BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
Then: During the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial campaign, the Anchorage Daily News reported that she was in favor of the bridge; on Oct. 20, 2006, The Associated Press reported that Palin’s spokesman, Curtis Smith, said Palin supported the Ketchikan bridge project.
Wednesday: “I told the Congress ‘Thanks but no thanks’ on the bridge to nowhere.”
TROOP SURGE
Then: “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place.”
— March 1, 2007, in the Alaska Business Monthly.
Wednesday: “And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as a commander in chief. I’m just one of the many moms who’ll say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm’s way.”
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OBAMA’S LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
Wednesday: “But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform, not even in the state Senate.”
The facts: During his eight-year career in the Illinois Senate, Obama played a leadership role in the passage of ethics reforms; death penalty reforms; a law requiring police to tape-record confessions and formal interviews of murder suspects; and a law requiring police to record the race of drivers they stop for a racial-profiling study.
OBAMA’S ENERGY POLICY
Wednesday: “America needs more energy. Our opponent is against producing it.”
The facts: Obama has pledged to invest $150 billion over the next decade in wind power, solar power and the next generation of biofuels.