So Mark if you have access to facts, why do you still get so many things wrong? Or is this just a chain email you got?
On Sep 9, 9:14 am, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some of the debunked rumours: > > 1. No she wasn’t a member of the (wild-eyed libertarian) Alaska > independence Party, although her husband once was > 2. No, she was never a Pat Buchanan supporter; even when Buchanan > claims she was, she was on the board of Steve Forbes’a campaign in > Alaska. > 3. No, she’s not anti-semitic. In fact, she has an Israeli flag in > her office. (Contrary to popular belief, the usual Evangelical thinks > Israel has a right to exist, granted by God.) > 4. No, she’s doesn’t believe that the Iraq War was directed by God. > Yes, she did pray that proceeding with the war was God’s will. (Ever > hear the phrase “Not my will, but Thine, be done”?) > 5. No, Buchanan doesn’t support her now; in fact he’s supporting > Obama. (Buchanan did think her speech was amazing, but then so do 80 > percent of the people who saw it.) > 6. yes, she was pregnant when she got married > 7. Yes, barring immaculate conception, Bristol appears to have had > sex with her fiancee. No, Bristol didn’t receive only “abstinence- > only” sex ed. > 8. yes, she did fire the public safety guy — but he said in the > Anchorage paper that, for the record, she never, and no one else in > her administration ever, tried to make him fire her ex-brother-in-law > 9. and yes, the state trooper (her sister’s ex-husband) she was > worried about did: tase her 10 year old nephew; drive his state patrol > car while drinking or drunk; did threaten to “bring her down”; and did > threaten to murder her father and sister if they dared to get an > attorney to help with the divorce. > 10. No, she didn’t cut funding for unwed mothers; yes, she did > increase it by “only” 354 percent instead of 454 percent, as part of a > multi-year capital expenditures program. No, the Washington Post > doesn’t appear to have corrected their story. Even after this was > pointed out in the comments on the story. > 11. No, she didn’t cut special needs student funding; yes, she did > raise it by “only” 175 percent. > 12. yes, she did ask the librarian if some books could be withdrawn > because of being offensive; no, they couldn’t; yes she did threaten to > fire the librarian a month later; no, that wasn’t over the books thing > but instead over administrative issues; no, the librarian wasn’t fired > either; yes, the librarian was a big supporter of one of her political > opponents; yes, the librarian was also the girlfriend of the Chief of > police mentioned above; no, this is not the first time in the history > of civilization that someone has been threatened with being fired over > a political dispute > 13. yes, she’s an was an Assembly of God Holy Roller. No, she > doesn’t attend an AoG church now. Yes, she did leave the AoG because > they were getting too weird for her. > 14. yes, she apparently believes in some variant of Intelligent > Design > 15. no, she didn’t try to force the schools to teach it; she said if > someone brought it up, it was an appropriate subject for debate. > 16. No, she doesn’t believe in “abstinence only” education. Yes, she > thinks abstinence is an effective way of preventing pregnancy. Duh. > Yes, she believes kids should learn about condom use in schools. > 17. yes, she kills animals and eats them, and wears their skins > 18. yes, she has on occasion tried to get money from the federal > government. > 19. yes, she did finally turn down the money for the bridge. Yes, > that meant changing her mind about it. > 20. yes, she was vetted extensively, not just in three days — I’ve > got links to press reports about people coming to Wassila on 29 May, > and we had her on our Veepstakes at PJM from the first day we ran it. > 21. Yes, Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech was written by a > speechwriter. Duh. No, none of Obama’s, McCain’s, nor Biden’s speeches > were impromptu off the cuff things either. > > http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/09/07/sarah-palin-rumors-debu... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
