do we want to know the truth?

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

earmark requests do not come from govenors, they are funding requests that get slipped into congressional bills by senators or congressmen, therefore the specific funding requested in the earmark can be as porky as they want, but they don't get voted on separately as its part of the whole bill package.

Palin requested federal money for projects for Alaska, not through the earmark process, just like all of her predecessors except she significantly reduced the requests compared to previous years. These funding requests have to be justified, and congress can vote them down.

so, Mccain was correct, Palin did not request earmarks.
she did however ask for federal money for Alaska.

McCain claimed that she did NOT RECEIVE earmarks. You are trying to change what he said and you are wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMN_PP2qhNQ

[dalakhani]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMKmyJcGV2I&NR=1

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMKmyJcGV2I&NR=1

Wasn't he saying they both are equal in their deception? btw..he also thought Obama meant the pig comment

ROVE: Yeah. Well, first of all, I do think that the lipstick remark was an inappropriate — and maybe it was unconscious, but it was a deliberate slap at Governor Palin.

The only time this word has intruded in recent months in the campaign was in her, you know, self-deprecating remark at the convention. So for him to use the lipstick remark less than two weeks after she used it struck me as too much of a coincidence not to have been a deliberate attack.

But look. Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far. We saw this this week, for example, in the Obama ad where he makes the point, a legitimate point, that John McCain came to the United States Congress in 1982 and that he has been a longtime Washington insider.

But they then say he doesn't even know how to use a — you know, doesn't send e-mail. Well, this is because his war injuries keep him from being able to use a keyboard. He can't type. You know, it's like saying he can't do jumping jacks.

Well, there's a reason why he can't raise his arms above his head. There's a reason why he doesn't have the nimbleness in his fingers.

WALLACE: All right, and for fair game, what is McCain doing that goes a step too far?

ROVE: Well, McCain has gone in some of his ads — similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test.

They don't need to attack each other in this way. They have legitimate points to make about each other that are beyond, you know, the...

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

she did not request or receive earmarks period.

Okay, either you can't read or you are lying which would be rather typical. Here is another link:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,1324706.story