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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 06:42 PM
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Obama Takes First Direct Shot At Palin
Source: The Huffington Post

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday, saying she pretends to oppose spending earmarks when she actually has embraced them.

Speaking to 800 people at the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds in Terre Haute, Ind., the Democratic presidential nominee ridiculed John McCain and his running mate, the Alaska governor, for describing themselves as agents of change at this week's GOP convention.

"Don't be fooled," Obama told the crowd surrounding him in a large barn. "John McCain's party, with the help of John McCain, has been in charge" for nearly eight years.

"I know the governor of Alaska has been saying she's change, and that's great," Obama said. "She's a skillful politician. But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/obama-takes-fi...
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   Well played, sir!  Catch22Dem   Sep-06-08 06:45 PM   #1 
   Interesting...  Change or Revolution   Sep-06-08 08:55 PM   #35 
   Knock 'em dead, Kid!  AzDar   Sep-06-08 06:47 PM   #2 
   Great! I'm so often delighted by the way in which he responds...  RufusTFirefly   Sep-06-08 06:49 PM   #3 
   That's our man!!!  tosh   Sep-06-08 06:54 PM   #5 
   Obama is not going to be taken in by their lying approach to issues  alyce douglas   Sep-06-08 08:02 PM   #24 
   I hope he doesn't confuse the zealots with facts  KC2   Sep-06-08 06:53 PM   #4 
   Sayin' it like it is. Great! nt  indie_ana_500   Sep-06-08 06:55 PM   #6 
   Here he is, hoisting them by their own petard...  RoccoR5955   Sep-06-08 07:04 PM   #7 
   Keep it up!  hoosier_lefty   Sep-06-08 07:07 PM   #8 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-06-08 07:08 PM   #9 
   Obama has never been anti-earmark...  ingac70   Sep-06-08 07:13 PM   #10 
   bingo. nt  JoeIsOneOfUs   Sep-06-08 07:18 PM   #12 
   Well put  LithosLead Moderator   Sep-06-08 08:50 PM   #34 
   Obviously, you are skilled at the old copy-n-paste  rox63   Sep-06-08 07:17 PM   #11 
   Earmarks are a fact of life in budgets.  Dr.Phool   Sep-06-08 07:22 PM   #13 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-06-08 07:26 PM   #14 
   Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure and Homeland Security/Military.  zbird   Sep-06-08 07:33 PM   #15 
   Holy moly, do you even read your own posts?  DemItAllAnyway   Sep-06-08 07:38 PM   #17 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-06-08 07:39 PM   #18 
   Misspelled argument  jgraz   Sep-06-08 07:53 PM   #19 
   That's only according to the dictionary...  corporatemedia   Sep-06-08 08:11 PM   #25 
   nevermind...  stillcool47   Sep-06-08 08:27 PM   #32 
   bingo! wham!!!  stlsaxman   Sep-06-08 08:14 PM   #27 
   ROFL!  JBoy   Sep-06-08 08:24 PM   #30 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-06-08 08:40 PM   #33 
   Duh Thas what politicians do  humbled_opinion   Sep-06-08 07:55 PM   #20 
   Wrong.  Baltoman991   Sep-06-08 07:56 PM   #21 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-06-08 07:56 PM   #23 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-06-08 08:14 PM   #26 
   Pssst....Obama is a Senator...  stillcool47   Sep-06-08 08:25 PM   #31 
   That's a pretty impressive list and some mighty worthy causes.  Miss Chybil   Sep-06-08 08:58 PM   #36 
      You beat me to it- I was going to say the same thing.  truedelphi   Sep-06-08 09:06 PM   #37 
         :-) nt  Miss Chybil   Sep-06-08 11:34 PM   #38 
   What is this? We can't tell a female she's wrong?  BunkerHill24   Sep-06-08 07:38 PM   #16 
   I hope....  Zombie2   Sep-06-08 07:56 PM   #22 
   I'll drink that kinda koolaid any day!  mcollier   Sep-06-08 08:18 PM   #29 
   It's exactly what he needed to do, attack her bogus "reform" record!  DailyGrind51   Sep-06-08 08:17 PM   #28 
   she's surprisingly easy..  Mesteryo   Sep-07-08 04:01 PM   #39 
   "...and that's great,... She's a skillful politician."  depakid   Sep-07-08 05:22 PM   #40 
 
Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 06:45 PM
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1. Well played, sir!
"you can't just make stuff up"
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Change or Revolution (6 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 08:55 PM
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35. Interesting...
...seems that Obama did the right thing and invested in infrastructure improvements, environmental concerns and children's causes as well...all great things IMHO.

This is the last line of the following article:

"So while Sen. McCain was going after cutting earmarks in Washington," said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense, "Gov. Palin was going after getting earmarks."

Check the article out here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008...


I love the way she treats her own state people...the "lesser haves" are verbally looked down upon with a "bridge that goes nowhere".

