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
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> -----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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