Palin and the Teleprompter

She was for the teleprompter before she was against it.

I thought Obama said he would try and negotiate anything on his trip to Iraq! He said he respects that there is only one president. Oh well, another broken promise that no one in the media holds him to.

Steve, how would delaying withdraw of troops from Iraq help Obama? I mean, what possible motivation would there be? No one has even mentioned Iraq for over a month and troops coming home would force McCain to change his position on the withdraw of troops. I mean, he can’t send them back without risking political backlash.
That rumor doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Palin is a pathological liar.
Is there anything she says that is true?
Despite her lies…
She was for the bridge to nowhere
She is still for earmarks
She didn’t fire her chef
She didn’t sell the plane on ebay
She did try to ban a book from the library
She is a guilty of extreme cronyism
Now she is lying about a teleprompter.

Jake, you’re showing your true colors here. It is well know that the teleprompter was screwed up on a number of occasions during the convention speech. The operator scrolled through on applause. If you watch the speech again (I’ve seen it about 10 times now), you will see her looking down at her notes a number of times during the applause.
Face it Jake, you’re just intimidated by a smart sexy woman who happens to be conservative.

What’s new? Palin lies again. Nothing out of the ordinary for the McCain Palin ticket… This is what? there 100th lie now?

Maybe she meant the Ohio delegation to the convention was right in front of her? That would make sense.
But I’d still be interested to know where she’s travelled within the Continental US.

BREAKING NEWS:
Palin won’t meet with ‘Troopergate’ investigator!
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A campaign spokesman says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won’t speak with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her public safety commissioner.
SOURCE: AP

She had better stop misrepresenting these facts. To lie about a teleprompter is just pathetic.

Is Sarah Palin ever going to NOT use a teleprompter?

April – did you bother to read my post?

It’s Bush Cheney all over again.
She’s Bush and McCain is Cheney, haven’t we had enough of their FAILED regime, GOD didn’t America learn ANYTHING in 2004?

If news reports are accurate, this is an egregious act of political interference by a presidential candidate seeking political advantage posted by usvet.
******************************************** There is a difference between news reports and lounge acts that are on Fox network for your entertainment.
Watching the Fox network is the equivelent of reading a comic book, don’t take it to be true.

Sarah:
There’s 2 Democrats and 3 Republicans on the committee that issued the subpoenas, don’t get it twisted now.
What happened to, “I’ll fully cooperate with the investigation and welcome it.”??

Has Palin ever told the truth? Everything she says is lies. Palin has the audacity to repeat them to the American people.
The McCain campaign is willing to lie, cheat and steal to win this election. Make sure that doesn’t happen and VOTE OBAMA.

I’m a republican, but I’m sort of getting embarrassed by the silly lies that she is telling. She did a great job at the convention…why exaggerate and say that the teleprompter broke?

This guy AMIR TAHERI has some serious controversies surrounding him including many allegations of fabricating stories.
There’s an entire wikipedia article on him.
This guy has zero credibility. This Obama delaying iraqi troops thing is just an ugly smear trying to paint Obama and unpatriotic.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves.

I watched her speech and thought she had done it from the paper in front of her. Then, someone told me about the teleprompter thing, and I said to myself “Oh that would make sense.” You can clearly see her looking down at the papers. But WHO CARES?

johnTX, nobody needs to paint Obama as unpatriotic. there’s plenty of video out there. you can listen to his america bashing (and michelle’s) in many places. but that dr mr obama video is better.

Jake, that Christian hockey mom and mayor of 5000 souls is A COQUETTE from head to toe.
Therefore she will lie, flirt, play innocent, fake emotions, simulate reflectivity, and what not.
She is a teaser.
That’s why many men find her hot.
And many women find her bold, strong and amusing.
It’s theatre. Mark my words: this woman is a coquette and not much else. She can be anything people want her to be, any kind of woman she wants to be.
It’s mind boggling, confusing and scary to have a personality like that so close to the world’s most powerful Office.
Let’s hope America will wake up and see what she is, and what she is NOT, before she’ll embrace power in Washington.

Did Bush set up a deal for the troops to come home next week? Or did he already state they wouldn’t be leaving until sometime next year?
So how did Oh So Powerful Obama stall anything??

Did I miss something? where is the beef here?

hank
That was one of the most accurate post I have ever seen!

More Palin smoke and mirror. Not an honest bone in her body. Unfortunately, millions seem to be drinking the Scary Sarah Kool-Aid. Would that it be only a big joke on SNL. The reasonable probability of her achieving high office is truly frightening. It evokes Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here”. After saying that the Iraq War was payback for 9/11 and after her comments about the Iraq War being the work of God, it is further proof that this woman is not fit for office. More than that, Scary Sarah is a know-nothing who needs a lot more prepping before she can be let loose on her own – even days of being holed up with her Rove handlers didn’t do the job. Apparently she is also like George W. Bush who takes his orders directly from God. a woman who brags of foreign relation experience because Alaska is close to Russia is all set to start WWIII – if God tells her its the right thing to do. McCain has put at risk the long term stability of this country and has made a mockery of the electoral process. Palin must be rejected for the sake of future generations if not for the entire world. War with Russia over struggles between former members of the Soviet Union is unacceptable to normal people living in a nuclear world.

Samantha, I want to see a story about the McCain campaign and supporters infiltrating blogs and spreading smears about Obama with no accountability.
Amir Taheri is known for fabricating stories and entire books. Why in God’s name would anyone outside of the fringe media pay any attention to him whatsoever?

Palin and her family are now claiming they are above the law and are refusing to cooperate with the subpoenas that have been issued.
I am really tired of people who think they are above the law while the rest of us get hammered for just trying to live.

Great day of unbiased blogging, Jake. The whole day is one big Obama suck-up.

I fully agree with what was said below.
Does Palin and her husband think they are above the law!?
And she wants to defend our Constitution when in office?
Shame on her!
BTW her sudden refusal to meet with the Troopergate investigator, what does it tell us?
That she’s…. innocent?
Hmmm. That refusal looks like a very poor, besides scandalous, decision to me.

Why is it ok for Palin and her family to now state they are above the law and ignore the subpoenas which have been filed? I think it is quite presumptuous to think she can already begin ignoring the law. She is not VP yet. I guess Governors have the ability to ignore court ordered actions if they think it is not in their best interest?This is sickening because the rest of us could never simply ignore a subpoena without going to jail. Corruption and scandal right from the start.

What I would like to know is…what on earth does Sarah Palin have hidden underneath that poof hair “bump” on the top of her head? An Alaska penguin? A rat’s nest? A Russion spy? What, pray tell, is UP there??? And it keeps changing in size. Bigger, smaller, it’s like it’s fed well some days and goes hungry others. Does it make noises? Does it bite you if you touch it? Ewwwwwwwwww

Imagine a beauty queen and former TV sportscaster inflating her prowess with all things imaginary.

WHO CARES? BO HAS MASTERED THE PROMPTER FOR MONTHS NOW, SINCE DAY ONE. ACTUALLY SINCE 2004 WHEN HILLARY SAID HE GAVE THAT SPEECH AT THE CONVENTION THAT GOT HIM WHERE HE IS TODAY.
AND THIS STORY HAS RELEVANCE HOW?
Find something else to cover, really.
How about voter fraud and Obama’s ties to ACORN.

Thanks Patty S for your great piece. It amazes me that so many women would still prefer to be second class citizens.
Remember the resolution of the southern baptist church a few years ago where women were directed to serve theirs “masters”. Voting for Palin is doing just that.

How about voter fraud and Obama’s ties to ACORN.
Posted by: Debra | Sep 15, 2008 9:57:49 PM
This is so old. Can’t you come up with something else.

Seriously, is there anything this woman won’t lie about?

Sarah Palin is an idiot. I cannot believe anyone takes this woman seriously. She could become President if elected with McCain… that doesn’t chill you to the very bone???

I guess it just goes to show that there is NOT in fact anything the McCain-Palin team won’t lie about.

I’d rather read about the affair Palin supposedly had on her Husband. When is that story coming out?

Here some numbers on Palin’s (fading) popularity with the voters:
Approve Disapprove No Opinion
9/11: 52 35 13 +17
9/12: 51 37 12 +14
9/13: 49 40 11 +9
9/14: 47 42 11 +5
9/15: 47 43 10 +4
Bye bye baby.

When you have Karl Rove saying that McCain is stretching the truth then you know it’s bold face lies.

She’s the center of attention and it’s too late for the Democrats to change their strategy. But don’t be too distressed. The country will survive, and be even stronger in the years to come. I’m unemployed, but I have faith in the future, and I don’t need any handouts or help from the government. I just want to be left alone.

That ‘news’ story about Obama and troop withdrawals comes from the NY Post and has been running on Fox. When gets to a proper Murdoch-free news outlet maybe others besides republican bloggers will start to take it seriously. I wouldn’t hold my breath though.

I really don’t understand this report.
Is there anything serious against Palin?
May be not.
Thats’ why we have to read this sleazy report!

Wow, another lie from Palin. Ive had it, Im voting Obama! I cant stand these liars anymore.

“I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MY HOUSE”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

She lied? How wierd.

Palin thanked the teleprompter before she said no thanks to the teleprompter?

Stacy W. – Was it something I said? MY remarks were based on fact. Yours were based on…..what exactly? Was your comment “Shut The Hell Up Already!!!” the best you could do to counter my fact-based piece?

she also said that 20% of the nation’s energy comes from Alaska. And the real number is like 4%. I mean, that’s pretty close, but I suppose I would expect someone who knows more about energy than anyone in the country to be closer.

Palin: justice is after her and the campaign is keeping journalists away from her!
And this VP pick is not totally laughable?
How dumb have Republicas become after 8 years of George W.?
Incredible…

West Coast Messenger – With all due respect, Hillary was NOT the choice that Obama needed to make. I’m not saying that she isn’t a wonderful person who has proved herself in many different ways, but the baggage that she would have brought to the campaign was more than it needed. She was the Republican’s “dream ticket”, as they would have brought up all the old scandals attributable to her and, mostly, to Bill Clinton, i.e., Whitewater, Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, etc., etc., etc. They would have ripped open all those old wouunds serving no purpose except to remind the American people that IF Hillary were to get elected, Bill would also be in the White House again. At this time, I think Hillary would do this nation a much better service by being on Obama’s cabinet as Secretary of Health and Human Services. She could surely get that universal health care initiative passed if that were the case.

We are facing the most important election in our lifetime and it’s coming up in just a few short weeks. Our economy is tanking, gas and natural gas prices are the highest that they’ve ever been and they just keep climbing. Unemployment continues to sky-rocket and more and more people stand on the verge of losing their homes. They say that things are better but they aren’t for me. They aren’t for most of my friends either. I’ve seen family-run businesses here in Louisville closing one after another after being open for decades because they can no longer make it in this economy. That’s just so sad.
We’ve lost thousands of our young men and women to a war that we entered for the murkiest of reasons. I lost my older brother to the war in Vietnam, I know the pain first-hand that those families are facing. It gets better but it never goes away. Politicians say we’ll stay there until until the battle is ‘won.’ Who determines that criteria? Who decides when we’ve reached that lofty goal? If they know they sure aren’t saying.
They aren’t talking about the issues, they keep getting bogged down in minutia. I don’t care about their personal lives. I do care about losing my right to chose what happens to my body. I care about having a possible Commander-in-Chief in the White House who believes that dinosaurs were still around only four thousand years ago. Who thinks that Creationism should be taught in the schools alongside Evolution. Why is it that the women on The View are the only ones asking the hard questions out there? It makes no sense.
What I would like to see is that, from now until the election, the candidates on both sides would be forbidden to wear those little electronic ear buds. That would mean that, rather than hearing only the force-fed words of their handlers, we’d hear what they believed, what they know. We’d get to see how deep their true understanding of the world situation is right now.
This isn’t an unreasonable thing to ask. I expect the people who lead us to be able to answer questions on their own. I expect them to be fully versed in the problems and concerns that are facing us in this country every single day of our lives. I’m sorry, but if the only way that they can get by in this election is to regurgitate someone else’s words, fed to them through an electronic aide, then they don’t deserve to lead.
So, there it is. If I could change one thing for the better it would be to have the power to make them Keep It Real! At least for the time remaining in this campaign.

