Palin never in Iraq, campaign now says
(CNN) -- Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for
the Republican vice presidential nominee confirmed Saturday, as new
details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor's foreign
travel.
Gov. Sarah Palin's aide confirmed to CNN details of her foreign travel
Saturday.
Gov. Sarah Palin's aide confirmed to CNN details of her foreign travel
Saturday.
In July of last year, Palin left North America for the first time to
visit Alaskan troops stationed in Kuwait. Palin officials originally
said her itinerary included U.S. military installations or outposts in
Germany and Kuwait, and that she had visited Ireland.
A Palin aide in Alaska had said Iraq was also one of the military
stops on that trip.
The Boston Globe, however, reported Saturday that in response to
questions about the trip, Alaska National Guard officials and campaign
aides said Palin did not go past the Kuwait-Iraq border.
In addition, campaign aides also confirmed reports to CNN Saturday
that Palin's time in Ireland on that trip had actually been a
refueling stop.
The Obama campaign -- which has increasingly accused the McCain
campaign of deliberately lying in ads and on the stump -- was quick to
highlight that story, along with a news report that explored whether
the McCain campaign has been sending out wildly inflated crowd
estimates.
The McCain team has twice pointed to law enforcement as the source for
those estimates -- but the same officials denied to Bloomberg News
that they had provided the numbers cited by the Republican nominee's
campaign.
"The McCain campaign said Gov. Palin opposed the bridge to nowhere,
but now we know she supported it," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor
in a statement. "They said she didn't seek earmarks, but now we know
she hired a lobbyist to get millions in pork for her town and her
state. They said she visited Iraq, but today we learned that she only
stopped at the border. Americans are starting to wonder, is there
anything the McCain campaign isn't lying about?"
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A Palin spokesperson also confirmed that the governor had visited
Mexico on a personal vacation. She has also visited Canada.
The Palin revelations Saturday are the latest in a series of barbs
between the two presidential campaigns.
McCain, appearing Friday on ABC's "The View," was aggressively pressed
on Palin's qualifications to be vice president as well as his new
campaign ads that several independent fact-check groups have called
misleading.
Co-host Barbara Walters asked about Palin's reformist credentials,
noting McCain has served in Washington for more than two decades and
asking repeatedly, "Who's she going to reform, you?"
McCain answered by saying Democrats have controlled Congress for two
years, but then Walters quickly interrupted: "But tell me who she is
going to reform -- we aren't talking about the economy, we're not
talking about housing; she was chosen to reform, who is she going to
reform?"
Appearing somewhat frustrated, McCain said, "The Democrat Party, the
Republican Party, even an independent. She'll reform all of
Washington."
Walters, seeming somewhat exasperated, asked, "How? What will she do?
What is she going to reform specifically, senator?"
McCain said Palin had a strong record on vetoing earmark spending.
Video Watch more of McCain's appearance on "The View" »
"The fact is she was a reform governor, she took on an incumbent
governor of her own party and defeated him. She sold the airplane and
fired the chef," McCain said, referring to Palin's efforts to put her
predecessor's state jet up for auction on eBay and her dismissal of
the governor's personal chef.
"She sold the airplane at a loss," Walters interrupted.
(The jet failed to draw sufficient bids on eBay and later was sold at
a loss through an ordinary aircraft brokerage.)
Also on Friday, both campaigns accused each other of engaging in lies,
unfair attacks and gutter politics in a series of television ads and
memos.
McCain's campaign released a television ad, titled "Disrespectful,"
that accuses McCain's Democratic rival of launching desperate attacks
and smears against Palin.
In the McCain ad, the announcer says the Obama camp had "lashed out at
Sarah Palin" and dismissed Palin as "good-looking" as the Democratic
nominee's face appears on the screen. The announcer also says the
Democrats had said Palin was doing "what she was told" and had
"desperately" called her a liar.
"How disrespectful," the announcer says. "And how Gov. Sarah Palin
proves them wrong, every day."
Obama never made any of the statements the McCain camp released to
support the ad, and the comment that Palin was "good-looking" was made
by the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden, in a self-
deprecating joke when he was asked what the obvious differences were
between the two vice presidential nominees. Video Watch the McCain ad
»
Biden repeatedly has said on the campaign trail that he respected
Palin and that he thought she was qualified for the vice presidency.
