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Small point:

Palin never said she sold the jet on E-bay; she out it on e-Bay.

Now, my guess is if you follow the bleating mob believing she said otherwise, you have already bought into other fictions and are basically an Obama lemming who is destined to have his heart broken when reality smacks him in the face and he realizes he is in way over his head and only where he is because the left is still obsessing about "re-electing Gore."

Oscar Wilde said "There is only one thing worse than not getting what you want; getting it."

Libs may soon understand the tragic ironu of that
if Barry lands in the White House.

I haven't seen a woman get inside of so many heads since Dr. Ruth.

Well, I'm the ethics committee in Alaska may have something to say about this just as historians will one day note the curious similiraties between many of Obam'as speeches and Lincoln's.

Consider how insecure one must be to lie about a false teleprompter malfunction at the RNC during a rally in Canton Ohio. How insignificant is it that you can see Russia from your house, or stop over for refueling on the boarder and say you entered into Iraq? As insignificant as the shallow purchase of a tanning bed to look good and the paranoia that prompts one to say it's because you have S.A.D - a very serious illness. So is Sara Palin saying to the American people, she has a mental disorder caused by seasonal depression? Or is she saying she is not on medication as prescribed by most physicians who treat S.A.D?

She continues today with more lies, stating she will show financial accountability of money spent so the American people will know where their money is going when she is VP, but as it stands now, she refuses to show her income tax statements as Biden, McCain and Obama has already done, or show any documents or co-operate on the bi-partisan investigation of troopergate.

But wait! Surely she knows even more about the world financial market than Obama or Biden. After all, she's been living inside her Alaskan Igloo running a densely populated city Government for 20 months now. That is, before being plucked out the gem of America’s heartland (remote Alaska)for her cosmetic appeal to update John McCain's antiquated Washington insider image.

Ask John about his friends, the Keaton 5 back in 1989, he knows a thing or two about finances too.

Jake, if you've followed her prepared remarks so closely, was the joke about pitbulls and lipstick also in the prepared speech? She did have a hard copy of the speech with her and when the teleprompter went wonky, she started consulting the hard copy instead. I wouldn't say she completely winged it, but there's no proof she lied about the teleprompter not working properly either.

Sarah Palin: The Fabricator.

The big news is that she's been telling people that the prompter broke and she improvised a portion of her speech.

Whether it's that she thinks people are stupid, or she herself is totally clueless about how the press works, it's amazing how she consistently tells these easily disproved lies.

The strangest part is, she doesn't have to tell them! People already love you, why say that the prompter broke? Why say you fired the chef when you just put her somewhere else? Why say you sold the plane on ebay when you didn't?

McCain's VP pick has a strange habit.

HOUSE. OF. CARDS.

It's so disheartening to see Republican voters stand up for lies and a campaign that uses smoke and mirrors to fool voters. What is the threshold for Republican voters as to when they will finally admit that their candidates are using unethical methods to try and fool Americans? When will they admit that McCain-Palin are lying to voters repeatedly, despite facts showing otherwise? I thought we were Americans first, not Republicans or Democrats. These people are no different than members of the Nazi party who made excuses and turned their heads as Hitler lied and used violence to divide Germany. When will we as Americans agree that lying and propaganda are not the American way of campaigning or getting into office. Do these people really want Palin sitting for McCain in talks with Putin or Kim Jong-Il? God help us from people with such blinders on as the world watches us implode as a country.

To h Ron Stephens. This is a big deal because the McCain campaign lied about this relatively inconsequencial detail. As it has lied blatantly lied about just about everything.

But, but, but, Shawn Hannity told me the tele-prompter-thingy failed. Now I don't know what to believe. He also told me that the we DID find WMD’s in Iraq and the Chinese have oil rigs in the gulf of Mexico. I’m so confused….

Umm... how is this news exactly? So she did not read the script verbatim (but seemed to stick to the message). Big deal.

Palin's Eloquence Envy

Palin's claim is nothing less than saying you wrote something that you did not, aka PLAGIARISM. If I were Matthew Scully, Palin's thoughtsmith, I don't know if I'd be flattered by Palin's attempted appropriation of my work, or seriously bent. The Democrats must be laughing their butts off!

