tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33769794073763130132024-03-12T23:06:47.999-07:00Sarah Palin Lies: DebunkedThis blog was created to debunk the lies, distortions and personal attacks from Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign. It's time to hold them accountable for what they say.Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-59534511181208750172008-11-05T07:25:00.000-08:002008-11-05T07:28:47.881-08:00YES WE DID!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CbzQGg8IC3ta1i6fKjCrkQlVo42c2eH0MWbKf0CnPfltecj-1sOKLu_MmnAMfFW7lDNh-wiHh5WFvzu-JafEQ3OqVZFMmQZX2Ch54m5D-EvWxVv1UrLkyiJCUzEydH3MBf_hDhqZzfg/s1600-h/Obama+Wins.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265195455801896754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 189px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CbzQGg8IC3ta1i6fKjCrkQlVo42c2eH0MWbKf0CnPfltecj-1sOKLu_MmnAMfFW7lDNh-wiHh5WFvzu-JafEQ3OqVZFMmQZX2Ch54m5D-EvWxVv1UrLkyiJCUzEydH3MBf_hDhqZzfg/s320/Obama+Wins.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>A picture is worth a thousand words!</strong></div></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-89859489147903387872008-11-03T21:15:00.000-08:002008-11-03T21:17:25.995-08:00Go Vote!Thanks to the thousands of readers who have visited this blog since it was launched the night of Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican Convention. Now it's up to you so go out and VOTE!<br /><br />Hoping for a big Barack win!Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-6667876555065994842008-11-01T08:46:00.000-07:002008-11-01T08:58:31.753-07:00Palin thinks Constitution protects her from media criticismNo one would ever accuse Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> of being a Constitutional genius. After all, she thinks the Constitution gives the VP power to rule the Senate. Her latest display of stunning ignorance came during an interview yesterday with conservative talk radio show <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">WMAL</span>-AM. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Palin</span> said her First Amendment rights are threatened by reports who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Obama:<br /><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><em>"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."</em> </div><br />Poor Sarah really is clueless. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech AND freedom of the press. That means she can say whatever ridiculous <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">nonsense</span> she wants and the press can call her on it. Instead, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Palin</span> thinks the First Amendment was intended to give political candidates the freedom to say whatever they want without being criticized by the press.<br /><br />Too bad the McCain campaign handlers couldn't give <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Palin</span> a cram course in Constitutional rights since she's running to potentially be President. I suggest when <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Palin</span> gets back to Alaska, she funnel more money towards education in her state, sounds like they might need it. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Palin thinks Constitution protects her from media criticism";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Palin thinks Constitution protects her from media criticism";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/11/palin-thinks-constitution-protects-her.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-88703044984693612662008-10-31T08:27:00.000-07:002008-10-31T09:59:04.917-07:00Top McCain Supporter Says Palin NOT Ready to Lead<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Just in time for Halloweeen, Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State and top McCain supporter, gave a frightening summary of Palin's qualifications during a an NPR radio interview yesterday. Eagleburger was asked if Palin could take take over the reins as President if the need arose; here is his SCARY assessment:</span><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I don't think at the moment she is prepared to take over the reins of the presidency. I can name for you any number of other vice presidents who were not particularly up to it either. So the question, I think, is can she learn and would she be tough enough under the circumstances if she were asked to become president, heaven forbid that that ever takes place? </em></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div align="center"><br /><em>Give her some time in the office and I think the answer would be, she will be [pause] adequate. <strong>I can't say that she would be a genius in the job</strong>. <strong>But I think she would be enough to get us through a four year... well I hope not... get us through whatever period of time was necessary. And I devoutly hope that it would never be tested</strong>."</em></div><br />OUCH! With friends like that who needs enemies? McCain frequently cites Eagleburger as one of his top supporters and immediately threw out his name to counterpunch Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama. You've got to admire Eagleburger's honesty since he had the guts to say what everyone else in the Republican Party surely thinks but doesn't say out loud. Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of State under George Bush, Sr., has made it clear he doesn't think Palin is smart enough to get us through whatever period of time might be needed in a crisis. Brilliant!<br /><br />Anyone thinking of voting for McCain needs to take one thought in the voting booth with them: Do you want to put Palin in the Oval Office? This woman shouldn't even have the keys to the Governor's house in Alaska much less the code to the U.S. nuclear arsenal. McCain tried to trick Americans into thinking Palin was a qualified candidate for VP - let's treat her to a one-way ticket back to Alaska.<br /><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Top McCain Supporter Says Palin NOT Ready to Lead";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Former Sec. of State Lawrence Eagleburger says Palin not smart enough or ready to take over as president";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-mccain-supporter-says-palin-not.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-70555380081949896782008-10-30T07:57:00.000-07:002008-10-30T09:24:39.673-07:00Joe the Plumber now on McCain's Foreign Policy Team<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Will someone please flush Joe the Plumber down John the Toilet so we don't have to be tortured by this knucklehead anymore! Joe, whose real name is Samuel and who isn't a licensed plumber, is now on the campaign trail with McCain and Palin dispensing foreign policy opinion. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As unbelievable as it seems, McCain the Senator appears to be pinning the hopes of his entire directionless campaign on Joe's self-promoting shoulders. And "Joe" is loving it. He now has a publicist, an impending country music record deal, a spot on McCain's campaign bus and has announced he may run for Congress. Worst of all, he is offering his political opinion every chance he gets and McCain is now issuing statements agreeing with him! Joe's inane pontificating has gotten so bad that even a Fox "News" anchor had to set him straight.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In Ohio yesterday, some idiot in the crowd asked Joe whether he thought a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel. Joe gamely responded, <em>"I'll go ahead and agree with you on that."</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">NO, really - you agree Joe? Gee, and I thought you had an open mind about the election which is why you bulldozed your way to the front of the line to ask Obama a question about his tax plan the infamous day he was campaigning in your neighborhood. