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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Why’dja post this? We can get this garbage anywhere.
Guilty. And the eyes confess of some sort of conspiracy charge...
In this case, liberal propaganda.
The AP is a not-for-profit cooperative. Does this organization class give them tax-exempt status?
How are they going to explain away Obama campaigning for a Socialist/Muslim sympathizer ON TAX PAYER MONEY?
Sra Palin didn’t even scratch the surface of O’bama hanky panky..
Not even a scratch on the surface of an ICEBERG...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
As opposed to Obama stretching his lies.
AP= Obama talking points HQ
Isn’t it SOP for the AP to feed us faux photo’s to go with their tripe?
Davis has not taken any compensation from his lobbying firm since 2006, the McCain campaign said.
He was paid for a job. He left the firm and has not been paid since.
AP is full of used food.
I think they just lie thru their teeth to try to get what they want.
The AP really needs to start marking their articles as “Ad Copy.”
There, fixed it.
Oh ppaaaaaaaaalllllllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssseeeeee. The Marxist Onada’s radical left wing and anti-American relationships are well documented. I’m hoping McCain takes it to him tonight.
AP = American Pravda
This is 100% editorial and 0% story.
I've finally got it, after lo these many years - it's the Ossociated Press.
LOL! Great minds think alike, pango. I got the idea this afternoon at work. Apparently, the idea crystallization may be taking place across the Net.
This AP reporter is the one stretching the truth, because Palin is not exaggerating his ties to Ayers, as even CNN has confirmed in the face of overwhelming evidence from the released documents, and Obama not only plans to raise most people's taxes, he's voted to do so in the past.
Talk about stretching the truth - this is even worse - being appointed to head a candidate's VP search doesn't show strong ties? This reporter is shameless.
Those AP stories are going out all over the world, different stories for different markets.
When I tell people of the dire threat to freedom by the very people who should guard the privilege, their eyes glaze over, when democrat. When republican, they get it.
Democrats think that the ends justify the means. Republicans on the other hand are once again, not the problem.
Let us be the solution in November.
“homely cows?”
Certainly not sacred cows.
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.
She has not nearly gone deep enough in Barack Obamas ties to the Terrorist. They were not just acquaintances, but partners in crime. They earned their living together defrauding America and trying to destroy it from within.
And the Government is beyond broke. How is it going to do a Trillion more dollars in handouts and Socialist business schemes without raising taxes?
We need to remember how people vote and how they line up with this election. It is a clear indication of just who they are.
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