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Palin Accuses 'Obama/Biden Democrats' of Attacking Her Family, But Campaign Can't Name One
September 04, 2008 8:05 PM
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sent out a fundraising solicitation today that charged that "the Obama/Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain."
I asked spokespeople of the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee just which "Obama/Biden Democrats" they're referring to.
The response I got was that Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski erroneously attacked Palin as a supporter of Pat Buchanan.
That's it. That's the evidence.
An attack on Palin herself.
In other words, they can't name one person affiliated with the Obama-Biden campaign who attacked the Palin family.
But she made the charge anyway, to help raise money.
Incidentally, in 1998 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, told the following joke at a Republican fundraiser:
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" McCain joked about the then-President's then-teenage daughter. "Because her father is Janet Reno."
''This is the bad boy,'' he told the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. "It was stupid and cruel and insensitive. I've apologized. I can't take it back. I could give you a whole bunch of excuses, but there are no excuses. I was wrong, but do you want me crucified? How many days does it need to be a story?'"
Now THAT is attacking someone's family!
- jpt
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when will this be over?
make it stop.
Posted by: tmo | Sep 29, 2008 6:24:01 PM
It seems to me that a moral society is based on truth and forgiveness. Admit your mistake, suffer the consequences and then be forgiven.
Deliberate lies and the lack of accountability have caused much of the death and destruction in the past seven years.
That needs to CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Tad in PDX | Sep 8, 2008 3:09:34 PM
Hey, Tired, you forgot the part where she's a fiscal conservative but left Wasilla, Alaska over $20 million in debt after coming into office with a budget surplus. That was the best part!
The GOP has officially jumped the shark.
Posted by: Steve R. | Sep 6, 2008 5:41:28 PM
She is ready to be President on Day 1 but cannot do any interviews until she is "briefed."
She accuses Obama/Biden campaigns of "smearing" her family but cannot point to any evidence.
She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it but she is a maverick that has cut wasteful spending.
She was for banning books but claims to support the US Constitution.
She gave a speech at the convention of the party whose primary platform is to secede from the US but she is patriotic.
Nice VP pick McBush.....the GOP is a joke!
Posted by: so tired of the gas and oil party | Sep 6, 2008 5:22:44 PM
who remembers ".....wait til you see my Gidget - you'll want her for your valentine....?"
Posted by: timmcveighjrBOO! | Sep 6, 2008 4:46:57 PM
hello--the US WEEKLY article was written by a McCain supporter!
Cant blame that on Dems either, sorry
Posted by: ezky | Sep 6, 2008 1:14:50 PM
The GOP invented the personal attack. Considering their inability to govern, it is not surprising they go for the personal jugular--it's all they've got.
I'm hoping the country is saying to them, "No, it is not OK if you are Republican!"
Mrs. Palin has spent most of her brief time in front of We The People of the United States of America lying about her ability to govern, and the rest telling jokes that are personal attacks on her opponent. Pitt bull in lipstick indeed. There is a reason pitt bulls have a bad reputation--unless they are highly controlled they have a habit of tearing innocents apart. No, I am not voting for any more pitt bulls. I've had enough of the GOP to last me a lifetime.
Posted by: Ellen | Sep 6, 2008 1:13:51 PM
If she can't name specific names that are connected to the actual campaign, she really should be quiet. This is especially true after both Obama and Biden told both the press and their own campaign that family is off limits. Obama even said that if anyone on his staff talked about her family, that person would be fired.
Furthermore, if she really wants people to take her seriously as a "pit bull in lipstick," "a hockey mom," or whatever she wants to call herself, she better toughen the hell up real quick. Half of her speech was spent attacking her opponents, but suddenly she's too weak for the same type of criticism that every other candidate gets whenever they run for office.
If she can talk the talk, then she needs to walk the walk.
Posted by: Steve R. | Sep 6, 2008 1:04:59 PM
This is what was most appalling about her appallingly negative smear speech the other night. Obama has done nothing but take the high road, specifically, and harshly, saying that families are out of bounds, period. In fact neither he nor the campaign had much to say about her at all.
The fact that she got up on stage and started saying that Barack Obama had smeared her and said she was too small time and etc etc was just bizare, he did no such thing.
Lies, the coin the realm for these right wingers, it's just amazing.