Trouble is ALL republicans today are all empty suits. They follow you around like a goat after a milk bottle. Obviously all the folks who speak of Senator Obama having speaking problems have never read anything he has written. He is eloquent. The Mafia is jealous of the republican party screwing the whole country yet not one of the repubs feels any guilt or shame or responsibility for our terrible state of affairs. Too bad so many obviously uneducated educated folks are repubs. Truly unbelieveable!

And now McCain's very own adviser says he invented the BlackBerry. As little as *yesterday*, another (?) or the same (?) advisor went on TV to say Obama would raise taxes on the poor when every (and I'm talkin' every!) news organization has already debunked it [truth: only those making $250,000 or more would see increases, 95% of all Americans would see a decrease]. These people are suppose to be the spokespeople for their candidate. Pretty repulsive, eh? Sarah Palin is proof that you can be fresh in politics, but still be a seasoned liar.

Obam/Biden, says this Canadian! :-)

she's such a hugh fake. she lies about the telepromter so that people then thinks shes "winging" it.

Not only is she a liar, she's much too stupid. much too stupid. she's only fooling herself.

so so stupid!

go home, take that bridge to nowhere and go away!

Go Gov. Palin!

When you have the Obama acolytes in such an uproar, you are doing something right!

Just like Sen. Obama they are obsessed with a strong, smart, influential woman who shrugs off their juvenile attacks.

He just couldn't stop talking about her and neither can they.

Damn, she's good!

She lies like most people breathe.

sarah palin tells small and inconsequential lies just to keep in practice

lying is hard work

you have to practice ALL THE TIME

Palin just doesn't have it, so her handlers are trying to use DISTRACTION like one does with a crying toddler; you show them something pretty and they forget what they were whining about, works almost every time. Trouble is, even hicks are becoming more sophisticated with the internet and the improvement of communications in general, so at the click of a mouse they can read/hear/watch the lastest foible of their candidate or any public figure for that matter. With that said, Palin supporters are just as likely to turn against her as support her as they get the "lowdown" on Palin. In my opinion, I think this will hurt her more than help her, as in the past one could only get info from the MSM, but with the internet it's a whole new game, baby.

Its amazing to me the lies or ab best misleading statements that this lady has produced in just.

The bridge to nowhere, which dhe supported and will not at least stop saying while every news org has debunked it.
She did not request earmarks as governor even though she has hired a lobbyist and obtained the most per capita of any state in the union - QUEEN of PORK
Implying that she has foreign policy experience because "she can see Russia from Alaska" - so what I can see the moon from my porch, but I am not claiming to be an astronaut!
Claiming she visited Europe - when her plane only stopped to refuel in Ireland
Claiming she visited Iraq - when she stopped on the Kuwait/Iraq border checkpoint. - But I am forgetting she could see it, so thats all that matters!!
Troopergate - she said she would cooperate, but now daying the DEMS are hijacking the system, when Alaska is almost as heavily republican as Utah!
ENOUGH! Time will catch up to her before the election.

Obama/Biden 08

All you American ladies will be yelling and stamping your feet within 6 months of putting McCain/Palin in office. Why? because every right for women that has been hard fought for will be lost. Including the right to abort a rapist,s child, to even just taking a morning after pill, to losing the right to monthly pills as anti-pregnancy help.
Palin will not care about the beauty of natural Alaska or any other place in the 50 states. Guam and Porta Rico will become Super staging grounds for "christian soldiers" going out to war. Gitmo will be a worse hell on earth than it already is. The Super Highway will take "eminent domain" from thousands of landowners, and slap down any opponents. You basic rights will be no more. So I say if these two are voted in don't cry to the rest of America or the world when you become unhappy with them!!!

What are McCains plans to solve the economic mess in Wall Street? He has no plans or ideas (yeah, he is gona reform Wallstreet).

It's also a strange to suggest that regulation is not good for the competitiveness.

Looks a the cell phones...
Nokia, LG, Samsung, Sony are all foreign companies with a strong regulation from their government. They are just better managed than US companies.

What a congenital liar. She lies even when it's so easy to show she's lying, as in this case.

And when she fired the police chief in Wasilla and a reporter asked her about it, she denied firing the guy -- even though she had done so in writing! The reporter went back to the chief, who read him the termination letter Palin had sent!

