bridge to nowhere

With Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side, Sen. John McCain just brought up the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” for the first time in quite a while at a town-hall meeting in Waukesha, Wis.
McCain was talking about earmarks and corruption.

In an interview with The Associated Press today in Jacksonville, Fla., Sen. John McCain admitted what every rational person in the country already knows — that Sen. Barack Obama did not call Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a pig.

ABC News has released an excerpt of Charlie Gibson’s third and final interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in which Gibson asks Palin about her shifting position on the “Bridge to Nowhere.”
Palin stops short of specifically saying she initially supported the project, but criticizes the abuse of earmark process as an “embarrassment.”

On the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain frequently rails against wasteful earmarks. There are two examples of pork he points to as particularly egregious.
First, is the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska. Second, is a $3-million study of grizzly bear DNA in Montana. When he mentions the latter, he often jokes, “I don’t know if [...]

NORFOLK, Va. – It’s all about the bottom of the ticket.
In this second straight week of Palin-Palooza, fanned by the McCain campaign’s gender bender and a nation riveted by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s rapid ascent, the Obama campaign is now tightening its focus on the Republican vice presidential candidate.
On Wednesday afternoon, Obama’s aides announced the [...]

FLINT, Mich. — Sen. Barack Obama laced into his Republican rival at a Michigan community college on Monday, blasting the McCain Campaign’s famous “Straight Talk Express” as more like a “No Change Express.”
It is the first time Obama has used that line, which was well received by the union-heavy crowd of more than 300 people, [...]

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has lied and dissembled about her past support for the “Bridge to Nowhere “earmark, as many journalists have reported.
Now, the Obama campaign is circulating a photograph of Palin literally bragging about her support for the bridge, with a note titled “I supported the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ and All I Got Was [...]

Today the Obama campaign accused Sen. John McCain of repeatedly lying about his running mate’s record.
Rebutting a new Republican ad — which TWI’s Matt DeLong reports here — chief Obama spokesperson Bill Burton blasted McCain for lying about an earmark issue after multiple corrections from the press:
Despite being discredited over and over again by numerous [...]

Mayor Palin hired Steven Silver, who secured millions in federal earmarks for Wasilla — and that ‘bridge to nowhere.’