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Rudy Giuliani blasted prominent conservative columnists who have criticized Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as being unqualified and even worthy of being removed from the GOP ticket.

Sarah Palin's credentials as a "reformer" are nothing but spin. She has sided with Big Oil, lobbied to increase pork spending and abused her public power to carry out personal vendettas. Here's a guide to separating myth from fact.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23140513/the_truth_about_sara...

From AmeriBlog:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows.

Interesting info on Paul Krugman's blog:

"OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s elections chief was sued again Monday for suggesting that counties reject absentee ballot requests printed by John McCain’s presidential campaign that were not completely filled out.

Troy Neff Video Blog on Stainbrook Part 1

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Of those 177 lobbyists [on McCain's team], according to a Mother Jones review of Senate and House records, at least 83 have in recent years lobbied for the financial industry McCain now attacks.

When Gov. Sarah Palin flew home to Alaska for the first time since being named the Republican vice presidential nominee, she brought along at least half a dozen new advisers to conduct briefings, stage-manage her first television interview and help her prepare for a critical debate next month

You won’t see this on the air this week on Conklin and Company. On Friday evening in the lobby before the taping of Conklin & Company, Jon Stainbrook who was on the first segment, refused to go on because Troy was on the same show. It actually got so bad that Lee Conklin was going to call security because Jon was making such a scene.

When a client asked WigSalon to make her a wig that looked like Sarah Palin's hair style and color, she expected to wait weeks for it. She was really surprised when she got a call the next day from the owner saying that we already had the wig style and the right color for her. All she needed was "a few bobby pins and maybe some eye-glasses" to complete her look.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Michigan’s image as the world’s automotive capital can be restored under a John McCain presidency, he said yesterday at a campaign rally with running mate Sarah Palin.

Mr. McCain, who visited a Detroit-area General Motors Corp. plant earlier in the day, pledged his support for a loan package for domestic automakers he’d previously looked at with a skeptical eye.

Since PinkSlip is incapable of being fair, this is what will now happen on postings that get out of control. I will force fairness by taking them over and putting in both sides of the debate, so you can decide what you want about the post. Unlike others on this site, I am not afraid of you seeing both sides of the debate.
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From PInkSlip:

Out on the stump, John McCain gets wild applause each time he promises as president to veto every spending bill that contains an earmark.

But McCain will find it almost impossible to live up to his vow, and gridlock would result if Congress refused to go along with such an executive branch power grab.

And that’s what members of McCain’s own party are saying.

No one cog in the federal government's machine of financial regulation let down the country by failing to prevent the latest shakeout on Wall Street. The entire system did.

"They just haven't done a particularly good job," said James Barth, a senior finance fellow at the Milken Institute, a nonpartisan research group based in Los Angeles.

Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.

“The governor did have a tanning bed put in the Governor’s Mansion,” Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska’s Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, confirmed to this newspaper. “It was done shortly after she took office [in early 2007] and moved into the mansion.” (cont.)

September 15, 2008 – The candidacy of State Rep. Barbara Sears (OH-46) has been formally endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio, Inc. and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 18. Both organizations thanked Rep. Sears for her commitment to their respective issues and wished her good luck in November.

Today on Bridges, on 13abc, Jon Stainbrook said that Lynn Olman and Patrick Kriner "are not loyal Republicans". He called them that because they do not listen to him.

Jon also cast doubt on the results at the board of elections, by saying he is scared of what will happen in the presidential election, and even said that everyone should mark his words, almost assuring there will be problems.

The following are links to TCS's analysis and database for each of the FY09 appropriations bills. (Note: With the exception of House Military Construction, which passed the full House, all databases are of earmarks in the committee-passed versions)

http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=121...

Senator John McCain recently told reporters that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has “learned that earmarks are bad.”

In 2000, Alaska lawmakers learned that rural police agencies had been billing rape victims or their insurance companies $500 to $1,200 for the costs of the forensic medical examinations used to gather evidence. They quickly passed a law prohibiting the practice.