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">When Fox's </span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Shepard Smith questioned Joe about the comment, he became so frustrated that he not only made a truthful statement about Obama's real position (a first for Fox) but he added a disclaimer after they pulled the plug on Joe. Watch the clip: <p><br /><embed id="mediumFlashEmbedded" name="FOX News" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live/current/videolandingpage/fncLargePlayer/client/embedded/embedded.swf" width="305" height="275" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" play="false" scale="noscale" menu="false" salign="LT" scriptaccess="always" wmode="false" flashvars="playerId=videolandingpage&playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&categoryTitle=undefined&referralObject=3170185"></embed><br /><p><br />Geez Joe, you clueless blabbermouth, maybe you should take your own advice and get informed. If a Fox "News" anchor is frightened by McCain's lunatic fringe the rest of us should be horrified by the prospect of people like Joe being able to cast a ballot. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Joe the Plumber on McCain's Foreign Policy Team";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Joe the Plumber dispenses foreign policy advice on the campaign trail with McCain";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/foxs-shepard-smith-forced_n_138674.html;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script></p><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-86583052105905641792008-10-29T12:24:00.000-07:002008-10-29T13:13:41.186-07:00McCain's newest guilt-by-association gamePoor pathetic John McCain is desperately trying to conjure up a new guilt-by-association game with less than one week until Election Day. During a radio interview this morning in Florida, McCain fantasized about an absurd tie between Barack Obama and Palestinian-American activist <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Rashid</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Khalidi</span> in an attempt to sway the Jewish vote. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Khalidi</span> at some point in his life may or may not have attended an event with - you guessed it - Bill Ayers. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Khalidi</span>, who McCain called a "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">neo</span>-Nazi", is not connected to Obama but McCain is trying to create a tie via the nearly non-existent relationship between Obama and Ayers.<br /><br />Got that? Here's what McCain told the radio station:<br /><br /><div align="center"><em>“I think the whole issue of the relationship with Bill Ayers needs to be known by the American people. Sen. Obama said it was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know much more than that. I don’t care much about an old, washed-up, unrepentant terrorist, and his wife who was on the FBI Top 10 Wanted list. We should know about their relationship including, apparently, information that is held by the Los Angeles Times concerning an event that Mr. Ayers attended with a PLO spokesman."</em></div><br />Who cares if Ayers attended a party with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Khalidi</span> or the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">boogeyman</span> for that matter. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Obama or this election. No one has brought up McCain's friendship with convicted felon G. Gordon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Liddy</span>.<br /><br />In 1998, G. Gordon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Liddy</span> hosted a fundraiser for John McCain, and last year, McCain went on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Liddy's</span> radio show and said, <em>"I'm proud of you,I'm proud of your family. It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."</em><br /><br />Really, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Liddy</span> makes our nation great? <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Liddy</span> makes no apologies for his role in engineering the illegal Watergate break-in and says the prison time he received for those activities made him a "prisoner of war" - I wonder if McCain would equate <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Liddy's</span> time in jail with his time in the Hanoi Hilton? On his radio talk show, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Liddy</span> advised his listeners on how to deal with federal agents, <em>"Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. ... Kill the sons of bitches." </em><br /><br />If McCain wants to create a relationship that doesn't exist between Obama and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Khalidi</span>, he should be ready to defend his "proud" friendship with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Liddy</span>. He should also be ready to talk about Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Palin's</span> connection to the Alaska Independence Party, which preaches secession from the U.S. and violence against the government. Her husband was a member of the party for seven years and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Palin</span> herself has expressed her support for their political activities.<br /><br />It's time McCain rode off on the Straight Talk Express into the Arizona sunset. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain's latest guilt-by-association game";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain's latest guilt-by-association game";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccains-latest-guilt-by-association.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-18059097534307300602008-10-28T12:08:00.000-07:002008-10-28T14:00:55.307-07:00McCain adviser admits their health care plan is ailing!<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Today McCain's senior economic policy adviser, Douglas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Holtz</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Eakin</span>, all but admitted the campaign's health care plan is a sham. During an interview on <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/28/news/economy/health_care_and_election/?postversion=2008102807">CNN</a>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Holtz</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Eakin</span> discussed whether younger, healthier workers would be likely to abandon their company-sponsored health care plans and spend McCain's health care tax credit to buy insurance on the free market. He said:</span><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"Why would they leave? What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit." </em></span></div><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">That's a great admission from the campaign since the entire premise of their plan is that people can do better on the free market -- hence the tax credit. According to McCain, a market-based system means better, cheaper health care. Now his senior policy adviser admits that's not so even though McCain wants to tax employer health benefits to push people to get insurance on the free market (where providers can deny you coverage for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">pre</span>-existing conditions).</span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bottom line: McCain's senior adviser says even the young and healthy would NOT be able to afford good insurance with their McCain-provided health care tax credit. Sounds like McCain put as much thought into his health care plan as he did into picking Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Palin</span> as his running mate. </p></span><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain adviser admits their health plan is ailing";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain adviser says their health care tax credit won't work" attack doesn't hold water";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-adviser-admits-their-health-care.