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Joe Scarborough just uttered the dreadful "f-you" on live television. And yeah, I edited what he said. No delay or anything. Hilarious.

It's been reported, and FOX News is even verifying this stuff, that the $150,000 that the RNC supposedly spent? Those reports revealed that more than $75,062.63 was spent at Neiman Marcus, $49,425.74 at Saks Fifth Avenue and $5,102.71 at Bloomingdale's around the time of the Republican National Convention in early September.

As first reported by Newsweek on Wednesday, McCain aides said some of that money was spent on clothing for Palin's kids and husband who may have received between $20,000 and $40,000 in wardrobe purchases. The money also included thousands of dollars in shoes. But that's not the best part.  In fact, a top McCain aide even said she was the one who in fact DID shop for those clothes and was quoted as "going wild"! 

  Some may ask me "why is this important, Dawg? Look at all the money spent on Obama, Biden, blah blah blah..."  

Well, remember when Palin said she knew nothing about the clothes being bought on national god damn television? And yet, the truth is revealed she was actually the one purchasing the BOOGEDY.  That makes her a liar.  

Also reported was that she completely refused to accept prepping for the Katie Couric interview.  Really?  Ya think?  

Apparently one night Steve Schmidt and Mark Balter were going to brief her and she said "I'll be just one minute" and told them to talk to her husband.  All this while wearing a towel on her body and hair, but I don't see why that's important.  Maybe she should have been ready for the briefing as scheduled?  

She didn't know the nations involved in NAFTA.  She didn't know Africa isn't a country and is a continent.   

She also took the phone call from the Canadian pranksters which they said was approved by Palin foreign policy aide Steve Biegun.  McCain aides also said the Palin camp didn't notify McCain's senior staff or the State Department about the supposed contact. Outraged, Schmidt organized a conference call. He demanded to know who had arranged the call, and questioned why anyone would have agreed to such an unusual request and then failed to clear it with top staff. The Palin camp did notify McCain's senior staff or the State Department about the supposed contact. Outraged, Schmidt organized a conference call. He demanded to know who had arranged the call, and questioned why anyone would have agreed.  

I warned everybody about this crazy woman a long time ago and it is continuously proven how right I was. 

Attention Montana, Louisiana; Ron Paul on Rachel MaddowRon Paul on Rachel MaddowRon Paul on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, Oct. 29, 2008.
daWg :: I had quite a bit of attacks from those who deny I can be a Ron Paul supporter AND a supporter for Barack Obama.
Well, my favorite politician himself Ron Paul tells you right here why that is possible.  Quoting THE MAN himself (discussion starts at the 2:08 point):  
"It's interesting that a lot of young people that Obama have go back and forth; they support him, but they like me.  And our message is significantly different, but our message is very attractive to young people, they like the idea of self reliance and individual liberty, they like to get out of these wars."
Also, to anybody living in Montana and Louisiana...  Ron Paul remains on your ballots for president this year.  The polls for Montana are as follows:Barack Obamam>  44%John McCain  40%Ron Paul  4%I can't find any info on Louisiana's polls for Paul, but I strongly urge everybody to send the message out about Ron Paul and I think you should vote for him for president this year.  
Those in Nevada, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Florida should keep their votes for Obama to insure he gets these important states.  
Even though Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia are now "Lean Obama," votes should be kept for him there as well.  
And just to be safe, other leaning Obama states should keep their vote for him also, like in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, New Hampshire and Washington. We can't allow McCain/Palin into the White House.
Also, here's a good article concerning Paul's CNN interview last week. I highlighted the best parts.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/ron.paul.econo
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(CNN) -- Former presidential candidate Ron Paul was interviewed Friday morning by CNN anchor John Roberts on "American Morning."

Rep. Ron Paul says that what really needs regulating is the Federal Reserve.

Paul, a Republican from Texas, spoke from his home in Clute, Texas. The topic of the discussion was the current economic crisis and the Capitol Hill testimony Thursday of former Fed chief Alan Greenspan.

John Roberts, CNN anchor: Up there on the Hill, Alan Greenspan was basically saying, "Oops, I missed this one, sorry about it," but he was optimistic for the future. Congressman Paul, do you even listen to him anymore?

Rep. Ron Paul: I have to because somebody like you might ask me a question about him.

