Nowhere

Dennis Zaki forwarded this picture.



Last night and last Friday she touted how she'd sent the money back to DC and "if we wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves." Great politics, and she did make that sort of speech, but late in the process. But I liked her for doing it. It was good for the world to hear our governor rejecting extravagant earmarks.

But then we get this picture. But Dennis, it's all about context. I'm guessing someone in Ketchikan gave her this sweatshirt and as a gracious gift receiver she 'tried it on' right there. I don't know that's the case, but I also don't know it isn't.

I started this post yesterday and wasn't sure that there was really enough here to make a decent post. Until I read the Anchorage Daily News Letters today. They published 11 letters on Palin. One was positive. But more to the point was this one about Palin in Ketchikan:

Having just finished watching the Wednesday evening edition of the Republican National Convention as well as Gov. Palin's speech, I must express my dismay at the nasty, mean-spirited tone and words used by the speakers. There was hypocrisy contained in Palin's claim to have told Washington "Thanks but no thanks for that Bridge to Nowhere," when she went to Ketchikan during her run for governor and told the people there she felt their pain at being told they were nowhere and that she and they would "make a good team as we progress that bridge project." When Congress removed the earmark language for the bridge but left the money, Palin used it elsewhere and has yet to go back to Ketchikan to explain her decision to the people as promised.

Palin is quick to adopt the "slash and burn" tactics employed by her political party in elections. The "outsider" is rapidly working her way "inside."

-- Gwen Burson

Girdwood

Oh, yes, 99901 is Ketchikan.