Vee Pee

[gah]

It just keeps getting better for this lady: (from recent AP release)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin may eventually have said "no thanks" to a federally funded Bridge to Nowhere.
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But a bridge to her hometown of Wasilla, that's a different story.

A $600 million bridge and highway project to link Alaska's largest city to Palin's town of 7,000 residents is moving full speed ahead, despite concerns the bridge could worsen some commuting and threaten a population of beluga whales.

"This is basically an incredibly expensive project that doesn't help commuters, doesn't help create jobs and may drive whales to extinction," said Justin Massey, an attorney advising environmentalists opposed to the proposal. "It is also a project that serves the area where the governor is from, which is near and dear to her heart."

At the time, Palin's running mate for the Republican ticket, Arizona Sen. John McCain, derided both projects as wasteful. He called Young's highway bill a "monstrosity" that was "terrifying in its fiscal consequences."

"I want no part of this," McCain said in a July 2005 statement. "This legislation is not — I emphasize not — my way of legislating."

The governor initially championed the first so-called Bridge to Nowhere, which would have connected the southeastern Alaska town of Ketchikan to its airport on nearby Gravina Island. She later pulled the plug on the project after it became a national symbol of extravagant federal spending.

[Hicks]

Indeed, she has supported two bridges to nowhere.  Good times.

[Poster Nutbag]

the more I hear , the more I want to make camp in the rant post and just continuously rant!!!!!

[tet]

Indeed, she has supported two bridges to nowhere.  Good times.

[gah]

I don't mean to keep picking on this lady, but geez, it's so easy! (from an AP release)

WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.

"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."

Could Palin lead the country if GOP presidential nominee John McCain could not?

"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said.

McCain and other Republicans have defended Palin's qualifications, citing Alaska's proximity to Russia. Palin told ABC News, "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

Hagel took issue with that argument. "I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."

Hagel, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In July, Hagel traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Though he didn't expect to be asked, Hagel had said he would have considered serving as Obama's running mate.

Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, before becoming Alaska's governor in December 2006.

Palin visited soldiers in Kuwait and Germany last year and said in an interview with ABC News that her only other foreign travel had been to Mexico and Canada. She also said she had never met a foreign head of state.

Hagel told the newspaper that other governors have been elected to serve in the White House without experience in Washington. He said judgment and character were also important for the job.

"But I do think in a world that is so complicated, so interconnected and so combustible, you really got to have some people in charge that have some sense of the bigger scope of the world," Hagel said. "I think that's just a requirement."

[StCarl]

Oh, yeah?  Well,

[Hicks]

Oh, yeah?  Well,

Who invited Jabba the Hutt (far left) to the party?

[jephrey]

Are you saying the far left is like Jabba the Hut?  In what way?

Or are you talking about someone in the pic?  If so, are you taking about the guy or the girl?  And why?  Do you really think one of them looks like Jabba or could you not come up with a better "poke" at palin supporters and had to resort to name-calling?

Pretty weak dude.

[rowjimmy]

I dunno.. I think the guy looks kinda Jabba-ish... for not being a giant slug.

[Hicks]

Are you saying the far left is like Jabba the Hut?  In what way?

Or are you talking about someone in the pic?  If so, are you taking about the guy or the girl?  And why?  Do you really think one of them looks like Jabba or could you not come up with a better "poke" at palin supporters and had to resort to name-calling?

Pretty weak dude.

:lol: 

[jephrey]

Oh wait, now I see the resemblance...  Good one!

LOL / LMAO / Hahahahahahahaa.  That's hilarious.   

:|

[rowjimmy]

The guy really looks more like Karl Rove after a six week ice cream diet and a healthy case of the Shingles.

[StCarl]

Come on, Karl Rove is doin teh best he can.  But, of course, discuss if you must.

More to the point, the focus of my implied poke was intended to land a little more to the right...



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[sls.stormyrider]

proof that having a high IQ doesn't guarantee intelligence

[twatts]

I love how the sign on the left suggests that the word PIG is actually an acronym for Pretty, Intelligent Gal.  So when they walk down the street and someone calls them a "Fat, disgusting Republican Pig", they feel like its a compliment! 

Terry