"Palin, as she said, drives herself to work. In July, her Chevy Suburban was rear-ended while driving from Wasilla to her office in downtown Anchorage."
Everything else out of mouth has pretty munch been debunked by ABC right here.
Full Version: She told the truth...
Wow, they found their poster child for repugs. Now the truth will seek its level, they will all be drowned.
On Obama, Earmarks, Palin Less Than Honest
Palin's RNC Speech Bent the Truth on Her Record and on the Opposition
lets repeat this as often as necessary in as many threads as necessary and to our neighbors etc
Palin's RNC Speech Bent the Truth on Her Record and on the Opposition
lets repeat this as often as necessary in as many threads as necessary and to our neighbors etc
I can't help it, her getting rear ended reminds me of my over the top signature bumber sticker!
Hey there Sean! Good to see ya here!
Well, I have QUITE a lot to say on this:
It was well delivered, and the intent was clear. Palin poured acid all over every Democrat or anyone who believes in those unalienable rights we are endowed with by our creator, along with those other pesky principles of our Constitution, a document she, remarkably, didn't mention even once.
It was the same old divisive, polarizing, self-righteous, pious rhetoric. Not lofty like "their opponent," just unjustifiably self-righteous and superior. She adopted the Bush Doctrine of polarizing, disingenuous "if I say it on TV it must be true" impossibly skewed hogwash, that does nothing but encourage alienation and mutual disdain. Her words purposefully set out to widen the already historic divide in this country. She took the ball and ran it into a fiery pit. It was by far the nastiest, most belligerent speech I've ever heard. Rove's fingerprints were ALL over it.
Good job. Now IT'S ON! Was that the point? If so, heck of a job Brownie.
I'll tell you something else. I'm making a prediction . . . I know the Democrat who's going to hit back . . . wait for it . . . Hillary Clinton! Palin thinks she's the "barracuda" hit woman? Hillary Clinton is a going to squash her like the annoying, little sock-puppet insect that she is! Palin just made sure there's not one single Hillary-hold-out left with a shadow of doubt about voting for Obama, including Hillary herself in the deepest reaches of her soul! She wants to be a history-making feminist? She's never MET a feminist!!!!!!
That was some extreme right wing, Rush Limpbrain, vicious bunch half-truths, untruths, and outright lying, hypocritical "snide," propaganda! Her "family values" comes with a mouth on it! I'd like to snatch that "Palin Poof" right off her head!
She better not "whine" about sexism again after she said Hilllary was a "whiner" during the primary. She better not "whine" about her kids, after they staged that meet and greet at the airport for her daughter and the baby daddy, and they better not "whine" that anyone is being mean to her and making it personal, after she leveled that kind of assault on the character and sincerity of all Democrats!
IT IS OOOOOOONNNN! That was her goal, and she achieved it! She should be getting an at-a-girl phone call from from "W" any minute.
Lol, it's just as a thought. This speech was written by Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, AND much of it was written before Palin was even the nominee. See HERE. She is a paper tiger, through and through.
It's also interesting to note, in case any of the Bull in the speeches of Palin and others is still stuck in your ear canal, that AP has assembled a fact sheet - just in case truth matters to a few Republicans. See HERE. Here's a sample:
HERE's another fact check on the Palin speech:
Both of these provide is a very good fact checks with extensive sourcing.
LMAO, you have got to watch Jon Stewart with some hilarious clips of various republicans wildly contradicting themselves in order to support Palin: See HERE.
I KNEW IT! HERE comes Hillary.
Well, I have QUITE a lot to say on this:
It was well delivered, and the intent was clear. Palin poured acid all over every Democrat or anyone who believes in those unalienable rights we are endowed with by our creator, along with those other pesky principles of our Constitution, a document she, remarkably, didn't mention even once.
It was the same old divisive, polarizing, self-righteous, pious rhetoric. Not lofty like "their opponent," just unjustifiably self-righteous and superior. She adopted the Bush Doctrine of polarizing, disingenuous "if I say it on TV it must be true" impossibly skewed hogwash, that does nothing but encourage alienation and mutual disdain. Her words purposefully set out to widen the already historic divide in this country. She took the ball and ran it into a fiery pit. It was by far the nastiest, most belligerent speech I've ever heard. Rove's fingerprints were ALL over it.
Good job. Now IT'S ON! Was that the point? If so, heck of a job Brownie.
I'll tell you something else. I'm making a prediction . . . I know the Democrat who's going to hit back . . . wait for it . . . Hillary Clinton! Palin thinks she's the "barracuda" hit woman? Hillary Clinton is a going to squash her like the annoying, little sock-puppet insect that she is! Palin just made sure there's not one single Hillary-hold-out left with a shadow of doubt about voting for Obama, including Hillary herself in the deepest reaches of her soul! She wants to be a history-making feminist? She's never MET a feminist!!!!!!
That was some extreme right wing, Rush Limpbrain, vicious bunch half-truths, untruths, and outright lying, hypocritical "snide," propaganda! Her "family values" comes with a mouth on it! I'd like to snatch that "Palin Poof" right off her head!
She better not "whine" about sexism again after she said Hilllary was a "whiner" during the primary. She better not "whine" about her kids, after they staged that meet and greet at the airport for her daughter and the baby daddy, and they better not "whine" that anyone is being mean to her and making it personal, after she leveled that kind of assault on the character and sincerity of all Democrats!
