It was not a "good" or "great" speech, it was a carefully crafted laundry list of lies.

[ProSense]

September 04, 2008

John McCain's Awful Judgment, Part LXIII

I AM NOT MAKING ANY OF THIS UP:

George Bryson tells us that Sarah Palin has never issued an order to the Alaska National Guard asking it to do anything:

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/04/2008 | Official: Palin's never issued an order to Alaska Guard: When presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate last Friday, the Arizona senator emphasized her role as the commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard. Later, when questions were raised about Palin's lack of experience in national and international affairs, the McCain campaign pointed again to her military command experience as governor. Some reporters have tried to follow up. "Can you tell me one decision that she made as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard?" CNN journalist Campbell Brown asked Monday while interviewing McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds. "Just one?" Bounds couldn't, because Palin has never personally ordered the state guard to do anything....

Occasions in which Palin retains command authority over the 4,200-member Alaska National Guard are whenever the Guard responds to in-state natural disasters and civic emergencies, said Campbell, who also serves as the commissioner of the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.... Did Palin directly approve... those activities? No, Campbell said. The governor has granted him the authority to act on his own...

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Courtesy of Mike Willis, photographic evidence that Sarah Palin does too love earmarks:

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John McCain didn’t think so. Indeed, The LA Times reported that McCain was criticizing Palin’s earmarks at the time that his now-running mate was securing them...



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Matthew Yglesias sums up:

Matthew Yglesias: I understand that Sarah Palin’s fans find her critics loathesome and our motives dubious, but I wonder how they feel about the fact that her two national appearances have been so packed full of lies. To site the most obvious example, the story she’s now told in both of her appearances before national audiences about how “I told the Congress ‘thanks, but no thanks,’ for that Bridge to Nowhere” is an enormously appealing story. But to me, the appeal wore off when I learned it wasn’t true. Similarly, this is a nice idea:

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Obama's campaign statement summed it up best:

The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last eight years.

[Gman]

1. One of the jobs of a local elected official is to get federal money

good for her that she did it. But, she has no moral and no character when she lies about federal money and not wanting it. She wants it both ways.

[sandnsea]

3. Not when she says she's fighitng corruption

of those who use that money to get re-elected. You can't call it corruption to get elected while you're doing as much, or more, of it than anybody else.

[texpatriot2004]

2. If their lips are moving, they are lying. nm

[WA98296]

4. K&R