All About McCain

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I think she said "Thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere". She didn't say "I sent the money back because there was nothing valuable we could do with it". I think there is a distinction. She was against the wasteful spending aspect, bit using the federal funds to do necessary things to improve her state.

She said neither of those.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

She said neither of those.

She did indeed.

Directly from her speech at the convention -

I told the Congress, "Thanks, but no thanks," on that Bridge to Nowhere.

Now, I do think she was making the point that she was against earmarks, so the very next line of her speech is problematic for me -

If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.

The first quoted line? Clearly saying they didn't need that bridge. Second quoted line? Certainly implying that she wasn't going to take the money.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

She did indeed.

Directly from her speech at the convention -

She said that she said it, but she didn't say it when she says she claims to have said it. See what I'm saying?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

She said that she said it, but she didn't say it when she says she claims to have said it. See what I'm saying?

By the way, I was being ocmpletely thick headed earlier. I don't know why I couldn't see what you were saying earlier than I did.