FactCheck.org pointed out the quote from an Obama adviser that Palin
was doing "what she was told" was taken out of context. The quote is
taken from the response of Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, in
which he said Palin had misrepresented Obama's legislative record.
"Maybe that's what she was told" about his voting record, Axelrod
said.
The Obama campaign, meanwhile, launched two television ads Friday. In
one, the campaign paints McCain as being out of touch by showing
pictures of him when he first entered the Senate in 1982 as disco
music plays. The ad also highlights McCain's own admissions that he
lacks computer skills and does not use e-mail. Video Watch the Obama
ad attacking McCain »
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In the second Obama ad, the candidate himself appears. "We've heard a
lot of talk about change this year. The question is, change to what?"
Obama asks.
The ads come as Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, issued a
tough memo to reporters that accused McCain and his campaign of
turning to "smears, lies and cynical attempts to distract from the
issues."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/13/palin.iraq/?iref=hpmostpop
You liberals are such idiots with your fake "scandals". No wonder
why
you've blown the election. I still want to know why Barry Soetoro or
Obama or whatever alias he's going by, received real estate %50 below
market value as a "gift" from convicted felon Tony Rezko.
SwampMidget wrote:
This 'Barry Soetoro' development is very, very interesting...
Far more interesting than 'Eduardo' being a faux Hispanic!
The schooling of Barry Obama
January 19, 2007 6:03 PM
There have been some developments today in stories about the education
of Sen. Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois.
1) CHOOM GATE
A blogger who attended the same high school as Obama, the Punahou School
in Honolulu, Hawaii, HAS POSTED HERE the page of "Barry Obama" from his
senior class yearbook.
Obama's senior class note includes a reference to the "Choom Gang,"
which the blogger claims was a reference to marijuana, though his office
demurs from exlpaining what it meant. (Obama has admitted marijuana and
cocaine use during his teenage years.)
URBAN DICTIONARY.COM has its own definitions, which you are welcome to
check out for yourself.
2) OBAMA AND ISLAM
Obama's office did have a little to say about the discussion on morning
television's version of the Algonquin Round Table -- by which I am of
course referring to "Fox & Friends" -- where this morning it was said
that as a child in Indonesia Obama "spent the first decade of his life
raised by his Muslim father as a Muslim and was educated in a madrassa"
(which then is helpfully defined as "financed by Saudis, they teach the
religion that pretty much hates us. The big question: was that on the
curriculum back then?" )
The Fox & Friends crew was discussing A STORY in Insight Magazine which
claims allies of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, were investigating this
issue, which the Clinton camp needless to say denies.
Obama's parents, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, who lived in
Hawaii, divorced when Obama was two.
When Obama was six, his mother remarried Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil
company manager, and the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where
Obama's sister was born. His office says that from ages six to eight
Obama went to a Muslim school in Jakarta -- though "absolutely not a
radical Islamic school" -- after which he went to a Catholic school.
When he was 10, Obama moved back to Hawaii to live with his maternal
grandparents and attend the Punahou School. Both his father and
stepfather were born Muslim, as Obama noted in his heralded June 28,
2006 SPEECH ABOUT FAITH AND POLITICS:
"I was not raised in a particularly religious household, as undoubtedly
many in the audience were. My father, who returned to Kenya when I was
just two, was born Muslim but as an adult became an atheist. My mother,
whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was probably
one of the most spiritual and kindest people I've ever known, but grew
up with a healthy skepticism of organized religion herself. As a
consequence, so did I."
But Obama eventually became a devout Christian and member of Trinity
United Church of Christ on 95th Street in the Southside of Chicago.
-- jt
-abc news
Democrats and the Liberal Media are making this
Election about : Obama [D-P] -versus- Palin [R-VP]
When the Democrat Party attempts to 'compare' their
Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama II to
the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin :
Losing Point # 1 - They Diminish Obama's Standing
and Elevated Palin's Standing with the Voters . . .