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-83569941981608739212008-10-28T08:17:00.000-07:002008-10-28T08:34:58.713-07:00Corruption runs rampant in Alaska politicsLess than two weeks after Sarah Palin was found guilty of violating a state ethics law in the Troopergate scandal, Senator Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) was found guilty yesterday of seven counts of corruption. This morning, John McCain called for Stevens to step down from the Senate. Stevens said that not only does he NOT intend to resign, but he is also going to continue his current campaign for re-election.<br /><br />If Alaskans vote to return Stevens, a convicted felon, to the Senate, it will show just how easy it is for anyone, regardless of qualifications, to get elected to public office in their state (i.e. Sarah Palin).<br /><br />The McCain campaign and Sarah Palin have strangely remained coy about whether Palin supported Stevens re-election and whether she would vote for him now that he's a convicted felon. On MSNBC Tuesday morning, McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds talked around the point when asked whether Palin and Alaskans should vote for a convicted felon:<br /><div align="center"><br /><em>"I don't expect that they [McCain and Palin) would cast their ballot for Ted Stevens if they were Alaska voters."</em></div><br />Seems like political spin to me, not a straightforward answer. McCain isn't an Alaskan so take him out of the equation. Palin is an Alaskan so she's either going to vote for Stevens, vote for his Democratic opponent, or not vote at all.<br /><br />Yesterday, after Stevens' conviction was announced, Palin was purposely non-committal in her response to the news saying, <em>"I'm confident Senator Stevens will do what's right for the people of Alaska."</em> Which means what? Palin <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/27/palin-reserved-in-reactio_n_138361.html">stopped short</a> of calling on Stevens to resign or drop out of the Senate race against his opponent Mark Begich. Palin has previously <a href="http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/09/palin_noncommit.html">declined to reveal</a> whether or not she supported Stevens' reelection bid even though she once <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html">served as a director</a> of a Stevens-steered 527 group.<br /><br />As a fellow law-breaker, perhaps Palin has some empathy for Stevens. As a potential VP of the U.S., she should clearly state whether she supports his continued bid for re-election. It's time for Palin to step up to the microphone and speak the truth for a change. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Corruption runs rampant in Alaska politics";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Sarah Palin and Senator Ted Stevens have both been tagged as lawbreakers." attack doesn't hold water";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/unethical-behavior-runs-rampant-in.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-16660971349338840152008-10-27T15:53:00.000-07:002008-10-27T16:24:23.398-07:00McCain's latest "tax and spend" attack doesn't jive<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Today in Cleveland, Ohio, McCain was peddling his latest in a long line of failed campaign tactics. He is now proclaiming that Obama is a tax-and-spend liberal and the country can't survive if the Democrats control the White House, Senate and Congress.<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Although facts don't matter to McCain, they do matter to most of the rest of us. The fact is the “tax and spend” label the Republicans have hung on the shoulders of Democrats for more than 60 years is a myth of their own creation. Here are the facts:</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><ul><li>When Republicans were in control of the presidency and both Houses of Congress, neither debt, nor government spending was ever reduced. <li>The last time a Republican Congress reduced the national debt was in 1947, under Harry Truman. <li>The last time the debt was reduced was in 1961 during President Kennedy’s first year in office. <li>Since President Johnson, every Democrat has increased revenue more than spending. <li>Under all five Republican Presidents, since Nixon, government revenue has decreased and spending has increased. <li>Clinton raised the national debt an average of 4.3% per year. The previous and current Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Bush II) raised the debt an average of 10.8% per year. <li>Under the first five years of George W. Bush, federal spending increased by 45%. During the eight Clinton years federal spending increased 32%. <li>The last year Clinton was in office the nation borrowed $18 billion. The first year Bush II was in office he borrowed $133 billion. <li>The increase in total debt under Reagan was larger than all the debt accumulated by all the presidents before him combined. </li></ul></li>The truth is the Republicans borrow and spend, taking money from countries like China without devising any way to raise the revenue needed to pay off our debts. And thanks to </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bush’s brilliant strategy of cutting taxes without cutting spending, in 2003 he set a record for the biggest single yearly dollar increase in debt in the nation’s history. He did it again in 2004, increasing the debt more than half a trillion dollars. Of course the debt is so large now (more than $10 trillion) it no longer fits on the ticker board in New York City. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Handing over the economy to the Republicans again would be like giving a bus load of kids a credit card and cutting them loose in a candy shop. </p></span><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain's latest "tax and spend" attack doesn't hold water";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain's latest "tax and spend" attack doesn't hold water";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccains-latest-tax-and-spend-attack.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-7775246473246487702008-10-27T15:10:00.000-07:002008-10-27T15:50:12.973-07:00Telemarketers walk off job rather than do McCain's dirty work<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Despite the troubling economy, some workers in Indiana would rather forfeit their pay than do John McCain's dirty work. According to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">TPM</span> Election Central, three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in the battleground state of Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script. The workers were asked to call voterse and attack Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The McCain campaign, which <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">apparently</span> can't get enough volunteers to staff its phone banks, hired the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Americall</span> call center in Hobart, IN instead. The telemarketing script the call center received coincided with McCain's <a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/another_new_mccain_robo-slime.php"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">robo</span>-slime call</a> running in other states. Because <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">robocalling</span> is illegal in Indiana, the telemarketers were hired to read the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">robocall</span> script. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">One worker at the center who walked out said, <em>"we were asked to read something saying [Obama and Democrats] were against protecting children from danger. I wouldn't do it. A lot of people left. They thought it was disgusting."</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />You know things are bad for your campaign when you can't pay someone to work for you.