As a youth, I dated someone who was a devout Pentecostal, long enough to have attended services and even many tent revivals. Although I was never "converted", I was given a Bible, and eventually even got to know their many passages pretty well. The last time I checked, "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor(Exodus 20:16)" hadn't been redacted. Even for politicians.
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.
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.
I think Joe Biden might do well to ask the Palin campaign who in her church would be in charge of granting special dispensation for liars so he could reveal exactly how much it cost us taxpayers in faith based funding to let her get by without Pentecostals speaking out about it.
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."
Hold on a darned second. Even the prophet Micah in Sarah's Pentecostal Bible warned, "If a man walking in a spirit of vanity and falsehood should lie and say, 'I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink, O Israel, he would even be the acceptable prophet of this people.'" (Micah 2:11)
The facts: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks totaling $27 million for the town. 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." source
UPDATE: Apparently the Book of Mormon either has suspended its laws against lying for Mitt Romney, or else we may expect a public statement from their Elders denouncing him at any moment. Unless, of course, the Latter Day Saints have recently redacted Doc. and Cov. 50:2, 7-8.