Aside from the obvious character issue involved, what kind of grade-school mental calculation is she making? How does she think she won't get caught?

If she ends up across the table from Putin, she'll be playing checkers while he plays three-dimensional chess.

Quoting maria: "All these petty attacks on Sen. Palin are really getting old."

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"maria": She's a governor, not a senator. Perhaps you should consider informing yourself of facts before you take such umbrage.

I cannot fathom why anyone who actually understands McCain/Palin's policies on the economy, healthcare or foreign policy would vote for them (unless of course, they are a "low information" voter who's only heard of lipstick and celebrities)

Why is Obama telling us he wants the troops out of Iraq,.... but asking Iraq to not sign anything to allow them to leave early... until AFTER the election?

Maybe he wants to take credit... or is he just play us for fools.

I wonder if any picked on the last 3 works of her quote. "It was Ohio" Does she mean they're just plain folks, that can be talked to like friends, or those dumb hicks from Ohio?

It is SO MAVERICK and REFORMIST to LIE. Thanks Sarah.

Posted by: PJ | Sep 16, 2008 3:12:27 PM

*****

This is all Saint O has left now and his bots. Calling the other guy a liar. He is like the Wizard of Oz that Saint O. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Saint O contradicts every word out of his mouth. Yea, you remember taking public financing. Debates, you forgot that one hey. NAFTA is good, NAFTA no good. DC gun ban good, DC gun ban no good. Iran tiny threat, Iran grave threat. He is talking out of both sides of his mouth so much he forgets what he said.

Some of you really amazes me...
The election is no Idols contest, we are looking for a smart, intelligent leadership that can solve the gigantic problems we face.

And all you worry is using teleprompter.

Btw.. my 10 year old nephew knows how to pronounce the word nuclear, without a teleprompter.

Are nation is in financial trouble, and people are reporting about teleprompter use...

@Kabookey: It's not about whether she used a teleprompter, it's about whether she *lied* about whether she used a teleprompter. Everybody uses teleprompters, of course, but only the conniving, deluded ones ever claim that they didn't when they did.

And something interesting about this Palin choice--my 74 year old Baptist mother and my 52 year old Methodist sister have both said they won't vote for McCain now. Not because they have found a new love for Obama. But because their conservative values make it impossible for them to think a woman is a good choice for VP. And in the case of my sister, Palin's Pentecostal ties are frightening to her. Neither will vote for Obama, but McCain lost at least those two votes in Ohio and I suspect many more as the sheer political nature of this choice becomes clearer.

It is SO MAVERICK and REFORMIST to LIE. Thanks Sarah.

At least she is not bringing the teleprompter to the rodeo like Barry. He cannot think on his feet so he has to bring the teleprompter everywhere.

" how she punched words that were underlined and paused where it said "pause," noting that "nuclear" was spelled out for her phonetically."

So the word nuclear is to difficult for her. Do not now about you, but I find this rather scarry.

This is the first time I have ever seen an article on the teleprompter use. I have to take this occasion to point out how reliant Obama is on the telepromter...to the extent that all I see is him looking left....middle.....right....middle...left...middle...right...left...right...middle...left...right...etc. He never makes contact with the audience.

All he does is read a speech well. At least Governor Palin makes it look like she is just talking to everyone.

For some reason, no one notices this about Obama until it is pointed out. The next time you see him give a speech, notice how his eyes simply go from telepromter to teleprompter to teleprompter.etc.

For Sarah 'Queen of Pork' Palin the truth is not that important...

I took a vote at work, and most of the men refer to Palin as their MILF. I would hate to find out that most of the men that are in favor of the McCain/Palin ticket are thinking this way.

"Joe McCain observed that during her speach, Sarah Palin "went off book so much, and so far" Yah. It's called a lie.

Joe McCain observed that during her speach, Sarah Palin "went off book so much, and so far, that the teleprompter operator went half mad trying to find out where he had messed up: national convention teleprompter operators who get lost are sometimes hanged from the rafters by irate speakers ... er ... readers. Finally, just before taking his cyanide capsule, he realised his text and her speech had the similarity of Saturn and a lawn chair, so I hear he just turned it off."

c-man and RN - sorry for the late reply but thanks to you both for the kind words. RN, thanks also for the valid point that you raised. I was merely trying to point out, though, that whoever the majority party is in Congress, they are generally the ones who set the agenda for that Congressional session and they pretty much decide what will be voted on. When given the majority, Democrats have always passed meaningful legislation that affect people like you and me every day.

