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Obama: "If You Believe That, I've Got A Bridge In Alaska To Sell You"
This is a fantastic new line from Obama, in my opinion. I hope everyone of his surrogates starts using it as the shorthand for McCain's lies.
Here's the story at Huffington (linked to Dkos):
"if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well then I've got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska."
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I haven't heard John McCain saying "Thanks, but no thanks." Of course he WOULD say that if he thought he would get some votes for it.
I just loved McCain's comments about the finacial fiasco today. What did he say?
"We're going to clean up Wallstreet!" (to cheers, I might add)
What is so sad is that McCain hasn't got the slightest clue how to "clean up wallstreet." He doesn't even know how wallstreet works. He is so clueless it is pathetic. Will anyone ask him for specifics? Anyone want to make a bet?
September 15, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't quite say he doesn't know anything, he sat in on some S&L meetings back in the day.
September 15, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that's a great line by Obama.
Gee, our guy does have some political chops, doesn't he?
The Repubs actually thought he had no backbone and would be out-thunk by someone who graduated at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy (who would never have been accepted without the legacy) and another who had to transfer five times just to get a stinkin' degree in Sportscasting at the prestigious University of Idaho.
September 16, 2008 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
If McCain weren't so smart he wouldn't have graduated ahead of four other losers at the Naval Academy.
The party of ENRON, Jack Abramhoff and lyin Karl Rove ain't gonna clean out anything but the US Treasury.
September 16, 2008 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't like this line at all. He voted twice for that bridge, why keep this up, especially when he finally started on economy.
September 15, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
As has been mentioned over and over, in the Senate the bridge funding was bundled into a larger infrastructure bill. There is a world of difference between funding lightrail, etc., and specifically wanting to build the Bridge to Nowhere. If you're going to claim intellectual honesty, then let's be intellectually honest.
September 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
There isn't anything intellectual about lalo. Post-rational is what comes to mind when I see him speak.
September 15, 2008 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Could you please surprise us literate types and write a coherent sentence using proper names for subjects and objects instead of unreferenced pronoun place-holders?
September 16, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lalo, there's nothing about this line that indicates either a positive or a negative about the issue of the Bridge in re allocation of government funds. That's absurd. What Obama's referencing is the McCain campaign's flimflam about the Bridge, they're selling a bill of goods, just like a con artist trying to sell a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge. You think that old line had anything to do with whether or not the Brooklyn Bridge was a good idea to build or not?
Get a grip. It's friggin' gorgeous line.
September 16, 2008 12:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Lalo, there's nothing about this line that indicates either a positive or a negative about the issue of the Bridge in re allocation of government funds. That's absurd."
Just met our resident troll clown? His middle line is absurd. LOL
September 16, 2008 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, Lalo, are you familiar with the term "earmark"? Because I can assure you there was never a bill presented before the Senate entitled, "The Sarah Palin-Alaska Bridge To Nowhere Bill". Try not being an idiot for several minutes every day. Eventually you'll get the hang of it.
September 16, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
But he's not basing his campaign on a lie that he opposed it. Some small questions about whether he voted for that bridge or simply voted for the whole package, like everyone else, not aware of all the pork in it.
But the main point is, he's not the one lying about it, PALIN is.
September 16, 2008 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with Lalo that it's a concern. Remember, these are the same people that falsely accused Obama (and before that, Kerry) of voting to raise taxes and cut off funding for our troops by spinning technicalities of parliamentary procedure. Two things to consider, though: First, Obama isn't trying to sell his candidacy on the falsehood that he rejected the bridge. Second, McCain-Palin have so identified themselves with this issue that it may be hard for them to turn around and slap Obama with it.
September 15, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a concern for those who let it become a concern. That is why it's important to correct misinformation/obfuscation where it crops up and nip it in the bud. I think Obama/Biden are in a much better position to refute this claim than Kerry was in his "I was for it before I was against it" gaffe.
September 15, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Answer to the question of whether or not Obama can be tied to the Bridge to Nowhere in any meaningful or substantive way:
If you believe that, I've got a bridge in Alaska I can sell you.
September 16, 2008 12:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
That fucking plagiarist stole my line...
From (What a) Wonderful Veep...September 16, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey man, don't you know property is theft (or something like that).
Actually, I was thinking about this and we all make so many suggestions to Obama on this site that we should have some sort of "not copyrighted" logo--to give Obama's campaign freedom to user our ideas without attribution.
September 16, 2008 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
er. use.
September 16, 2008 1:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's line is better than yours. Sorry Genghis.
September 16, 2008 1:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
☠enghis, will you please tell us how to turn your collar off? :-P
September 16, 2008 3:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
You'll have pay for it. I'll soon be holding a shirt-off fundraiser for Obama.
September 16, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey buddy I know how you feel. When I was in college Alan Keyes came to speak about ending A. Action and I said "You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you haven't got any boots".
I just chalk it up to- "great minds think alike".CR 2008
September 16, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, tell me about it. I wrote to Frank Rich recently and used the line "Palin-OldWhatsHisName". Then he posts this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/opinion/14rich.html
Amateurs borrow; professionals appropriate.
September 16, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. He may actually have appropriated that, the bastard. Congrats.
September 16, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's remark hurts those who have to take the ferry everyday instead of the bridge to the regional airport.
September 16, 2008 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, his remark hurts politicians who want to tell lies about their record. I'd think the people of that island would be the most mad at the way she threw THEM under the bus by now claiming their request was wasteful.
I actually never thought that was a good example of the WORST of government pork. It would have built a bridge, a large piece of infrastructure to stand for decades, unlike the $billion we spend every few days in Iraq, and maybe the population would not have been so small forever.
But it reminds people that Palin lies about what she supported. From the start, she should have said it was not the terrible boondoggle everyone thought it was but instead she claimed to have always been against it.
And if you still believe Palin, I've got a mobile WMD lab in Iraq to sell you.
September 16, 2008 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
But he's not basing his campaign on a lie that he opposed it. Some small questions about whether he voted for that bridge or simply voted for the whole package, like everyone else, not aware of all the pork in it.
But the main point is, he's not the one lying about it, PALIN is.
September 16, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink