The mudslinging is only going to get worse, until it's a virtual landslide.
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>Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:49:05 -0400
>From: Kathy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Palin's little lies
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Thank you for that, Anthony. I'm not voting for her or McCain, but I
>don't want to see wild, negative accusations on both sides. Pah! I'm so
>sick of negative political mudslinging!
>
>
>Kat
>
>Anthony Arnold wrote:
>> Do you think they are going to lose some votes because of Palin's acceptance
>> of their teenage daughter's pregnancy? I don't know about you, but I do know
>> quite a few who frown on teenage pregnancy, one is my cousin who really
>> surprises me she is a sweetheart but when it comes to that she turns her
>> face. I myself think if you parent, you haven't to worry, it could still
>> happen but less likely.
>> I had a friend look into the budget cuts in Alaska, here's what he found.
>> Okay, I think I found the issue, and I'm relieved to say that it looks like
>> the 62% "cut" in special education funding is actually due to funding for
>> one program, the Alaska Challenge Youth Academy Program, being moved to a
>> separate budget item:
>> http://gov.state.ak.us/omb/08_OMB/budget/EED/comp2837.pdf
>> According to that figure, she actually increased funding for the program.
>> I still have no intention of voting for McCain/Palin for a host of other
>> reasons, but I'm glad to see that unless I'm missing something, she didn't
>> actually cut this funding. She may be wrong for America, and I believe that
>> she and McCain are, but at least she's not the monster I was beginning to
>> fear that she might be.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony Arnold
>> Remote Troubleshooter for PRC
>> 1-800-262-1984 ext. 494
>> www.anthonyarnold.net
>> Proud Member of Speak Share
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Tamar Raine
>> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:01 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Palin's little lies
>>
>> If the truth be known...
>> Now that we've had a chance to see Sarah Palin and to hear her speak -- or
>> at least read the big rolling white block letters on the teleprompter in
>> front of her -- we can see that she's prone to telling whoppers.
>>
>>
>>> Now we know politicians as a group have a propensity to embellish the
>>> truth -- particularly when describing their opponents or themselves --and
>>> even to lie outright, but Palin does it so well, she's like a George Bush
>>> with reading and pronunciation skills.
>>>
>>> In her acceptance speech last night, Palin told a whole string of lies. My
>>> favorite was talking about little Trig, her latest offspring, who was born
>>> with Down syndrome. Looking right out into the camera, she told the
>>> parents of America with special needs children that if she and John McCain
>>> win in November, "You'll have an advocate in Washington."
>>>
>>> Hard to square that with the truth, though, which is that as governor,
>>> Palin has proposed a reduction in funds for special needs grants to
>>> schools in both her budgets -- this at a time when the state of Alaska has
>>> been benefiting from record oil tax revenues, which Palin is pushing to
>>> return to citizens as cash rebates.
>>>
>>> Left unsaid by Palin was the fact that McCain himself, in Congress, has
>>> voted against funding for the Head Start program, an early childhood
>>> program particularly important to children of teen mothers, and that he
>>> has opposed bills to increase funding for special education. So in fact,
>>> parents of children with special needs such as Trig not only won't have an
>>> advocate in the vice president's office, but also they won't have an
>>> advocate in the White House either.
>>>
>>> Palin has also tried to turn a family tragedy -- her 17-year old daughter
>>> Bristol's getting pregnant by a local self-described 18-year-old "redneck"
>>> athlete from the same high school -- into a virtue by saying that she and
>>> her husband will be helping their daughter "keep the child" and raise it.
>>> To keep things cool in the eyes of god, she also announced that the two
>>> teen parents would be getting married. Both kids were prominently on
>>> display at the Republican National Convention during her speech.
>>>
>>> What Palin didn't tell convention-goers or the national viewing audience
>>> was that as governor, she cut the funds for a program in the state to
>>> support single teen mothers and that as a PTA member, mayor, and finally
>>> as governor of Alaska, she has opposed sex education in the schools --
>>> something her daughter and future son-in-law clearly could have used. Less
>>> advantaged single mothers in Alaska and, should she be elected, in the
>>> rest of America, will not have a friend in the Blair House. She also
>>> failed to mention that McCain has voted against funding of teen pregnancy
>>> prevention programs in Congress.
>>>
>>> Palin continued, in her acceptance speech, to spout another lie that she
>>> had already been making in her first days on the stump since being picked
>>> by McCain as his choice for running mate: she had said "No thank you" to
>>> the $439-million "Bridge to Nowhere" which, as perhaps the biggest single
>>> earmark in a year of record earmarks last year had become a national joke
>>> line. The truth: Palin backed that bridge, and was even ready to add state
>>> funding to get it built, until it became a national joke. Then she thought
>>> better, and killed the bridge, while still taking the money, which the
>>> state's senior senator, Ted Stevens now under indictment for taking bribes
>>>
>> >from contractors) , had earmarked.
>>
>>> Palin went on to lie about her opponent, Barack Obama's, tax plan, saying
>>> it would raise taxes on businesses and on all Americans. In fact, Obama's
>>> plan calls for lowering the corporate profits tax, while increasing the
>>> tax on dividends and capital gains, both of which fall not on businesses
>>> but on investors, and for lowering taxes on most Americans, while raising
>>> them for people earning over $250,000.
>>>
>>> John McCain likes to ride around in a bus he dubs the "Straight-Talk
>>>
>> Express."
>>
>>> Sarah Palin, in her debut on the national stage since being named as
>>> McCain's Number Two, has lied enough times to deserve the sobriquet Sure
>>> A. Pallin'.
>>>
>>> DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia- based journalist and columnist. His latest
>>>
>>
>>
>>> book is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now
>>> available in paperback). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappe
>>>
>> ning.net.
>>
>>> http://www.buzzflas h.com/articles/ lindorff/ 137
>>>
>>
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