the link to go to the cached copy. See my new rec'd diary on this issue.