No, I don't really listen in the sense that I'm going to get a lot of new information. I used to listen to him when he was writing back in the '60s because he agreed with free market economics and no respect for the Federal Reserve.

Lately, though, I mean, he's been part of -- and right now he's really gotten bad because what he was saying yesterday was that the only place where he might have made a mistake is he didn't advocate more regulations.

Well, if you're a true free market person it isn't the lack of regulations. Trying to regulate and improve on the conditions that the government creates. I mean we created this problem. The Federal Reserve created this. The Community Reinvestment Act created it. The FDIC created it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac created it.

It was all seen there but now he says if we could have only had more regulations ...

Roberts: Right.

Paul: ... we could have salvaged this clogged system.

Roberts: Well, you believe that markets can be or should be self-regulating?

Paul: Well, to a degree, but the government does have a responsibility to deal with fraud, but the monetary system is fraudulent. Instead of perpetuating fraud in the monetary system they should be dealing with real fraud.

But just regulating prices -- that's what they're doing now, they're trying to regulate prices and set prices for these assets that hasn't -- have no value. So, no, that's not the kind of regulation we want, but there is certainly a role for regulations.

We should be regulating the Federal Reserve system is what we really ought to be regulating.

Roberts: Well, regardless of what we talk about this morning, the Dow is going to go off a cliff again today so let me turn to politics if I could.

A lot of people have said, particularly because of the economy, this is a bad year to be a Republican. John McCain behind in the national polls, seems to be behind in the battleground states as well. He's got a long and difficult road if he hopes to win the Oval Office.

If Republicans really take a beating, Congressman Paul, on November the 4th, where does that leave the Republican brand?

Paul: Well, I think they're in big trouble, but I think I mentioned that a year or so ago, that they've sort of lost their way. No, it's going to be a lot worse, but you have to say that the markets aren't being reassured about the obvious victory that's going to occur.

Then they said, "Oh, my, you know, we're going to have Obama and a Democratic Congress stronger than ever so things are going to get a lot better." They haven't discounted that yet.

The country is in a mess regardless, but I think the Republican Party really in a mess because ...

Roberts: I mean, I mean how ...

Paul: ... they'll probably lose a fair amount of seats again.

Roberts: How bad a blow could it be and how long might it take the party to rebuild?

Paul: You know, I was first elected -- I first ran in 1974, and I think there were about 145 members of Congress, Republicans, then. It took 20 years. So that is the case. But, you know, I think it's secondary to what the Congress is doing.

If both parties have bad ideas, it doesn't matter a whole lot. Right now ...

Roberts: And I wanted to ask you about ...

Paul: ... I think both parties follow those ideas.

Roberts: You're on the ballot in a couple of states. You're on the ballot in Louisiana. You're also on the ballot in Montana, and in Montana you were polling 4 percent there.

That's exactly the difference between Senator McCain and Barack Obama with Barack Obama on top. I mean you could be the spoiler here and take Montana away from Senator McCain, and I know that some Republicans, friendly to you, say hey, get off the ballot in Montana. You tried, you couldn't.

How are you going to feel if because of you McCain loses Montana?

Paul: Well, I think it will be a pretty far stretch if McCain loses the election that they're going to blame me. I haven't been campaigning in Montana. People who are supporting out there are spontaneous. They're enthusiastic. They don't like either candidate.

So I don't think the person whose name they picked is the one that does the spoiling. I think there's something else that is wrong. Maybe it's the flawed policies of both candidates.

Roberts: Congressman Paul, it's always good to see you. Thanks for joining us this morning. We'll check back with you again soon.

Paul: Thank you. Good to be with you

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Obama & The Harvard Law Bulletin

During this period, these four black pioneers—Houston, Hastie, Coleman, and Wilkins—continued to leave their mark on the civil rights movement and on the American legal profession more generally. Tragically, Houston died in 1950, four years before the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown. Hastie went on to serve for many years on the Third Circuit, becoming one of this nation’s most celebrated jurists. Wilkins initially pursued a career in government service, becoming the general counsel for the Agency for International Development. In 1964, he joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, becoming that school’s first black tenured professor and only the second black tenured faculty member in the entire University. He remained in that position until his untimely death in 1976. Finally, it is hard to think of a professional honor that William Coleman has not received in either the public or the private sector. During his distinguished career, Coleman has been Secretary of Transportation under President Ford, managing partner of the D.C. office of one of this nation’s leading law firms, an honorary degree recipient from Harvard University, and, bringing the story full circle, chairman of the board of the Legal Defense Fund.