Thanks, but no thanks to McPalin!!!!

Before she bacame governor the judge in her sister's divorce warned her and the family to stop interfering in the troopers job. After she became governor and the scandal erupted she hired an ethics adviser, who reviewed the facts and told her to apologize and fire the aides who pressured the commissioner to fire the trooper.

Now she wants to stonewal the legislative investigation. Just more of the same Karl rove politics. I have had enough.

Just more LIES

FROM THE GOP THE PARTY THAT WRECKED AMERICA.

Teleprompter? What about Jamie Gorelick?

Fannie Mae hearings anybody?

I love Sarah Palin. I donated the moment she was announced by McCain.

Oblabla is toast.

What a fantastic lady! She is talented enough to deal with a broken telepormpter, that's for sure! Obama sounds like he never uses one. What a mess Obama is in his speeches. I can't stand the man. Palin has my vote all the way. The more the Democrats yell the more I am determined to support the grand lady!

About 20 cents of every dollar of federal spending now goes to servicing the interest on our national debt. $300 to $400 billion a year going to the Chinese, the Saudis and the richest of the rich. The rich get tax cuts and government contracts financed through deficit spending, lend us the money that we then send right back to them, and then charge us interest on top of that. What a scam.
Obama wants to return to a pay as you go plan like we had under President Clinton. The last three years of Clinton's second term saw budget surpluses, something that hadn't been seen since 1949. Obama has the same man who was in charge of Clinton's economic policy in charge of his economic plan. McCain has some Bush neocons in charge of his. Check out the wensite to see where your tax dollars go. With McCain, the war budget will grow and grow. He is the one who was singing "bomb, bomb, bomb....bomb, bomb Iran as a joke. Palin is the one who talked about the possibility of war with Russia. McCain wants us to stay in Iraq--Iraq should pay us if they want more help--they have a huge budget surplus. McCain himself has said that he doesn't understand economics. We cannot afford him.

What bothers me about the McCain Campaign is; if they lie about the little things (Cindy's family receipt, the bridge to nowhere and telepromters) how can we know that they wont lie about the big stuff. This is not stretching the true anymore. They are just being totally dishonest.

Yet again, McCain/Palin begging to have it both ways while screwing the American people.

Gov. Palin's non-stop lying is a reflex, it's not a campaign strategy. She lies by default, it's her natural stance on anything she doesn't understand or any point she wants make. For 2 and a half weeks we've seen her lie repeatedly, daily, about big issues and the most trivial of issues. How can this person be trusted? She won't do interviews, written or in person, so how can we know who she is?

The thing that gets me very excited about Obama is his extremely detailed plan for renewable energy. If you have not listened to T. Boone Pickens, you should.

In ten years America can reduce our dependence on foreign oil immensely, much more than we could with drilling in the US, but here's where it gets really exciting. America once led the industrial revolution, then we lead with the information age. Renewable energy is poised to be the next big thing America leads with.

If we stopped the war in Iraq and spend even a few months of the 10 billion per month it costs to be in Iraq, we could easily subsidize and jump start energy development.

Two things will happen, the first is the creation of an entire new industry with jobs in every city. Good jobs with good pay. The money that was once going to the Middle East decreases and creates wealth here at home ... but not wealth that goes into Exxon's pockets, wealth that goes to hundreds of thousands of middle-class Americans.

The next thing that happens is that oil prices actually go down because of the large decrease in consumption. The middle east tries to react to the competition by lowering prices and restricting availability .. but it's useless because our energy sources continue to grow.

You have to understand that oil owns McCain and Palin also has a vested interest in oil. The only way oil will let go of their stranglehold on the US is if they can make profits in another way, either by being awarded the oil contracts here, or the nuclear reactor contracts here, or both .... unless their power is stripped from them by someone like Obama and the American people.

There is no reason we cannot do this other than our own fears that we cannot do this. Obama really has asked us to believe, and even if you don't believe in Obama, seriously consider what T. Boone Pickens plan entails and seriously contemplate what you know is true .. that McCain can't go down that path even if he wanted to.

