The Troopergate investigation found Palin "abused her power by violating ... the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."

So how did Palin respond? By lying to the Corporate Media!

Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.

Cleared? Hell no, she was cited!

White is black, up is down, war is peace, slavery is freedom.

That's the 1984 Republican Party in a nutshell.

Here's Tom D'Antoni.

Here's Rick Hasen.

Is anybody listening?

By David Swanson

I get the impression that a great many people are upset by all the news about McCain-Palin supporters who believe Obama is an Arab, a Muslim, a terrorist, and a baby killer. I find it the most encouraging thing that's happened in eight years.

Why? Because these sorts of lies and fear-mongering are nothing new. What's new is that the U.S. corporate media is covering them. The most unaccountable, antidemocratic communications cartel outside of China has decided to cover in a major way a story it has brushed aside since September 12, 2001.

By Lloyd Hart

You may have noticed over the last week the word acorn or to be more
exact A.C.O.R.N. which stands for the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now. I personally have known about this group
for many years and nearly fell off my couch when I began to hear the
accusations coming out of the McCain campaign that poor black people
(A.C.O.R.N.) held a gun to Congress's head (cause black people, you
know, they can get guns. (wink) ) and forced it to pass a law that
forced rich white guys to stop redlining minority neighborhoods and to
stop predatory lending practices in minority neighborhoods - a
deliberate practice of banks not providing equal access to credit
products like loans and mortgages at the same fare market value in
terms of interest rates that the white folks recieved who were forced
into the terrible exodus of white flight when they had to relocate to
the suburbs when they were afraid their children might have sex with

By Joel McNally, Capital Times

One Bush administration cover story for going to war in Iraq to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in no-bid contracts for Halliburton and other corporate cronies was that it was to spread democracy in the Mideast.

Meanwhile, the president's party continues to battle the spread of democracy in the Midwest.

With less than a month to go before the election, the collateral damage from Republican efforts to fight the spread of democracy continues to pile up.

The latest victims are convicted felons who are looking to get jobs to support themselves and their families without resorting to crime.

A Republican National Committee official has attacked voter registration groups in Wisconsin for employing convicted felons. The party's chief lawyer said the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) hired seven convicted felons to register voters.

ACORN President Maude Hurd released the following statement today in response to the McCain campaign's new ad claiming that, among other things, ACORN is responsible for the mortgage crisis:

”For almost a decade, ACORN, a community organization of 400,000 families in neighborhoods across the country, has been fighting against the predatory lending practices that have robbed our members of their homes, destabilized neighborhoods, and roiled the global economy.”

“In his newest ad, John McCain’s campaign bizarrely claims, “ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today.” Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, ACORN has worked successfully to help working class families get good home loans on fair terms from legitimate banks and has fought vigorously against predatory lenders who have ripped off families in our communities. These predatory loans caused the crisis.”

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