WOW, Did Newsweek do this kind of coverage exposing the lies from internet emails about Obama? I don't remember seeing ANY of those....perhaps someone might provide a link?
WOW, Did Newsweek do this kind of coverage exposing the lies from internet emails about Obama? I don't remember seeing ANY of those....perhaps someone might provide a link?
Look, I'm all for Obama this year, but the left has been looking rather silly in its treatment of Palin. As I point out here:
http://www.somedork.com/dork-rag/dork-rag-sept-9-08/
the left wing is hurting Obama's cause by this nonstop Palin witch-hunt.
LOL - I got lots of chuckles from his Tech Tip ... thanks for the link
check Obama's DNC speech distortions of truth on factcheck.org. facts have no allies.
jackie kays is reaching... admiting that they were lies that they pushed forward but.... but... but..... and slanders more with "opinions." and you know she's mean and vicious, how? her speech?
true_patriot now says we need to talk issues.... that's what Republicans have been trying to say all along.... now that you gus are busted... you want to talk issues.... you guys have issues....
oh and other here talking about how Palin panders.... your Big Boss O is the Pander King. Check out his taxes.. it is public information and he makes 4 million... he never tells who's pandering the poor here? McCain and his wife make more because of her family's beer but he never did say he was poor. But Obama... like he really feels the pinch of gas today.
Haters of Palin and McCain just keep frying on in your hate and your own filth. The lies in the mybarackobama group just made me so sick that i just had to leave and take my vote with me. and they had the audacity of hope to come out on top with all the lies as they massed email everyone with all the media's websites telling Obamites to contact editors to send in the anti-Palin rumors to "show the world The Real Palin" because they really believed them all to be FACTS despite that I had pointed out that there was no proof or factcheck.org already confirmed them false, along with the bikini picture. i got the email to prove it. some of the supporters in this San Diego group were literally extremists to my non-partisan and innocent-til-proven-guilty mentality that i got hate mail. well 3 days later... all have been proven lies and media catches on. i bet they are in there saying that media is biased against them - the same media sources that had been supporting their cause.. never called that when they were up in the polls. oh and their reason why they are down in the polls? one said that Obama supporters don;t use landlines. they use cells phones... i see i'm not the only one who got sick of the crap.
oh and the Obamites will never face that the economy.has more to do with the injustice of 9/11 and Democartic-led Pelosi (who has half the approval rate of Bush) because Obama will never tell them that truth. He will keep chanting that "same old 8 years" chant he got them chanting. Go get some landline phones.
Whoa. Bitter much?
And you got the facts all wrong. What a shock.
No, I am quite happy, are you? =D
I am puzzled by the simple fact that McCain-Palin supporters actually think people not voting for McCain-Palin are buying into the fact that they are so desperately insulting our intelligence and making themselves look like idiots....it is so sad to see people turn their souls over to injustice because they can't accept having a man with brown skin in the white house...for most of McCain-Palin supporters this is the very heart of the issue despite all the nonsense...anyone who has some education and can add 2+2 know that McCain has the same agenda as Bush....McCain is the ring leader of trading what he knows is right (listening to his inner man) for power, position and wealth. McCain has a history of inner conflict and the need for position, power and wealth...I actually think McCain's Father has a lot to do with his inner self conflict because he probably feels he never lived up to his father's standards (5th from bottom is nothing to rave about).....I read a lot of the comments posted here and I laughed because McCain-Palin supporters are trying so hard to the point that I find it amazing......historical...simply historical
It has nothing to do with color you idiot. And those that don't vote for Obama aren't racist because of that. I have no problem with a black President - just not THIS black President. He is wayyyy too far left. I'm amazed that he has gotten the pass from the media that he has. While they pounce on Palin after only one week, there are still many unanswered questions about BHO. His radical associations alone would have gotten anyone else thrown out of the primaries - so I think he did get a pass due to his skin color.
just the fact that you addressed me as an idiot let's me know YOU are the REAL IDIOT....running out of the gate fueled by emotional hype will fail you every time...my free advice to you is to balance it out...don't let your emotions lead you in this arena.....
A little stretching of the truth here - The librarian was allowed to keep her job after over 100 citizens of Wasilla threatened to have Sarah Palin recalled as mayor if she fired the librarian. Palin praised the Alaskan Independence Party for their good work and her husband registered twice as a AIP member. The AIP has said that they need to infiltrate both political parties if they are ever to win in their attempts to stop being Americans. Palin praises the ALASKA FIRST party and sleeps with one twice-registered member.
