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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.

Meanwhile, until

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To: presidio9

“...falsely claimed the Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise most people’s taxes.”

They refuse to call eliminating the Bush tax cuts a tax increase.


41 posted on 10/07/2008 3:58:10 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: presidio9

I see, it is better to leave out truth like APObama!


42 posted on 10/07/2008 3:58:29 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: presidio9
I have read a lot of biased "news" articles in my time, but this one is astounding in its shamelessness. Whatever editors allowed this out ought to be fired. Ms. Fouhy ought to have a burlap sack placed over her head, and then be fired.
43 posted on 10/07/2008 3:58:33 PM PDT by Sloth (Pontius Pilate voted 'present'; Barrabas was community organizer.)
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To: presidio9

This was pretty much the tone Andrea Mitchell used on the NBC News - it’s all over for the GOP, they’re getting desperate and lying and they EVEN MENTIONED BARACK’S MIDDLE NAME. She failed to explain how that is a crime...after implying it is, of course.


44 posted on 10/07/2008 3:58:40 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: presidio9

They’re dykes????


45 posted on 10/07/2008 3:58:46 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: BerniesFriend

JUST look at ALL of Obama’s friends. All of them are radicals. lOOK at Jereiah Wright, his radical racist mentor for 20 years!


46 posted on 10/07/2008 3:59:09 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: Vision

Guilty. Phooey.

47 posted on 10/07/2008 3:59:18 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: presidio9
Here's some background on Phooey -- and a lot of other liberal "journalists." It's an interesting oppo-research site I stumbled into. Their relationships are as intertwined as snakes in a den:

Phooey

48 posted on 10/07/2008 4:00:27 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: presidio9

The Anti-American Punks tell more lies on a daily basis. Boycott all media that uses the AP for they support anti-American left wing terrorist.


49 posted on 10/07/2008 4:00:56 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: presidio9

LOL is that satire?


50 posted on 10/07/2008 4:01:00 PM PDT by linn37 (Hail Me, Obama or be cast into the fiery pits of eternal damnation!")
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To: presidio9
[Palin] has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical

If anything, Palin has downplayed the full extent of B-HO's relationship - an alliance, actually - with the terrorist Ayers.

51 posted on 10/07/2008 4:01:31 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: presidio9

http://www.muckety.com/Beth-Fouhy/22335.muckety


52 posted on 10/07/2008 4:01:38 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: presidio9

Exaggerated, my foot!


53 posted on 10/07/2008 4:01:51 PM PDT by pray4liberty (The Lord is on the side of the truly righteous. The MSM is not.)
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To: presidio9

The corruption of the Establishment press gets deeper and deeper.

Pray for W, McCain and Our Troops


54 posted on 10/07/2008 4:04:09 PM PDT by bray (It's the Corruption Stupid)
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To: presidio9

I doubt she stretches the truth.


55 posted on 10/07/2008 4:04:52 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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The screen icon from the 1960s, who now heads an animal rights foundation, went on to assail Palin for supporting Arctic oil exploration that could jeopardize delicate animal habitats and for dismissing measures to protect polar bears.

What petty, trivial comments! The AP is showing its leftist leanings. Sarah Palin is right on every single item discussed by the whining liberal press. Our country desperately needs responsible environmentalism instead of the communist leaning leftists better known as "environmentalist whackos." We are quite capable of caring for and nurturing our wilderness while safely extracting needed energy. Furthermore global warming is caused by the Sun, not mankind. It is too bad that Sarah cannot say that because McCain has bought into the carbon hoax.

56 posted on 10/07/2008 4:05:06 PM PDT by olezip
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To: GnuHere

Yeah, I caught that...same ole same ole from Andrea Mitchell.

Now we’re not even allowed to call our opponents by their OWN names!?

Another one suffering in this nation’s PROFOUND mental health crisis.


57 posted on 10/07/2008 4:05:34 PM PDT by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: presidio9
The AP made no bones about it, they're in the tank for Obama. Nothing I read in this article shows Palin said anything not true.
58 posted on 10/07/2008 4:05:48 PM PDT by tobyhill (Hey Politicians, you're at the mercy of the taxpayers this time!)
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To: presidio9

Abortion?


59 posted on 10/07/2008 4:05:53 PM PDT by CommieCutter (Suck it up! Must stop Obama Bin Biden!)
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To: unspun

The timing of the unwinding is highly suspicious. This has the feel of an elaborate coup.


60 posted on 10/07/2008 4:06:16 PM PDT by kinghorse (Franklin Raines, Tim Howard, Jim Johnson: McCain are you paying attention??!!??)
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