And I'd (NOT!) want this tyrant in the White House---WHY?!??!?!

God HELP AmeriKa.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Sep-06-08 06:47 PM
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2. Knock 'em dead, Kid!
(Jeebus KNOWS she has it coming)
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 06:49 PM
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3. Great! I'm so often delighted by the way in which he responds...
Hard-hitting, homespun, and classy!
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tosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 06:54 PM
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5. That's our man!!!
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Sep-06-08 08:02 PM
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24. Obama is not going to be taken in by their lying approach to issues
I hope he hammers them both. I do not trust either of them, repigs have gotten this country in such a dark place, we cannot let them continue for another 4 years.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Sep-06-08 06:53 PM
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4. I hope he doesn't confuse the zealots with facts
:crazy:
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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 06:55 PM
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6. Sayin' it like it is. Great! nt
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RoccoR5955 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:04 PM
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7. Here he is, hoisting them by their own petard...
Otherwise known as rope-a-dope. And Obama is gonna float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!
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hoosier_lefty (169 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:07 PM
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8. Keep it up!
America needs to know they are full of it!
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Sep-06-08 07:13 PM
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10. Obama has never been anti-earmark...
he has, however, pushed for transparency, and the politicians asking for the earmarks have to put their names to them under legislation that was introduced by him.

Sarah Palin was for them before she was against them.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:18 PM
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12. bingo. nt
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Lithos Lead Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 08:50 PM
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34. Well put
Obama is just pointing out the huge hypocrisy of Palin's remarks, not taking a stance on earmarks themselves.

L-
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:17 PM
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11. Obviously, you are skilled at the old copy-n-paste
:eyes:

Care to post McCain's earmarks? Or the earmarks that Palin championed in her own state?
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:22 PM
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13. Earmarks are a fact of life in budgets.
It's the hypocrisy of saying you're against them, when you're requesting them I don't like.

Nothing on this list looks wasteful, and for a state the size of Illinois, it all still adds up to less than one bridge to nowhere.
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zbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:33 PM
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15. Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure and Homeland Security/Military.
Thanks for playing.
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:38 PM
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17. Holy moly, do you even read your own posts?
Do those look like boondoggles to you? Health programs, educational programs, environmental initiatives, replacing aging infrastructure?

By the way, look up the data on what citizens of Illinois pay in Federal taxes and what they get in Federal funds in return, then contrast that to the amounts Alaskans pay/get. Quite an eye-opener.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:53 PM
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19. Misspelled argument
Edited on Sat Sep-06-08 07:54 PM by jgraz
The one word you actually had to type yourself and you fuck it up.
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corporatemedia (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 08:11 PM
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25. That's only according to the dictionary...
and the dictionary doesn't even have the correct pronunciation for nuclear.
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stillcool (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 08:27 PM
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32. nevermind...
Edited on Sat Sep-06-08 08:28 PM by stillcool47
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27. bingo! wham!!!
you rock, jgraz!
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30. ROFL!
:rofl:
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20. Duh Thas what politicians do
They get things moving in their home states...... What an idiot you are. Looks like Obama was on top of his game getting his state taken care of.... Palin said she didn't ask for money in her state which is a flat our lie... She took the money for the Bridge to nowhere and bought something else with it....

Probably some lipstick or some such shit....
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Baltoman991 (711 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 07:56 PM
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21. Wrong.
Obama isn't against earmarks. He's just against hiding them. So no, not a losing argument at all. She lied. Says she's against them.

Typical Republican though, for it before they're against it and when elected, for it again.
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stillcool (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 08:25 PM
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31. Pssst....Obama is a Senator...
where do you think money for your state comes from?
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 08:58 PM
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36. That's a pretty impressive list and some mighty worthy causes.
Unlike bridges to nowhere...
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37. You beat me to it- I was going to say the same thing.
Great minds and all...
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-06-08 11:34 PM
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38. :-) nt
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16. What is this? We can't tell a female she's wrong?
is this what is going on here?

Is this that we are afraid off: that we can't tell a demented Wasilla chick she is no good in the second-hand White House, and she is not even good on matters on her household?

Yeah...stay being gentleman over her......and you would lose!

Stay quite and you sample on her, like McCain....

Stay along with dump Americans...and you are still along the polls...

God help us all!
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22. I hope....
...he makes several more trips to Indiana.
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29. I'll drink that kinda koolaid any day!
Drill, Baby Drill... Into the McCain record...
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28. It's exactly what he needed to do, attack her bogus "reform" record!
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39. she's surprisingly easy..
Every claim the White Witch has made about her record of reform has been so easily debunked. Has she never heard of Google?

She is going to be totally unraveled by November.
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40. "...and that's great,... She's a skillful politician."
Edited on Sun Sep-07-08 05:23 PM by depakid
:shrug:
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