Sarah Palin last night (03 Sept 2008):
“I told the Congress “thanks, but no thanks,” for that Bridge to Nowhere.” (via
Sarah Palin 12 months ago (21 Sept 2007):
“Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport, but the $398 million bridge is not the answer,” said Governor Palin. “Despite the work of our congressional delegation, we are about $329 million short of full funding for the bridge project, and it’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island,” via
Sounds to me like she wanted that money from congress. But congress wouldn’t play ball. Fair enough, she wasn’t governor at the time, and her 527 group wasn’t quite strong enough to give Sen. Stevens any clout. All that is fair enough.
Living in a State that is reliably blue– a City that is pretty much synonymous with “Liberal”– we don’t get campaign ads. This one strikes me as pretty good.
Remember: Republicans are bad for the economy. Consistently, historically, thoroughly. If your goal is to destroy government credibility, that you would naturally support Republican politicians. If your goal is the welfare of the American People, however, you’ll be voting for the Democrat…
McCain’s campaign is encouraging trolls. They’re literally giving trolls “points” for leaving pro-McCain talking points in the comments section of various blogs. Their view of the blogworld is fairly skewed, they list Glen Reynolds (Instapundit) as neither right, nor left, nor moderate, but “other” (he’s a fairly doctrinaire conservative).
This isn’t the worst idea in the world– many large companies employ trolls to get their own word out. Its just so transparent and icky that I can’t think it will do much good. Yes, this blog is a bit annoyed not to be included on the hit list.
She had a tough job with this speech. On the one wrist, she had to acknowledge that her supporters had done a magnificent job. Then she had to explain why Obama will make a fantastic president.
“The way to continue our fight now – to accomplish the goals for which we stand – is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States. ”
The way she said it, with such obvious passion and sincerity in her voice, she means it.
“I understand that we all know this has been a tough fight. The Democratic Party is a family, and it’s now time to restore the ties that bind us together and to come together around the ideals we share, the values we cherish, and the country we love. ”
Absolutely, 100% the right thing to say. The Party isn’t the “Hillary Clinton Show”, it is about a certain set of ideals– ideals which both Hillary and Barack share. Obama has the standard, let’s line up behind his charge.
And, as a final swing, she reminds all voters how good they had it when we last had a Democratic president:
“We made tremendous progress during the 90s under a Democratic President, with a flourishing economy, and our leadership for peace and security respected around the world. Just think how much more progress we could have made over the past 40 years if we had a Democratic president. Think about the lost opportunities of these past seven years – on the environment and the economy, on health care and civil rights, on education, foreign policy and the Supreme Court. Imagine how far we could’ve come, how much we could’ve achieved if we had just had a Democrat in the White House.”
I’ll leave it off there. Hillary: you did good. And if– gods forbid!– things don’t work out for Barack, I’ll gleefully pull the lever for you in 2012…
