Amerikaanse Presidentsverkiezingen #38 Varkens met lipstick!

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 15:26 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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Er zit een verschil tussen liegen en je verkiezingsbeloftes al dan niet nakomen, hè? Dat hoef ik niet uit te leggen. Maar natuurlijk, Barack Obama (of z'n campagne) liegt ongetwijfeld ook wel eens, hij verdraait wel eens wat gezegd wordt. Dat is spijtig, maar zo is het nu eenmaal, hoor je mij niet over. Het gaat alleen ook en met name om de mate van (...)

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How can we trust a liar as big as John McCain?

I'm using the L-word. So that may come across as a slashing blog remark.

But let's slow down and look at the facts that are not being disputed. John McCain is telling lie after lie. Not off the cuff remarks that can be excused as accidents or flubs but the same lies consistently and many of them. Serial liars are never trustworthy people -- that is a truism. But it also demonstrates a deeper character flaw. A normal job applicant would be disregarded out of hand after such a record became clear.

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It's become pathological. John McCain just claimed on TV that Sarah Palin has never requested an earmark for her state -- when actually her state gets more earmarks than any other state in the country. And this year she asked for $197 million worth of them herself.

Even the AP couldn't ignore his lying -- even though they phrased it in their own anemic way. "When pressed about Palin's record of requesting and accepting such money for Alaska, McCain ignored the record and said: "Not as governor she didn't."

For the record Palin requested $197 million this year and $256 million last year. Per capita, that's $288 this year and $376 last year.

To give you some perspective, Palin herself requested at least ten times the dollar value of earmarks as most states get total every year.

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 18:46 schreef BogardeRules het volgende:

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Die hele lipstick discussie is wel een schande, omdat er nu weer 3 dagen voorbij gaan en er niet over gepraat wordt hoe het beter moet gaan met de economie.

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"I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time."

http://www.huffingtonpost(...)yors-a_n_125944.html

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 21:38 schreef pberends het volgende:
Waarom houden de Democraten trouwens een week eerder een conventie dan de Republikeinen? Dit is toch retedom ivm het korte termijn geheugen van de kiezers?

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 22:17 schreef pberends het volgende:
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http://www.eenvandaag.nl/stemwijzerusa/mccain-obama-nl/

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MCCAIN CAMP DEFENDS PALIN BOOK-BANNING QUESTIONS

The McCain campaign is defending Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s much-criticized questions to her hometown librarian about book banning, saying the query was only hypothetical.

Shortly after taking office in 1996 as mayor of Wasilla, a city of about 7,000 people, Palin asked the city’s head librarian about banning books. Later, the librarian was notified by Palin that she was being fired, although Palin backed off under pressure.

Palin’s alleged attempt at book-banning has been a matter of intense interest since Republican presidential nominee John McCain named her as his running mate last month.

Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said Thursday that Palin asked the head librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, on three occasions how she would react to attempts at banning books. He said the questions, in the fall of 1996, were hypothetical and entirely appropriate. He said a patron had asked the library to remove a title the year before and the mayor wanted to understand how such disputes were handled.

Records on the city’s Web site, however, do not show any books were challenged in Wasilla in the 10 years before Palin took office.

Palin notified Emmons she would be fired in January 1997 because the mayor didn’t feel she had the librarian’s “full support.” Emmons was reinstated the next day after public outcry, according to newspaper reports at the time.

Still, one longtime library staffer recalls that the run-in made everyone fear for their jobs.

“Mayor Palin gave us some terrible moments and some rather gut-wrenching moments, particularly when Mary Ellen said she was going to have to leave,” said Cathy Petrie, who managed the children’s collection at the time.

Recent outrage has been fueled by Wasilla housewife Anne Kilkenny, whose 2,400-word critique of Palin’s legacy as mayor is widely posted on the Internet. Kilkenny described Palin’s actions as “out-and-out censorship.”

But the McCain campaign, in a statement, said the charge “is categorically false … Governor Sarah Palin has never asked anyone to ban a book, period.”

Emmons, a former Alaska Library Association president who now goes by Mary Ellen Baker, did not return calls seeking comment.

According to the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper, Emmons did not mince words when Palin asked her “how I would deal with her saying a book can’t be in the library” on Oct. 28, 1996, in a week when the mayor had asked department heads for letters of resignation.

“She asked me if I would object to censorship, and I replied ‘Yup’,” Emmons told a reporter. “And I told her it would not be just me. This was a constitutional question, and the American Civil Liberties Union would get involved, too.”

The Rev. Howard Bess, a liberal Christian preacher in the nearby town of Palmer, said the church Palin and her family attended until 2002, the Wasilla Assembly of God, was pushing to remove his book from local bookstores.

Emmons told him that year that several copies of “Pastor I Am Gay” had disappeared from the library shelves, Bess said.

“Sarah brought pressure on the library about things she didn’t like,” Bess said. “To believe that my book was not targeted in this is a joke.”

Other locals said the dust-up had been blown out of proportion.

“That was many years ago and Sarah never had any intention to ban books,” said David Chappel, who served as Palin’s deputy mayor for three years. “There were some vocal people in the minority, and it looks like they’re still out there.”

Jim Rettig, who heads the American Library Association based in Richmond, Virginia, suggested that lingering quarrel raises issues that are still relevant as librarians prepare to celebrate Banned Books Week later this month.

“Librarians are very committed to the principles of the First Amendment of the Constitution and that means we don’t allow one individual or a group of people to dictate what people can or cannot read,” he said. “Most librarians if they got that sort of a question would be curious as to what the intent of the questioner was.”

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 22:17 schreef pberends het volgende:
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http://www.eenvandaag.nl/stemwijzerusa/mccain-obama-nl/

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 23:44 schreef AlanSmitheeJr het volgende:

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100%, alle vragen goed beantwoord dus. Heb ik nu iets gewonnen?

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Op vrijdag 12 september 2008 23:35 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 13 september 2008 10:05 schreef pberends het volgende:
http://www.parool.nl/paro(...)ssadeur-VS-uit.dhtml

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''Ga na de hel, shit-Yankees, we zijn een waardig volk, ga honderd keer naar de hel,'' brieste Chávez in zijn rede.

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2008 12:19 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Chavez is een typisch fenomeen van het beleid wat Bush gevoerd heeft.