Orangecat – I’m sorry if you apparently lack attention span. Or is it the fact that I was giving some actual,positive facts regarding DEMOCRATS that you find so revolting. I’m not a terribly smart person, but I know how to do research before I post things.

I wouldn’t believe that woman if she told me the sky was blue.

Most politicians stretch the truth but McCain and Palin have taken this to a new level. Even Rove thinks they are “not 100% truthful”! The McCain campaign and his running mate are clearly lying about a number of things but few journalists are calling them on their outrageous, unprincipled behavior. As a former supporter of McCain I’m insulted and outraged at his outright lies. There’s no way I would vote for such an unprincipled liar. The media needs to start calling him on this.

I can’t belive it!
This is like the never ending lie to nowhere!
The economy is experiencing a horrible earthquake, people are suffering all over the country, Palin is bragging about being able to repeat a speech with or without a teleprompter?

I’ll bet she was reading from a teleprompter when she said she wasn’t reading from a teleprompter.

Manolete, In my opinion, you are sorely misguided if you think that Sarah Palin has “given hope to all the 18 million former Hillary supporters”, as Sarah Palin’s views on MOST things are polar opposite (no pun intended) from those of Hillary Clinton. I believe that our (meaning a woman’s) time will come, but this is NOT the election, and Sarah Palin is NOT the woman to put in the White House, even as a VP.

OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA! hahaha Insane McSame and Sarah FAILin are losing there momentum. (especially now that her husband has been subpoenad) hahaha! I like how the republicans are ignoring the world when they say they want Obama in office. Republicans are stubborn fools. Obama is the Champ and so is Biden! McCain in 2000 would never had voted for McCain now. YOUR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES…BARACK OBAMA!

Most politicians stretch the truth but McCain and Palin have taken this to a new level. Even Rove thinks they are “not 100% truthful”! The McCain campaign and his running mate are clearly lying about a number of things but few journalists are calling them on their outrageous, unprincipled behavior. As a former supporter of McCain I’m insulted and outraged at his outright lies. There’s no way I would vote for such an unprincipled liar. The media needs to start calling him on this.

The wheels are coming off the “Straight Talk” express. Over the cliff fellas!

Freethought4u – So now Obama is a “cretin”? A “fraud”? Do you have some facts to back that up? As for voting McCain/Palin in order to achieve a “great America again”, are you serious? It would be 4 more years, at least, of the same failed policies that we’ve been living through for 8 years! Enough already! And if honestly think you are better off today than you were during the Clinton years, then I’m really at a loss for words.

Palin doesn’t need a teleprompter (like Obama does, hint-hint). Palin connects. Today she’s an Ohioan, tomorrow she’ll be someone new. She’s also a woman, did you know that? Like Hillary, only without the issues. Who cares if she lies with a straight face and doesn’t know anything about foreign policy? Who cares if she has a fascist governing style and thinks politics is personal? Who cares if she called Hillary a whiner and now exploits the gender card in a way Hillary would have never dreamt of? She’s adorable and she connects, that’s all that matters. Kinda like Bush, only worse.
Say, she didn’t promise Canton any bridges, did she? If so, they might want to talk to the citizens of Ketchikan, Alaska aka “Nowhere” about that.

That could explain how she forgot to tell the crowd that our economy was “fundamentally sound”……
Or she did not get the memo…..or she was reforming that statement which could be a plus for the pary…or she could have told us but the McCain camp had her gagged still….

JT wrote: “It is such a shame that we all waste the words that could be used to put us all in a better position to understand the direction this county as a unified front should be headed.
Neither McCain nor Obama have yet responded to what we Americans need to hear, not want to hear.
I am ready for retirement, but look at what occurred this weekend to our finacial world. I don’t know whether to pull my monies and put them in a Mason jar and plant them in the back yard or trust the markets as suggested by both these guys.
I want to hear the nuts and bolts that will dictate what is going to happen starting January 20th, 2009. I don’t care that Palin has a daughter who is pregnant at 17. I live with that culture in every day life. I don’t care that Obama was a community organizer.
I care that somebody has to step up and give us all direction that is going to rebuild the grounding principles of American society. Faith in each other,faith in our government,faith in our courts, but most of all, faith in our America.”………………
AMEN to that, JT. I am not nearing retirement but as a middle class family we share many of your concerns. We were terrified to look at our stocks today (and didn’t). I want to know SPECIFICS not rhetoric and I could care less about any diversionary tactics from either party. Our economy is in very dire straits. We are at war. I do not care if Obama and McCain both wear lipstick. I don’t care if all of Palin’s children are pregnant. If these candidates cannot stop acting like children and behave like the presidential candidates they want to be…well, I’d be fine if they BOTH went home.

so much negative energy towards Senator Obama…….I believe some of you would rather see China continue to purchase America piece by piece before casting your vote for a person I feel will be a great president of our united states Senator Obama……I feel sorry for him for even wanting to be president of these sorry divided states.

Gov. Palin has more accomplishments as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Obama has had in his life. I have more respect for a govenor, than a part time senator, that associates and does business with criminals and racists. One choise only: McCain/Palin/PUMA

PALIN IS A DREAMER!!WITH ALL THE DEVASTATIONS AND NATURAL DESASTERS, SHE STILL DOES NOT BELIEVE IN MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING !!McCAIN / PALIN TICKET IS A COMPLETE DISGRACE TO AMERICAN WOMEN ! PALIN CARRIES BUSH´S GENE OF EXTREMISM AND THIS TICKET WOULD BE WORST THAN BUSH ! PALIN IS A WOMAN BUT AN ANTI WOMEN INTEREST YET SHE IS A COMPLETE EMPTY VESSEL! WHITE,NATIVE, LATINO,BLACK AND ASIAN FOR A TRUE SOLUTION AND CHANGE!!OBAMA/BIDEN Nov.04!! McBUSH / PALIN IS NO CHANGE!

