Oh wow, Palin is a liar!

I cannot believe how many times I watched her lie tonight. I think I need a shower.

Palin said "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 truth is that Mayor Palin hired one of Ted Steven's lobbyists and sent him to D.C., where he sent back $27 million federal dollars to her podunk hamlet of Wasilla. The truth is that Govenor Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere until it was being mocked on a national level. The truth is that while Palin has been govenor, Alaska has requested more per capita federal earmarks than any other state in the nation.

Palin said that Obama hasn't authored any bills.

I suppose that for her, working with Richard Lugar to stop illegal shipments of WMDs isn't important. I suppose to Palin, working in the state senate to stop racial profiling and working to ensure that interrogations are videotaped (so there's no question as to what happened) is not important. I suppose the ethics reform legislation Obama introduced with Sen. Feingold just doesn't exist for Palin.

Actually, I take that back. I suppose that Palin is actually just a liar.

Palin said that Obama would raise taxes. Then she went on to list a boring and exhaustive litany of every kind of tax there is, and claimed Obama wants to raise it.

I'm not going to both to list this all out right now. I'll remind you that
a) Palin is a liar,
b) you can go to http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_new_stitch_in_a_bad_pattern.html and see just what Obama's tax plan is and how much the McCain campaign lies about it, and
c) you can go to http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.taxes.html if you want a very brief comparison of the McCain and Obama tax plans.

Palin said she would tell us "exactly what a Mayor does." But all she could tell us was that "unlike a community organizer, she had actual responsibilties." As a community organizer, Obama was responsible for organizing a public housing project with a population comparable to Mayor Palin's hamlet, and working with them on job training, community infrastructure needs (like road maintenance, asbestos removal, etc.)

Since Palin couldn't be bothered to keep her commitment and tell us the duties of the Wasilla mayor, perhaps I can help. See, it's amazing what you can find on google. http://www.codepublishing.com/AK/Wasilla/Wasilla02/Wasilla0216.html#2.16

Hmmm...she attended meetings. She was the ceremonial head of the city. She enforced city law and proposed budgets, but didn't actually get to make city law or pass the budgets. She was an an administrator with figurehead duties.

How many lies do we really need to hear this woman say?