Sarah Palin supported Ketchikan ‘bridge to nowhere’ during 2006 race for Alaska Gov.

American · 09-02-08, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerry

Why are you accusing me of trolling?

If you don't like opinions on political candidates running for office, don't have one.

I was accused today of attacking someone because they had an opinion. Are you being attacked because you have an opinion?

SouthernDemocrat · 09-02-08, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerry

Every single thread regarding candidates for president, regardless of flavor or the micro issue it intends to focus on, serves the ultimate purpose making that candidate look better or worse than his/her political opponent.

This thread is no different.

You could go on at length about Sara's alleged support for the bridge to nowhere, paint her as either mis-quoted or a hypocrite as you desire, and my 2 cents on this micro issue would not change: It doesn't matter. Her support for the bridge to nowhere doesn't matter.

She could be in full support of fully funding the bridge to nowhere, and she would still be the better choice, because the other choice supports something far worse than wasting millions of tax dollars.

It seems that your feelings are simply hurt because I didn't jump on and validate your interest on the issue. All I'm saying is I don't care about this issue, and I suggest that no one else should either, so if you think that's trolling then you can just report away.

If you are such a one issue voter, and that one issue obviously outweighs any other, then what is the point of debating anything?

If you think that Obama supports murdering infants, which is unbelievably offensive to any parent that disagrees with you, then obviously you are not going to vote for him no matter what, nor vote against McCain / Palin no matter what. So why offer anything up in this threads?

Binary_Digit · 09-02-08, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerry

Obama suports killing born infants. Sorry, but Sara is still the lesser evil here.

And McCain supports suspending habeus corpus for American citizens.

Hijack much?

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On Oct. 22, 2006, the Anchorage Daily News asked Palin and the other candidates, “Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?”

Her response: “Yes. I would like to see Alaska’s infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now — while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.”

Maybe I'm off the mark here, but isn't "state funding" like when the state funds the project, instead of the fed, which is exactly in line with her original statement: "If our state wanted a bridge, I said we’d build it ourselves."? And isn't she talking about the Alaskan congressional delegation?

SouthernDemocrat · 09-02-08, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Binary_Digit

And McCain supports suspending habeus corpus for American citizens.

Hijack much?

Maybe I'm off the mark here, but isn't "state funding" like when the state funds the project, instead of the fed, which is exactly in line with her original statement: "If our state wanted a bridge, I said we’d build it ourselves."? And isn't she talking about the Alaskan congressional delegation?

Yes, but you left out the part where she finishes the statement with "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to exist". That is the part where she is looking for their federal delegation to send in the pork. Which of course is typical of the welfare queen "individualist" Alaskans. They probably would not even have flush toilets up there if it were not for wealthy blue staters paying taxes just so the Alaskan congressional delegation could funnel it up to a state with just 700,000 people in it.

Binary_Digit · 09-02-08, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

Yes, but you left out the part where she finishes the statement with "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to exist". That is the part where she is looking for their federal delegation to send in the pork.

Yes, I saw that after I posted and edited in this statement:

And isn't she talking about the Alaskan congressional delegation?

American · 09-02-08, 08:42 PM

None of that matters, SD told me the polls have spoken.

Binary_Digit · 09-02-08, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

Yes, but you left out the part where she finishes the statement with "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to exist". That is the part where she is looking for their federal delegation to send in the pork. Which of course is typical of the welfare queen "individualist" Alaskans. They probably would not even have flush toilets up there if it were not for wealthy blue staters paying taxes just so the Alaskan congressional delegation could funnel it up to a state with just 700,000 people in it.

Sorry, let me clarify. Alaska has its own congress that is separate from the US Congress, right? I think most states do, but I'm assuming that. So when she said, "our congressional delegation", I'm wondering if she meant the US Congress or the Alaskan congress.

Jerry · 09-02-08, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

If you are such a one issue voter, and that one issue obviously outweighs any other, then what is the point of debating anything?

To be fair, I didn't come to this thread to debate the issue, but only to share my opinion of the issue.

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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

If you think that Obama supports murdering infants, which is unbelievably offensive to any parent that disagrees with you, then obviously you are not going to vote for him no matter what, nor vote against McCain / Palin no matter what. So why offer anything up in this threads?

Why don't I shut the hell up unless I want to indulge in the minutia a given thread proffers? Well that's a simple answer: Every DP member has an open invitation to contribute to any thread in any way, so long as they are civil.

Simply stating my opinion that this issue could in no way lower Sara below Obama is hardly trolling. I'm not stopping you or anyone else from discussing the issue. You are the one who chose to change the subject from the bridge to nowhere to a member, no me.

Binary_Digit · 09-02-08, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerry

To be fair, I didn't come to this thread to debate the issue, but only to share my opinion of the issue.

Why don't I shut the hell up unless I want to indulge in the minutia a given thread proffers? Well that's a simple answer: Every DP member has an open invitation to contribute to any thread in any way, so long as they are civil.

Simply stating my opinion that this issue could in no way lower Sara below Obama is hardly trolling. I'm not stopping you or anyone else from discussing the issue. You are the one who chose to change the subject from the bridge to nowhere to a member, no me.

Sorry, but jumping into a thread and arbitrarily claiming "abortion is worse!!1!1" is not voicing an opinion. It's trolling.

Hatuey · 09-02-08, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerry

To be fair, I didn't come to this thread to debate the issue, but only to share my opinion of the issue.

Bull****. What does Obama have to do Sarah Palin's support for the bridge to nowhere? Nothing. Thanks for playing.

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Why don't I shut the hell up unless I want to indulge in the minutia a given thread proffers? Well that's a simple answer: Every DP member has an open invitation to contribute to any thread in any way, so long as they are civil.

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4. Don't be a jerk - This simply means what it sounds like.

Trolling/Derailing falls under that.

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Simply stating my opinion that this issue could in no way lower Sara below Obama is hardly trolling.

But that's not what you did. You tried to derail the thread.

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I'm not stopping you or anyone else from discussing the issue.

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4. Don't be a jerk - This simply means what it sounds like.

Trolling and derailing fall under that.

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You are the one who chose to change the subject from the bridge to nowhere to a member, no me.

Can you explain what Obama has to do with the bridge to nowhere?

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