[Rhodes22-list] Rob's source of facts

Brad Haslett flybrad at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 15:49:37 EDT 2008


Rob,

Here's what your candidate's "spiritual adviser" had to say days after
9/11.  It took "The One" six more years to get his message?  Crack
must really be good stuff, never tried it myself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk

Brad

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
> Good lord Ed.  Do your own research.  Turns out Palin has her hand out
> all the time, while saying quite the opposite.  She's lies over and over
> again.  I really don't give a damn what you think of NPR.  I'd have to
> say they are relatively fair.  Unlike you of course.  Now you want bias
> and selective reports, try Faux News.
>
>
> Assocatied Press any better for you? - rob
>
> Sep 10, 8:35 PM EDT
>
> McCain and Palin castigate the earmarks she seeks
>
> By JENNIFER LOVEN
> Associated Press Writer
> AP Photo
> AP Photo
>
>
> FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his
> running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, equated lawmakers' requests for
> funding for special projects with corruption on Wednesday even though
> Palin herself has requested nearly $200 million in so-called "earmarks"
> this year.
>
> Campaigning in Virginia, McCain suggested earmarks are particularly
> shameful at a time when families are struggling with rising food, gas
> and home mortgage costs. He vowed again to veto any bill that contains
> such funding.
>
> "I got an old ink pen, my friends, and the first pork barrel-laden
> earmark, big-spending bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it.
> You will know their names. I will make them famous and we'll stop this
> corruption," McCain said during a rally at a park in suburban
> Washington, D.C.
>
> Palin has sought $197 million worth of earmarks for 2009, down about 25
> percent from the $256 million she sought in the 2008 budget year. As
> mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska, she hired a lobbyist to seek federal
> money for special projects. Wasilla obtained 14 earmarks, totaling $27
> million, between 2000-2003, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.
>
> Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hasn't asked for any
> earmarks this year. The Illinois senator sought $311 million in such
> funding last year. McCain, an Arizona senator, doesn't seek earmarks for
> his state.
>
> Undaunted by his running mate's ties to earmarks, McCain said: "I've
> fought corruption, and it didn't matter if it was Democrats or
> Republican, and so has Sarah Palin."
>
> Palin said she has "championed earmark reform" as governor and "reformed
> the abuses of earmarks in our state." Now, she said, she is ready to
> join McCain in Washington "so we can end the corrupt practice of abusive
> earmarks after all."
>
> The practice of earmarking - lawmakers inserting special requests for
> money for home-state projects in spending bills - is a longtime
> anti-Washington bugaboo for politicians running for office. Many find
> that, once in office, requests from constituents for help on a
> particular project is too tough to resist and support bringing that kind
> of money home to their states and districts.
>
> "John McCain's idea of changing Washington is a vice-presidential
> candidate who, as governor, requested more pork per person than any
> other state in the country," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.
>
> Still, McCain and Palin's attack on earmarks in the face of those she
> has requested joins other statements by the vice presidential nominee
> that have been widely debunked:
>
> -Palin routinely claims to have put an end to Alaska's infamous "bridge
> to nowhere," even though she supported the project during her
> gubernatorial campaign and turned against it only when it became a
> national embarrassment and Congress threatened to cut its funding.
>
> -Palin has claimed that she put the governor's jet on the Internet
> auction site eBay, and McCain has said it was sold at a profit. However,
> the jet was never sold via eBay.
>
> -Palin says she eliminated the governor's chef from the state budget,
> yet she gave the person another job in state government.
>
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>
> Rob,
>
> You cite NPR as a source of facts.  NPR is no different than CBS with
> Dan
> Rather.  Daniel Snore is the biggest communist there is.  At least cite
> local newspapers.  They may be just as wrong, but are more on the scene.
>
>
> NPR is without doubt very bias and selective in their reporting.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
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