GOP convention home pageSpeech text index by GOPConvention.com
Speeches: Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson
On Sarah Palin:
VP selection speech by RealClearPolitics.com
Beliefs and positions by OnTheIssues.org
Fundamental right to refuse by LA Times
New life of the GOP by LA Times
Who is your neighbor? by Christianity Today
Which party better on poverty? by Christianity Today
Bold choice, or desperate one? by Christian Science Monitor
Forged maverick path in Alaska by Christian Science Monitor
Palin by comparison by Hugh Hewitt, Townhall.com
Palin has real experience by Wall Street Journal
What the pick says by NY Times
Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist by Politico.com
Palin took on energy companies by LA Times
A star is born? by NY Times
Conservative female abuse by Michelle Malkin, Townhall.com
What standards? by Cal Thomas, Townhall.com
Secession flirtation by LA Times
Palin speaks by NY Times
Not a stand-in for Hillary by Fox News
Not every woman supports women's rights by NOW.org
About Palin, by Alaksa resident by ThePresidentialCandidates.us
Other links:
Edible landscaping saves money by Christian Science Monitor
It's half past 12 somehwere by Christianity Today
Fear of kidnapping grips Mexico by LA Times
Dobson to pull McCain lever by Dennis Prager, Townhall.com
Dem apologizes for hurricane joke by CNN
Small change from Obama by Washington Post
Cindy McCain interview by CBS News
Michelle Obama interview by CBS News
The experience question by Christian Science Monitor
Edwards, McCain, and political affairs by Findlaw.com
2 Christians kidnapped, killed in Iraq by Christian Post
Edgy sex-ed videos spark debate by ABC News
There goes the sun by IBDEditorials.com
Border drug wars threaten US by Washington Times
"Protests" at GOP convention result in 284 arrests by USA Today
After Gustav will we heed warnings? by Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Lies and deceptions in Palin speech:
PALIN: "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 FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
Teleprompter did not break either…
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