All Palin bashing, all Obama praisin’ all the time! You stay fair and relevant ABC!

Palin will soon be a footnote of the 2008 election. If not, maybe we can pray her away.

PALIN WHO??? THE WANTED CRIMINAL IN ALASKA FOR BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION!!
UNDER INVESTIGATION AND SUPPOSED TO BE ARRESTED BUT HAS BEEN GIVEN SOME FREEDOM PENDING ON THE INVESTIGATION!! A CRIMINAL VP???GIVE ME A BREAK!!

Geeze Jake… what about the fact that the stock market tanked 500 POINTS today?? You are writing an article about a &^%@ teleprompter. Why??

PALIN!!A LIAR AND CRIMINAL FOR A POSSIBLE PRESIDENT?? NO WAY!! WE´VE HAD ENOUGH FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS!!

To all those below who ask why this is relevant, maybe you should take a minute (or an hour) to reflect on all the lies we’ve been told for the last eight years. Yep, you got it — that’s why this is important.

Thank goodness someone in the media is finally treating her like an equal candidate and calling her out on her lies. If Obama, Biden, and even McCain got the free pass Palin’s had from the media for the past month, we’d know nothing about them.

Lies lies lies, that’s all Palin is good at. Alaska creates 20% of our nations energy Palin? Try 3.5%! Your number is way way WAAYY far off, but you must know how much Alaska actually produces having been governor right? How can you be off by a whopping 16.5% Palin? Did you lie Palin? Or do you just not know anything about your job that you claim to be good at?

ABC IS GREAT!! ONE OF THE BEST SOFAR AND HAS WON MY RESPECT! PALIN IS A CRIMINAL AND EXTREMIST! SHE IS A CANDIDATE UNDER INVESTIGATION AND LITTLE IS BEING REPORTED ABOUT HER CRIMES! AS A CANDIDATE, SHE MUST BE TREATED LIKE OTHERS! NO GENDER OR AGE SAVE-HEAVEN HERE! UNFORTUNATELY SHE´S BEEN PICKED NOT ON SUBSTANCE BUT TO APPEASE WOMEN SHE IS AGAINST! WOMEN COULD GO TO JAIL FOR ABORTION EVEN AFTER RAPE UNDER PALIN!!EVEN McCAIN HAS SEVERALLY JOKED ON RAPED WOMEN!!WHAT A DISGRACE!!

Sarah Palin? Thanks but NO THANKS!

Some of us women want to know if she has had botox injections on her face. She does look like it, and I am sure she would not lie about such an important issue.
Actually, I think McCain should be very afraid. Though he is not the maverick he likes us to think that he is, he is still too capable of thinking for himself. The powers behind the Bush administration need someone they can control, like another Georgie Boy Bush. So, if the party truly pushed Palin on him, he needs to watch his back. She has already shown how she can turn on people.

Why lie about that? There is nothing to be gained except an even greater reputation for habitual lying.

Somebody here thinks that because the media, including fox news, is exposing Palin, that that will just make MORE people want to vote for Palin? What kind of idiot logic is that? Oh Palin just got caught in a big lie, oh wait and another one and another one and another one…Oh I’ll definately have to vote for her now. She lies more than a teenager on drugs, we can definately trust her.

@ Arttie:
You are soooooo right !!!!!!!

I never thought I would say this, but Fox news is the only true news media remaining. That’s why FOX is rated no.1.
Posted by: Jeff in hotlanta | Sep 15, 2008 11:50:28 PM
CNN is smoking False News in most of the times and shows. Fox is #1 when Bill-O is on.
Only because, the average False News viewer is 72 years old.
Their so old, they can’t get up and change the channel.

Steve in Jax – “Fox is the only true news agency, that doesn’t push Obama-ism.” LOL That’s because Fox is a right-wing, conservative news outlet, much like MSNBC is viewed as being left-wing. The only difference is, MSNBC tends to state the truth and can back it up with statements, videos, etc. Fox tends to state merely opinions, in MY opinion, of course :-)

What kind of person tells a self-aggrandizing lie, gets called on it, admits publicly that the truth is not at all what she originally claimed
- and then goes out and starts telling the original lie again without changing a word?
The answer is: Sarah Palin.
Case closed.
And now, back to Wall Street.

Freethought4u – Wow! You are obviously living in la-la land! “McCain/Palin have the conviction to Protect and restore the Strength attempted to be restored by the current Admin.” What?? They’ve had EIGHT years to do this! Enough! Oh, and I’ll stand up for my country alright…on November 4th when I cast my vote for Obama/Biden!

Barack and Joe Biden will give a “$25 billion State Growth Fund to prevent state and local cuts in health, education, housing, and heating assistance or counterproductive increases in property taxes, tolls or fees,” according to their website. They are smart, they have a plan. I like them and have confidence in them.
I don’t have any confidence left in the republicans. They keep messing up. Also, I would rather not vote for a bunch of liars who deceived folks in 2004, in 2000, and many times in between 2000 and now. Got people to chant, “flip flop, flip flop,” and look around you, everybody in their party is flip flopping.
Then they got everybody chanting, “WMD, WMD” and it turns out there weren’t any. People get deployed and killed for a pack of lies. McCain just today saying the ecomony is great. Pretty in touch he is, yes? Ehr, the answer is no. And so he flip flopped and put out another ad out today saying, “No, I mean the economy is lousy.” Flip, flop.
Just look around you. Sure, Sarah Palin is presentable, but she is just another marketing ploy. We can look at what is really going on.
The economy impacts everyone. Employment is lowest in 6 years, the big bull Merrill Lynch failing, Fannie and Freddie failing, Lehman Brothers failing, jobs going overseas. What, am I goint to give them another chance? They played me like a violin enough times. I’m not going to place any more bets on the Republicans.

This is how empires end, in debt and in stupidity.