<br /><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Telemarketers walk off job rather than do McCain's dirty work";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Telemarketers walk off job rather than do McCain's dirty work";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/telemarketers-walk-off-job-rather-than.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-65586842045037815422008-10-27T07:49:00.000-07:002008-10-27T08:06:22.691-07:00McCain's Meet the Press interview rivals Palin's media gaffes<div align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">John McCain is beginning to sound like Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> did in her disastrous media interviews. Yesterday on Meet the Press, McCain gave several incoherent, rambling answers to question posed by moderator Tom Brokaw. A very prickly McCain was asked by Brokaw to explain how he can slam Obama on taxing the wealthy when he held a similar position (until reinventing himself for the current election). Brokaw played a clip from a interview McCain gave during the 2000 presidential race where he said: </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><em>"I really believe, that when you are--reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more." </em></span></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span></em></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">When asked to explain his change in positions, McCain's answer was almost as nonsensical as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Palin's</span> when she said she had foreign policy credentials because you can see Russia from Alaska. Here's what McCain said about his previous support for taxing the wealthy vs. his position now:</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><div align="center"><br /><em>"Listen, even the flat tax people somewhat pay more. Even--you put into different, different categories of wealthier people paying, paying higher taxes into different brackets. I mean, and the, and these are different times, my friend. These are times of the biggest financial crisis we've faced in America...So, so let me just tell you again, I also said, when I opposed the Bush tax cuts, said--that is left out of this equation, I said I've got to--we've got to get spending under control. Spending was completely out of control. We laid a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America. We owe the Chinese a half a trillion dollars. Spending was, was the, was the, I think, the really biggest aspect, to a large degree. It weakens the dollar, it raises the cost of goods to Americans. The housing crisis combined with a, with a country that's living way beyond its means is a, is a combination which has put us into this great financial crisis we're in."</em></div><br />Congratulations if you can make sense of that because it sounds like complete gibberish to me. It's hard to defend an indefensible position (i.e. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">flipflopping</span> completely on an issue to pander to voters) so it's no wonder McCain stumbled. Move over Palin, you've got competition from McCain in the "what did he/she just say?" department. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain's Meet the Press interview rivals Palin's media gaffes";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain's Meet the Press interview rivals Palin's media gaffes";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccains-meet-press-interview-rivals.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p><br /></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-78482660704329732712008-10-26T08:00:00.001-07:002008-10-26T08:20:43.526-07:00Palin's hometown paper endorses ObamaSarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin's</span> home newspaper, the conservative Anchorage Daily News, yesterday endorsed Barack Obama for president. In a week marked by major defections from prominent Republican supporters, the Alaska newspaper's rejection of their own Governor is icing on the cake. The paper's editorial statement said:<br /><br /><div align="center"><em>"...few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown, two deadly wars and a deteriorating climate crisis would stretch the governor beyond her range. Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time."</em></div><br />Ouch! Along with labeling <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Palin</span> a "risky choice," the paper heaped criticism on McCain saying he was the wrong choice for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">president</span> at this critical time:<br /><br /><div align="center"><em>"Since his early acknowledgement that economic policy is not his strong suit, Sen. McCain has stumbled and fumbled badly in dealing with the accelerating crisis as it emerged. He declared that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" at 9 a.m. one day and by 11 a.m. was describing an economy in crisis. He is both a longtime advocate of less market regulation and a supporter of the huge taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailout. His behavior in this crisis -- erratic is a kind description -- shows him to be ill-equipped to lead the essential effort of reining in a runaway financial system and setting an anxious nation on course to economic recovery."</em></div><br />The paper praised Obama for his cool, steady hand during the economic crisis adding that he brings far more promise to the office. Among his qualifications, they cite his warning to regulators and the nation 19 months ago that the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">subprime</span> lending crisis was about to collapse, his keen understanding of the mortgage <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">meltdown's</span> root causes, his ability to shape a solution, and his leadership to rally the country. They also point out his astute position on Iraq<br /><br />McCain and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Palin</span> who've been beating the "maverick" theme into the ground, got the tables turned by the Daily News who said:<br /><br /><div align="center"><em>"Sen. McCain describes himself as a maverick, by which he seems to mean that he spent 25 years trying unsuccessfully to persuade his own party to follow his bipartisan, centrist lead. Sadly, maverick John McCain didn't show up for the campaign. Instead we have candidate McCain, who embraces the extreme Republican orthodoxy he once resisted and cynically asks Americans to buy for another four years."</em></div><br />The paper closed their endorsement by saying Obama is the only one who truly promises fundamental change in Washington, adding:<br /><br />"You need look no further than the guilt-by-association lies and sound-bite distortions of the degenerating McCain campaign to see how readily he embraces the divisive, fear-mongering tactics of Karl Rove. "<br /><br />It looks like the gig is up for McCain and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Palin</span>. When your hometown paper can't say something nice and goes so far as to point out your <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">similarities</span> to Karl Rove, you know you're in trouble. The paper's endorsement of Obama renews my faith in Alaskans. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Palin's hometown paper endorses Obama";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Anchorage Daily News endorses Obama for president";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/palins-hometown-paper-endorses-obama.