Posted on 09/23/2008 8:38:33 PM PDT by pissant
DEWEY BEACH, Delaware (CNN) -- Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice.
Both Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment that would have diverted federal funding for the bridge to repair a Louisiana span badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Senate records show.
And both voted for the final transportation bill that included the $223 million earmark for the Alaska project.
An amendment offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, would have stripped the money appropriated to connect the Alaskan coastal city of Ketchikan to its airport on sparsely populated Gravina Island and diverted the money to Louisiana.
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Now this came out weeks ago, surprised CNN has posted it,wonder if anyone else would? this is ad material.
This was on CNN??
Amazing getting the truth out of CNN.
I am gobsmacked.
CNN actually gets it right.
CNN? Really?
I just saw a rather acrobatic pig dart past my window.
Has hell frozen over???
CNN asked Biden’s campaign whether it could ask the senator about his earmark requests and his votes on the Bridge to Nowhere.
In response, a staffer e-mailed, “You’ve interviewed Gov. Palin re: her completely made up position on the Bridge to Nowhere right?”
Sooo third grade!
A damning article from CNN about Obama and Biden and a tough question to Biden something doesn’t add up..
Somebody’s playing with my head here.
I could swear I just read an excerpt of an article from CNN that reveals the Obama and Biden voted FOR the “Bridge to Nowhere” in lieu of diverting that money to Katrina repairs.
Who the hell plays jokes like this in an election season? Shame on them.
Both Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment that would have diverted federal funding for the bridge to repair a Louisiana span badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Senate records show.
ouch.
This reminds me of an old Warner Cartoon where some mice doesn’t like Cheese and wanted to be eaten by at cat.. The cat says no and wants to get beat by the dog... The dog tries to add it up but it doesn’t..
Huh? Didn’t Drew get the memo? Poor fellow has been working too hard lately - must need a nice long rest and some medical attention . . .
Interesting...the male author is from Illinois originally and has won lots of awards:
http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/griffin.drew.html
I’ve got to ping myself for this. wow!
But there will be a follow-up segment about how Palin used to be for the bridge, oh yes you know before she became Governor. Yeah that is serious, that is more scandal-worthy than anything Obama-Biden can do. Uh huh. (sarc. if needed)
I am also surprised, CNN actually reporting on a campaign flaw that the untouchables(AKA Obama-Biden) have. Yet it isn’t supposed to surprise me. Democrats are all about spending money for projects so that they can look like they are doing something constructive. To think that Obama-Biden would’ve not wanted it built is only in the head of the most fevered Obamacon.
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