I think the issue about Palin is that, whiloe of course every individual in the US has the right to their religion, when you are in a position to make laws that's where trouble is.

Palin has every right to believe what she wants, but enforcing it is another thing. She has to remember that not all Americans are Christian, and not all Americans are pro-life. As it stands now, Roe vs Wade allows you to be pro-choice or pro-life if you want. Similarly, not everyone is a Christian, and teaching creationism will be problematic.

The United States ia a secular country, not a theocracy.

When it comes to Palin, rational people shouldn't even have to look at her record or experience.

The long and short of it is that she Believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old. This is not some cute and quaint religious belief. She believes this as The Truth. Please think about this.

This person, who has a good chance of being President, believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old as a scientific fact. This country does not need someone clearly insane to further take it down into the depths.

At any rate, McCain and Palin are constantly caught in outright lies *and* flip-flops. While this is expected from politicians, the flip-flopping mcCain and the lying Palin have to be called out on their nonsense.

Obama has his problems too. Since the NYPost is seeing fit to publish fake stories now, apparently they can't find anything substantial, so they have to invent nonsense.

Palin could very well have to succeed McCain because of his condition- brushes with cancer and his age. That is why we cannot say "she's just going to be VP". If the person at the top of the ticket was younger and in better health, then that would be valid.

Think about it. Anything can happen, and is Palin ready to take over as Commander-in-Chief when she has so little knowledge of foreign policy? Obama, on the other hand, is well-versed in that.

And that's without even getting started on her questionable record-ethics investigation she not cooperating with, for one.

Is she incapable of telling the truth?

I wonder how he could solicite for delay in troops withdrawal when Troops withdrawal was not on the table as at the time of his visit to Iraq.

President Bush made a Nationwide address where he spoke of Troops withdrawal just a forthnight ago.

The only proof I need is that the story is in the NYPost..

Calling McCain and/or Palin a liar is really not working for Obamanation.

Polls show that Obama tells people what they want to hear, whereas McCain is seen as believing in what he says.

Polls show that McCain is regarded as more trustworthy than Obama.

Obama attacking McCain/Palin on every little word only backfires because it keeps him off his message. Responding to every ad from McCain/Palin also keeps Obama off message. Obama is on the defensive and wasting his time and energy, while McCain/Palin are winning on their message.

I need clarification here, Can't Obama sue NYpost and Amir Taheri for Libel?

I am sick of some of these right wing papers peddling falsehood and not being punished for it.

It is junkyard Journalism at its best and and a big slap on the authors of the first amandment.

I see McCain holding a microphone just fine.

And even if the war thing is true, the Obama campaign possibly didn't even know that. From all of McCain's interviews, he gave the impression his lack of computer usage was because he wasn't really interested, not because it also hurt him. Plus plenty of disabled people use adaptative devices-not like McCain can't afford one. He's just not interested.

I don't see how the McCain campaign claiming Obama is sexist for using a perfectly common term or by insinuating he is for teaching five year olds comprehensive sex ed is much better.

Hmmmm...maybe Palin has some independent thoughts that haven't been placed into her mouth from the Bush-Cheney-McCain-Rove gang??? That might qualify her as a 'genius' in the Republican party!!!!

Beverins has no evidence and The Post does. Believe Beverins. Emotions and feelings rilly, rilly count!

I don't think Palin would know the truth if it slapped her in the face!

How can anyone call Obama run clean campain when his ad mocked McCain can not type due to WAR injury???

This "obama iraq" thing is a completely false tale, made up and posted by the rag called the NYPost. They lie on a daily basis.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama secretly urged Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement that would lead to a draw down in troop numbers.

A blockbuster expose in Monday's New York Post by Amir Tahiri revealed that Obama made his demand for the delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told The Post.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the U.S. elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview with The Post.

Zabari recalled that Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of U.S. troops, and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open," Zebari said.

When I listened to McCain's acceptance speech, while it certainly was no great oratory, he sounded like a decent man to me, at least, even if I didn't agree with his views.

Now that he and Palin that have stooped to such dirty mudslinging in their ads which not only stretch the truth and are outright lies, he has lost my respect. Obama had told the media to back off Palin's kids, while the McCain camp has been trying to dump as much mud on Obama as possible-calling him sexist and whatnot. I personally think if anyone's behaving like a president, it's Obama.

