Palin stretches truth in campaign speeches

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Palin stretches truth in campaign speeches

Edited on Tue Oct-07-08 05:26 PM by maddezmom

Source: AP

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—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.

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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.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/presidentelect/ci_10660957

Connections, how about these connectitons....Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, Mark Buse, Phil Gramm, Rick Davis, G. Gordon Liddy, Oliver North, etc.....not to mention her own connections to Todd Palin and the AIP.

and some more names here:

McCAIN SHOULD CALL HIS CAMPAIN "LOBBYISTS- R-US"

Gary Ater
September 30, 2008

In the past week, as the economic crisis has deepened, Senator John McCain has been slamming Wall Street for all of their greed and excesses. While on the campaign trail in Florida, he stated that he and his partner, Governor Sarah Palin, if elected, "are going to put an end to the reckless conduct, corruption, and unbridled greed that have caused a crisis on Wall Street." He noted that the "foundation of our economy...has been put at risk by the greed and mismanagement of Wall Street and Washington."

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Then there´s McCain´s current campaign chairman, Rick Davis. Davis, is the major owner/partner of the Washington lobbying firm Davis-Manafort, and is a long-time McCain aide. The Davis firm also just happens to be headquartered in the same building that that houses McCain´s national campaign headquarters.

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IS THAT ALL THERE IS?

Unfortunately, no. Using publicly available records, the national media has identified 177 lobbyists working for the McCain campaign as either aides, policy advisers, or fundraisers. Of those 177 lobbyists, according to a review of Senate and House records, at least 83 have in recent years lobbied for the financial industry that McCain now attacks.

These are very high-paid influence-peddlers who have been working to win favors and special treatment for investment banks, securities firms, hedge funds, accounting outfits, and insurance companies. Their clients have included AIG, the newest symbol of corporate excess; Lehman Brothers, which filed recently for bankruptcy sending the stock market into a tailspin; Merrill Lynch, which was bought out by Bank of America; and Washington Mutual, the banking giant that also failed last week.

Among these 83 lobbyists are McCain's chief political adviser, Charlie Black (JP Morgan, Washington Mutual Bank, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Bankers Association of America); McCain's national finance co-chairman, Wayne Berman (AIG, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac); the campaign's congressional liaison, John Green (Carlyle Group, Citigroup, Icahn Associates, Fannie Mae); McCain's veep vetter, Arthur Culvahouse (Fannie Mae); and McCain's transition planning chief, William Timmons Sr. (Citigroup, Freddie Mac, Vanguard Group).

more:http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/75851