The Liar From Nowhere

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The Liar From Nowhere

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September 13, 2008 at 07:09:07

The Liar From Nowhere

by Gregory Paul

Has there ever been a presidential campaign in living memory in which one of the members of the two tickets was willing to brazenly lie with such by golly enthusiasm as Sarah Palin has been doing even after being exposed by the mainstream media? In speech after speech, often with her father-figure McCain standing proudly beside her, Palin crisply and cheerily proclaims that she told Congress “thanks, but no thanks” to the notorious Bridge to Nowhere. She is so good at it that it seems true, I assumed it was when I first saw it. Palin even adds an emphatic little motion of the hand that smartly sells the statement.

She boldy does this even though she and her mentor know that exactly the opposite is true. When running for governor Palin was all for the bridge. With her aggressive minister of pork Ted Stevens in charge of the Senate committee that doled out federal earmarks, Palin explicitly explained on TV that it was no time to not game the Washington system for all that taxpayers of the lower 48 would cough up for the 49th. After becoming governor Palin never actually said no to the bridge, it was Congress who told her to forget it. And she kept the $200 million. If the Pit Bull With Lipstick had had her way the bridge would be under construction at this moment.