Thank you for some sanity.
The info in factcheck is incomplete. Palin asked the librarian 3 times about whether the librarian would remove books if asked. It's really not clear what Palin intended by her questions, so Factcheck may or may not be correct. We simply don't know the answer yet. As for the Alaskan Independence Party, she may have been registered as a republican, but why do people in the AIP think she was a member. There's a video of an AIP meeting that's posted on Mudflats and there is discussion about the mayor's former membership in the group. If she wasn't a formal member, it's likely that she attended meetings or aligned herself with the group.
Palin signed the signed the increase in public school funding, including special needs funding in March 2008. Well think about it, this was AFTER she knew that she was pregnant with a Downs Syndrom child.
Who knows if she cut special needs funding in 2007.
Who knows? Well, gee wiz ... research it then rather than trying to through out something more that is unsubstantiated!
*throw*
Listen Newsweek - we know she's probably not the rampantly reported horrible person that the internet says she is.. BUT what we do know is that she is one mean, vicious person when she has to be, who would in a heartbeat take down all her beliefs to rise to office, make it so that the country maintains its divisions, and continue to pander to a small group of people no matter what the cost. I think that's pretty clear.
Pander to what small group of people? The republican party ? Apparently that small group is big enough to keep the dems out of the white house for 20 of the last 28 years.
You would rather elect wimps to lead this country?
NO SPIN NO WHITEWASH
On the issue of the librarian Mary Ellen Emmons.
Yes, Gov Palin as Mayor of Wasilla, requested 3 times (not twice) of Emmons her opinion on banning certain books in the Wasilla Public Library. There was no book list for banning.
Emmon???s repeatedly answered that she ???flatly refused to consider any kind of censorship.???
Yes, Palin sent a letter of termination to Emmons. Some refer to it as a letter of resignation. What is the difference?
The reason Palin offered, Emmons ???did not fully support her.???
Yes, Palin reneged on the termination of Emmons, 1 day later due to the local uproar.
A week and a half later a group, calling themselves Concerned Citizens of Wasilla, of local residents discussed a recall, but decided it would be more effective and less divisive to try to work with Palin. As reported on 2/11/97 Anchorage Daily News (AK). ???Members say they're concerned about the direction taken by Palin since her election last fall, and discussed a recall.???
Palin was pushed into hiring an Administrator to run the small town (pop 5,500 at the time Palin took office).
Again, this has been discussed multiple times below if you care to read & research, like a good librarian should.
Yes, but my post is factual and doesn't leave out the unpalatable bits, and doesn't make assumptions.
This election is the first to my mind where the Internet is being used fully as class A propaganda machine and it's a test to see if the "public" actually heeds information it's absorbing. It's the Election of engineered and totally fraudulent Social Networking, not of banner ads and it's the election of false opinions, Spam posts on News web sites, Blogs and discussion forums. What? Palin has no actual experience? Post a blog touting how experienced she is. Huh? McCain would be as inept a president as Bush? Turn the discussion back to Palin.Avoid the issues. Avoid the issues at all cost!
What? Obama has no experience ... post a blog touting how experienced he is.
OFF TARGET
Does Gov Palin deserve deference?
If we are talking about polite respect. Yes of course.
Even if Gov Palin did sprinkle her acceptance speech with distortions of the truth. And continues to repeat them in her stump speeches.
If we are talking about submission to her judgment or opinion. No Way.
We don???t know what her judgment or opinion is because she won???t field legitimate questions.
Whatever excuses are made, the bottom line is that Gov Palin has accepted the nomination of VP candidate. Questions are being asked and no answers are forthcoming, not to the media and not even to the public.
I suggest that Gov Palin does not understand the deference she should have towards the public.
Name one politician that hasn't distorted the truth ... they all do ... even your beloved.
And your point is?
If Sarah Palin might have been misrepresented by the blogs and unfavorable press, she could stop whining and do two things....!. Stop mis-representing the facts about what she did and dids not do as Mayor and Governor, and two, meet the press like a grownup. Being sequestered doesn't give any Ameican confidence that she has any ideas about what matters to us voters.