Moreover, the special connection between Harvard Law School and the struggle for racial justice continued unabated even when there were no black editors at the Law Review to follow in the footsteps of these four pioneers. In 1959, Thurgood Marshall persuaded Derrick Bell to leave his position at the Justice Department and join the Legal Defense Fund. Ten years later, Bell became the first black professor at Harvard Law School. In 1961, Marshall left LDF for the federal bench, eventually becoming in 1967 the first black Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During his 27 years on the bench, Marshall hired more law clerks from Harvard Law School—most of them members of the Harvard Law Review—than from any other single law school. In time five of these HLS graduates—Lewis Sargentich ’70 (1970 Term), William Fisher ’86 (1983 Term), Howell Jackson ’82 (1983 Term), Carol Steiker ’86 (1987 Term), and myself (1981 Term)—became tenured professors at Harvard Law School. When one adds the three former Marshall law clerks who had the "misfortune" of not attending Harvard Law School—Martha Minow (1980 Term), Randall Kennedy (1983 Term), and Scott Brewer (1990 Term)—there are now more Marshall clerks on this faculty than law clerks of any other single justice. (Former HLS faculty member and current D.C. Circuit Court Judge Douglas Ginsburg is also a former Marshall law clerk.)

In 1975, the long absence of black editors on the Harvard Law Review came to an end when Christopher F. Edley, Jr. ’78 was elected to membership. His father, Christopher F. Edley, Sr., was a 1953 graduate of the Law School and a protégé of both Hastie and Marshall. Befitting this legacy, after working in the Carter administration, the younger Edley returned to Harvard, where he became the Law School’s third black tenured professor in 1987 and, in 1996, the first director of the Harvard Racial and Ethnic Justice Research Program.

In 1978, the Law Review reached another milestone. In that year, Adebayo Ogunlesi ’79 and W. Randy Eaddy ’79 became editors, marking the first time there had ever been two blacks on the Reviewat the same time. The next year, 1979, a new record was set when I joined Ogunlesi and Eaddy. We called ourselves in jest the "dirty half of a half dozen" and we wondered whether there would ever again be three black editors on the Review staff. For the next few years, it seemed as though our pessimistic predictions might come true. No black editors joined the Review in 1980 or 1981.

Happily, this situation has changed dramatically. In 1982, Annette Gordon [Gordon-Reed] ’84 became the Review’s first black female editor.Since that time, there has been a steady stream of black editors, including two elected to the Review’s presidency: Barack Obama ’91, in 1990–1991, and David Panton ’97, in 1996–1997. Today, there are nine black women and men following in Houston’s footsteps. Perhaps most tellingly, when I asked these editors whether they knew how many blacks had served on the Review since Houston, no one could tell me. This is as it should be. It is a testament to how far we have come that every new black editor no longer needs to know his or her exact place in the history of this 75-year connection between the Harvard Law Review and the struggle for racial justice.

What should not be forgotten, however, is the connection itself. For this is a part of the legacy of this august institution about which every editor, regardless of race, gender, creed, or politics, should feel proud. When Law Review editors claim this tradition—when they become, in their own way, social engineers for justice—they not only honor the best of the Harvard Law Review’s heritage, they add their considerable talents to seeing to it that this nation lives up to the best of its traditions as well.

Professor David B. Wilkins

http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/backissue
s/summer98/article4b.html

Looks like he's not much of a critic of socialism after all.

McCain on Hardball and Tax Brackets10/12/00McCain Seems To Be Perfectly Fine With "Spreading The Wealth"

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More Hatred at a Palin Rally in Johnstown, PAOctober 11, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTWfRRJ8ZQ

Very nice conversation!  Humorous also.  This is the McCain I like to see.

THE MYTH: "She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay. And made a profit!" — John McCain, at a campaign stop in Wisconsin

THE FACTS: No one bought the jet online. It was eventually sold through an aircraft broker — at a loss to taxpayers of nearly $600,000.