Posted by: Bill E Pilgrim | Sep 6, 2008 12:52:19 PM
SHAME ON MS. PALIN FOR EXPLOITING HER 17 YEAR OLD PREGNANT DAUGHTER AND NEWBORN SON WITH DOWNS SYNDROME. AND MORE SHAME ON JOHN MCCAIN FOR ALLOWING IT.
Posted by: PAT HANSON | Sep 6, 2008 12:42:05 AM
It's funny how when election time comes around, most of the US turns into a bunch of over-sensitive sissies. Is it fueled by media? YES. Is it fueled by mud-slinging? YES. Is it fueled by the individual campaigns tearing each other apart until people are just SICK of hearing what's wrong w/the other candidate? YES... and we wonder why we hate politicians! They make each other look bad and we don't want any of them because someone got a in the oval office or someone's DAUGHTER got pregnant or someone once wore garb for their relatives ceremony. jeesh.
I'm sure EVERYONE has something on them... no one is God, thus no campaigner is perfect.
Time to grow up and become a republic.
Posted by: government | Sep 5, 2008 11:44:29 PM
Don't forget that Joe Biden has been caught in plagiarism on two occasions.
That's called a liar and cheater, that you want as a President. Get some standards for your choice!
Posted by: Adrian Harris | Sep 5, 2008 11:06:03 PM
Why all the criticism about Sarah Palin's daughter, when Joe Biden's son who repeatedly has been in trouble with the law. You've not heard anything about his run in with the police, yet you condemn Palim with is a personal family matter and Biden's son is a violater of our country's laws. Check it to it and report as fair and balanced. It will changed people's tune in the whole matter. As a matter of fact, Biden has tried to quiet this story in the news.OF COURSE HE HAS USED HIS POLITICAL POWER TO DO SO. AN ABUSE OF HIS POWERS!
Posted by: Adrian Harris | Sep 5, 2008 10:49:37 PM
This pathetic flat earth creationist lier dos NOT deserve to take the White House Tour let along standing next in line behind McSenile codger is just plain scary . . . eating in an International House of Pancakes in Fairbanks is NOT foreign policy experience . . . .
Posted by: Jess Wonderin | Sep 5, 2008 9:52:59 PM
Mvspsdad post from yesterday was right on.#3 is most troubling.They are complaining that she is being called on her lies.This is differnt from the way McCain is treated by the'liberal' media(controled by the military industrial complex].He is allowed to get away with all his lies.Can't question a POW.
Posted by: hippy | Sep 5, 2008 8:51:05 PM
Have you heard that Track Palin was going to be arrested for bus vandalism and moved to Michigan for senior year? Cop was Palin's brother-in-law? Was he forced into military as alternative to jail? Has anyone interviewed the brother-in-law about any of this (Busgate) including Troopergate?
Posted by: Friday PM | Sep 5, 2008 7:02:15 PM
Can they ever NAME any examples? Look at her speech-- I'm a reformer, I'm independent, I have experience. And her only example was her Bridge to Nowhere thing, which was kind of a lie anyways.
Posted by: L. | Sep 5, 2008 7:01:12 PM
When is the Obama camp going to raise the fact that McCain wants to reinstitute the draft? This story came out a couple of weeks ago after a woman at a town hall meeting made some comments about the war and ended by saying that we are stretched so thin that we must reinstitute the draft in order to be able to support all of the wars. McSame's response was "I do not disagree with anything you are saying." If this story is generated to the greater public, I believe we will see teens, twenty-somethings, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandmothers stampede to vote for Sen. Obama simply to keep their sons and daughters safe from the grasp of a cranky unstable former POW stuck in the sixties with a cold war mentality. McSame is sabre rattling against the Russians now and it seems that his answer for any unrest is to send in the troops. Do we really need McSame or the Lipstick Pitbull with their fingers on the button? I don't think so.
Posted by: Jimi Mosey | Sep 5, 2008 6:31:30 PM
It's frightening to think that she could somehow become president -- I bet Abe Lincoln is spinning at high speed in his grave at what the Republican Party he helped create has ultimately become.
Posted by: DamnFool | Sep 5, 2008 5:49:26 PM
Incidentally, McCain never apologised to Janet Reno, Chelsea Clinton or Hillary Clinton for his sick joke. He only apologised to Bill Clinton, apparently because McCain's old-fashioned sense of honor doesn't extend beyond the patriarch of the family - the fact that the womenfolk might be offended wasn't important to him.
Posted by: oriole | Sep 5, 2008 5:08:54 PM
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