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-78141143872126780052008-10-25T07:39:00.000-07:002008-10-25T07:54:57.184-07:00McCain's sleazy new robocall says Obama will endanger American lives<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The McCain campaign has launched yet another despicable <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">robocall</span> that claims Barack Obama would endanger American lives if elected.The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/24/new-mccain-robocall-obama_n_137629.html">audio</a> of call, which ran in Wisconsin on Friday, asserts: </span><br /><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"Democrats attempt to cut off crucial troop funding. Accuse our troops of war crimes. And Senator <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Biden</span> predicts Senator Obama will be tested. A weak president will indeed be tested. Obama and Democrat's politics endanger American lives. They are not qualified to lead our military and our country. When you vote, vote for the team that puts leadership, character and country first. John McCain."</em></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Sadly, this latest appalling campaign tactic from McCain hasn't gotten as much coverage as the Bill Ayers <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">robocall</span> and others. It seems even the media is getting tired of McCain's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">low ball</span> tactics and isn't wasting their time reporting on the deluge of sleaze. Let's hope the voters are more disgusted with it and reward McCain with a huge defeat on Nov. 4.<br /><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain's sleazy new robocall says opponents will endanger American lives";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain's sleazy new robocall says opponents will endanger American lives if elected.";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccains-sleazy-new-robocall-says.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-60595239684438044432008-10-24T17:56:00.000-07:002008-10-24T19:03:57.931-07:00Palin says Bush is their biggest problemIn tonight's interview with Brian Williams, Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> said President Bush is the number one problem for the Republican ticket. Actually, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Palin</span> is the number one problem but who's keeping count. In a new poll, 55 percent of respondents said Palin wasn't qualified to serve as president. In another poll, voters listed her (lack of)qualifications as the No. 1 concern they had about McCain’s candidacy, ahead of the economy and the war in Iraq. <p>McCain is also beating the anti-Bush drum this week as he sees his presidential hopes slipping away. After seeking Bush's endorsement and proudly stating he voted with Bush <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uThoBMfcFRc">90% of the time</a>, now McCain can't get away from him quick enough now.<br /><br />In an interview Thursday with The Washington Times, McCain contemptuously launched into a long list of Bush's shortcomings:<br /><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><em>“Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government — larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America — owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously.”</em> </div><br />McCain's comments are hilarious since he was complicit in all of the above mentioned failures. McCain voted for the war and the budgets to fund it, except for one because it had a timeline for withdrawal attached to it. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">He was</span> also a rabid supporter of deregulation of the financial systems. McCain should turn the mirror on himself if he's looking for a place to lay blame.<br /><br />At a campaign rally in Denver today, McCain said:<br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><em>“We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: hoping for our luck to change at home and abroad.”</em> </div><br />My sentiments exactly, which is why McCain is the last person on earth we should elect since none of his major policies differ from Bush. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck -- and McCain's anti-Bush rhetoric is all washed up. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Palin says Bush is their biggest problem";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Palin says Bush is the campaign's biggest problem, even though it's her.";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/palin-says-bush-is-their-biggest.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-52360209890544972702008-10-24T12:49:00.000-07:002008-10-24T13:11:35.808-07:00Republican Exodus: Party Faithful Flee from McCainLast weekend Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama, opening the floodgates for other defections. Today, the The Wall Street Journal reports one of John McCain's actual advisers has not only endorsed Obama, but already voted for him by absentee <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ballot</span>. Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, expressed his enthusiastic support for McCain in January and served as an advisor on McCain's <a href="http://www.johnmccain.com/informing/news/PressReleases/90c928f6-38c7-4dc3-86c6-15149dbb8e07.htm">Honest and Open Election Committee</a> and <a href="http://www.johnmccain.com/informing/News/PressReleases/34a065bf-cc56-4c2d-8bf6-229315cfc3f3.htm">Justice Advisory Committee</a>.<br /><br />This week, Fried announced that he has voted for Obama and asked that his name be removed from the McCain campaign-related committees on which he serves. Fried said a big reason for his defection "is the choice of Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Palin</span> at a time of deep national crisis."<br /><br />Other Republicans who've bailed from the McCain campaign this week include:<br /><ul><li>Scott McClellan, Bush's former Press Secretary</li><li>Arnie Carson, former Republican Governor from Minneapolis</li><li>Former Republican Massachusetts Gov. William Weld</li><li>The grandchildren of former Arizona Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, McCain's beloved conservative role model</li></ul><p>Don't be surprised if <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Palin</span> announces her endorsement for Obama next. Ever the political opportunist, Palin surely wants to avoid the loser label that will be forever attached to her resume if McCain's flailing campaign fails. <p><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Republican Exodus: Party Faithful Flee from McCain";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Republicans ditch McCain and endorse Obama";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/republican-exodus-party-faithful-flee.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-3548428091689416322008-10-23T21:36:00.000-07:002008-10-24T11:20:25.713-07:00Palin's makeup artist highest paid McCain staffer in OctoberMcCain and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> have been barnstorming through "Real America" as the lunch bucket, average Joe & Jane candidates while spending all sorts of money on "elitist" things. Yesterday we learned that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Palin</span> spent $150,000 on clothes the past month. Today we learn that the highest paid staffer on the campaign was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Palin's</span> makeup artist. Yep, a makeup artist was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October to work on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Palin</span> the Reformer.<br /><br />Amy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Strozzi</span>, a "Hollywood celebrity" makeup artist, was the single highest paid person on McCain's staff, surpassing Randy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Scheunemann</span>, chief foreign policy adviser and Nicolle Wallace, senior communications strategist.<br /><br />Kind of hard for Palin to pitch herself as the average Jane when she spent more on makeup and clothes in one month than most Americans earn in three years. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Palin's makeup artist highest paid McCain staffer in October";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Palin's makeup artist highest paid McCain staffer in October.";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/palins-makeup-artist-highest-paid.html#links</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-38669207675224618812008-10-23T17:30:00.000-07:002008-10-23T21:08:54.627-07:00Palin's twisted definition of "domestic terrorist"During Brian William's interview with McCain and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> on the NBC Nightly News tonight, he asked <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Palin</span> whether she considers people who riot and burn U.S. cities and bomb abortion clinics to be domestic terrorists, as she's defined Bill Ayers. Her rambling answer was:<br /><br /><div align="center"><em>"There's no question that Bill Ayers, under his own admission, is the one who sought to destroy our U.S. Capitol and our Pentagon. That is a domestic terrorist. There's no question there. Now, others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or facilities, that would be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">unacceptable</span> too -- I don't know if you're going to be using the word "terrorist" there but it's unacceptable and it would not be condoned of course under our watch."</em></div><br />Apparently, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Palin</span> doesn't consider someone who bombs an abortion clinic, which is a "U.S." facility, and kills innocent people a "terrorist." That person is just unacceptable. The only explanation for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Palin's</span> absurd answer is that she's had one too many cocktails and is the one who's bombed. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Palin's twisted definition of "domestic terrorist"";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Palin doesn't think an abortion clinic bomber is a domestic terrorist";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = Palin's twisted definition of "domestic terrorist";</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-39768811134737794542008-10-23T16:24:00.000-07:002008-10-23T17:12:16.144-07:00McCain advocated meeting a terrorist group without pre-conditions<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">McCain and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> have been hammering Barack Obama for saying he would meet with U.S. enemies without <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">pre</span>-conditions. Yet in 1987, McCain advised doing just that. McCain voted several times to force the </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Reagan administration to meet with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">RENAMO</span>, a guerrilla organization in Mozambique, without requiring they meet any <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">pre</span>-conditions. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">McCain's support for the meeting with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">RENAMO</span> goes one better than Obama, who made it clear his policy doesn't extend to non-governmental organizations (like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Hamas</span>). <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">RENAMO</span> was a brutal terrorist group </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">created by the Rhodesian secret services in 1977 as a fake anti-communist black liberation movement. Their tactics focused mostly on civilians and included attacks on public transportation along with kidnapping American and other foreign missionaries. The U.S. Council for World Freedom <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50710F63B5A0C778DDDA90994DE484D81">funded <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">RENAMO</span> (and other anti-communist organizations) directly between 1984 and 1986</a> <strong>while John McCain was on their advisory board. </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Palin</span>, for her part, doesn't even have a clue what the term "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">pre</span>-conditions" means. Brian Williams asked <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Palin</span> during his interview on the NBC Nightly News, "<em>what in your mind is a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">pre</span>-condition?</em>" <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Palin</span> responded with one of her typical lightweight, pointless answers:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"You have to have a diplomatic strategy going into a meeting with someone like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Ahmadinejad</span> (President of Iran) or Kim Jung-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Il</span> (Dictator of North Korea) or one of those dictators that would seek to destroy America or <span style="color:#ffff00;">one</span> of our allies. It is so naive and so dangerous for a presidential candidate to just proclaim that they would be willing to sit down with a leader like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Ahmadinejad</span> and just talk <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">about </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">the</span> issues , the problems that are facing them. That's some ill-preparedness right there."</em></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Obviously, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Palin</span> doesn't know that a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">pre</span>-condition means a certain condition must be met first, like - stop your <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">plutonium</span> enrichment program or we won't meet with you! The only thing naive and dangerous in this scenario is the thought of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Palin</span> being one step away from holding meetings with anyone besides the leader of the Wasilla PTA. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain advocated meeting a terrorist gropu without pre-conditions";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain advocated meeting a terrorist gropu without pre-conditions";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-advocated-meeting-terrorist.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-72670210467844874692008-10-23T08:08:00.000-07:002008-10-23T08:31:16.773-07:00McCain was for "socialism" too - before he was against itJohn McCain and Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> have branded Barack Obama as a socialist because he wants to raise taxes by 3% on income earned over $250,000. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Obama's</span> argument is that wealthier people can afford to pay a little more. McCain, ever the hypocrite, made a nearly identical argument when he was running for president in 2000 - before he sold his soul to the right-wing conservative base. During a town hall meeting in East Lansing, Michigan on Oct. 12, 2000, McCain was asked by a young girl why her father should have to pay more taxes because he was successful. She asked, "How is that fair?" McCain responded:<br /><br /><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><em>"I think to some degree because we feel obviously that <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">wealthy</span> people can afford more. So look, here's what I really believe. That when you are, you reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more. And frankly, I think the first people who deserve a tax cut are working <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">American's</span> with children that need to educate their children; and they're the ones that I will support tax cuts for first."</em></div><br />That sure sounds like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Obama's</span> plan, which is to cut taxes for 95% of working American families, only now, in McCain's twisted reasoning, that's called socialism.<br /><br />McCain <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">conveniently</span> has a very short memory (or senility has set in) because he only remembers his previous positions on issues when it fits his current political incarnation - which is pretty rare these days.