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Just about every claim released by the McCain campaign have now turned out to be lies.

We now learn that the claim that Palin was "well traveled" and even visited Iraq was a lie.  In fact, Palin made a trip to Kuwait and the closest she got to Iraq was a border station.  It's unclear if her foot actually touched Iraqi soil at the border, but that hardly qualifies as visiting Iraq.

Bridge to nowhere: Palin supported the bridge during her campaign for governor.  In fact, Alaska still took the bridge to nowhere money but spent it elsewhere.  She only opposed it after Congress removed the earmark.

Speaking of earmarks, another claim is that Palin is a reformer and hates earmarks.  The truth:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...

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There are a lot of journalists and media types who happen to read this blog. So I’d like to direct this post straight to you. If you fail to cover the double standard in the way that Barack Obama is being treated in the media versus the treatment of McCain/Palin, you won’t have to answer to me. You’ll have to answer to your children and grandchildren. Don’t try to explain it to me later like you did the failure to cover the shallow rationale for invading Iraq and the administration’s numerous subsequent blunders there. Save your explanations for your descendants when they ask you why you actively participated in racism and fraud.

Thanks to Hazel for sending.

From Letters to the Editors @ Fort Worth Star-Telegram

How racism works

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This comes from Barack Obama's "Vote for Change" web site:

You'd be surprised how many people you know aren't registered to vote.

Registration deadlines are coming up soon, and we need every single vote we can get to win this election. Tell your friends, family, and neighbors to check out our new one-stop voter registration website. Just forward this message. VoteforChange.com makes it easier than ever to register. Instead of tracking down the right forms, all you need to do is answer a few basic questions and you'll be ready to vote.

You can also:
Confirm your existing registration
Apply to vote
absentee
Find your polling place

If you don't know your own registration status or you'd like to learn more, take a minute to visit the site right now. This race is too close and too important to stay home on Election Day. If you take the time to register and vote -- and make sure everyone you know is registered as well -- we'll be able to turn the tide of the past eight years. It's people just like you who will transform this nation.

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From MyDD.com

If We Ain’t Careful, We’re Gonna Get Rolled
by Reaper0Bot0, Fri Sep 12, 2008 at 11:08:01 PM EST
Crossposted at the Motley Moose

An angry black man.

That’s what the Republicans want, oh so desperately do they crave it. If the Republicans can label Barack, through implication and “unconnected” surrogates, 527’s and friendly media, if they can label him as an angry black man he will go down into defeat.

Barack’s in a tough spot. He has to be unflappable, yet he cannot appear conciliatory or weak. If he goes into some righteous attack, some brash and divine diatribe on the lies and slanders of the Right they WILL win.

This isn’t an easy spot for Barack, but I think he’s finding his way through it as well as can be expected. The Sarah Palin thing through most everybody for a loop, which was sort of the reason for such a choice. Barack has to hit back, but he cannot come across as overly angry. Stereotypes are no less powerful for their paucity of moral or ethical value.

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This comes from the DNC:

The Tulsa World reports that President Bush will conduct a business roundtable in Oklahoma City today to promote his failed plan for health savings accounts before heading off to a private closed door fundraiser for John McCain's campaign. [Tulsa World, 9/12/08: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080910_16_A4_hHepla243517]

As part of his record of voting with President Bush more than 90 percent of the time, John McCain endorsed the Bush plan for health savings accounts even though the Wall Street Journal said was "dead-on-arrival in Congress in early 2007." This plan is a radical new scheme to tax health insurance benefits for the first time in history, provide more power to insurance companies, and give families a tax credit that covers only a fraction of average health insurance costs.

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The McCain campaign is doing its best to derail a bipartisan investigation into allegations of Governor Palin's abuse of her office to instigate her sister's ex-husband's firing from his job ("Troopergate").

However, prospects for the final report on the investigation are good, due to a 3-2 vote yesterday by joint Alaska State Senate and House Judiciary committees to issue subpoenas compelling balky witnesses to testify. According to the Anchorage Daily News , those 13 identified by the joint committee for subpoenas include Todd Palin, the governor's husband.

Palin, cast at last week's Republican National Convention as a supportive husband, oil rig worker and championship snowmachine racer, has emerged in the days since as also a powerful figure in his wife's administration. Despite holding no government position, he attends official meetings and is copied on e-mails concerning state business. [emphasis mine]

Troopergate is and always has been a bipartisan investigation

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Palin should stop the cover-up and come clean
--by Kay Brown and Patti Higgins (used with permission)

Anchorage - Governor Palin should stop stonewalling the Legislature's bi-partisan investigation of Trooopergate, come clean about her role, and stop the cover-up, Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins said today.

"The fact that subpoenas had to be issued in order to compel members of her administration to talk to the Legislature's investigator shows that she is stonewalling and trying to bury this investigation. As Governor she could direct her administration to cooperate, as she promised earlier she would do before being nominated for Vice President. Palin even called for the investigation herself, saying that it would clear her name," Higgins said. "Since she became the VP nominee, there has been nothing but foot-dragging, stonewalling, cover-up and delay."

"As the Republican Chair of the House Judiciary Committee said - the investigation was going along fine until Palin was selected as the VP candidate. Why is she now refusing to cooperate? What is she hiding? Her lawyers have even threatened to quash the subpoenas, which could trigger a constitutional crisis," Higgins said. "Palin should come clean and deal with this situation honestly."

Below are key dates and statements about Troopergate:

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Ah, the waffles of John McCain and Sarah Palin.  She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it.  Weeks ago she didn't know what a vice president did, but now she's ready.  Her eldest daughter is pregnant yet she cut funding for pregnant teens.  

See you Sunday, I'll bring the syrup.

After you've had your fill of waffles both spoken and eaten, join us at 2 for Sporting Liberally at Jack N Grill.  THe Broncos face the 49'ers with a 2:15 kickoff.  Jack has an Obama-rita special.  Is that to early to drink those?  

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