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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