September 08, 2008

AIRBRUSHING IN ALASKA: Alaska Democratic Party Deletes Page Crediting Sarah Palin with Killing 'Bridge to Nowhere'.

UPDATE: Obama goes after Palin on bridge.

ANOTHER UPDATE: More here. "Until John McCain selected her as his running mate, it never occurred to anyone to deny that Palin stopped the bridge."

MORE: Undercutting Obama's attack: "Sen. Biden and Sen. Obama voted for funding the Bridge, even when given a second chance by Sen. Tom Coburn, who proposed shifting earmark funds to Katrina relief."

Plus, here's the Obama ad.

STILL MORE: Reader Michael Pate emails with what the New York Times reported in September of 2007:

Gov. Sarah Palin ordered state transportation officials to abandon the ''bridge to nowhere'' project that became a nationwide symbol of federal pork-barrel spending. The $398 million bridge would have connected Ketchikan, on one island in southeastern Alaska, to its airport on another nearby island. ''Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport,'' Ms. Palin, a Republican, said in a news release, ''but the $398 million bridge is not the answer.'' She directed the State Transportation Department to find the most ''fiscally responsible'' alternative for access to the airport.

Plus, from the September 27, 2007 USA Today, " Alaska's governor has officially dropped plans for one of two spans critics called 'bridges to nowhere.' Gov. Sarah Palin said this month she was scrapping the proposed $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to its airport on an nearby island where 50 people live."

But TNR is siding with Obama.

MORE STILL: No, I don't know why the Obama video is no longer available on YouTube. Did the Obama campaign pull it? If so, why?