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Palin stretches truth in campaign speeches
The Associated Press O ^ | October 7, 2008 | BETH FOUHY

Posted on 10/07/2008 3:43:55 PM PDT by presidio9

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the "truthfulness and judgment" needed to be president. But the Alaska governor often stretches the truth herself.

She has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical and falsely claimed the Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise most people's taxes.

On Tuesday, she tried rebutting the Illinois senator's criticisms of Republican presidential candidate John McCain over health care and Social Security. She said Obama was misleading and wrong, but she herself told less than the full story.

To be sure, most of Palin's assertions about Obama echo claims McCain himself has made or lines from Republican TV ads.

At a rally Tuesday, Palin tried to link Obama to the failure of housing giant Fannie Mae by noting that two Obama supporters once led the troubled company. The government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, another housing finance company, last month to prevent their collapse from worsening the global credit crisis.

"What's next, claiming that he didn't know two of his biggest supporters were running Fannie Mae, the subprime mortgage giant?" Palin said. "That has done harm to the American economy."

She referred to Jim Johnson, who chaired Fannie Mae from 1991-1998, and Franklin Raines, his successor who stepped down in 2004 in an accounting scandal.

But Palin exaggerated Obama's ties to Raines and Johnson while omitting any mention of a closer relationship between a top McCain aide and the failed housing giants.

Raines and Johnson support Obama but do not have strong ties to him or his campaign. Johnson briefly headed Obama's vice presidential search last spring but resigned amid controversy over loans he got with help from an executive of Countrywide Financial Corp., a lender damaged by the mortgage meltdown.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: asspressbias; ossociatedpress
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To: presidio9

Holy shiat... talk about talking point mania... Palin should read this out loud and rebut it... ending with are you a reporter or a propagandist...


21 posted on 10/07/2008 3:49:32 PM PDT by bahblahbah (http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/)
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To: DGHoodini

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007712.php

Remember this blast from the AP past (2004 - AP caught lying)


22 posted on 10/07/2008 3:49:35 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: presidio9
Raines and Johnson support Obama but do not have strong ties to him or his campaign. Johnson briefly headed Obama's vice presidential search last spring

Uh.....and that's not a strong tie to his campaign?

Oh, please.

23 posted on 10/07/2008 3:49:35 PM PDT by what's up
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To: presidio9

The ASS press wouldn’t tell the truth if it hit them in the face.

All this makes me think that we hit the gold mine in going after the truth on Obama!


24 posted on 10/07/2008 3:49:49 PM PDT by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: presidio9

Imagine that? The AP is questioning Sarah Palin’s truthfulness. The AP really needs to look in the mirror.


25 posted on 10/07/2008 3:50:14 PM PDT by Keflavik76 (If NYT (False); { Wrap(Fish); Else Lurk( FR);})
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To: FlingWingFlyer; nobama08; kc8ukw; OldNavyVet; yarddog

Beth Fouhy

Q: what is the common denominator for all women writing negative articles about Sarah Palin right now? Anyone?

26 posted on 10/07/2008 3:50:58 PM PDT by presidio9 (What's the difference between Global Universalists and National Exceptionalists? -The 2008 election.)
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To: presidio9
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the "truthfulness and judgment" needed to be president. But the Alaska governor often stretches the truth herself.



27 posted on 10/07/2008 3:51:43 PM PDT by Vision ("Test everything. Hold on to the Good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21)
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To: presidio9

She was good in 'Grease'.

28 posted on 10/07/2008 3:51:52 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: All

I do not enjoy writing to all these MSM outlets and reading them the riot act, but I do it anyway.

they deserve my wrath, and that is exactly what they get.


29 posted on 10/07/2008 3:52:45 PM PDT by Canedawg (If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a ass, a idiot.)
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To: presidio9

When you see their pictures, it’s easy to understand why they HATE Governor Palin more than they hate Dubya.


30 posted on 10/07/2008 3:53:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If Barack Hussein Obama is the answer, it must have been a pretty dumb question.)
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To: presidio9

This is ridiculous. This is nothing less than an Obama campaign statement.


31 posted on 10/07/2008 3:54:12 PM PDT by redk
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To: what's up

Do you think this stuff makes sense to them ?

Or is it simply the best they can do with what they have ?


32 posted on 10/07/2008 3:54:41 PM PDT by festus (Politics makes for strange bedfellows)
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To: presidio9

Common denominator? .... They’re probably not successful with men.


33 posted on 10/07/2008 3:54:45 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (... Character counts ... Far more so than experience.)
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To: presidio9

homely cows?


34 posted on 10/07/2008 3:55:08 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: yarddog

Getting?


35 posted on 10/07/2008 3:55:39 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: FlingWingFlyer
When you see their pictures, it’s easy to understand why they HATE Governor Palin more than they hate Dubya.

Rush Limbaugh and I bot would have put it much less diplomatically.

36 posted on 10/07/2008 3:56:19 PM PDT by presidio9 (What's the difference between Global Universalists and National Exceptionalists? -The 2008 election.)
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To: presidio9

The Ossociated Press


37 posted on 10/07/2008 3:57:10 PM PDT by pango
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To: presidio9
"Buzz. Your girlfriend. Woof!"
38 posted on 10/07/2008 3:57:21 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (101st Airborne Army Dad)
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To: presidio9

LOL!


39 posted on 10/07/2008 3:57:46 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If Barack Hussein Obama is the answer, it must have been a pretty dumb question.)
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To: presidio9

What would you expect them to say! Sarah you hit it right on the head, you go girl! I always love the way demon politicians try to answer a charge by their opponent.

“I reject that”


40 posted on 10/07/2008 3:57:49 PM PDT by Always Independent
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