 

THE MYTH: "I told the Congress 'Thanks, but no thanks' on that Bridge to Nowhere." — Sarah Palin, convention speech

THE FACTS: Supported the infamous pork project in her 2006 run for governor, even after Congress had killed the bridge; derided its opponents as "spinmeisters." Reversed her stance a year later — but kept the money, doling out the $223 million in federal funds to other pork projects throughout the state.

 

THE MYTH: "We ... championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress." — Sarah Palin, convention speech

THE FACTS: As mayor, employed a lobbyist who also worked for Jack Abramoff to secure $27 million in pork spending for Wasilla — more than $4,000 per resident. In her two years as governor, requested $453 million in earmarks. Alaska ranks first in the nation for pork, raking in seven times the national average.

 

THE MYTH: "I found ... someone who stopped government from wasting taxpayers' money." — John McCain, introducing Palin

THE FACTS: Signature accomplishment as mayor: building a $15 million hockey arena that plunged the city into debt. Broke ground on the project without finalizing the city's purchase of the land; the resulting fiasco cost Wasilla $1.3 million — roughly $200 per 

 

THE MYTH: "Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems — as if we didn't know that already." — Sarah Palin, convention speech

THE FACTS: "I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of our problem." — Sarah Palin, July 2008

 

THE MYTH: "We began a nearly $40 billion natural-gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence." — Sarah Palin, convention speech

THE FACTS: With federal approval years away, not a single section of the pipeline has been laid. State could end up paying the pipeline's contractor $500 million — even if it never breaks ground on the project.

 

THE MYTH: "She's from a small town with small-town values." — Fred Thompson, convention speech

THE FACTS: Wasilla and the surrounding valley recently named the meth capital of Alaska, with 42 meth labs busted in a single year.

 

THE MYTH: Palin has "taken on the political establishment in the largest state of the union." — Fred Thompson, convention speech

THE FACTS: Served until 2005 as director of fundraising group associated with indicted senator Ted Stevens.

 

THE MYTH: "She's fought oil companies." — John McCain, introducing Palin

THE FACTS: Collected $13,000 in campaign contributions from oil and gas lobbyists, including Exxon, BP, Shell and Chevron. BP was a sponsor of her inaugural ball.

 

THE MYTH: "She's been to Kuwait. She's been over there. She has been with her troops. The National Guard that she commands, who have been over there and had the experience." — John McCain, highlighting Palin's national-security credentials

THE FACTS: Never had a passport before 2007, when she made a brief photo-op trip to visit troops in Germany and Kuwait. Has never been to Iraq, and has not met a single foreign head of state.

 

THE MYTH: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending." — Sarah Palin, convention speech

THE FACTS: As governor, sought travel reimbursement for 312 nights she spent in her own home.

 

 

 

 

 

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ACORN to McCain: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?October 13, 2008
ACORN Press Release
News clip of McCain @ ACORN February, 2006 event where he was a keynote speaker.

http://tinyurl.com/4dwpqy

Did any of you hear what she said reading off of a Starbucks cup?

"I'm reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, okay? The quote of the day... It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. ... Now she said it, I didn't. She said, 'There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'"

So, Sarah is now a liar because the actual quote is, "There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't help other women."

So not only did Sarah lie about what Albright actually said, but it seems she's basically saying here that anybody who doesn't vote for her ticket is going to hell.  While I don't personally believe in hell, I wonder what women out there who do and do not support this ticket think about that kind of talk?

Palin is unclassy.

Now let's talk about the latest lie this woman is telling.

  

The investigator authorized by the Alaska Legislative Council to examine the “Troopergate” scandal released his report 10/10/08, and found that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) “abused her power” by pushing State Police Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her former brother-in-law Mike Wooten:

For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 2952.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 2952.110(a) provides

“The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”

 

How is Sarah responding now when asked about this verdict?  On several occasions she has said that the report found she didn't do anything illegal (which is true) and that she was cleared of any wrong doing or anything unethical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSMFKnN-bLI

Um, whaaaat?  The report specifically says she DID abuse power but she is completely denying that is true and speaking the exact opposite of what the report actually said!

She is blatantly looking into these cameras and lying about being found guilty of power abuse!  What a complete joke this woman is...

