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Palin stretches truth in campaign speeches
The Associated Press O ^ | October 7, 2008 | BETH FOUHY

Posted on 10/07/2008 3:43:55 PM PDT by presidio9

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the "truthfulness and judgment" needed to be president. But the Alaska governor often stretches the truth herself.

She has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical and falsely claimed the Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise most people's taxes.

On Tuesday, she tried rebutting the Illinois senator's criticisms of Republican presidential candidate John McCain over health care and Social Security. She said Obama was misleading and wrong, but she herself told less than the full story.

To be sure, most of Palin's assertions about Obama echo claims McCain himself has made or lines from Republican TV ads.

At a rally Tuesday, Palin tried to link Obama to the failure of housing giant Fannie Mae by noting that two Obama supporters once led the troubled company. The government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, another housing finance company, last month to prevent their collapse from worsening the global credit crisis.

"What's next, claiming that he didn't know two of his biggest supporters were running Fannie Mae, the subprime mortgage giant?" Palin said. "That has done harm to the American economy."

She referred to Jim Johnson, who chaired Fannie Mae from 1991-1998, and Franklin Raines, his successor who stepped down in 2004 in an accounting scandal.

But Palin exaggerated Obama's ties to Raines and Johnson while omitting any mention of a closer relationship between a top McCain aide and the failed housing giants.

Raines and Johnson support Obama but do not have strong ties to him or his campaign. Johnson briefly headed Obama's vice presidential search last spring but resigned amid controversy over loans he got with help from an executive of Countrywide Financial Corp., a lender damaged by the mortgage meltdown.

Meanwhile, until

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: asspressbias; ossociatedpress
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To: presidio9

Why’dja post this? We can get this garbage anywhere.


61 posted on 10/07/2008 4:07:20 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Diogenesis

Guilty. And the eyes confess of some sort of conspiracy charge...

In this case, liberal propaganda.


62 posted on 10/07/2008 4:07:23 PM PDT by Vision ("Test everything. Hold on to the Good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21)
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To: OldNavyVet
The AP is not to be trusted ...

The AP is a not-for-profit cooperative. Does this organization class give them tax-exempt status?

63 posted on 10/07/2008 4:10:27 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: presidio9
Wait for the next show to drop....Odinga!

How are they going to explain away Obama campaigning for a Socialist/Muslim sympathizer ON TAX PAYER MONEY?

64 posted on 10/07/2008 4:11:15 PM PDT by dmanLA
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To: presidio9

Sra Palin didn’t even scratch the surface of O’bama hanky panky..
Not even a scratch on the surface of an ICEBERG...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html


65 posted on 10/07/2008 4:12:49 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: bboop

As opposed to Obama stretching his lies.


66 posted on 10/07/2008 4:12:53 PM PDT by TonyM (E)
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To: presidio9

AP= Obama talking points HQ


67 posted on 10/07/2008 4:14:06 PM PDT by 1-Eagle (Yeah that Ayers guy just lives down the street. Don't know why I started campaign in his livingroom.)
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To: presidio9

Isn’t it SOP for the AP to feed us faux photo’s to go with their tripe?


68 posted on 10/07/2008 4:18:13 PM PDT by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: presidio9
Meanwhile, until August, Freddie Mac paid $15,000 a month to a lobbying firm headed by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. The payment came on top of more than $30,000 a month Davis was paid directly by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 2000-2005 to head the Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy group.

Davis has not taken any compensation from his lobbying firm since 2006, the McCain campaign said.

He was paid for a job. He left the firm and has not been paid since.

AP is full of used food.

69 posted on 10/07/2008 4:30:14 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: festus

I think they just lie thru their teeth to try to get what they want.


70 posted on 10/07/2008 4:31:21 PM PDT by what's up
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To: kc8ukw
The AP really needs to start marking their articles as “Editorial.”

The AP really needs to start marking their articles as “Ad Copy.”

There, fixed it.

71 posted on 10/07/2008 4:35:12 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: presidio9

Oh ppaaaaaaaaalllllllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssseeeeee. The Marxist Onada’s radical left wing and anti-American relationships are well documented. I’m hoping McCain takes it to him tonight.


72 posted on 10/07/2008 4:52:28 PM PDT by dools007
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To: unspun

AP = American Pravda


73 posted on 10/07/2008 4:55:52 PM PDT by Cracker Jack (If it weren't for the democrats, republicans would be the worst thing in Washington.)
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To: presidio9
So the AP is officially an editorial page?

This is 100% editorial and 0% story.

74 posted on 10/07/2008 5:19:28 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: unspun; presidio9; FlingWingFlyer; kc8ukw; forYourChildrenVote4Bush; OldNavyVet; yarddog; ...
Associated Commissar Press (ACP)

I've finally got it, after lo these many years - it's the Ossociated Press.

LOL! Great minds think alike, pango. I got the idea this afternoon at work. Apparently, the idea crystallization may be taking place across the Net.

75 posted on 10/07/2008 7:00:19 PM PDT by an amused spectator (The VBM: The Volkischer Beobachter Media)
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To: presidio9
She has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical and falsely claimed the Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise most people's taxes.

This AP reporter is the one stretching the truth, because Palin is not exaggerating his ties to Ayers, as even CNN has confirmed in the face of overwhelming evidence from the released documents, and Obama not only plans to raise most people's taxes, he's voted to do so in the past.

76 posted on 10/07/2008 7:30:11 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: presidio9
Raines and Johnson support Obama but do not have strong ties to him or his campaign. Johnson briefly headed Obama's vice presidential search last spring

Talk about stretching the truth - this is even worse - being appointed to head a candidate's VP search doesn't show strong ties? This reporter is shameless.

77 posted on 10/07/2008 7:31:56 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Those AP stories are going out all over the world, different stories for different markets.

When I tell people of the dire threat to freedom by the very people who should guard the privilege, their eyes glaze over, when democrat. When republican, they get it.

Democrats think that the ends justify the means. Republicans on the other hand are once again, not the problem.

Let us be the solution in November.


78 posted on 10/07/2008 8:14:08 PM PDT by widdle_wabbit
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To: traderrob6

“homely cows?”

Certainly not sacred cows.


79 posted on 10/07/2008 8:48:49 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: presidio9

She has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical and falsely claimed the Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise most people's taxes.

She has not nearly gone deep enough in Barack Obamas ties to the Terrorist. They were not just acquaintances, but partners in crime. They earned their living together defrauding America and trying to destroy it from within.

And the Government is beyond broke. How is it going to do a Trillion more dollars in handouts and Socialist business schemes without raising taxes?

We need to remember how people vote and how they line up with this election. It is a clear indication of just who they are.

80 posted on 10/07/2008 11:46:27 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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