Everything about Palin: information, factchecks, links
Ethics and lying:
- Troopergate background
- Palin tries to stop Troopergate investigation
- Palin delays cooperation on Troopergate; husband ignores subpoena; poll finds two-thirds of Americans believe they should cooperate with the investigation
- More ethics problems
- Lies and distortions in her Republican convention speech
- Governor Palin giggles while radio DJs call an Alaska state senator a "bitch" during an interview
- At least a dozen, documented, unretracted lies
- Palin has accepted $25,000 in gifts from industry representatives while governor
- Hired a Washington lobbyist while mayor of a town of 6000; as governor, has requested more earmark dollars per person than any other governor
- Flip-flopped on the Bridge to Nowhere and continues to repeat the lie
- But she built the Road to Nowhere with millions of your tax dollars (video is at the end of this post)
- Palin was the only mayor in Alaska to force rape victims to pay for their own rape kits
- Palin charges Alaska for living in her own home while governor
- Palin's fiscal record as mayor
- Cut programs for teen moms; opposed sex education
- Letter from a fellow resident of Wasilla
- Palin hired friends, intimidated reporters in Alaska
Readiness to be VP:
- Palin unaware of Bush's central philosophy on national security
- Palin uncertain what the VP does
- Alaska in perspective
- Palin has only visited Canada, Mexico, and Kuwait (she now admits her claims that she had also been to Ireland and Iraq are false)
- She admits that she has never met a foreign leader (every living VP had done so before being elected to that office)
Palin's church:
- Wants to "cure" gays
- Pastor believes church needs to get ready when people flood Alaska during the coming "end times"; Palin attended a Jews for Jesus sermon in August
Labels: election2008, McCain
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