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echo: pol_inc
to: Ross Sauer
from: John Massey
date: 2008-09-16 21:58:06
subject: campaign lies

Ross Sauer -> John Massey wrote:
 RS> "John Massey -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> news:24770$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 AH>>>> Take Mrs. Palin's claim to have opposed the "Bridge to
 JM>>   Nowhere." Long AH>> after it was exposed as false,
she kept making
 JM>>   it. The assumption AH>> behind the McCain strategy is
that truth is
 JM>>   irrelevant.

 RS>>> She still claims this.

 JM>> Because it is true.

 RS> Palin was *FOR* the bridge as late as 2006, until it became a national
 RS> laughing stock, then she did the classic flip-flop.

Bottom Line As Governor she did say no to it.


 RS>>> Remember how the then-popular "joke" was about
how Gore "claimed
 JM>>   to have RS> invented the Internet," even though he
never said it?

 JM>> But he did. In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said,
 JM>> "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
 JM>> initiative in creating the Internet."

 RS> http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

CNN trumps snopes.

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