Interesting Links on the Campaign

Sarah Palin continues to be exposed. In a NYTimes article entitled

"Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes,"

Palin again demonstrates her ability for unrepentant, unethical and cronyist behavior.

Some highlights:

"So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency."

"...an examination of her swift rise and record as mayor of Wasilla and then governor finds that her visceral style and penchant for attacking critics — she sometimes calls local opponents “haters” — contrasts with her carefully crafted public image (i.e. Palin projects, or accuses others of exactly what she herself does).

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials."

And this is what Karl Rove has to say about McCain's egregious and relentless lies, in the Washington Post:

"Rove said McCain 'has similarly gone one step too far, attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100 percent truth test.'''

Of course, Rove also critiqued the Obama campaign. But that this party faithful (if there ever was one) has critiqued the Republican ticket demonstrates the depths to which the seemingly senile, beleaguered McCain will stoop in order to try to win.

See also Taxpayers for Common Sense, Factcheck.org for a rundown on the tax plans. Btw, McCain cuts taxes for the wealthiest 1%.