Tom
Palin is a LIAR!!! Please repeat. She is a LIAR! Of course Newsweek is not going to print that because their reporting staff was too busy hanging out a barbecue thrown especially for them at the McCain ranch. McCains daughter posted a video of the event on youtube here:
http://prolefeed.tv/2008/09/06/journalists-swing-the-tire/
Palins lies are too numerous to count - she did not say "no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere, in fact she spent the money! She is the biggest earmark queen of them all for both the state of Alaska and her little town of Wasilla!
If you want the real news and not just the whitewashed crap that the guests of McCain's barbecue (aka the Newsweek team) is printing, please read http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/215092.php
Hey idiot. This article came from FactCheck.org, not newsweek. It is a literal dissertation of facts that have been verified, and it proves you and your liberals friends were lying about Palin. You can not hide from this "inconvenient truth".
I began researching who Sarah Palin was since the V.P. pick was announced.
While what you state in "Sliming Palin" is true, you leave off the things that ARE true. Why is that?
For example: It's true, she did not ban books. But isn't it relavent that she broached the subject several times and then gave the libraian a pink slip? That paints a different picture than what you said. The only reason the libraian was not fired was because residents of Wasilla threatened to petition for recall against Palin.
Also, what about the :bridge to nowhere?" Part of her campaing for Governor was her being in favor of this pork. Then, once elected and she discovered Alaska would need to match the $220 million, she decided against it. But most important, she kept our $220 million. So to say that she is ethical and against waste and pork is not true.
I do not think she is the anti-Christ but I do see that she is more untruthful than most politicians. She not only exaggerates, as most politicians do, she outright lies and continues lying even when it is debunked. That troubles me greatly. Unethical in my opinion.
Also, i see a pattern of vindictiveness that is very troubling.
Wow, that's the first time I've seen her referenced as a potential Anti-Christ ... even though you say you don't believe it. OMG, I am continually amazed by people. But again, the whole Anti-Christ subject has been discussed before. Read further on.
For the most part, no one is bringing up anything new ... so please read past posts and reply there rather than rehashing what has already been discussed ad nauseum.
Fine, there's been some misinformation. What about her bragging about stopping the "Bridge to Nowhere" when in fact she was originally FOR it? And that she got funds for it and KEPT them even after the bridge was canceled! If you're going to call yourself journalists, if you refute a bunch of untruths about someone, you should at least point out the lies that are true, that come out of the candidate's own mouth. You make Palin out to be a saint!
And what about both Obama and Biden voting for it as well?
To even hypothetically consider banning books is UNAMERICAN. And what kind of power hunger "executive" subjects a LIBRARIAN to a "loyalty test". My research shows the librarian was only reinstated after a public outcry, still waiting on formal fact check on that. Agree the published list was a reach, but she wanted something banned.
Also to even consider discussing creationism in a science class is ludicrous. Fine in a religion or mythology class but patently unscientific and not worth arguing about. That would be like seriously discussing the Book of Revelation in a Political Science class. I'm sure it happens in evangelical universities (and madrasass), but is laughable.
When a president takes office, does he or she keep the cabinet members from the previous president? NO. they clean house and put their own people in. So when she takes office and decides to find out what type of people currently hold these positions in the government, so that she could keep the ones who matched the style of government she wanted to implement, she is demonized? Why? I would do the same thing. A lot of the people were not fired as a result of this vetting process. Nobody is complaining about that....
Sorry about repeated post... my browser kept timing out, and I didn't think it had sent.
Funny, but the Republicans have been spreading lies for years. Now they are whining that there might be some misinformation on their candidate. Poor kids, I really feel for ya!
Bunkster, you have to admit - the level of attacks on Palin is unprecedented. The attacks are increasing as Obama's poll numbers are decreasing. I wonder if there is any connection there. Unfortunately for the Dems, many more Americans can identify with her than with Obama. Regardless of the foaming mouth attacks by the frenzied left, Sarah Palin is not the monster she's being made out to be. My guess is that enough people can see the desparation in the Dem's acts to disregard them, awarding the election to McCain/Palin in November.
UMM where were you when the McCain camp was/and still is making the claim that Obama's plan would raise taxes? And Palin still today is repeating the "thanks but no thanks" to the bridge line. While all the news outlets have called this an "untruth" they still feel they have immunity to just keep saying it over and over. BTW Eagle35 have you asked Bush if had stopped using cocaine? Have asked McCain if he faithful to his current wife.....
Your mistake is that you assume because the news media report it , then it must be true. The news media have been implicit in all of the lies about McCain Palin.
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