Posted on 09/07/2008 1:19:29 AM PDT by Chet 99
ALBUQUERQUE, NM– Gov. Palin hit back at Sen. Obama during an evening rally in the Land of Enchantment Saturday, arguing that the Democrat is in no place to lecture her on federal earmark requests.
The Democratic presidential nominee told an Indiana crowd today that Palin is a flip flopper when it comes to requesting federal dollars for state projects, noting that her recent criticism of the earmark process comes only after years of advocating for earmarks for her city and state.
“When you’ve been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person, that’s not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up,” Obama said.
Palin, who received millions in earmarks for projects during her time as mayor of Wasilla, returned fire tonight in front of more than 6,000 supporters.
“Today our opponent brought up earmarks and frankly I was surprised that he raised the subject. I didn’t think he’d want to go there,” she said. “Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in just three years…about a million dollars for every working day. Just wait until President John McCain puts a stop to that.”
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Any place is The Land Of Enchantment if Sarah Palin is there.
did any of you ever have one of those blow up clowns when you were a kid...had sand in the bottom so every time you hit it...it would pop back up for more..
BHO...is that clown
Including, IIRC, a sizable earmark for Pastor Phleger's Chicago church.
> “Today our opponent brought up earmarks and frankly I was surprised that he raised the subject. I didn’t think he’d want to go there,” she said. “Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in just three years…about a million dollars for every working day. Just wait until President John McCain puts a stop to that.”
Just Dam’n! I wish she were running for office here in New Zealand! She gets better and better and better...
...sorta like a Rambo-McGyver-Barbie. Tough as nails AND the sharpest knife in the drawer. Cute, too!
Today our opponent brought up earmarks and frankly I was surprised that he raised the subject. I didn’t think he’d want to go there,” she said. “Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in just three years…about a million dollars for every working day. Just wait until President John McCain puts a stop to that.”PS - Memo to Todd: You may be the luckiest man alive.
PPS - Don't tell my better half I said that.
Like MeSHell reaaaally earned that 300K a year!
Sarah has got “Camp Obama” (as their admirers in the MSM call them) off message. Their campaign motto has gone from “Change You Can Believe In” to “I Don’t Care What The Hell It Takes, Get Palin Off That Ticket!” LOL!!!
Don’t Senators and Representatives create earmarks. Unless I am mistaked, governors have no power to create earmarks.
This is great!
Barack is forced to joust with the Vice Presidential candidate and he will lose. He’s losing more and more female votes
I hope Barack starts sicing his female surrogates on Sarah. Palin will turn around and call him an unmanly chicken sh!t for not answering her directly
Start looking forward to a lefty rage and meltdown the day after McCain beats Hussein. All kinds of charges of racism and cheating will be erupting.
LOLOL - a bit too long for a bumper sticker, but I love it! Oh, now remind me, who is this “Obama” of whom you speak?
LMAO....that sit!....”ZERO” The Clown
I see an 'O' is the middle, is that for Obama?
B0 should just stick to his stump speech and hope that enough people dont wise up to his act before the election.
mccain/palin rally in colorado springs 9-6-08
Actually if you count just the days he served before becoming a full time presidential candidate it is about $7,000,000/day!
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