So, Palin's just going to keep repeating her lies . . .

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September 13, 2008


After a farewell rally in her home state of Alaska, Palin flew to the "lower 48" U.S. states to campaign on her own in Nevada, Colorado and Ohio over the next few days before rejoining McCain.

She stuck to some parts of her record that Democrats have sought to question. She said she killed a controversial $398 million bridge project in Alaska dubbed "the Bridge to Nowhere," without mentioning she had initially been for the project.

"I told Congress thanks but no thanks on that Bridge to Nowhere, that if the state wanted to build that bridge, we would build it ourselves," she said.

And she said again that, as Alaska governor, she put up for sale on eBay a "luxury jet" used by the previous governor, without mentioning that it did not sell and she had to hire a broker to sell it . . .


read: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=d6d2832d-a553-4beb-8239-8fc53cdaedfc


from the Obama campaign today:


To: Press Corps
From: Obama Campaign
Re: Unraveling the myth of the Straight Talk Express

Since naming Governor Palin as their Vice Presidential nominee, the McCain campaign has distorted, distracted, and outright lied to the American people about her record in a desperate attempt to hide the fact that a McCain/Palin Administration would be nothing more than a continuation of the failed Bush policies of the last eight years.

Indeed, today alone we learned that the McCain campaign’s claim that Governor Palin traveled to Iraq is a lie. In fact, she didn’t cross the Kuwait border. We learned that the McCain campaign is desperate enough to tell the press phony crowd numbers, which they falsely attributed to local elected officials and the United States Secret Service. And we learned that despite Senator McCain’s claim that Governor Palin is a fiscal conservative, spending actually increased during her brief tenure as Governor.

Here are the facts. Governor Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere, requested hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks, never visited Iraq, increased spending as governor, increased taxes as governor, and was about as successful selling that luxury jet on eBay as the McCain campaign has been selling her reputation as a reformer. Oh yeah, and the gas pipeline she touts won’t be usable for at least a decade, if it’s completed at all.

"While the media is slowly starting to call the McCain campaign on their dishonest tactics, McCain’s staff boasts that they don’t care. As a McCain spokesman told the Politico, “We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

[HughMoran]

1. Yep, just saw the ad with the "bridge to nowhere" lie. Republicans are compulsive liars

Too bad the country is filled with hateful ignoramuses.

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2. It's similar to the challenge Bush posed with his tyranny

He took advantage of the apathy of the voters (and Congress) and dared us to confront him.