Posted by: lee in orange county | Sep 16, 2008 12:38:03 AM
No, it must be very small compared to Orange County California.
Good night.

freethought4u,
Nice RNC talking points. The Democrats didn’t gain control of Congress until November 2006 elections so it’s ridiculous to blame them for the mess Bush created.
Yes, Congress should be doing more but if you think electing another warmonger President and far-right VP is going to make things better, then you might want to look up the word “fantasy” in the dictionary.
Our world under a Republican Administration is the following: Wall Street meltdown, mortgage industry disaster, high unemployment, $9 trillion deficit, over $578 billion spent on the Iraq war (and counting), over 4K U.S. Service personnel killed in Iraq, detention of individuals without due process, torture, spying on U.S. citizens, outing a CIA agent, Minerals Management Service oil sex scandal, and the list goes on.

>>>>>> Jen <<<<<<<
….For the bridge to nowhere, against the bridge to nowhere. Did you say 'no thanks to the bridge to nowhere' like you claimed, or isn't it the truth that congress cancelled your bridge without your input at all. You make firey claims that you're against earmarks, but kept the money for the bridge to nowhere…
the real bridge to nowhere is the symbolic bridge to nowhere that has been forged by our ineffective 9% approval rated leaders in congress….yawn…yawn…Reid and Pelosi…

For the somewhat inappropriately named ‘Just-the-facts’, we have had a marginally Democratic congress for only the past TWO years. The mess that we are in can largely be credited to the incompetence, highly questionable ‘conservative’ policies, and lies of the Bush administration and SIX years of a Republican congress. Today the congress is gridlocked in large part due to Dubya’s newly discovered veto pen.
As to Sarah, you gave a great speech! It’s ashame that you couldn’t come up with any actual new ideas. The ‘red meat’ and slanders were lovely though and thoroughly reflected Republican ‘values’. The ‘base’ and some women who seem to think that there is nothing more important than a woman in the vicinity of the White House love you! You are a former broadcaster. I suspect that you can handle teleprompter problems. There don’t seem to have been any, but handling a broken teleprompter isn’t really a huge reason to vote for you.
NOW, lets get back to important things like lipstick, who slightly slighted who, ‘is Barak HUSSEIN Obama a Muslim’ (no), who looks most presidential, and the other important things that many voters will actually base their decision on. Sarah, you may actually be on target. You’re a genius right up there with Karl Rove!

My apologies to ‘Just-the-facts’. The post that I was referring to was by ‘freethought4u’.
Sorry for that!

Very nice piece, Patty. I appreciate your thorough research (and correct grammar =)
But, you have failed to acknowledge that Democrates weren’t the only ones present. Many of the issues you have addressed, especially regarding women’s rights were hard fought for by many Democrats and Republicans alike. While the two parties do often disagree greatly on some moral issues (such as those regarding abortion), neither party completely occupies the passenger seat. The key is acknowledging that our representatives, whether they be Democrat, Republican, or Independent are willing to be part of the American team and fight for what is best for the country as a whole.
May God bless you, and “see you at the polls!”

All these petty attacks on Sen. Palin are really getting old.
Especially when you consider how miserably the media failed to do any investigative reporting on Obama.
We had to endure the sexist attacks on HIllary and Pro-Obama Bias for over a year,
Now the new target is Sarah and once again the media is drooling over Obama.
When will the sexism by the media stop?
When will the PROFESSIONAL REPORTERS come forward and stop all this bias reporting on Obamas behalf?
In the meantime, all this unfairness by the media and the Obama camp has helped me decide to cross over and vote Republican for the first time in my life.
Somethings are worth standing up for!

It’s ridiculous how the Obama supporters want to attack Palin for using a teleprompter.
Especially since everyone knows that Obama becomes a bumbling dummy if he doesn’t use a teleprompter.
So much so that he is now carrying it with him out on the campaign trail.

All these petty attacks on Sen. Palin are really getting old.
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It’s not a petty attack to point out that Palin has lied and continues to lie about the Bridge to Nowhere.

Why are we caring about teleprompters?
let’s ask her what her experience is in regards to the economy?
People, lipstick on pigs, cute eye glasses???? who cares!
If McCain kicks the bucket in office we are screwed! Come on everyone, let’s get real.
Obama/Biden, the sensible choice.

Although many points that have been made about Sarah Palin seem trivial and appear less than newsworthy, I think that this story warrants news coverage. Having been a counselor/therapist, I’ve encountered quite a few people who’ve had problems with honesty. But, when an individual chooses to lie without provocation, simply to impress others, or to be attractive to others, then that can be a sign of a more serious problem.
Without specific details, I don’t know the context of the teleprompter scenario, but it does seem that she brought up the subject voluntarily. It would require a lot more information to label Ms. Palin as a pathological liar, and I’m not doing that. I’m only pointing this out as an issue that I think merits further scrutiny; we’ve witnessed the devastation that resulted from the fabrications perpetrated by President Bush and others in his administration, and I personally do not want to elect another President or VP who will mislead us to achieve a personal or political objective. As U.S. citizens, it is our responsibility to examine our candidates closely, so that we will be in a position to make informed decisions in November when we cast our votes.

Palin lies at the drop of a dime and for stupid reasons. Sort of makes me wonder if the baby Trig rumors were true.
Yea’ I’m avoiding the real issues. Palin has not relevance to any real issues Americans face.
P.S. Palin’s the “energy expert” who said Alaska supplies “20 percent” of America’s oil energy. Fact check: Alaska supplies more like 3 percent.

can this woman ever stop lying?

Palin is a disgrace, as is McCain’s selection of her.
They are the perfect indictment of Republican management and governance.
The childish desperation of their supporters is the perfect complement to the candidates’ simplistic lying.
How do Republicans do it? They are both inside the coffin, and hammering the nails into the lid.

I too would like to see an article on why Obama was meddling in when the troops would depart Iraq. I would also like to know why he attempts to silence various authors when they try to get on talk radio and tell others about their books. Is he hiding something?
Posted by: david | Sep 16, 2008 8:44:50 AM
Because he is a US Senator. That is what they do. They help govern.

I am beginning to think that every word coming out of the Straight Talk Express
is lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.

“When Obama’s teleprompter went down he had no idea what he was talking about.”
My goodness… Have you seen McCain when he has a senior moment and forgets the question just asked him? Worse than losing a teleprompter. I’ll take not-memorizing-every-speech over what-did-you-just-ask-me.

