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Great article by Jim Kuhnhenn covering the stretched truths at the GOP convention
“Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention“

Example:

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

Makes me wish Mrs. Palin wasn’t “going into seclusion” back in Alaska after the convention. It should be obligatory that she face the music like any other candidate down here in the lower 48 or up there in Alaska.