+ Obama Sounds Good and is Likable
+ + Palin Sounds Better and is More Likable
With the Common Everyday Working People Voters
-aka- The Vast Majority of Voters
Losing Point # 2 - They Imply that Obama Can NOT
Go Up Against McCain [R-P] One-on-One.
Losing Point # 3 - Joe Biden [D-VP] is rendered USELESS.
-tbl- DUMP BIDEN NOW ! -ask- Hillary to be the D-VP.
- - - Obama / CLINTON still can win.
Fears Grow That Obama/Biden Can't Win :
The Sarah Palin Factor : Help Hillary - Dump Biden Now !
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/eff47c4c77cc314b
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Pete
<cheley_b...@live.com> wrote in message
news:9548651b-f46b-4275...@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
- I still think she looks like Tootsie.
- Well, kind of like a cross between Tootsie and a mean judge.
-
- Pete
Tootsie Heinz Kerry ? - nah ~ RHF
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/downloads/tootsie.JPG
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TOOTSIE - It's the Glasses http://imigliorimusicals.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/tootsie-dvdcover.jpg
+ Plus the Red Dress mite Help Too ;-)
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Tell It To Da Judge !
http://lollipopandcompany.com/tootsie.jpg
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The Great Leader Thinking
http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/_/images11/us_rich_scandal/barack_michelle_obama.jpe
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Question - Has Michelle Obama Ever Been To Alaska ?
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yet along visited our troops in iraq
or even at walter reed amc ~ RHF
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>
> <cheley_bonstel...@live.com> wrote in message
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Michelle -says- All Rise 'Barack' Is In The House
http://powerfulmothers.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/michelle.jpg
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The Great Leader Thinking with Michelle at his side
http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/_/images11/us_rich_scandal/barack_michelle_obama.jpe
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Question - Has Michelle Obama Ever Been To Alaska ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama
http://bp0.blogger.com/_Im3_DDT_eKc/R7k9c5hK4LI/AAAAAAAABCM/qPkuz1HPFdA/s1600-h/NEWSWEEK-FEB+MICHELLE+OBAMA.jpg
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yet along visited our troops in iraq, afghanistan, illinois,
or even visited the injured in walter reed amc ~ RHF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center
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> >http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/13/palin.iraq/?iref=hpmostpop- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -
Twotsie, maybe.
>Why does this newsgroup continue to post political messages that have
>no relevance to short wave radio ?
Because short wave radio no longer has any relevance to the real word, and the
space might as well be put to some good use?
-- Larry
If the Neoliberals stay in power they'll make all radio digital and make
DXing illegal, like in Korea.
Say what?? I don't know what you are talking about (nor do you, for that
matter). In S. Korea, the only digital radio comes over satellite or cell
phone, and there is PLENTY of OTA analog (the dial is so damn full there are
barely any empty channels on FM.. and when the ducting is working, even
those few are usually full of Chinese mainland stations. Lots of AM, too.
And DX'ing is not illegal.
Now.. if you're talking about N. Korea.. then you'd be half right.. DX'ing
is illegal there.. but they have no digital radio. They have two analog
programs (both propaganda.. one is mostly "news", one is martial music and
praise of the "Dear Leader"). I can hear both programs (one on 810 KHz and
one on 1080 KHz) depending on how well the jammers are working at a given
time. North of Seoul, both come in pretty well, you barely even hear the
jammers.
> Now.. if you're talking about N. Korea.. then you'd be half right.. DX'ing
> is illegal there..
That's what I said. Make DXing illegal like in [N] Korea.
> People used to pick up their Telephones, certain hour of the day or
> night/whenever,,, and listen to music/whatever.You think I lie? cuhulin
Radio is not defined as a thing you pick up to listen to music. It is a
WIRELESS method of communication.
> Radio comes from the word/thingy/term,,, Radius. cuhulin
radio Look up radio at Dictionary.com
"wireless transmission with radio waves," 1907, abstracted from
earlier combinations such as radiophone (1881) and radio-telegraphy
(1898), from radio-, comb. form of radiation (q.v.). Use for "radio
receiver" is first attested 1917; sense of "sound broadcasting as a
medium" is from 1922. Wireless remained more widespread until World War
II, when military preference for radio turned the tables. The verb is
attested from 1919
- If the Neoliberals stay in power they'll make all
- radio digital and make DXing illegal, like in Korea.
