Sarah Palin thinks only small towns are pro-America

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<p>Okay, Pug. I’m gonna play your game. I never said Obama doesn’t lie. He’s a politician. There’s a difference between stretching or twisting the truth and repeating bald-faced lies over and over and over again.</p>

<p>The 100 years in Iraq comment, while distorted by Democrats, is akin to McCain repeating that Obama wants to “give 95% of Americans a tax break”. Obama never said that. He said 95% of working families. Huge difference. Both distortions. It’s just politics.</p>

<p>ACORN: You do realize that McCain was a keynote speaker at an ACORN event in 2006, right? You’re buying into a manufactured crisis designed to incite fear. And, for the Republicans to be raising the issue of voter fraud is pretty laughable. They rigged and stole both the 2000 and 2004 elections (look it up - the evidence is overwhelming). Bush should have legally never been president. He’s a criminal who could be in prison for treason and murder (“The Case Against George W. Bush for Murder”). </p>

<p>factcheck.org:<br>

"But so far ACORN itself has not been officially charged with any fraud. Aside from the heated charges and counter-charges, no evidence has yet surfaced to show that the ACORN employees who submitted fraudulent registration forms intended to pave the way for illegal voting. Rather, they were trying to get paid by ACORN for doing no work. Satterberg: [A] joint federal and state investigation has determined that this
scheme was not intended to permit illegal voting.</p>

<p>Instead, the defendants cheated their employer, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or ACORN), to get paid for work they did not actually perform. ACORN’s lax oversight of their own voter registration drive permitted this to happen. … It was hardly a sophisticated plan: The defendants simply realized that making up names was easier than actually canvassing the streets looking for unregistered voters. …

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<p>As for Obama’s relationship, a little more complicated than he let on, but not really a lie seeing as most of his experiences were through other organizations and McCain himself has worked with ACORN. You’re turning it into some horrible organization, which it isn’t - at least McCain didn’t think so. It works to help people:</p>

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When Obama was on the board of directors of the Woods Fund, the foundation gave grants of $75,000 in 2001 and $70,000 in 2002 to ACORN’s Chicago office. The McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee cite an additional grant of $45,000 in 2000. The Woods Fund has not responded to our calls about their 2000 grants.</p>

<p>The Obama campaign also paid Citizens Services Inc., a group affiliated with ACORN, more than $800,000 for get-out-the-vote (not voter registration) efforts during the primary election. The nature of CSI’s services was initially misrepresented on the Obama campaign’s disclosures to the Federal Election Commission, which the campaign describes as an oversight. The Obama campaign says it has not been involved with ACORN during the general election.</p>

<p>In addition, after law school, Obama may have had contact with ACORN when he directed a Chicago registration drive for Project Vote in 1992. According to Sanford Newman, who was the program’s national director at the time, ACORN may have been one of dozens of organizations that participated in registration drives that year with Project Vote personnel like Obama. But Project Vote didn’t begin contracting exclusively with ACORN until after Obama worked for the group in 1992. “Working for Project Vote at the time was by no means working for ACORN," Newman told us. ACORN had no influence on Project Vote policy and no representation on its board.</p>

<p>As for “teaching classes” for the group, the McCain campaign cites a March 2008 Newsday article, which says that ACORN organizer Madeleine Talbot “initially considered Obama a competitor” when both were working to get asbestos insulation removed from a Chicago housing project, but that “she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff.” Newsday does not say whether Obama accepted the invitation. An article by Chicago alderman Toni Foulkes says that “we [ACORN] have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year” between 1992 and 2004, when the article was written. The Obama campaign says that Obama participated in two, one-hour trainings in a volunteer capacity.

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<p>The Limbaugh ad was not their proudest moment, but the only association was by putting McCain’s picture in the ad. Still, you’re right, that it shouldn’t have done it. They don’t need low road politics.</p>

<p>As for the Iraq war, a good politician knows when to be ambiguous. That’s not a lie. He came out against it before it started.</p>

<p>Before turning Ayers, Farrakhan, and Wright into horrible monsters, consider the fact that Ayers is a college professor and was asked by the arch conservative Annenburg to be on his board for education reform. Wright has done an incredible amount of work for the poor and runs a church that attracts many respectable professionals. I don’t know enough about Farrakhan to comment.</p>

<p>Anyway, if you can’t see the difference between these two candidates’ record of lies, then I don’t know what to say. McCain, in 2000, defended “spreading the wealth” when asked by a college student why or doctor father paid higher taxes. When she said it’s socialism, McCain made the exact same argument Obama does today. He used to be against torture, offshore drilling, and the fanatical religious takeover of his party.</p>

<p>Wow. I wrote a pug-style diatribe. I need a life.</p>