Look out Democrats

[DX4LIFE]

and sorry to all of those who believe the Liberal AP and MSNBC

and get things they claim are facts about Wasilla in Alaska

FYI I LIVE IN WASILLA,ALASKA

and all those negative statements are untrue

but then again most liberal dont vote on facts anyways no need to waste my breathe to teach people the truth

[DX4LIFE]

God- another reason why I don't go to Texas anymore.
After 8 years of a hick in office, this is all we need.

Glad to know she's never left the US either, only on Kuwait visit
and just got her passport LAST YEAR.

PINOCHIO PALIN

Her speech was FULL OF LIES.

THANK GOODNESS FOR THE AP.


Check out Pinocchio Palin's claims and the truth:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

The AP report also showed how Palin's champions have exaggerated the Alaskan governor's 'acheivements':

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply … She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

Since 2006 and coincedentally the economy went to shit when the dems got control of the congress go figure

Palin is nothing like Bush but maybe if you personal knew and witnessed her views and things shes done you would realize this.

[DX4LIFE]

i hate to say it but i think the american populace is so stupid that they will buy into this repug shit and vote for mccccain/palin..the gop is really good at packagin...american markets respond to this..throw in the ol'fashion racist fears and there you have another 4yrs of fucked up governance..

Excuse me

The Republican Party and Abe Lincoln set Black Men and Women Free

and were the first to set minorties in their delagation

The Liberals and the Democrats were the Confederates and kept u slaves
as well as many prominent Dems up till the early 90s were former KKK members

Liberal Americans and Dems prey on minorites for personal gain and exploit you dont be ignorant

[trish]

The Republican Party and Abe Lincoln

Sad to see how far the Republican party has fallen. You're the party of Strom Thurman. And don't forget McCain voted against the recognition of Martin Luther King.

[yodajazz]

Since 2006 and coincedentally the economy went to shit when the dems got control of the congress go figure

Palin is nothing like Bush but maybe if you personal knew and witnessed her views and things shes done you would realize this.

Let be realistic it takes a long time before any government economic policy has signicant effects on the economy. So blaming the 2006 six Congress is unfair. But to be fair, the bulk of the abuse from the Enron and Worldcom debacles, which happened on Bush's watch, took place mostly during the Clinton Administration.

By the way investors just won a 9 Billion dollar settlement, with other defendant cases still pending.

[chefmike]

i hate to say it but i think the american populace is so stupid that they will buy into this repug shit and vote for mccccain/palin..the gop is really good at packagin...american markets respond to this..throw in the ol'fashion racist fears and there you have another 4yrs of fucked up governance..

Excuse me

The Republican Party and Abe Lincoln set Black Men and Women Free

and were the first to set minorties in their delagation

That was then, this is now. The GOP has grown increasingly more right wing and reactionary through the years, even to the point of selling it's political soul to the Religious Wrong. That's why Ridge or Lieberman wasn't given the nod, because the Religious Wrong forbade it. Under FDR, the Democratic Party became identified more closely with modern liberalism, which included the promotion of social welfare, labor unions, civil rights, and the regulation of business.

as well as many prominent Dems up till the early 90s were former KKK members

That's a total crock of shit.

"The only known former member of the Klan to hold a federal office currently in the United States is Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who said he "deeply regrets" having joined the Klan over half a century ago, when he was about 24 years old. He joined as a young man in the 1940s, recruiting 150 friends and acquaintances from his small West Virginia town. In later life he said he stayed in the Klan only a short time about a year, but contemporary newspapers carried stories about a letter of his recommending a friend as Klaneagle in 1946. In 2005, when he published a memoir and was asked again about his life, Byrd said,"I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times . . . and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."

Would you like to know what happened to the segregationist, racist members of the Democratic Party, pilgrim?

"In 1968, Alabama's Democratic former governor George C. Wallace ran for President on the American Independent Party ticket, and swept the electoral votes of the Deep South. The American Independent Party failed to keep its foothold in the South. Its 1972 candidate was John G. Schmitz, a John Bircher from California, whose strongest showing in the 1972 election was 10% in Idaho, but who did poorly in the South. Subsequent southern Dixiecrats running on the American Independent Party ticket included Lester Maddox and John Rarick, but these campaigns did not succeed either.

In the 1960s, the courting of white Southern Democratic voters was the basis of the "southern strategy" of the Republican Party's Presidential Campaigns. Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater carried the Deep South in 1964, despite losing in a landslide in the rest of the nation to President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. Johnson surmised that his advocacy behind passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would lose the South for the Democratic party and it did. The only Democratic presidential candidate after 1956 to solidly carry the Deep South was President Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election.

Senator Strom Thurmond switched parties and became a Republican as a result of his support for the Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964. Jesse Helms also switched his party registration to Republican in 1970 and won a Senate seat in North Carolina in 1972.

Liberal Americans and Dems prey on minorites for personal gain and exploit you dont be ignorant

Take your own advice, pilgrim. Don't be ignorant.

[qeuqheeg222]

he seems to fergit it was up until the 80's that them suthrin folks realized that they wuz dixiecrats all those years when they should have been repugs for a good 80yrs.....an back to what someone else said bout the dems losin a sure thing-i dont know bout that but i know a lot of dumb americans like being told what to do and they vote republican like rush tells em to.......an sally palin is no threat to this patriarchy..hillary was because she was headstrong and came up with some controversial agendas that threaten the businessmans superiority complex....that clip of palin with the gun gives so many angry white guys hard ons in the backwoods because she comes across as "one of the boys"..not a threat to male ideology...or business models........trust me the fuckin repugs are gonna steal this one solely on this marketing swindle.....

[hippifried]

Oh ye of little faith...

[guyone]

The commies are going to lose again.

[trish]

I didn’t know Sam Webb’s party was running anyone this season. But yeah, sure, it’s a no-brainer that if they’re in race, they’ll lose.