Obama Camp Sends Out Embarrassing Palin Pic

[seemslikeadream]

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/08/obama-camp-sends-out-embarrassing-palin-pic/


Obama Camp Sends Out Embarrassing Palin Pic
By Tommy Christopher
Sep 8th 2008 12:40PM
Filed Under:eRepublicans, John McCain, 2008 President, Sarah Palin


The Obama campaign sent out a memo today, along with the accompanying picture, to challenge Palin's claim that she opposed Ted Stevens' "Bridge to Nowhere" earmark. (via email)
I Supported the Bridge to Nowhere and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Given that the McCain campaign again claimed that Governor Palin opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere" in their new ad today despite the fact that the claim has been repeatedly debunked, we thought you'd be interested in seeing the following photograph from Governor Palin's 2006 campaign in which she's proudly posing with a t-shirt that reads "NOWHERE ALASKA 99901":
I don't know what the big deal is. I used to watch "Trading Spaces," and they would call this "good use of negative space."

The memo's headline is a nice touch, but in case that was all too subtle, they threw in a quote from WaPo's Howard Kurtz for good measure:
"he whopper here is that Palin opposed her state's notorious Bridge to Nowhere. She endorsed the remote project while running for governor in 2006, claimed to be an opponent only after Congress killed its funding the next year and has used the $223 million provided for it for other state ventures. Far from being an opponent of earmarks, Palin hired lobbyists to try to capture more federal funding."
I think Palin meant to say she's an opponent of "remakes." I agree, especially those "reimaginings" like Mission: Impossible. Jim Phelps would never have done that.

Or it could be that Palin is the perfect symbol for McCain's Republican Party. In a country whose people overwhelmingly think it is going in the wrong direction, McCain and Palin want to keep going, right off of that bridge to nowhere.

[tandot]

1. We need to have more press coverage of that. This pic is priceless!

[mrJJ]

24. Palin & Stevens on youtube

The July 2, 2008 youtube video should go along with the picture.

July 2, 2008

Palin on Ted Stevens: 'I have great respect for him'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptTFDsktVQ

[bjobotts]

45. yeah, all I got was this lousy t-shirt and $223 million dollars.

[W_HAMILTON]

2. Is that a real pic?

It looks sorta weird. I can't tell if this is just a sarcastic joke, or if it's real.

[trumad]

4. It sure is---and she sure supported it.

[W_HAMILTON]

7. Yeah, I already knew she supported it

I just didn't want this to be a sarcastic post, or even worse, a fake picture floated out there, picked up by the Obama camp, then "exposed" to be a fake, making them and us look like idiots for using it as evidence. I think something like that happened before.

Just wanted to be sure!

[King Coal]

56. Well, she supported it but....

she didn't mean to.

[endthewar]

29. The Obama campaign put that pic in one of their latest ads

Clearly showing Palin holding that t-shirt.

[DemzRock]

And so, it begins.... Let the truth of Palin, W with lipstick, come out! n/t

[Epiphany4z]

3. I Supported the Bridge to Nowhere and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

lol...oops...but she is a mom...and has a special baby...and and and oh ya..just in case that doesn't work...McCain is a POW...drill baby drill!!

[rndmprsn]

21. HAHAHA...that made my day...geez.

because i was thinking the SAME thing =]

[quiet.american]

39. That's priceless! nt

[zeemike]

5. There you go again

Attacking that poor woman who has a baby.
Did you not get the memo that said leave her alone?
:sarcasm:

[seemslikeadream]

8. Yea I'll leave her alone

when hell freezes over

[Glimmer of Hope]

31. rolf!

[BrklynLiberal]

40. GREAT pic!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Dystopian]

41. !

OMG! WTF!
:rofl:
Thank you!



peace~

[trusty elf]

48. very nice!

[Joe Bacon]

55. Oh, please dont do that to me!

530 AM and I just took my first sip of coffee and now its all over the screen! :rofl:

[trusty elf]

61. Hey Joe!

Sorry about your screen! :D

Here's a new and improved version incorporating one of her latest monikers "Mooselini".

[Virginia Dare]

6. Obama campaign is being SEXIST!!!!

:sarcasm:

[gabeana]

9. yes the fight is on!

[alsame]

10. GOOD! n/t

[Greyskye]

11. Interesting 99901 statistic

I was pretty sure that the 99901 referred to the local zip code, but I Googled it just to be sure. What caught my eye was the 2nd sub-link:

Registered sex offenders in zip code 99901
According to our research of the Alaska and other state lists there were 59 registered sex offenders living in zip code 99901 (Ketchikan, AK)

59? That seemed awfully high, so I compared it to my local zip code, which actually has a higher population then does 99901. The result? 10. 10 Registered Sex Offenders compared to 59. Holy Crap! Guess it makes sense that folks with that kind of a record attached to them are going to head for the frontier.

[seemslikeadream]

12. Now there a statistic for Palin

[Greyskye]

14. DOUBLE HOLY CRAP - CHECK OUT WASILLA!

According to our research there were 63 registered sex offenders living in Wasilla, Alaska in early 2007.
The ratio of number of residents in Wasilla to the number of sex offenders is 133 to 1.

Yikes!!!

[seemslikeadream]

15. This needs it's own thread

Will you do it or should I?

[Greyskye]

16. Done.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6988705

[orleans]

17. would that make wasilla sex offender capitol of the u.s.? n/t

[Greyskye]

23. No, but Alaska might be the sex offender state

http://www.city-data.com/so/Alaska.html

I've only skimmed through the "C's" so far, but the number of towns with less than a 100:1 ratio are truly eye opening! It would actually be a lot easier to count the cities/towns that have a greater than 1000:1 ratio - there sure haven't been many of those so far...

