Palin: I was wearing a T-Shirt with the zipcode but not everyone in that community wanted the bridge

[jefferson_dem]

Classic. :spray:

GIBSON: You have said continually, since he chose you as his vice-presidential nominee, that I said to Congress, thanks but not thanks. If we're going to build that bridge, we'll build it ourselves.

PALIN: Right.

GIBSON: But it's now pretty clearly documented. You supported that bridge before you opposed it. You were wearing a t-shirt in the 2006 campaign, showed your support for the bridge to nowhere.

PALIN: I was wearing a t-shirt with the zip code of the community that was asking for that bridge. Not all the people in that community even were asking for a $400 million or $300 million bridge.

GIBSON: But you turned against it after Congress had basically pulled the plug on it; after it became apparent that the state was going to have to pay for it, not the Congress; and after it became a national embarrassment to the state of Alaska. So do you want to revise and extend your remarks.

PALIN: It has always been an embarrassment that abuse of the ear form -- earmark process has been accepted in Congress. And that's what John McCain has fought. And that's what I joined him in fighting. It's been an embarrassment, not just Alaska's projects. But McCain gives example after example after example. I mean, every state has their embarrassment.

GIBSON: But you were for it before you were against it. You were solidly for it for quite some period of time...

PALIN: I was...

GIBSON: ... until Congress pulled the plug.

PALIN: I was for infrastructure being built in the state. And it's not inappropriate for a mayor or for a governor to request and to work with their Congress and their congressmen, their congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget along with every other state a share of the federal budget for infrastructure.

GIBSON: Right.

PALIN: What I supported was the link between a community and its airport. And we have found that link now.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5789483

[babylonsister]

1. Sounds like Charlie is playing cat swipe mouse with her. Good to read! nt

[speedoo]

2. Oh I see. It was LINK to nowhere. She was for the LINK..

but said "Thenks but no thenks to the BRIDGE."

How silly of everyone to call her on that.

[TransitJohn]

8. Right.

Akin to a "time horizon," but never, never, a time line.

[peacebird]

3. wow - Gibson is actually questioning her....

:popcorn:

[gatorboy]

4. I'm giving that man a big, wet man-kiss.

Mmmmwah!

[midnight]

5. So Sarah was for it before she wasn't- period!

GIBSON: But you were for it before you were against it. You were solidly for it for quite some period of time...

PALIN: I was...

[RoadRage]

14. AND THAT SHOULD BE THE NEXT AD!

[Bolo Boffin]

6. Sarah Palin is both for earmarks and against them.

On the one hand: "It has always been an embarrassment that abuse of the ear form -- earmark process has been accepted in Congress."

So earmark process BAD.

On the other hand: "...it's not inappropriate for a mayor or for a governor to request and to work with their Congress and their congressmen, their congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget..."

So earmark process GOOD.

It's not inappropriate, but it's an embarrassment.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND, GOVERNOR PALIN.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. She was so nervous she said 'EAR FORMS" and knew she had been caught

VIDEO UP
;http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x188446

[Shakespeare]

7. They're going to be very, very hard on the McCain campaign on the Sunday talk shows.

And I. Can't. WAIT.

[Major Hogwash]

9. Hell, no, but they wanted that money that was earmarked for that thar bridge!!

And don't forget, Moose Lips.

[Vinca]

10. I wish someone would ask why they spent the money on

the "road to nowhere" that ends where the "bridge to nowhere" was to start.

[City Lights]

11. I have to admit, I'm pleasantly surprised at ol' Chuck.

:toast:

[speedoo]

12. Ditto. nt

[BronxBoy]

13. Wow

She just admitted that her signature campaign soundbite is a crock!

Think she'll keep using it?

[Cosmic Charlie]

16. now that is some good interviewin'