Sarah,,
would you post a link to the three democrats in charge of the case who are standing in front of an Obama poster smiling?
or did you make that up?

Anyone who has given lengthy (defined as 30-60 min) speeches or talks/seminars to a large audience will know that preparation is key. If you don’t know your talk, even if you wrote it yourself, and you are trying to read the talk, it will come off very badly.
So I think that Palin has rehearsed her talk over and over again and the teleprompter is there as a reminder if she ever loses track which she didn’t.
I can believe that the teleprompter was out of sync with her delivery at times but I also believe that Palin could also have delivered her talk without notes or teleprompter.
People should just give credit where credit is due. She gave a moving and inspiring talk and the teleprompter didn’t work the way it was supposed to all the time.
End of story.

In case you don’t remember, ABC ran “The Path to 9/11,” a fictionalized documentary written by an evangelical movement conservative and friend of Rush Limbaugh’s, which blamed the 9/11 attacks on Bill Clinton, immediately before the 2006 elections in a blatant bid to swing votes to the GOP. Charlie Gibson (pro-McCain) and George Stephanopolous (pro-Clinton) spent nearly an hour of the Democratic debate sliming Obama over flag pins and Rev. Wright. Charlie Gibson is the only guy in the U.S. news media who was pro-McCain enough for the McCain campaign to pick him as their go-to guy to pitch softballs to Sarah Palin.
Days ago, the network ran a whitewash job on Palin’s, purporting to investigate the impact of her religious beliefs, and concluding she’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.
It’s nice to see something that isn’t 100% pro-McCain/Palin appearing with an ABC banner above it. Unfortunately, it seems such journalism is restricted to the blog–only GOP propaganda seems to be allowed on the air.

Still bashing Palin? Obama is trying to censor WGN again.

To the poster (I’m too “lazy” to scroll up to find his name) who claimed that anyone earning under $250k is lazy:
My husband is a physician (received MD in 1993) with three degrees. He works his tail off and only paid off his student loans at the age of 38-and then only because we sold our small Baltimore row house for a profit.
He makes less than $200k. Are you calling him lazy?
We’re staunch Democrats, by the way.
OBAMA 2008!!!

PLEASSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who gives a RIP! Let’s get to the issues, especially economic and foreign policy issues, instead of this Mickey Mouse “news”. The USA is in serious trouble and the American people need to know what the two Presidential canidates are prepared to do. We have men and women dying in Irag, we have people loosing their jobs, houses and families, we have natural disasters, all the while people are suffering.Lets get serious. We have Supreme Court justices ready to die or retire, we have a failing infrastruture, we have people going to the ER for medical care.We have a high school graduation rate of 60% in this country. Let the tabloids report on whether a tele prompter worked or not, I really do NOT care. The next President has alot on the table and surely the media can get serious with all the canidates. I do not care if the canidate is black or white- male or female-young or old-Catholic or protestant-hunter or not-gun user or not. What I want to know is what is in their heart!

First time I have ever posted. I am an indepent now. Was a democrat, but just changed because of this type of hate. There is no place for a conserative in the democratic party. Will now vote McCain Palin

So Palin told another lie? Has she ever told the truth?
That would be change! A real shocker, come to think of it.
I guess we should factcheck her assertions that she kills moose as well. It wouldn’t surprise me that that is an urban myth too.

Proofreader’s note: “I should note that, after Palin’s [convention] speech…

First time I have ever posted. I am an indepent now. Was a republican, but just changed because of this type of hate. There is no place for a moderate in the republican party. Will now vote Obama Biden

So why isn’t the mainstream media destroying her with this like they would destroy a MAN with this? Sexists! Equal opportunity exposing of lies or just shut up MSM. I don’t mean you, of course, ABC blog.

Obama did not know how to handle international crisis in Rusian invasion. He first asked Georgia to stop fighting. Take him 3 times to fllow Mccain’s lead. Obama tried to delay US troop withdrawl from Iraq to endanger our troops in Afganistan and violate US law. he did double talk about North America Free trade with Canada. He did double talk about hard working Americans. He organized community to promote voter fraud and preach racial hate. He is a danger to US and world peace.

Haven’t the American citizens had enough of being lied to over the past eight years. Palin and McCain have both been engaging in nothing short of lying to the American public. Their is no way I will vote for McCain/Palin because if they are lying now they will engage in it later and my children deserve better.

It was obvious during the speech, even live that the teleprompter had missed at times. She has never said that the teleprompter didn’t work the entire time. She has said that it scrolled ahead several times, which was obvious. Stop distorting everything she says Jake.
btw the Iraqi foreign minister says obama tried to influence the Prime Minister to delay troop withdrawl and not negotiate with the Bush Administration. Is that not as important as a 17 year olds pregnancy or a teleprompter malfunction? Ah the state of political journalism in the US today.

This is another one like the Bosnian sniper-fire howler.
“I am heroic, I am Teh Cool, I am omnipotent, vote for me.”
Crazy.

I get it. The McCain-Palin camp are going to shower us with so many lies that we will be reduced to a state of dizzy confusion.
Now, we are no longer able to count or track the lies from this campaign–but we can rate them. I’d give this one–the fake ad-lib claim–a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10 (with 1 being a small lie and 10 being an outrageous lie). The Bridge to Nowhere? That’s a definite 10.
In the end, though, they are all lies.

Really…there’s nothing impressive about being to ad-lib abit.
Now, to not know that Georgia started the Ossetian hostilities and to call it an “unprovoked attack” on Russia’s part is impressive!

“an unusual claim”- translation: a lie. Palin and McCain just keep on lying and lying, it’s really shameless.

>>In the name of taxing the rich, Mr. Obama would raise the marginal tax rates to over 50% on millions of small businesses that provide 75% of all new jobs in America. <<
McCain has no choice but to raise taxes.

No wonder campaign “strategists” have to get jobs in government – they are as serially unqualified to live in the real world.
Of course, that is scary in itself. But they don’t care about your country, just “winning”, lies and people’s lives be damned.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama secretly urged Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement that would lead to a draw down in troop numbers.
A blockbuster expose in Monday’s New York Post by Amir Tahiri revealed that Obama made his demand for the delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told The Post.
“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the U.S. elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview with The Post.
Zabari recalled that Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of U.S. troops, and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion.”
“However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open,” Zebari said.

