Sarah Palin's Speech Was Full Of Lies
MikeM
like the typical politico types she slammed!
She's a liar and exaggerator!
The Associated Press closely watched Governor Sarah Palin, the GOP's
VP pick, at last night's RNC convention and has outlined the many ways
she exaggerated and lied.
Right or Left, a lie is a lie. It doesn't matter where on the
political spectrum you are, right?
These are not 'personal' digs, mind you.
She's lying on the 'professional' stage, y'all.
Check out Pinocchio Palin's claims and the truth:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful
spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending
by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that
Bridge to Nowhere."
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and
traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town
totaling $27 million. 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. While Palin notes she
rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an
island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only
after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. 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: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate,
Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with
Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept
illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy
conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year.
To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy
voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big,
contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police
and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty
cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform
legislation.
PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to
raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income
taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax
burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the
Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's
plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by
about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan,
which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-
income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor
workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax
Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger
families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes
on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with
incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small
businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
The AP report also showed how Palin's champions have exaggerated the
Alaskan governor's 'acheivements':
MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20
percent of America's energy supply … She's responsible for 20 percent
of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I
hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political
campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest
state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles
Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is
governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil
production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than
President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-
producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil,
which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska
is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it
the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She
has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her
primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard
units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual
military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or
Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal
status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their
governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200
personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running
for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president
of the United States."
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's
election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of
1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he
still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where
he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right
— change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We
have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington
— throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and
Sarah Palin."
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a
conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years.
And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since
January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and
Senate.
Jr.
And we all know that Obamanation and the Damnocrats told the absolute truth
last week.
Get a life!.
rwa2play (Lost mode on)
If you did a little fact-finding, you'd find out they were far more
informative than Gov. Palin.
Alas, you're a Republican so anything that came out of Palin's mouth
you accepted as gospel truth.
Ouroboros_Rex
In other words, you coudn't find a single solitary untruth. But thanks
for playing. lol
Jr.
"Ouroboros_Rex" <i...@casual.com> wrote in message
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either speech.
Being from Illinois, I know Obama's history which pales as a qualified
candidate for President.
BTW - I am NOT a Republican or a Democrap. I am an Independent who votes for
the best candidate available.
Ouroboros_Rex
> "Ouroboros_Rex" <i...@casual.com> wrote in message
> news:W76dnUNwLavFgl3V...@giganews.com...
>> Jr. wrote:
>>> Right!
>>>
>>> And we all know that Obamanation and the Damnocrats told the
>>> absolute truth last week.
>>>
>>> Get a life!.
>>
>> In other words, you coudn't find a single solitary untruth. But
>> thanks for playing. lol
> Actually, I didn't find anything in either speech because I didn't
> listen to either speech.
> Being from Illinois, I know Obama's history which pales as a qualified
> candidate for President.
Not in any way, no. You may want to review the experience of another
Illinois Congressman - Abraham Lincoln. =)
ozbno
"MikeM" <Mike...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Looks like the lipstick wearing pit bull proved herself to be just
like the typical politico types she slammed!
She's a liar and exaggerator!
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US Voters Are Awake To The Media
Obama has a problem.
September 5 2008
From a Rasmussen poll - and, note, taken before Sarah Palin’s great
speech:
Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah
Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more
likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in
November.
Again, this is before Palin’s speech. And she’s not running for the top
job, either.
have Democrats have been in charge of the House and
Senate.
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Warnest Regards
Bonzo
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods
but by perpetual repetition." Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of
Meteorology, MIT
rwa2play, The Northern Lariat
Why you! You stole my thunder you thief! ;-)
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Poetic Justice
> Ouroboros_Rex wrote:
>> Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> "Ouroboros_Rex"<i...@casual.com> wrote in message
>>> news:W76dnUNwLavFgl3V...@giganews.com...
>>>
>>>> Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Right!
>>>>>
>>>>> And we all know that Obamanation and the Damnocrats told the
>>>>> absolute truth last week.
>>>>>
>>>>> Get a life!.
>>>>>
>>>> In other words, you coudn't find a single solitary untruth. But
>>>> thanks for playing. lol
>>>>
>>> Actually, I didn't find anything in either speech because I didn't
>>> listen to either speech.
>>> Being from Illinois, I know Obama's history which pales as a qualified
>>> candidate for President.
>>>
>>
>> Not in any way, no. You may want to review the experience of another
>> Illinois Congressman - Abraham Lincoln. =)
>>
Lincoln was losing the civil war when he changed Generals and turned it
around too.
rwa2play, The Northern Lariat
Nice strawman...too bad the parallels make your argument weak.
Ouroboros_Rex
First you have to pick generals who aren't committed to failure. Any
general of Bush's who asked too loudly for real troop numbers was fired.
Ouroboros_Rex
> Poetic Justice wrote:
>> rwa2play, The Northern Lariat wrote:
>>> Ouroboros_Rex wrote:
>>>> Jr. wrote:
>>>>> "Ouroboros_Rex"<i...@casual.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:W76dnUNwLavFgl3V...@giganews.com...
>>>>>> Jr. wrote:
>>>>>>> Right!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And we all know that Obamanation and the Damnocrats told the
>>>>>>> absolute truth last week.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Get a life!.
>>>>>> In other words, you coudn't find a single solitary untruth. But
>>>>>> thanks for playing. lol
>>>>> Actually, I didn't find anything in either speech because I didn't
>>>>> listen to either speech.
>>>>> Being from Illinois, I know Obama's history which pales as a
>>>>> qualified candidate for President.
>>>>
>>>> Not in any way, no. You may want to review the experience of
>>>> another
>>>> Illinois Congressman - Abraham Lincoln. =)
>>>>
>>
>> Lincoln was losing the civil war when he changed Generals and turned
>> it around too.
>>
>
> Nice strawman...too bad the parallels make your argument weak.
Repubs just can't get with the fact that troop numbers for Iraq were cut
in half because the spring 2003 tax cuts were kicked back as being too much
for Congress to pass. Generals who were smart enough not to sell their men
out in like manner were fired summarily.