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To: epicure who wrote (80868)8/30/2008 3:19:28 PM
From: biotech_bull  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542380
 
I'm not sure the Bridge to Nowhere isn't being built - McCain has just got it almost finished <g>

It appears the Obama campaign never considered Palin to be a likely pick.

<The Obama campaign and the Democratic Party had prepared advertisements and lines of attacks directed at the two men who had been most prominently mentioned as vice-presidential possibilities for Mr. McCain, Mitt Romney and Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, but had not considered Ms. Palin a likely enough choice to do the same for her.

Mr. Obama’s advisers said that compared with the mountains of data they had gathered on Mr. Pawlenty and Mr. Romney, they had far less information on Ms. Palin. Their dossier consisted of a thin document... >

nytimes.com



To: epicure who wrote (80868)8/30/2008 3:23:32 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 542380
 
What troubles me is that there was this money assigned to AK for the purpose of the bridge, then when the bridge wasn't built- having become the brunt of all the Bridge to Nowhere jokes-- and the money not used, Coburn tried to get the money reassigned to the bridge over Lake Pontchartrain which needed repairs. He lost. The money was left in the general AK fund, where Palin could spend it as she liked--
The bottom line is she took the pork.


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