No wonder campaign "strategists" have to get jobs in government - they are as serially unqualified to live in the real world.

Of course, that is scary in itself. But they don't care about your country, just "winning", lies and people's lives be damned.

>>I'd rather have a respectful president with manners who shows change, than a president that can e-mail and talk change.<<

And that person is Obama.

>>In the name of taxing the rich, Mr. Obama would raise the marginal tax rates to over 50% on millions of small businesses that provide 75% of all new jobs in America. <<

McCain has no choice but to raise taxes.

In the name of taxing the rich, Mr. Obama would raise the marginal tax rates to over 50% on millions of small businesses that provide 75% of all new jobs in America. Investors and corporations will also pay higher taxes under the Obama program, but, as the Michigan-Ohio-Illinois experience painfully demonstrates, workers ultimately pay for higher taxes in lower wages and fewer jobs.

"an unusual claim"- translation: a lie. Palin and McCain just keep on lying and lying, it's really shameless.

In periods of the speech the teleprompter was not working, lagging behind.

... And typically, Dems turn to the familiar accusation of that someone is lying. Obama's signature campaign trick is the other person is lying on a bunch of insignificant and significant issues. Thus, everybody but Obama is untrustworthy.

I'd rather have a respectful president with manners who shows change, than a president that can e-mail and talk change.

Really...there's nothing impressive about being to ad-lib abit.

Now, to not know that Georgia started the Ossetian hostilities and to call it an "unprovoked attack" on Russia's part is impressive!

Go back and watch the part of the speech where she is talking about Venezuala and oil. It seems clear what happened. she had to adjust.

Jonathan must have fell asleep for that.

I get it. The McCain-Palin camp are going to shower us with so many lies that we will be reduced to a state of dizzy confusion.

Now, we are no longer able to count or track the lies from this campaign--but we can rate them. I'd give this one--the fake ad-lib claim--a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10 (with 1 being a small lie and 10 being an outrageous lie). The Bridge to Nowhere? That's a definite 10.

In the end, though, they are all lies.

Well, I mean sure, even though I didn't like the tone of her speech, she had good delivery.

But she proves to be weak in unscripted settings-such as the ABC interview. And as the VP, or even President of the United States, there are going to be plently of times when you don't have time to script things at all.

To me, she is clearly not prepared at all. Even if you agree with her viewpoints, she is really unprepared for the job. As to Obama's Iraq thing, it's not true. What he DID call for, however, was for the admin to not rush into it without the Congress being allowed to review the plan properly.

This is another one like the Bosnian sniper-fire howler.

"I am heroic, I am Teh Cool, I am omnipotent, vote for me."

Crazy.

Was Palin doing that tonight?

why are you asking us? we werent there. if she was lying, say so.

It was obvious during the speech, even live that the teleprompter had missed at times. She has never said that the teleprompter didn't work the entire time. She has said that it scrolled ahead several times, which was obvious. Stop distorting everything she says Jake.

btw the Iraqi foreign minister says obama tried to influence the Prime Minister to delay troop withdrawl and not negotiate with the Bush Administration. Is that not as important as a 17 year olds pregnancy or a teleprompter malfunction? Ah the state of political journalism in the US today.

This is a ridiculous nitpicking non-story at every level. You should be spending your time in a more useful way; like investigating the story of Obama interfering in Iraq troop levels to place his political career, over the interests of the American men and women he hopes to rule. (See NY POST article yesterday: OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL) What gives? Or is it pillows and softballs 24/7 for him? I've been covering politics for 25 years now and this year is a true low water mark for the liberal press.

Haven't the American citizens had enough of being lied to over the past eight years. Palin and McCain have both been engaging in nothing short of lying to the American public. Their is no way I will vote for McCain/Palin because if they are lying now they will engage in it later and my children deserve better.

Spot on. You know, to be fair, the Obama campaign did exaggerate about the 100-years in Iraq thing, BUT they STOPPED saying it after they got called out on it.

Palin? She's still shamelessly flaunting her "Thanks but no thanks to Bridge to Nowhere" even though all the news media have called her out on it. Her whole earmarks thing too. Remember what happened the last time someone lied/did not check their facts-just think of the the Iraq Wa