The Difference Between What’s Right And What’s Fact
If I see or hear one more person repeat the lies told by Sarah Palin or Rudy 9ui11iani the other night as fact, I’m gonna lose it. I’ll be forced to move next door to you and blast the Dropkick Murphys at the maximum decibel level allowed by law. I’ll set up a fan next to my garbage can filled to the brim with “special presents” courtesy of my two and a half year old and point it at your window, just so you can smell the same shit you’re speaking. I’ll rent a projection screen and show “Wag the Dog” during your Bible Study meetings. Are we clear?
Lie: “…this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state senate.”- Gov. Sarah Palin
Truth: In his six years in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama sponsored 820 pieces of legislation. In additon, though the article refers to 131 bills sponsored by Obama, the total number has grown to 427 either sponsored, or authored by Obama. 129 of these can be viewed here.
Lie: I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. (Cheers, applause.)
My friends — (interrupted by cheers, applause) — I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not. (Cheers, applause.)-Sen John McCain
Truth: Well, see above, but if you really want a Republican’s answer, please contact Sen. Richard Luger from my home state.
Lie: “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.”-Gov. Sarah Palin
Truth: 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. Source can be found here.
Lie: “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.”-Gov. Sarah Palin
Truth: 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(source same as above).
Lie: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”-Gov. Mike Huckabee…moron
Truth: 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.
I could go on, and on, and on, but what I want to do is give you the opportunity to not only be honest in your posts, but with yourselves. The last few days at the RNC have seemed like a visit from your drunken uncle with brand new fishin’ stories (unfortunately, they’re just like the old ones).
And for the record, the plane never sold on e-Bay, and an “ethics reformer” normally isn’t under abuse of power investigation. Nor do they appear on John McCain’s “pork list”, or hire one of the Abramoff lobbyists to wrangle $427 million dollars in earmarks to the 47th most populous state. I’m sure I’ll get some flack for this, but most people don’t like being called liars, espically when they are.
Stumble It!
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