The McCain campaign boasts of her pork-cutting, but up close it looks more like a trim. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. She boasts of rejecting plans to build the notorious "Bridge to Nowhere," a $389 million bridge to an island with 50 residents. But only after she said yes did she say no, rejecting the locally-popular project after it was ridiculed and Congress cut some of the funds. She hung onto $27 million to build the approach road to the bridge.
http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-more-and-less-than-she-seems/163198
usGED... uhm... I know you are not a real educated person, but Governors of States usually do seek money from Congress for their state, along with the Senators and Representatives from the state, that is kind of what their job is. The term "pork" as it is being applied here, means wasteful federal government spending. Sarah Palin never served in the Congress, so she never had a vote on 'pork' at the federal level. The Senators and Reps, maybe so, but not the Governor, they have no votes in Congress.
Of all the idiotic charges made against Palin in the past week and a half, and there have been some doozies, this one is the most unreasonable. How is a Governor responsible for what the US Congress does? Sure, she supported and advocated for federal funding for her state, but that is what a governor is supposed to do, it is their job to do it, and why the people of Alaska elect them to office. Can you imagine her getting elected to the governorship, then announcing Alaska would not accept any Federal money because she didn't believe in the US Government wasting money on Alaskans?
Now..... Your VP candidate, Joe Biden... a 35-year RELIC of the Senate... well, he certainly hasn't ever supported "pork" for his state, I am sure, right?
You see, they have a word for people like you, it's called "HYPOCRITE!"