IT IS OOOOOOONNNN! That was her goal, and she achieved it! She should be getting an at-a-girl phone call from from "W" any minute.
Lol, it's just as a thought. This speech was written by Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, AND much of it was written before Palin was even the nominee. See HERE. She is a paper tiger, through and through.
It's also interesting to note, in case any of the Bull in the speeches of Palin and others is still stuck in your ear canal, that AP has assembled a fact sheet - just in case truth matters to a few Republicans. See HERE. Here's a sample:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
HERE's another fact check on the Palin speech:
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Palin: "To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."
Sarah Palin might have changed her mind on this one recently. However, a comment here notes that Palin actually slashed funding for schools for special needs kids by 62%. Budgets: FY 2007 (pre-Palin), 2008, 2009 (all pdfs).
UPDATE: This is wrong. As you can see if you look at the list of component budgets here (2007) and here (2009), funding for the Alaska Challenge Youth Academy was broken out into its own budget category, which accounts for the drop in funding for the original item. I regret the error. Thanks to rory in comments.END UPDATE.
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Sarah Palin might have changed her mind on this one recently. However, a comment here notes that Palin actually slashed funding for schools for special needs kids by 62%. Budgets: FY 2007 (pre-Palin), 2008, 2009 (all pdfs).
UPDATE: This is wrong. As you can see if you look at the list of component budgets here (2007) and here (2009), funding for the Alaska Challenge Youth Academy was broken out into its own budget category, which accounts for the drop in funding for the original item. I regret the error. Thanks to rory in comments.END UPDATE.
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Both of these provide is a very good fact checks with extensive sourcing.
LMAO, you have got to watch Jon Stewart with some hilarious clips of various republicans wildly contradicting themselves in order to support Palin: See HERE.
I KNEW IT! HERE comes Hillary.
Good stuff!
Nice to see you too Teri.
Nice to see you too Teri.
QUOTE (Sean @ Sep 5 2008, 01:08 PM) 
Good stuff!
Nice to see you too Teri.
Nice to see you too Teri.
It's incredible, all the lies that she's told in such a short period of time! The problem is they're going to shield their Caribou Barbie, Trophy VP from the media. She can give a speech, mostly written before she was even chosen, and heck, she read a teleprompter as a local sports caster, but can she answer any real questions with any kind of knowledge or intelligence? We may never know.
Palin Media Avoidance Watch, Day Seven
(And yes, calling her those things is sexist, but I'M OFFENDED! REAL feminists are not beauty queens, objectifying themselves for what, attention? REAL feminists don't take the positions she has on women's issues or trade on their looks, and she had the NERVE to compare herself to Clinton and raise the specter of those who fought for women's right to vote? Oh, it's ON now. )
QUOTE (Sean @ Sep 5 2008, 12:54 PM)
I can't help it, her getting rear ended reminds me of my over the top signature bumber sticker!
Have you seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7xMGcuKK0
This one's too damn funny. I was rolling!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
He must have thought his invisibility cloak was on.
McCain set her up as a Bimbo from word go!
QUOTE
(And yes, calling her those things is sexist, but I'M OFFENDED! REAL feminists are not beauty queens, objectifying themselves for what, attention? REAL feminists don't take the positions she has on women's issues or trade on their looks, and she had the NERVE to compare herself to Clinton and raise the specter of those who fought for women's right to vote? Oh, it's ON now. )
As Gloria Steinem said feminism was never about getting one woman a high powered job. It is about empowering all women so they we can attain descent standard of living. Everything Caribou Barbie standards for hurts women. She doesn't get to claim sexism to hide from media attention.
If she wanted to show that she was tough enough to be VP, then calling out Hillary was a BIG mistake.
QUOTE (TeriB @ Sep 5 2008, 01:27 PM)
Have you seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7xMGcuKK0
This one's too damn funny. I was rolling!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
He must have thought his invisibility cloak was on.
McCain set her up as a Bimbo from word go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7xMGcuKK0
This one's too damn funny. I was rolling!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
He must have thought his invisibility cloak was on.
McCain set her up as a Bimbo from word go!
That's great! I prefer the first one, w/o the voice over.
LMMFAO!
QUOTE (Sean @ Sep 5 2008, 10:43 AM)
"Palin, as she said, drives herself to work. In July, her Chevy Suburban was rear-ended while driving from Wasilla to her office in downtown Anchorage."
Everything else out of mouth has pretty munch been debunked by ABC right here.
Everything else out of mouth has pretty munch been debunked by ABC right here.
Well that's fine & dandy for ABC.com but I want ta see this on ABC tv!!!
QUOTE (roborok @ Sep 5 2008, 06:20 PM)
Well that's fine & dandy for ABC.com but I want ta see this on ABC tv!!!
You and I both.
QUOTE
I can't help it, her getting rear ended reminds me of my over the top signature bumber sticker!
I would imagine that she's been "rear ended" more than once in her life.
I heard she backed into the entire football team in High School.
QUOTE (TeriB @ Sep 5 2008, 01:27 PM)
Have you seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7xMGcuKK0
This one's too damn funny. I was rolling!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
He must have thought his invisibility cloak was on.
McCain set her up as a Bimbo from word go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7xMGcuKK0
This one's too damn funny. I was rolling!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
He must have thought his invisibility cloak was on.
McCain set her up as a Bimbo from word go!
Ya'll are bent!
That is some messed up sh*t!!!
No, that sh*t is messed up!!!
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