At a meeting with the Republican Governors yesterday [ Thursday September 04 2008 ] Sarah Palin openly stated that the Obama-Biden team have attacked her and her family. She now had to retract that statement.

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In a fundraising email to supporters, Mrs Palin wrote: “The Obama-Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain."

Challenged to name a specific attack by her opponents, the Alaska governor’s spokesman admitted that Mr Obama’s campaign was not responsible.

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Sarah Palin backs down from lying Democrats claim

Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, has been forced to back down from blaming supporters of the Democratic presidential ticket for spreading "misinformation and flat-out lies" about her and her family.

By Alex Spillius in St Paul
Last Updated: 12:00PM BST 05 Sep 2008

Reference Source and rest of the Article - Telegraph UK

Sarah Palin backs down from lying Democrats claim

Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, has been forced to back down from blaming supporters of the Democratic presidential ticket for spreading "misinformation and flat-out lies" about her and her family.

By Alex Spillius in St Paul
Last Updated: 12:00PM BST 05 Sep 2008

In a fundraising email to supporters, Mrs Palin wrote: “The Obama-Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain."

Challenged to name a specific attack by her opponents, the Alaska governor’s spokesman admitted that Mr Obama’s campaign was not responsible.

Asked who was to blame, Maria Comella said: "You want me to tick through all the stuff that's been ticking through all the blogs the past few days?”

The Obama campaign has raised questions about Palin's qualifications based on her six years as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and less than two years as governor, but Obama himself has said her family should be off-limits.

Mrs Palin’s blistering attack on the Illinois senator in her nomination acceptance speech on Wednesday may have pleased the Republican faithful but it has also rallied Democrats.

The Obama campaign meanwhile raised a record £5 million in the 24 hours since Mrs Palin, a moose-hunting, mother of five, made her explosive debut on the national stage.

“I hope she gives a speech every day," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

Palin herself met with Republican governors on Thursday and admitted that she has "a big job cut out in front of me running for vice president".

She did not take questions from reporters, and it remains unclear when she will be fully exposed to the media

In his first press conference after Mrs Palin’s speech, Mr Obama was asked if Mrs Palin had been the victim of sexism and unbalanced reporting.

“I assume she wants to be treated the same way that guys want to be treated, which means that their records are under scrutiny. I've been through this for nineteen months. She's been through it what, four days so far?" he said.

Indicating that he would not retaliate to the Alaska governor’s criticism, he said: "John McCain's running for president. I'm running against John McCain....That speech that she delivered was on behalf of John McCain.”

politics as usual

That is a major blunder by Sarah Palin that begs the question on her credibility.

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:
That is a major blunder by Sarah Palin that begs the question on her credibility.

credibility and politics do not go hand in hand .... every candidate did say or do something and later did otherwise.

Presidential candidates usually do something different when they end up in the oval office.

This is not an issue where:

1. She used a word that can be interpreted in a few ways.

2. A poorly worded sentence that leaves many interpretations.

3. Someone who has misquoted her.

This is a deliberate statement and action that she has made. No areas for multi-meanings/interpretations.

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:
This is not an issue where:

1. She used a word that can be interpreted in a few ways.

2. A poorly worded sentence that leaves many interpretations.

3. Someone who has misquoted her.

This is a deliberate statement and action that she has made. No areas for multi-meanings/interpretations.

was it an issue for you when:

someone was ducking bullets

never been proud of her country

clinging to religion and guns

etc

The issue it that Sarah Palin, the republican Vice Presidential candidate made a blatant lie against her Democratic opponents.

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:
The issue it that Sarah Palin, the republican Vice Presidential candidate made a blatant lie against her Democratic opponents.

Lil minor over-reach of the facts. Look, tghat lil mistake aint mean squat. Bush got exposed for lying and screwing up the ME and got re-elected.

And the Bush legacy continues.... the McCain/Palin team want to lie their way into the White House .
I hope the swing states wake up.

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Originally posted by Pink Panther:

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:
This is not an issue where:

1. She used a word that can be interpreted in a few ways.

2. A poorly worded sentence that leaves many interpretations.

3. Someone who has misquoted her.

This is a deliberate statement and action that she has made. No areas for multi-meanings/interpretations.

was it an issue for you when:

someone was ducking bullets

never been proud of her country

clinging to religion and guns

etc

Mrs Clinton was scourged in the press for "misspeaking". Mrs Palin is on the stump saying she sold a plane on Ebay, she opposed the bridge to nowhere and is out to clean up the lobbyists in Washington. She sold no plane on Ebay, but privately as a loss of some 500KUS; She wanted the bridge and has on retainer a a large lobbing firm. Most of McCain senior staff are lobbyists!

Palin is a lightweight who looks glossy. The electorate should demand substance from her.

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Pink Panther:

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:
This is not an issue where:

1. She used a word that can be interpreted in a few ways.

2. A poorly worded sentence that leaves many interpretations.

3. Someone who has misquoted her.

This is a deliberate statement and action that she has made. No areas for multi-meanings/interpretations.

was it an issue for you when:

someone was ducking bullets

never been proud of her country

clinging to religion and guns

etc

Mrs Clinton was scourged in the press for "misspeaking". Mrs Palin is on the stump saying she sold a plane on Ebay, she opposed the bridge to nowhere and is out to clean up the lobbyists in Washington. She sold no plane on Ebay, but privately as a loss of some 500KUS; She wanted the bridge and has on retainer a a large lobbing firm. Most of McCain senior staff are lobbyists!

That's my kind of woman
Do you have her personal e-mail address.

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Originally posted by Alexander:
Palin is a lightweight who looks glossy. The electorate should demand substance from her.

She has more substance and experience than both Obama and Biden combined! The left wing media should ask Obama more about his substance than presenting him as a celebrity. He is now a fading star.Palin struck a grand slam. Read the polls coming out on monday.

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Originally posted by Alexander:
Palin is a lightweight who looks glossy. The electorate should demand substance from her.

She has more substance and experience than both Obama and Biden combined! The left wing media should ask Obama more about his substance than presenting him as a celebrity. H

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Originally posted by Louie:

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Originally posted by Alexander:
Palin is a lightweight who looks glossy. The electorate should demand substance from her.

She has more substance and experience than both Obama and Biden combined!

. Which planet you just come from? It sure ain't earth.

After listening to Sarah Palin's speach and the political analysis weighs in, her message was clear and sound. Some of our posters took pot shots at the woman because she dim the light on their democratic opponent, Obama. These so call straight thinkers are bias panic of Palin's lipstick, pit bull style.

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Originally posted by Mr.T:

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Originally posted by Louie:

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Originally posted by Alexander:
Palin is a lightweight who looks glossy. The electorate should demand substance from her.

She has more substance and experience than both Obama and Biden combined!

. Which planet you just come from? It sure ain't earth.

I think the man talking about sticky substance

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer – Wed Sep 3, 11:48 pm ET
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Some examples:
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 re port 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-F uture 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.

Politics is not about righteousness, but about swaying minds, by the hook or by the crook, and both are equally successful.

Credit to baseman for this line.

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Originally posted by Prince Juno:
Politics is not about righteousness, but about swaying minds, by the hook or by the crook, and both are equally successful.

Credit to baseman for this line.

If you have a mind you can be swayed. If the above does not strike you as significant then you do not have a mind

Sarah Palin and John McCain:

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Lobbyist

"I'm going to tell those lobbyists that their days of running Washington are over."


Were Sarah Palin and John McCain speaking directly about??

1. McCain's Campaign Manager -- one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington.

2. McCain's Campaign Chairman -- one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington?

You can't make a mountain from a hill with little white lies.