McCain: Confused, Uninformed or ???

truble2301 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 07:12 AM

Boy, the GOP loves that story about Palin and the state plane. Too bad they can't tell it truthfully. And yesterday McCain repeated the urban legend. Because facts aren't all that important, I guess.

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One of the compelling anecdotes about Sarah Palin is that she auctioned off the Alaska governor's jet on eBay after taking office -- a swift move made by a reformer hoping to clean up the excesses of her predecessor.

But in fact, the jet did not sell on eBay. It was sold to a businessman from Valdez named Larry Reynolds, who paid $2.1 million for the jet, shy of the original $2.7 million purchase price, according to contemporaneous news reports, including a story in the New York Times.

Dan Spencer, the director of administrative services for Alaska's Public Safety Department, said that the Republican speaker of the Alaska House, John L. Harris, brokered the deal. Reynolds made campaign contributions to both Palin and Harris in 2006 and 2007.

What happened? It appears that, as promised during her bid for governor in 2006, Palin did try to sell the plane on eBay but that doing so was not as easy as it might have sounded. After putting it up to auction, there was one serious bid, in December 2006, and it fell through. Still, the Westwind II was sold about eight months later, achieving Palin's goal of ridding the state of a luxury item.

But that hasn't stopped Palin, or John McCain, from implying -- and, on Friday, claiming outright -- that Palin did sell the jet on the Internet.

"You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay -- and made a profit!" McCain declared in Wisconsin at a campaign stop on Friday. It could not be immediately determined what that profit was.

The video tribute to Palin that aired at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night made the same claim. "She signed sweeping ethics reform legislation, auctioned the governor's jet on eBay," the narrator said, citing it in a list of Palin's achievements.

She not only didn't sell it on ebay, as McCain and the RNC video said, she sold it in a private sale -- at a loss, not a profit. Good for her for selling the plane if the state didn't need it -- but don't puff up the story to make it sound like something more than it is.

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kvmj · #2 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 07:24 AM

You forgot that she had to pay $12 in listing fees.

Did you know that McCain was a POW?

truble2301 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 07:28 AM

NO! Did you know Sarah Palin was a hockey mom? Go figure!

kvmj · #4 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 08:07 AM

I forgot to answer your question. Confused? Maybe Uninformed? Probably

If he repeats it again (I'll bet that he will), he's lying.

truble2301 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 08:43 AM

As a POW, it's ok for him to tweak the truth because, as a POW, he's not always quite clear on the facts and, as a POW, he wants you to know he loves this country and, as a POW, he's not so sure that other guy does.

mommys4angels · #6 (**permalink**) 10-16-2008, 06:42 PM

Too bad you don't know any POW in your real life, because you sure wouldn't be making light of it, especially since your jokes have nothing to do with the OP. Yes, I do know personally someone who was a POW for seven years - there is nothing funny about it.

truble2301 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-16-2008, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by mommys4angels

Too bad you don't know any POW in your real life, because you sure wouldn't be making light of it, especially since your jokes have nothing to do with the OP. Yes, I do know personally someone who was a POW for seven years - there is nothing funny about it.

Wow, good for you. How exactly do you know we don't? What I know is that a POW who truly respects and cares for his fellow POWs doesn't use his status as a cheap political trick, like John McCain does.

allinaugust · #8 (**permalink**) 10-16-2008, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by truble2301

Wow, good for you. How exactly do you know we don't? What I know is that a POW who truly respects and cares for his fellow POWs doesn't use his status as a cheap political trick, like John McCain does.

How do you feel that he is using his POW status as a cheap political trick?

truble2301 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-16-2008, 07:09 PM

Being a POW is completely irrelevant to his ability to be president, but he used to work it into every conversation. Now he does it about 50% of the time. That's cheap -- and it cheapens McCain, if such a thing is even possible anymore.

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