This year in Alaska every man, woman, and child received a check for $3,269 from the state of Alaska. Governor Sarah Palin levied a high tax on the oil companies doing business there and distributed the money to every single one of the state's residents.

This is what she said: "We can afford to share resource wealth with Alaskans and to temporarily suspend the state fuel tax." She also said, "And Alaska we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs."

Fact Check at the Minneapolis Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/33593294.html?page=1&c=y

Now she's going out warning people about the dangers of "Spreading the Wealth" and the Communist threat of "Collective Ownership," a concept that is completely foreign to Barack Obama's economic plan.

It's easy to get a high approval rating when you give every man, woman, and child $3,269.

But demonizing your opponent for doing the very same thing, when you're opponent is not even suggesting it, is called hypocrisy and outright fraud.

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Palin stretches truth in campaign speeches (actual headline)

AP via the San Jose Mercury News

Excerpt:

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the "truthfulness and judgment" needed to be president. But the Alaska governor often stretches the truth herself.
She has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical and falsely claimed the Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise most people's taxes.

On Tuesday, she tried rebutting the Illinois senator's criticisms of Republican presidential candidate John McCain over health care and Social Security. She said Obama was misleading and wrong, but she herself told less than the full story.

To be sure, most of Palin's assertions about Obama echo claims McCain himself has made or lines from Republican TV ads.

At a rally Tuesday, Palin tried to link Obama to the failure of housing giant Fannie Mae by noting that two Obama supporters once led the troubled company. The government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, another housing finance company, last month to prevent their collapse from worsening the global credit crisis.

"What's next, claiming that he didn't know two of his biggest supporters were running Fannie Mae, the subprime mortgage giant?" Palin said. "That has done harm to the American economy."

She referred to Jim Johnson, who chaired Fannie Mae from 1991-1998, and Franklin Raines, his successor who stepped down in 2004 in an accounting scandal.

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