[phycomycetes]

50. "no abortion even in case of rape"

...sex offenders vote too, don't they? No wonder she got elected!

[classof56]

59. Good one! And welcome to DU! nt

[jmowreader]

52. That list is very much distorted by the size of those towns

I find it hard to worry about a town with a 66:1 sex offender ratio when the population is 67. I went through some of that list too, and while some of the numbers really are eye-popping (828 registered offenders in Anchorage! Better: 135 in Wasilla!) check out Chuathbaluk--sex offender ratio 121:1 with one sex offender. Or look at Beaver: 84:1 ratio, and the one offender is a woman who attempted to have sex with a 15-year-old when she was 18.

It's not that all the sex offenders flocked to Alaska; it's that the numbers are distorted by all the half-horse towns there.

[Bette Noir]

43. I also heard that Wasilla is widely known

as the meth capital of Alaska-- 10 meth labs before Palin's stint as mayor, 49 after.

[rucognizant]

54. Victims of rape in Wasilla

have to pay for their own rape testing kits, from $300. - $1,200. guess who's idea that was.
I saw that posted last night, but I can't find it this am..I'll leave it to you to search, because if you haven't discovered it yet, this blog ia ****!

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/

[RobertSeattle]

13. Alaska is somewhere people go to hide

[JVS]

32. Jesus! No wonder they quit building the bridge. Who wants to make it easy for them to come over?

[DCKit]

42. Only WI and MI have a higher per-capita rate of sex offenders.

http://www.familywatchdog.us/OffenderCountByState.asp

However, please remember that you can become a registered sex offender by getting caught urinating in public - especially if you're poor. I would like to see hard numbers with those offenses, as well as those for consensual public sex eliminated from the totals.

[iamthebandfanman]

58. the first page of the list

is mostly sexual abuse of a minor too
sick.

crazy they have so many.

my little city of about 9,000 has like 12 in the entire county.. 2/3rds of which are out of state move in offenders...

[radfringe]

18. hey mccain didn't have a clean t-shirt for 5-1/2 years

on a serious note - HEY OBAMA - mccain-palin is beating you on the head with a baseball bat and you respond with a t-shirt pic?

take off the freaking gloves and put on some brass knuckles

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[AzDar]

20. Kick...

:kick:

[rndmprsn]

22. K+R because the TRUTH is a bitch

[Overseas]

25. What a sad headline for the article. Pic of Palin Promoting Bridge to Nowhere

Released by Obama Camp.

This way the headline sounds like they released some sleazy photo instead of a hypocritical one.

[WHAT]

33. I know, shoulda been "revealing"...

instead of "embarrassing" in the title.

:rofl:

[sasori]

26. holy crap.Sell it on Ebay!

:)

[Turn CO Blue]

27. I supported the Bridge to Nowhere, and all I got was this T-Shirt and $223M DOLLARS!

[AnnaLouise]

28. for brutal pictures of Palin's victims

for brutal pictures of Palin's victims
see the link

[seemslikeadream]

30. Thank you so much for that link AnnaLouise

I will be reposting stuff from there

I figure this is what the oval office would look like if we don't stop her

[NBachers]

34. Palin the Impaler n/t

[JimDandy]

44. And the "Slayer of Salmon." -- n/t

[CalJen]

46. Yikes!

Truly disgusting....

[TNMOM]

35. put that on billboards across America!!

she is an embarrassment! A hypocritical LIAR.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

36. The line about "negative space" is the reporter's or Palin's?

It's a funny line. Hope it's the reporter's.

[The Woodpecker]

37. The New Republicans feel that lying is OK if it furthers their goals.

At this point a majority of New Republicans know darn well that Palin was for taking federal money for the bridge. New Republicans would expect their politicians to take hundreds of millions when offered.

The whole strategy of the New Republicans is trying to pretend en-mass that she is actually an "Original Maverick". The pod people who make up the New Republicans laugh at the trickery going on and whisper amongst themselves that all is fair in love and politics as long as we win and they lose.

If falsely labeling their pathetic candidates "Original Mavericks" will get them some indy votes then it's a great strategy to use they feel. The truth really never mattered in the larger scope of things to them. Staying in power to propagate the evils they intend to deliver to the 'non-believers' of the world is and always has been the New Republicans goal.

[amborin]

49. they've been telling big lies for years

[Botany]

38. For all those who worried about her i.e. Palin ....

.... she will be the gift that keeps giving.

[Duer 157099]

47. Bringing marshmallows to a gun fight n/t

[stark6935]

51. The press isn't going to play this crap...

It's not fair to Palin... I think they need to get back on McCain, and not watch her so much. Maybe throwing Bill Clinton out there will take the media off her.

[sarahpalin101]

53. Fair to Palin?

What about fair to the American people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivg5G6tRZA4

[stark6935]

69. I was being sarcastic.

[Myrina]

57. Wow, the comments on that site are ... barfaceous!!

Holy Moly, all the Freeptards sure flocked to that one, didn't they?

:freak:

[redqueen]

63. Well, it *is* AOL. I think... certain types... are overrepresented there.

;)

[wicket]

60. K & R

:kick:

[Alter Ego]

62. I was about ready to freak, then I saw the picture.

[serbbral]

64. Obama

I think Obama needs to be careful not to fall into the trap (which is one of the reasons why I think McCain chose her, a brilliant move I might add) of focusing on Palin too much. This is what they want. He needs to continue to "dog" McCain and leave her out of it as much as possible, so it doesn't look like the big man is picking on the little woman.

[slypknot]

65. Her 15 min. of fame about over

[usregimechange]

66. MSM???

[Iris]

67. couldn't fascism have found a prettier face?

[seemslikeadream]

68. I don't know that Barbie look is very popular

[Iris]

70. er... she's no Barbie.