So, what did you guys think of Sarah Palin's Speech?

Question

You beleive it?

Answer 1

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.

so no i don't believe it.

Answer 2

Yes, I believe it. She was not born and bread to be a big shot politician.

Obama and Biden are a couple of fast talking lawyers in ten thousand dollar suits.

Answer 3

It was good but it did not flow to well. They where trying to appeal to the base way to much. According to the news this morning the teleprompter was having issues, the final draft of the speech wasn't able to be printed up on paper. They had a rough draft that was thrown away, but pulled it out of the trash and she used that to guide her.

Answer 4

kindda

Answer 5

no she attacked Obama, but when the media ask questions about her they will cry sexism.

Answer 6

I think she came off as down right mean.

Answer 7

I LOVED it

Answer 8

What I heard her claim that Obama is for change and that McCain is going to change using his military past.

I don't know maybe I heard wrong.

Answer 9

Yes, I believe... She was Fantastic... I am in love....  and we just swung the vote...

Answer 10

you "believe" it.  didn't run it through spell check, eh?

Answer 11

I love her! Finally a strong, beautiful, CONSERVATIVE woman I can believe in and get behind!

I love her and her beautiful family!

Answer 12

nope ...i would have believed it if the guy who wrote it did the speech i think she is a disgrace for women to pimp herself out and let mccain use her.

Answer 13

No: Enjoy some breaking news.  http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sarah_pa...

Answer 14

YES! She is such a powerful woman, and I do have to admit, I was not happy at first. I thought that this was going to be a total downfall for McCain, but it has turned out to seem the complete opposite. Anyone who can run a state, regardless of their personal life, deserves a legitimate shot at something like this.

McCAIN PALIN 08!

Answer 15

What a breath of fresh air!  The first time in my life I have felt excited and optimistic about our country's future. Finally someone with the strength and integrity to move us away from our socialist agenda!! Wow a real person not a politician! Yeah I believe it!