<br /><p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain was for "socialism" too- before he wasn't";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain used to support taxing the wealthy; Obama's benefits them.";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-was-for-socialism-too-before-he.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-53261808291396726652008-10-22T13:19:00.001-07:002008-10-22T17:30:57.259-07:00McCain supporters heckle tax plan that will benefit them mostOn the campaign trail today, John McCain and Sarah Palin continued to beat their fear-inducing rant on socialism and the birth of a welfare state into the thick-headed sculls of the faithful who cheered them on. Palin called Obama's tax plan socialism and McCain said Obama would take money from hard working Americans and distribute it to those who don't pay taxes.<br /><br />Come on people, wake up and smell the joe - and I don't mean Joe the Plumber (who isn't a licensed plumber, has a lien on his state taxes and donated money to the McCain campaign). Obama's plan is to raise taxes by 3% on people making more than $250,000 (the tax increase only applies to the amount earned over $250,000). It's the same tax plan Bill Clinton had in place and no one called it socialism then, including John McCain.<br /><br />In their rampant perversion of the issues, McCain and Palin claim Obama's tax cut for 95% of working American families is for the sole purpose of redistributing wealth from hard working Americans to people who don't pay taxes. First, Obama isn't giving money to people who don't pay taxes. The people McCain is insulting pay federal taxes, payroll taxes, property taxes, states taxes and sales tax. McCain is simply distorting the fact that the lowest earners often don't owe federal taxes because they qualify for enough credits or deductions. Second, it's amusing that McCain's knuckle headed fans don't seem to realize that McCain is deriding a tax plan that will benefit THEM. Surely the people showing up at his rallies shouting death threats and racial slurs aren't in the above $250,000 income crowd.<br /><br />The same people who are calling Obama the anti-Christ (as a man in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.rawvegas.tv/watch/sarah-palin-holds-rally-in-las-vegas-nevada-where-supporters-mention-obama-being-antichrist/83e2e3a4e2d8170d0cb4eceb11691c%22%20title=%22Raw%20Vegas%20Video%22%3ERaw%20Vegas%20Video%3C/a%3E">Henderson, NV</a> did yesterday) are the ones who will benefit most from his tax plan and benefit least from McCain's plan. Perhaps they haven't heard that McCain isn't "one of them." His wife is worth $100 million and he owns 9 properties and 11 cars.<br /><br />You've got to hand it to Palin though, she stands on the stage attacking Obama as an elite socialist while wearing $150,000 worth of Prada heels and designer suits. What she lacks in brains, she makes us for in moxy. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain supporters heckle tax plan that will benefit them most";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain's tax plan hurts most of his rally crowds; Obama's benefits them.";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-supporters-heckle-tax-plan-that.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-41040238020923619742008-10-21T18:30:00.000-07:002008-10-22T08:30:06.084-07:00Kind of a drag: Palin's negatives outweigh George Bush's in new poll<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">How bad does it get when your negative ratings outweigh George Bush's ratings. A <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27297013/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">new NBC/Wall St. Journal poll</a> shows that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin's</span> qualifications to be president rank as voters' top concern about John McCain's candidacy. Concerns about Palin rank higher than continuing President Bush's policies, enacting economic policies that only benefit the rich and keeping too many troops in Iraq.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Along with the bad poll news, today we learn t</span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">he Republican National Committee (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">RNC</span>) spent $150,000 in the last month on clothes and makeup for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Palin</span>, including a $50,000 spending spree at Saks Fifth Avenue and a $75,000 bonanza at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Neiman</span> Marcus. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Palin</span> received more new duds in one month than the average American household <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm">spends on clothes</a> in 80 years. A Democrat put it in even blunter terms: her clothes were the cost of health care for 15 or so people. A review of similar records for the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee turned up no similar spending.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A McCain campaign spokeswoman, Maria <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Comella</span>, declined to answer questions about the spending spree but said: </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>“The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent."</em> </span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Since when are clothes and makeup "strategic?" <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Palin's</span> new clothes fetish certainly goes against the Populist message she and McCain have been preaching. Their outlandish spending on <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">frivolous</span> items is a long way from Joe and Jane Six Packs and Joe and Jane the Plumbers. The only person who could relate to that kind of spending is Cindy McCain who spent $300,000 on her outfit for the Republican Convention.<br /><br />I say let Palin keep her new baubles and send her back to Alaska with a new title: Best-dressed citizen in Wasilla. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Kind of a drag: Palin's negatives outweigh Bush's in new poll";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Palin is a drag on the Republican ticket";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/kind-of-drag-palins-negatives-outweigh.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-51151401643644667302008-10-21T12:24:00.000-07:002008-10-21T15:54:31.199-07:00Palin still doesn't know what the VP does<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Yesterday, Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> gave a very rare media interview to an NBC affiliate in Colorado. Before you get excited about the prospect of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Palin</span> doing hard-hitting interviews, she responded to a question sent in by a third grader at a local elementary school. The questions was: What does the Vice President do? <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Palin, who </span>has never been accused of being a genuis, has had two months to learn about the job she is campaigning for and she still doesn't know the answer. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Palin</span> responded that the Vice President is...</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes..."</em></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Of course the VP's only official job, as stated in Article I of the Constitution, is to break a tie vote in the Senate. The VP has no vote unless there is a tie and no other official capacity in the Senate. They don't <em>"get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes"</em> as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Palin</span> moronically stated.