 

 

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Fast forward to about 3:45.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpbGsuMlPhA
Listen to Sarah stutter around about "knowing about Ayers up in the north."
Then asked about other Obama associations, she says "That's John McCain's call if we should talk about those issues."
Greta even asks her "So you're ducking that one?" and Sarah says "Yea, yea, we'll leave that up to John McCain."
This woman is an idiot.  She can't even answer questions when being thrown soft balls!  Haha, pathetic...
Fast forward to about 6:20.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpbGsuMlPhA
Greta asks her "What's the hardest decision that you've had to make in your life?"
Sarah responds with "Hmm, I don't know, the best decision was about five weeks ago though, when being ask if I wanted to join John  McCain..."
Amazing, isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrNAPY8V5iI
 "Bless your heart sir, my son is in Iraq fighting for your right to protest." -Sarah Palin
Haha, I love how when someone expresses free speech, the right wing tries to say that is possible because of Iraq.
Another good reason NOT to vote for this ticket.

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JrSYnq5eynA WOW!  This group Sarah's husband is a member of said things like "I have no use for America." WOW!!!!! So now that the increasingly desperate Republicans have decided that Bill Ayers is an Evil Terrorist, let's look at the people that Sarah Palin pals around with:

Take it away, Greg Sargent!
As you already know, the group is the Alaska Independence Party, which sees as its ultimate goal seceding from the union. Todd [Palin, Sarah's husband] was a member, with a brief exception, from 1995 until 2002, according to the Division of Elections in Alaska.And though Sarah Palin herself was apparently not a member of this group, there's no doubt that she repeatedly courted this secessionist organization over the years. In 1994, Palin attended the group's annual convention, according to witnesses who spoke to ABC News' Jake Tapper. The McCain campaign has confirmed she visited the group's 2000 convention, and she addressed its convention this year, as an incumbent governor whose oath of office includes upholding the Constitution of the United States.Got that? An elected governor of a state within the United States of America is palling around with people who openly hate America. More than that -- she married one of them and is married to him to this day.And lest you think that "hate" is too strong a word:
The founder of the AIP was a man named Joe Vogler. Here's what he had to say in a 1991 interview, only a few years before Palin attended its convention: "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government."He also said this: "And I won't be buried under their damn flag. I'll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."Vogler has also said: "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions. "McCain apologists will argue that Sarah Palin was not a member of this group. But Obama wasn't a member of any Ayers anti-American group, either. And again, Palin repeatedly courted the AIP, and her husband was a member for years.This is of course deadly kryptonite to Palin's hopes of going national. So of course the Cons and their useful-idiot allies in the national press have to pretend that she's not connected with the AIP at all.   Our own David Neiwert has provided ample debunking of that nonsense -- debunking courtesy of the AIP itself, which counted Palin as a member, along with her husband, for many years. Even without being a card-carrying member, she still to this day cuddles up to them and speaks at their meetings.The decades of Republican rule in both the White House and Congress have shown that we can't trust the workings of government to people who openly say that they hate government. Why should we hand over control of America to someone with close ties to groups that openly hate America itself?

"We are looking for a very aggressive last 30 days," said Greg Strimple, one of McCain's top advisers. "We are looking forward to turning a page on this financial crisis and getting back to discussing Mr. Obama's aggressively liberal record and how he will be too risky for Americans." "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose," admitted another aide. 
Are these the guys you want in charge of our economy?  They already have admitted that as long as John has to talk about the economy, they're going to lose.  An admittance of ignorance of the economy and an obvious display of cluelessness!

McCain Pals Around with Racists and Anti-SemitesPosted by Lee Ward
Published: Oct 5, 08 12:04 PM

Paul Begala, appearing this morning on NBC's "Meet the Press," revealed that back in the 1980s John McCain sat on the board of the extremist "U.S. Council for World Freedom" an ultra-conservative right wing organization which was affiliated with the "World Anti-communist League" which the Anti-Defamation League said "has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-semites."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBBbUf5BJKY

So playing the childish Sarah Palin "guilt by association" game, McCain was palling around with racists and anti-semites back in the 1980s.

McCain and Palin hope that their desperate efforts to distract Americans from the real issues will stem the increasing surge of support for Obama and Biden, and that voters will lose track of issues like the 750,000 jobs lost under the McCain-Bush economic program.

