Is that a face that you trust?

As I watched Sarah Palin give her speech at the RNC with my wife, she continually turned and gave me the look that seemed to say, “is that true?”

I found myself repeatedly shaking my head until I was almost disoriented. But my dizziness didn’t compare with the crooked crafting and blatant dishonesty that went into the Governor’s speech. The unthinking and uninformed sheep predictably stood up for every half-truth said and cheered on every lie. Maybe Churchill was right…

In one of her first attacks, Governor Palin said about Senator Obama,”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.” 

Well, that is deliberately untrue. I would love to get into her condescension when she mentioned that he authored books as a statement on the Republican practice of belittling the value of education and literacy, but I don’t have the time. I would also give her the benefit of perhaps being ignorant on the subject at hand, but by this stage, if you didn’t do your homework, then “liar” is still an accurate adjective. The truth is that Senator Obama has authored reform. It’s a recorded fact that isn’t disputable.

Palin goes on, “This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign.”

Senator Obama uses words like “careful” describing his well thought out, well documented and consistent military strategy, and uses the word “careless” when describing the Republicans dishonesty and failure in the war that 80% of Americans believe we messed up in. So when McCain and Palin spout off about the ridiculous notion of “victory” like squabbling children who refuse to compromise, remind them that a goal that was never set can never be achieved. We went into Iraq without a goal, so we can never achieve it. Your idiotic pride over “winning” is killing people– grow up.

Palin then says that Obama will make “bigger government.” If by bigger government Governorer Palin is speaking of the necessary social programs like affordable health care that greedy men like George Bush and John McCain have been on a lifelong mission to keep out of America, then yes. By the way, your ridiculous comment about Senator McCain making health care more affordable was in insult to America. He has no plan at all for health care. If people want health care they can buy insurance or die. Thanks, John. Way to put country first.

Then Governor Palin lied about taxes. “Taxes are too high” she said. “… he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.

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.”

This should scare you, and that’s the intent. Clearly though, the intent was not to be honest. Despite a new Governor’s ignorance on the operations of a National tax system, she seems to think she knows what she’s talking about, despite being vetted for maybe a few hours.

I will state this very clearly: Barack Obama will most likely tax you less than John McCain. He has in place a tax break for 95% of all working families, with the only increases designated for people who make over $250,000 a year. If you make less than that, you’re safe, and if you make more than that, you can afford it. It’s all clearly documented here, and if you click here, you can see approximately how much more Obama will save you than John McCain. 

She then made possibly her most laughable claim, “America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it.”

That’s right, Obama’s two campaign slogans are ”Yes we can,” and “I’m against all forms of energy production.” Now of course Senator Obama has an extensive energy plan that is far more comprehensive and plausible than John McCain’s idiotic pandering of “drill here, drill now!” He’s more intelligent than John McCain, of course he has a better plan. But the true irony here is that Obama’s plan was praised by some nobody Governor from Alaska earlier this month. Seriously. I wish I could make stuff like that up.

Although her overall dishonesty was really in poor taste tonight, the thing that really upset me about Governor Palin’s speech was that in recent days, right wing pundits have been saying that we all need to leave her kids out of this race. We can attack her all we want, but her family is out of the picture.

You know what? I agree with that. Let’s leave the kids out of this.

But the person most deserving a big fat rebuke on this issue is Sarah Palin, who uses– in the cheapest way– each one of her freakishly named, spit haired children as a political ploy. She mentioned multiple times that her son was going to Iraq, and that she was a hockey mom, and our oldest is pregnant… If you want your kids left out of the political discussion, then it is your place to do exactly that before anyone else.