The list of Sarah Palin's lies just got a little longer. Andrew Sullivan has been documenting all of them. Here's a sampling of his list.
Today, I found another lie to add to the list.
I read alot of blogs...Americablog, The Daily Dish, Ben Smith on Politico, TPM, Crooks and Liars, etc. You get the picture. There's lots of information roaming around in my head....maybe too much.
This afternoon, I was watching a video on TPM from Faux News concerning Sarah Palin's second chance to address the Couric questions (they say she knew the answers, she was just annoyed and didn't answer, but on the same clip said that it seemed like she had gone back to the books to study...ha).
Anyway, she was citing Supreme Court cases with which she didn't agree. She cites Kelo v. City of New London, CT. Palin disagrees because she says in the video, "private property rights are so precious in this nation, and for the Supreme Court to side with government instead of the people...."
From Wikipedia:
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)[1], was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5-4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
AHA!! I had read about this story from another source a few weeks ago and had to search to find reference to it again. I found it very funny that Sarah Palin, as mayor, ordered construction to begin on the new sports complex in Wasilla, even though the land did not belong to the town and she knew there was a problem with ownership. The CNN article I found says:
Palin gave the go-ahead to begin while the issue was still in court.
Here's the CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/...
So, Andrew can add to his list now. How many lies is that now?