How can anyone call Obama run clean campain when his ad mocked McCain can not type due to WAR injury???

Beverins has no evidence and The Post does. Believe Beverins. Emotions and feelings rilly, rilly count!

I see McCain holding a microphone just fine.
And even if the war thing is true, the Obama campaign possibly didn’t even know that. From all of McCain’s interviews, he gave the impression his lack of computer usage was because he wasn’t really interested, not because it also hurt him. Plus plenty of disabled people use adaptative devices-not like McCain can’t afford one. He’s just not interested.
I don’t see how the McCain campaign claiming Obama is sexist for using a perfectly common term or by insinuating he is for teaching five year olds comprehensive sex ed is much better.

Calling McCain and/or Palin a liar is really not working for Obamanation.
Polls show that Obama tells people what they want to hear, whereas McCain is seen as believing in what he says.
Polls show that McCain is regarded as more trustworthy than Obama.
Obama attacking McCain/Palin on every little word only backfires because it keeps him off his message. Responding to every ad from McCain/Palin also keeps Obama off message. Obama is on the defensive and wasting his time and energy, while McCain/Palin are winning on their message.

I wonder how he could solicite for delay in troops withdrawal when Troops withdrawal was not on the table as at the time of his visit to Iraq.
President Bush made a Nationwide address where he spoke of Troops withdrawal just a forthnight ago.

Palin could very well have to succeed McCain because of his condition- brushes with cancer and his age. That is why we cannot say “she’s just going to be VP”. If the person at the top of the ticket was younger and in better health, then that would be valid.
Think about it. Anything can happen, and is Palin ready to take over as Commander-in-Chief when she has so little knowledge of foreign policy? Obama, on the other hand, is well-versed in that.
And that’s without even getting started on her questionable record-ethics investigation she not cooperating with, for one.

When it comes to Palin, rational people shouldn’t even have to look at her record or experience.
The long and short of it is that she Believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old. This is not some cute and quaint religious belief. She believes this as The Truth. Please think about this.
This person, who has a good chance of being President, believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old as a scientific fact. This country does not need someone clearly insane to further take it down into the depths.

The thing that gets me very excited about Obama is his extremely detailed plan for renewable energy. If you have not listened to T. Boone Pickens, you should.
In ten years America can reduce our dependence on foreign oil immensely, much more than we could with drilling in the US, but here’s where it gets really exciting. America once led the industrial revolution, then we lead with the information age. Renewable energy is poised to be the next big thing America leads with.
If we stopped the war in Iraq and spend even a few months of the 10 billion per month it costs to be in Iraq, we could easily subsidize and jump start energy development.
Two things will happen, the first is the creation of an entire new industry with jobs in every city. Good jobs with good pay. The money that was once going to the Middle East decreases and creates wealth here at home … but not wealth that goes into Exxon’s pockets, wealth that goes to hundreds of thousands of middle-class Americans.
The next thing that happens is that oil prices actually go down because of the large decrease in consumption. The middle east tries to react to the competition by lowering prices and restricting availability .. but it’s useless because our energy sources continue to grow.
You have to understand that oil owns McCain and Palin also has a vested interest in oil. The only way oil will let go of their stranglehold on the US is if they can make profits in another way, either by being awarded the oil contracts here, or the nuclear reactor contracts here, or both …. unless their power is stripped from them by someone like Obama and the American people.
There is no reason we cannot do this other than our own fears that we cannot do this. Obama really has asked us to believe, and even if you don’t believe in Obama, seriously consider what T. Boone Pickens plan entails and seriously contemplate what you know is true .. that McCain can’t go down that path even if he wanted to.

Yet again, McCain/Palin begging to have it both ways while screwing the American people.

About 20 cents of every dollar of federal spending now goes to servicing the interest on our national debt. $300 to $400 billion a year going to the Chinese, the Saudis and the richest of the rich. The rich get tax cuts and government contracts financed through deficit spending, lend us the money that we then send right back to them, and then charge us interest on top of that. What a scam.
Obama wants to return to a pay as you go plan like we had under President Clinton. The last three years of Clinton’s second term saw budget surpluses, something that hadn’t been seen since 1949. Obama has the same man who was in charge of Clinton’s economic policy in charge of his economic plan. McCain has some Bush neocons in charge of his. Check out the wensite to see where your tax dollars go. With McCain, the war budget will grow and grow. He is the one who was singing “bomb, bomb, bomb….bomb, bomb Iran as a joke. Palin is the one who talked about the possibility of war with Russia. McCain wants us to stay in Iraq–Iraq should pay us if they want more help–they have a huge budget surplus. McCain himself has said that he doesn’t understand economics. We cannot afford him.

Teleprompter? What about Jamie Gorelick?
Fannie Mae hearings anybody?
I love Sarah Palin. I donated the moment she was announced by McCain.
Oblabla is toast.

Before she bacame governor the judge in her sister’s divorce warned her and the family to stop interfering in the troopers job. After she became governor and the scandal erupted she hired an ethics adviser, who reviewed the facts and told her to apologize and fire the aides who pressured the commissioner to fire the trooper.
Now she wants to stonewal the legislative investigation. Just more of the same Karl rove politics. I have had enough.

Joe McCain observed that during her speach, Sarah Palin “went off book so much, and so far, that the teleprompter operator went half mad trying to find out where he had messed up: national convention teleprompter operators who get lost are sometimes hanged from the rafters by irate speakers … er … readers. Finally, just before taking his cyanide capsule, he realised his text and her speech had the similarity of Saturn and a lawn chair, so I hear he just turned it off.”

I took a vote at work, and most of the men refer to Palin as their MILF. I would hate to find out that most of the men that are in favor of the McCain/Palin ticket are thinking this way.

