Guilty. Phooey.
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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“...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.
I see, it is better to leave out truth like APObama!
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.
They’re dykes????
JUST look at ALL of Obama’s friends. All of them are radicals. lOOK at Jereiah Wright, his radical racist mentor for 20 years!
Guilty. Phooey.
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.
LOL is that satire?
If anything, Palin has downplayed the full extent of B-HO's relationship - an alliance, actually - with the terrorist Ayers.
Exaggerated, my foot!
The corruption of the Establishment press gets deeper and deeper.
Pray for W, McCain and Our Troops
I doubt she stretches the truth.
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.
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.
Abortion?
The timing of the unwinding is highly suspicious. This has the feel of an elaborate coup.
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