Dave "Neo-Liberals" you sound like a down-for-the-cause
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
hard-right reactionary Paleo-Conservative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism
dave welcome to the sunny-side-up
may the farce be with you ~ RHF
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The group need a moderator.
GST
<aezael> wrote in message news:3dd5d41vka94hvcd0...@4ax.com...
> George S Thurman wrote:
>> The group need a moderator.
> I nominate Telemon.
Persuade Telamon to say:
"The first thing we do...we'll kill all the RHFs and dxAces."
..and he'll have my vote.
mike
Guys, this is the smartest think i have read on
this newsgroup in weeks. i also nominate Telemon.
he is one of the few people on the group that
seems to have a cool head. and, as a second, Brenda Ann.
she is so sweet, she could wrangle the group by
being nice to people. think about it.
Drifter...
<sent by apple mail>
m II wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
> > George S Thurman wrote:
> >> The group need a moderator.
>
> > I nominate Telemon.
>
> Persuade Telamon to say:
>
> "The first thing we do...we'll kill all the RHFs and dxAces."
Better to kill all the dumbass Canucks and the retarded who only pretend to be
shortwave hobbyists.
Use the kill file. There have been a few idiots here that just post the
off topic crap and obviously do not have an interest in the news group
subject so just update the kill file with their latest morph.
Freedom of expression like any other freedom requires eternal vigilance.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
You only have to read the pretenders posts for a few days at most to
determine who to kill file. Obviously new morphs that start out off
topic get killed right off the bat. I just look over the subject headers
and it is pretty obvious at first sight. Add the new morph to the kill
file, re-filter, and just read the normal people. I don't have time for
KOOK's.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
Oil, drill now!
cuhulin
JB
The World will never run out of oil and gas.Impossible.
cuhulin
John Barnard wrote:
You fit both the first and the second parts of that sentence even better!
Now haul your non-shortwave hobbyist ass outta here boy and try to find someplace
that caters to retarded Canucks.
> Now haul your non-shortwave hobbyist ass outta here boy and try to find someplace
> that caters to retarded Canucks.
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guy.It is one of those fancy vans, he paid over $19,000.00 for the van
when he bought it brand new.When I got home with the van, I noticed he
had signed the title in the wrong place.He also gave me a bill of sale
on the van.This morning I went down town to see about getting a title
and a license plate and insurance for the van.I already figured what the
lady was going to tell me,,,, He signed the title in the wrong place and
I have to take the title back to him and let him sign it where she
marked a little x.When I got back home this morning, I phoned the guy.He
said he is out of town and wont be back untill Thursday at about 1:00
PM.
It is a very nice van.He bought it brand new and kept it well maintained
and serviced.
cuhulin
JB
John Barnard wrote:
> dxAce wrote:
> >
> > John Barnard wrote:
> >
> >> dxAce wrote:
> >>> m II wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dave wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> George S Thurman wrote:
> >>>>>> The group need a moderator.
> >>>>> I nominate Telemon.
> >>>> Persuade Telamon to say:
> >>>>
> >>>> "The first thing we do...we'll kill all the RHFs and dxAces."
> >>> Better to kill all the dumbass Canucks and the retarded who only pretend to be
> >>> shortwave hobbyists.
> >>>
> >> You fit the second part of that sentence remarkably well.
> >
> > You fit both the first and the second parts of that sentence even better!
> >
> > Now haul your non-shortwave hobbyist ass outta here boy and try to find someplace
> > that caters to retarded Canucks.
> >
> >
> Damn! Don't know much of anything, do you.
Obviously more than you do, dumbass.
"Do you LIKE to lie so much, Mrs. Palin, or do you get a RUSH out of
it?". See, I'm pretty smart - used 'RUSH' as a pun - double entendre
at least, if not a triple.
Think about it, and get back with me if you don't get it, Verns and
Vernettes.
I bet Sarah Palin screams loud when she nuts.
She "corrected the story" only after news reports that she was lying
through her ass.
She lied. She got caught. Then and only then did she admit she lied.
Not that the Clintons or Obama are any worse.
B~
Now tote those business books!
JB