I'm sure it is, but I don't have to watch it or participate in it. My
mind is made up and nothing will change it unless someone uncovers a
shocker about Obama or Biden. If anything was there, it'd have been
aired by now, I'm sure.
Kat
Michael H. Collis wrote:
> The mudslinging is only going to get worse, until it's a virtual landslide.
>
> ---- Original message ----
>
>> 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]
>>
>> 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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