They hope middle-class Americans will forget that rich Americans get tax cuts, Wall Street gets bailouts, and Main Street America gets smears and false issues like William Ayers as the Republicans do their "gosh-darndest"to get four more years of control of Washington. 

SARAH PALIN’S 18 LIES AT THE DEBATE

1. FANNIE MAE/FREDDIE MAC: Palin said “it was John McCain who pushed so hard with the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform measures,” but fact checkers say that’s “Quite A Stretch” And “Barely True,” and that McCain was a “latecomer” to the discussion.

2. FUNDAMENTALS ARE STRONG: Palin tried to say “John McCain saying our economy was strong” but McCain has used the phrase “The Fundamentals Of The Economy Are Strong” At Least 16 Times This Year.

3. PARTISAN POLITICS: Palin said McCain is “known for putting partisan politics aside to just get the job done,” but he has voted with Bush 90% of the time in the Senate and bragged about his support for Bush on important issues.

4. TAXES ATTACK: Palin repeated the attack that Obama voted for higher taxes 94 times, which the New York Times says is “false,” CNN says is “Misleading,” and FactCheck.org says is “inflated.”

5. TOBACCO REGULATION: Palin said to “look at the tobacco industry” as an example of McCain pushing for even harder and tougher regulations. But McCain opposed expanding the SCHIP children’s health insurance program for 5.8 million children because it would increase tobacco taxes.

6. SPENDING INCREASES: Palin said Obama is is proposing “nearly a trillion dollars in new spending,” but didn’t mention that he has also proposed cuts to balance it out, an attack CNN has already debunked as “misleading” and that ignores the far larger cost of McCain’s tax cuts and spending hikes.

7. HEALTH CARE: Palin claimed Obama’s health plan is “government run” which has been widely debunked as a “canard.”

8. HEALTH CARE. Palin says taxes wouldn’t go up under the McCain health care plan, a fact even his own campaign has acknowledged isn’t true.

9. TROOPS: Palin repeated what the AP called the “highly misleading” attack that Obama opposed funding for the troops, and Factcheck.org notes that the same methodology would lead to the same conclusion for McCain.

10. GLOBAL WARMING: Palin said “I don’t want to argue about the causes” for global warming, when she has clearly taken the position that she doesn’t not believe it is man-made.

11. MCCAIN IS CONSISTENT: Palin said McCain” doesn't tell one thing to one group and then turns around and tells something else to another group,” when that is exactly what he has done on immigration, telling Hispanic leaders he was for comprehensive reform instead of the enforcement focused approach he has taken with conservatives.

12. MCCLELLAN NOT MCKIERNAN: Palin referred to the US commander in Afghanistan, David McKiernan as “McClellan.”

13. MCKIERNAN ON “SURGE:” Palin said that [McKiernan] did not say a surge wouldn’t work in Afghanistan, when just yesterday he said “The word I don’t use for Afghanistan is ’surge,’ ” McKiernan stressed, saying that what is required is a “sustained commitment” to a counterinsurgency effort that could last many years and would ultimately require a political, not military, solution

14. KILLING CIVILIANS. Palin said “Obama had said that all we're doing in Afghanistan is air raiding villages and killing civilians and such a reckless, reckless comment and untrue comment again hurts our cause. That's not what we are doing there.” Unfortunately, the Associated Press says that Obama was right in discussing a critically important point about avoiding civilian casualties.

15. TEACHING: Palin said we need to make sure “that education in either one of our agendas, I think, absolute top of the line,” when McCain has repeatedly favored tax cuts for the wealthy over funds for more teachers and class size reduction. 

16. PARTISAN APPOINTMENTS: Palin said “You do what I did as governor. And you appoint people regardless of party affiliation. Democrats, independents, Republicans, you walk the walk, don't just talk the talk” when she repeatedly appointed friends and supporters to positions for which they weren’t qualified.

17. FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Palin falsely claimed that she was the first governor to form a climate change subcabinet, when at least 28 states had already taken action.

18. DARFUR DIVESTMENT: Palin claimed that “when I and others” found out that the state had money invested in Sudan that “we called for divestment,” when the reality is that Palin’s appointees worked to kill a Darfur divestment plan.
 

 

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