Posted on 09/04/2008 9:07:40 AM PDT by markedmannerf
PITTSBURGH – Barack Obama's camp is unloading on Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin after Palin described herself as a "pit bull" and then tore into Obama in a tough convention speech.
"There wasn't one thing that she said about Obama or what he's proposing that's true," fumed Obama's strategist David Axelrod, speaking to reporters aboard Obama's campaign plane.
Axelrod defended Obama against one of Palin's most biting lines, when she ridiculed a favorite part of Obama's resume, saying: "I guess a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer -- except that you have actual responsibilities."
"They can demean service in the community but I think most people appreciate it," Axelrod shot back.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Yeah, Rudy said it also just before he ripped the skin off of Obama.Standard set up line just before you trash someone. I don't see Obamaosama bitching about what Rudy and the others had to say about him, just Sarah.
Have you seen this:
Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WriterWed Sep 3, 11:48 PM ET
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Some examples:
PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”
PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply ... She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
More than just a pick and roll.
Strategically, the absolute brilliant performance by Palin and the overwhelmingly warm reception from even the liberal press has forced the BO camp into massive overdrive to try and counter her. They are going to have to use ALL of their resources to try and discredit her best they can.
But let’s not forget something, 30 minutes before she came out Rudy Guiliani ran BO and Biden through a meat grinder and they haven’t said a word about his speech. He did so with a sharp sense of humor and even tone that it absolutely had to resonate with any of the people who are still on the fence that were watching it in preparation of Palin’s speech.
Not only that, the night before Joe Lieberman came out with a very heartfelt impassioned plea for these people to elect McCain, and the BO camp is going to be too busy dealing with Palin to address that issue.
All while the MSM are going to be forced now to deal with BO’s past and inexperience to keep from losing whatever little credibility they have left, it’s already started to happen on CNN today.
There was some brilliant strategery seen here these last few days that I didn’t see coming at all. It’s like lighting a few fires and then right when they are about to be extinguished throwing 200,000 gallons of jet fuel on them, and this time it was a hardcore conservative strong woman pouring it on.
I’ll say this much, it got me off my butt and persuaded me to write a check to the McCain campaign today.
I have a better one. If his work as a constitutional lawyer was so great, then tell us why he doesn't understand a word of what the Constitution says!
“Can you prove he’s sponsored any legislation?”
I heard Alan Combes arguing before the speech he did do a lot of stuff as senator. Will be interesting to hear his comments tonight.
OK Mr. Axelrod, go release ALL of the paperwork showing exactly what Barak Obama did while he was a community organizer.
- Donation lists (who was he working FOR)
- Accomplishments
- Results of his efforts
While we’re at it, lets look at his financials from that era and see if he profited from his efforts above what his salary was.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP, MR. AXELROD.
Just out of curiosity, what is a community organizer? Who did he organize, and to what purpose did he organize them? Is this something one does freelance? Was he employed by someone to organize?
From the moment of Sarah’s pick of VP, I felt McCain had set a trap.
The only surprise came in that Obama fell into it so quickly.
You and "Choppers" Biden got OWNED last night... head to the quicky mart, buy some Windex and spray yourselves because that spanking is going to leave a mark
How long before Bidden has a health crisis and is escorted off the plane? I think we need a hillary veep watch here at FR. How many days will it take for the community organizer to dump bidden and pick hillary? I say 6 days tops.
I have yet to see the Obama campaign address Governor Palin as “Governor Palin”. She was merely answering his ‘small town mayor’ comment.
I’m sure Obamabiden and Mr. Axe yelled ouch. They’re learning what happens when you play with fire.
Sorry, David, but it was all true - every word of it.
"There wasn't one thing that she said about Obama or what he's proposing that's true," fumed Obama's strategist David Axelrod, ... He accused Palin of trying to "ignore his work as a constitutional lawyer, as a professor at the University of Chicago, his eight years in the legislature, his years in the United States Senate."
To paraphrase Dorothy Gale - 'You and Barry aren't in Chicago anymore.'Barry never worked as a "constitutional lawyer" and he WASN'T a "professor at the University of Chicago" - he occasionally 'Lectured' there on the Constitution and that's all. Barry even admitted that himself.
And Barry's time in the IL legislature wasn't "IGNORED", his 130 'Present' votes was brought up - to much laughter - by Rudy. The same with his 140 days in the US Senate, before deciding that was beneath him and he should be POTUS.
And iirc Gov Sarah-cuda Palin DID mention the fact that the young Barry had the time to write TWO memoirs, but not ONE piece of Legislation, not one law as a US Senator. So his time *wasted* there wasn't IGNORED by her either.
As such, you can't push around WE The People (nor some of the MSM that still has some gonads), lie through you're teeth while you huff and puff with phony indignation, and get away with it like you and King Richie do here in Chi.
ps: How's Bill Ayers doing? Has he built any more bombs lately?
May I just be the first to say:
"Schmidt! You magnificent bastard!"
I caught that also, "The list is too long, I don't want to bore you ..."
In my lifetime of over six decades, the only people I remember that ever called me a liar were ones that were transferring their own attributes to me.
The gist that ACORN was the “community”. Maybe I’m wrong?
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