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Palin</span> has made some progress in her extremely limited knowledge about the VP's role - although she's incorrect and incredibly uniformed. In an interview she did this summer on CNBC's "Kudlow & Co." , Palin was asked </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">about the possibility of becoming McCain's ticket mate and responded:</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><div align="center"><br /><em>"As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?"</em></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I guess <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Palin</span> is engineering a new role for the VP, kind of like Dick Cheney did when he became President, I mean VP. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Palin still doesn't know what the VP does";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Palin still doesn't know what the VP does";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/palin-still-doesnt-know-what-vp-does.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-13604883408516980752008-10-20T20:24:00.000-07:002008-10-21T08:01:46.583-07:00McCain to “spread the wealth” to pay for seniors' healthcare<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This week, McCain and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Palin</span> unleashed a new scare tactic on the campaign trail: Obama is a socialist who wants to “spread the wealth around.” Perhaps McCain should take a closer look at his health care program before getting too comfortable with this new line of attack. According to McCain's own definition, his Medicare program reeks of “socialism.” </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />McCain has proposed requiring wealthier seniors to PAY MORE for their prescription drugs under Medicare as a way to “rein in health care spending.” Under McCain’s plan, married retirees who make more than $160,000 a year would pay increasingly higher costs for Medicare prescription drug plans.<br /><br />Let’s get this straight… McCain’s answer for dealing with skyrocketing drug prices is to make wealthy people pay more. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Isn</span>’t that kind of like Obama raising taxes (by 3%) on the wealthiest 5% because they can afford it? Hypocrisy is the only thing McCain is consistent about these days. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "McCain to "spread the wealth" to pay for seniors' health care";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain wants wealthy seniors to pay more for health care";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-to-spread-wealth-to-pay-for.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-86113551605847246802008-10-20T15:40:00.001-07:002008-10-20T15:59:12.696-07:00Another voter registration fraud nightmare for McCain<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After weeks of assaulting ACORN for alleged voter registration fraud, John McCain is sitting in the hot seat. We now learn that McCain's campaign paid $175,000 to the firm of Republican operative Nathan Sproul who is accused of massive voter registration fraud. In addition, Sproul has donated nearly $30,000 to McCain's campaign.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In June, McCain's campaign along with the RNC and California Republican Party paid Sproul's firm, the Lincoln Strategy group, to register voters. Sproul </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">has been investigated for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=7960">spearheading efforts</a> to hamstring Democrats by getting Ralph Nader on ballots. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said that that Sproul's alleged activities "clearly suppress votes and violate the law." </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">McCain certainly has his dirty hands full. The Republican gets a double-dose of his own medicine. As reported in the previous post, the head of a Republican-run voter registration group in California was arrested this weekend for voter registration fraud and now the Sproul connection comes to light. Let's see how anxious McCain-Palin will be to talk about ACORN now that the voter registration table has turned. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Another voter registration fraud nightmare for McCain";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "McCain campaign hired firm accused of voter registration fraud";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/another-voter-registration-fraud.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3376979407376313013.post-36145800383785493202008-10-20T15:10:00.000-07:002008-10-20T15:32:11.542-07:00Republican Arrested for Voter Registration Fraud in CA<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In a delicious bit of irony, this weekend the owner of a firm hired by the California <strong>Republican Party</strong> to register tens of thousands of voters was arrested in Ontario, CA on suspicion of voter registration fraud. After weeks of demonizing ACORN for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">alleged</span> voter registration fraud, it looks like karma has gotten the best of the Republican attack machine. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Mark <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Jacoby</span>, owner of Young Political Majors (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">YPM</span>), was arrested by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department late Saturday after dozens of voters complained that they were asked to sign a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters but instead were unwittingly signing up as <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">registered</span> Republicans. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">YPM</span> workers received $7-$12 per registered Republican. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Additional Investigations into <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">YPM</span> have begun in Florida and Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the California Republican party announced that the charges against Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Jacoby</span> are "politically motivated." Sure, and the ACORN scandal isn't politically motivated at all. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">California Republicans have had their share of sleazy political tactics recently. Just last week, the Sacramento County Republicans took down offensive material on their official party Web site that sought to link Barack Obama to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Osama</span> bin Laden and encouraged people to "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Waterboard</span> Barack Obama" – material that offended state GOP leaders and Republican Governor </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Arnold Schwarzenegger. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Let's see how loudly the Republicans continue to cry "off their heads" when it comes to ACORN now that their own dirty campaign laundry is being aired. <p><br /><script type="text/javascript">yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Republican arrested for voter registration fraud";yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "Republican arrested for voter registration fraud";yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";yahooBuzzArticleId = http://sarahpalinfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/republican-arrested-for-voter.html#links;</script><br /><script src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" type="text/javascript" badgetype="large-votes"></script><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_url='[URL]'</script><br /><script type="text/javascript">reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><br /><script src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1" type="text/javascript"></script><br /></p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Stop the Lieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836780283985585966noreply@blogger.com0