This is the first time I have ever seen an article on the teleprompter use. I have to take this occasion to point out how reliant Obama is on the telepromter…to the extent that all I see is him looking left….middle…..right….middle…left…middle…right…left…right…middle…left…right…etc. He never makes contact with the audience.
All he does is read a speech well. At least Governor Palin makes it look like she is just talking to everyone.
For some reason, no one notices this about Obama until it is pointed out. The next time you see him give a speech, notice how his eyes simply go from telepromter to teleprompter to teleprompter.etc.

At least she is not bringing the teleprompter to the rodeo like Barry. He cannot think on his feet so he has to bring the teleprompter everywhere.

And something interesting about this Palin choice–my 74 year old Baptist mother and my 52 year old Methodist sister have both said they won’t vote for McCain now. Not because they have found a new love for Obama. But because their conservative values make it impossible for them to think a woman is a good choice for VP. And in the case of my sister, Palin’s Pentecostal ties are frightening to her. Neither will vote for Obama, but McCain lost at least those two votes in Ohio and I suspect many more as the sheer political nature of this choice becomes clearer.

Are nation is in financial trouble, and people are reporting about teleprompter use…

It is SO MAVERICK and REFORMIST to LIE. Thanks Sarah.
Posted by: PJ | Sep 16, 2008 3:12:27 PM
*****
This is all Saint O has left now and his bots. Calling the other guy a liar. He is like the Wizard of Oz that Saint O. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Saint O contradicts every word out of his mouth. Yea, you remember taking public financing. Debates, you forgot that one hey. NAFTA is good, NAFTA no good. DC gun ban good, DC gun ban no good. Iran tiny threat, Iran grave threat. He is talking out of both sides of his mouth so much he forgets what he said.

Why is Obama telling us he wants the troops out of Iraq,…. but asking Iraq to not sign anything to allow them to leave early… until AFTER the election?
Maybe he wants to take credit… or is he just play us for fools.

What a congenital liar. She lies even when it’s so easy to show she’s lying, as in this case.
And when she fired the police chief in Wasilla and a reporter asked her about it, she denied firing the guy — even though she had done so in writing! The reporter went back to the chief, who read him the termination letter Palin had sent!
Aside from the obvious character issue involved, what kind of grade-school mental calculation is she making? How does she think she won’t get caught?
If she ends up across the table from Putin, she’ll be playing checkers while he plays three-dimensional chess.

All you American ladies will be yelling and stamping your feet within 6 months of putting McCain/Palin in office. Why? because every right for women that has been hard fought for will be lost. Including the right to abort a rapist,s child, to even just taking a morning after pill, to losing the right to monthly pills as anti-pregnancy help.
Palin will not care about the beauty of natural Alaska or any other place in the 50 states. Guam and Porta Rico will become Super staging grounds for “christian soldiers” going out to war. Gitmo will be a worse hell on earth than it already is. The Super Highway will take “eminent domain” from thousands of landowners, and slap down any opponents. You basic rights will be no more. So I say if these two are voted in don’t cry to the rest of America or the world when you become unhappy with them!!!

Palin just doesn’t have it, so her handlers are trying to use DISTRACTION like one does with a crying toddler; you show them something pretty and they forget what they were whining about, works almost every time. Trouble is, even hicks are becoming more sophisticated with the internet and the improvement of communications in general, so at the click of a mouse they can read/hear/watch the lastest foible of their candidate or any public figure for that matter. With that said, Palin supporters are just as likely to turn against her as support her as they get the “lowdown” on Palin. In my opinion, I think this will hurt her more than help her, as in the past one could only get info from the MSM, but with the internet it’s a whole new game, baby.

She lies like most people breathe.

she’s such a hugh fake. she lies about the telepromter so that people then thinks shes “winging” it.
Not only is she a liar, she’s much too stupid. much too stupid. she’s only fooling herself.
so so stupid!
go home, take that bridge to nowhere and go away!

Trouble is ALL republicans today are all empty suits. They follow you around like a goat after a milk bottle. Obviously all the folks who speak of Senator Obama having speaking problems have never read anything he has written. He is eloquent. The Mafia is jealous of the republican party screwing the whole country yet not one of the repubs feels any guilt or shame or responsibility for our terrible state of affairs. Too bad so many obviously uneducated educated folks are repubs. Truly unbelieveable!

Umm… how is this news exactly? So she did not read the script verbatim (but seemed to stick to the message). Big deal.

To h Ron Stephens. This is a big deal because the McCain campaign lied about this relatively inconsequencial detail. As it has lied blatantly lied about just about everything.

HOUSE. OF. CARDS.

Sarah Palin: The Fabricator.

Consider how insecure one must be to lie about a false teleprompter malfunction at the RNC during a rally in Canton Ohio. How insignificant is it that you can see Russia from your house, or stop over for refueling on the boarder and say you entered into Iraq? As insignificant as the shallow purchase of a tanning bed to look good and the paranoia that prompts one to say it’s because you have S.A.D – a very serious illness. So is Sara Palin saying to the American people, she has a mental disorder caused by seasonal depression? Or is she saying she is not on medication as prescribed by most physicians who treat S.A.D?
She continues today with more lies, stating she will show financial accountability of money spent so the American people will know where their money is going when she is VP, but as it stands now, she refuses to show her income tax statements as Biden, McCain and Obama has already done, or show any documents or co-operate on the bi-partisan investigation of troopergate.
But wait! Surely she knows even more about the world financial market than Obama or Biden. After all, she’s been living inside her Alaskan Igloo running a densely populated city Government for 20 months now. That is, before being plucked out the gem of America’s heartland (remote Alaska)for her cosmetic appeal to update John McCain’s antiquated Washington insider image.
Ask John about his friends, the Keaton 5 back in 1989, he knows a thing or two about finances too.

Small point:
Palin never said she sold the jet on E-bay; she out it on e-Bay.
Now, my guess is if you follow the bleating mob believing she said otherwise, you have already bought into other fictions and are basically an Obama lemming who is destined to have his heart broken when reality smacks him in the face and he realizes he is in way over his head and only where he is because the left is still obsessing about “re-electing Gore.”
Oscar Wilde said “There is only one thing worse than not getting what you want; getting it.”
Libs may soon understand the tragic ironu of that
if Barry lands in the White House.