09-03-2008, 01:34 PM
|
#87 (permalink)
|
|
Easy Rider
Location: Moscow on the Ohio
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by aceventura3
I suspect that she won't be fearful of doing an interview with a guy like Bill O'Rielly the way Obama is. Kind of ironic that Obama will be willing to talk to leaders of all countries or specific groups that may be involved in terrorist activity but he won't talk to certain talk show hosts. Again, Hilary Clinton was "man" enough to go on The Factor.
|
I think he is going on the Factor tomorrow.
Quote:
Obama to Appear on Fox on Thursday Night
By Jeff Zeleny
CHICAGO — Before Senator John McCain delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Senator Barack Obama will make a marquee appearance of his own.
Call it counter-intuitive. He will appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.
For Mr. Obama, it will be the first time in his presidential candidacy that he’s on Bill O’Reilly’s prime-time program. The appearance is intended to put Mr. Obama before a conservative audience, one week after drawing 40 million TV viewers at his own acceptance speech.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by aceventura3
Do we have her version of the events? Is it clear that she supported the "bridge" or was she supporting funding for improvements in Alaska?
|
I thought it was common knowledge that she was for the bridge. Didn't Stevens even campaign for her? I guess now we can refer to the money spent for the road to nowhere.
Quote:
Palin for ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before she was against it
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - When John McCain introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, her reputation as a tough-minded budget-cutter was front and center.
"I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere," Palin told the cheering McCain crowd, referring to Ketchikan’s Gravina Island bridge in Alaska.
But Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.
The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They’re still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin’s subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects - and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.
"I think that’s when the campaign for national office began," said Ketchikan mayor Bob Weinstein on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone - because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.
Palin for ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before she was against it - BostonHerald.com
|
Last edited by flstf; 09-03-2008 at 01:50 PM..
|
|
|