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Does Palin Tell Lies?
Submitted by btchakir on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 5:11pm.
That great Alaskan blogger Mudflats has a piece out about Sarah Palin and her relationship with "The Bridge To Nowhere" that Ted Stevens tried to get the Federal Government to fund. In fact, Palin's statement in her acceptance speech was:
I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress — I told Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that Bridge to Nowhere. ‘If our state wanted a bridge’, I said, ‘we’d build it ourselves’.
But Mudflats gives us this piece from the Ketchikan Daily News:
“People across the nation struggle with the idea of building a bridge because they’ve been under these misperceptions about the bridge and the purpose,’ said Palin, who described the link as the Ketchikan area’s potential for expansion and growth.
Palin said Alaska’s congressional delegation worked hard to obtain funding for the bridge and that she ‘would not stand in the way of the progress toward that bridge’.
8-8-06
‘We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative,’ Palin said.”
Ketchikan Daily News 9-28-06
Looks like she makes things up. Read the whole article.
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Yes. Yes Sarah is a very scary liar, Mommy
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Repost from last thread
Federal government involved in raids on protesters
(update below)
As the police attacks on protesters in Minnesota continue -- see this video of the police swarming a bus transporting members of Earth Justice, seizing the bus and leaving the group members stranded on the side of the highway -- it appears increasingly clear that it is the Federal Government that is directing this intimidation campaign. Minnesota Public Radio reported yesterday that "the searches were led by the Ramsey County Sheriff's office. Deputies coordinated searches with the Minneapolis and St. Paul police departments and the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Today's Star Tribune added that the raids were specifically "aided by informants planted in protest groups." Back in May, Marcy Wheeler presciently noted that the Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force -- an inter-agency group of federal, state and local law enforcement led by the FBI -- was actively recruiting Minneapolis residents to serve as plants, to infiltrate "vegan groups" and other left-wing activist groups and report back to the Task Force about what they were doing. There seems to be little doubt that it was this domestic spying by the Federal Government that led to the excessive and truly despicable home assaults by the police yesterday.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/index.html
UPDATE: A Professor at the University of Minnesota who lives in the neighborhood where one of the homes was raided yesterday sent photographs he took which rather conclusively demonstrate federal involvement in these raids:
And Feministing has the video -- here -- of the scene yesterday where journalists were detained, along with an interview with the homeowner whose house was raided.
http://www.feministing.com/archives/010742.html
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Doocy again!
Doocy: Anyone who can raise 5 kids can be vice-president
By Muriel Kane
During a discussion on Fox & Friends Monday about how Sarah Palin might energize the Republican base, host Steve Doocy began by citing her “lifelong” NRA membership and her husband’s membership in a union.
“Plus she’s a mother of five,” Doocy went on. “And we were out at the state fair and somebody said, ‘Look, any person who can help raise five children … certainly could be vice-president of the United States.’ They said being a mom is tougher than being vice-president.”
Doocy gained notice last Friday for suggesting last Friday that Palin “does know about international relations because she is right up there in Alaska right next door to Russia.”
This remark led Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart to call Doocy a “moron.” However, conservative journalist Michael Barone made the same argument in his blog at U.S. News, writing that “Alaska is the only state with a border with Russia. And it is the only state with territory, in the Aleutian Islands, occupied by the enemy in World War II.”
Now even Cindy McCain has adopted the Doocy position. When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked her on Sunday about Palin’s national security experience, she replied in all seriousness. “[R]emember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. It’s not as if she doesn’t understand what’s at stake here.”
This video is from Fox’s Fox & Friends, broadcast September 1, 2008.
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1794
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