(CNN) -- Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for
the Republican vice presidential nominee confirmed Saturday, as new
details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor's foreign travel.

Gov. Sarah Palin's aide confirmed to CNN details of her foreign travel
Saturday.

In July of last year, Palin left North America for the first time to
visit Alaskan troops stationed in Kuwait. Palin officials originally
said her itinerary included U.S. military installations or outposts in
Germany and Kuwait, and that she had visited Ireland.

A Palin aide in Alaska said Iraq was also one of the stops on that trip.

The Boston Globe reported Saturday that Palin visited the Iraqi side of
a border crossing -- but never journeyed past the checkpoint. Earlier,
campaign aides confirmed reports that Palin's time in Ireland on that
trip had actually been a refueling stop.

The Obama campaign -- which has increasingly accused the McCain campaign
of deliberately lying in ads and on the stump -- was quick to highlight
that story, along with a news report that explored whether the McCain
campaign has been sending out wildly inflated crowd estimates.

The McCain team has twice pointed to law enforcement as the source for
those estimates -- but the same officials denied to Bloomberg News that
they had provided the numbers cited by the Republican nominee's campaign.

"The McCain campaign said Gov. Palin opposed the bridge to nowhere, but
now we know she supported it," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor in a
statement. "They said she didn't seek earmarks, but now we know she
hired a lobbyist to get millions in pork for her town and her state.
They said she visited Iraq, but today we learned that she only stopped
at the border. Americans are starting to wonder, is there anything the
McCain campaign isn't lying about?"

A Palin spokesperson also confirmed that the governor had visited Mexico
on a personal vacation. She has also visited Canada.

The Palin revelations Saturday are the latest in a series of barbs
between the two presidential campaigns.

McCain, appearing Friday on ABC's "The View," was aggressively pressed
on Palin's qualifications to be vice president as well as his new
campaign ads that several independent fact-check groups have called
misleading.

Co-host Barbara Walters asked about Palin's reformist credentials,
noting McCain has served in Washington for more than two decades and
asking repeatedly, "Who's she going to reform, you?"

McCain answered by saying Democrats have controlled Congress for two
years, but then Walters quickly interrupted: "But tell me who she is
going to reform -- we aren't talking about the economy, we're not
talking about housing; she was chosen to reform, who is she going to
reform?"

Appearing somewhat frustrated, McCain said, "The Democrat Party, the
Republican Party, even an independent. She'll reform all of Washington."

Walters, seeming somewhat exasperated, asked, "How? What will she do?
What is she going to reform specifically, senator?"

McCain said Palin had a strong record on vetoing earmark spending.
"The fact is she was a reform governor, she took on an incumbent
governor of her own party and defeated him. She sold the airplane and
fired the chef," McCain said, referring to Palin's efforts to put her
predecessor's state jet up for auction on eBay and her dismissal of the
governor's personal chef.

"She sold the airplane at a loss," Walters interrupted.

(The jet failed to draw sufficient bids on eBay and later was sold at a
loss through an ordinary aircraft brokerage.)

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:42:17 -0400, HK wrote:

Who cares? Get a life dickhead.......... A pimple on a frog's ass is
more interesting than you.

PLONK

That was easy....

--Mike

wrote in message
...
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:42:17 -0400, HK wrote:

Who cares? Get a life dickhead.......... A pimple on a frog's ass is
more interesting than you.

WHEN the enormous backlog of Sarah Falin's hidden crimes, sexual
pecadilloes, family dysfunction, conflicts of interest, mismanagement
and malfeasance in "governing" and of course -- LYING TO THE PUBLIC --
when this backlog of bad news is disclosed, all those gun- and
religion-hugging ignorant racist intolerant Bush-backers will realize
she poses incalculable threats to the nation.

And she'll be pressured to step aside, pure and simple.

And, "my friends," that future is almost here.

Quiffie wrote:
WHEN the enormous backlog of Sarah Falin's hidden crimes, sexual
pecadilloes, family dysfunction, conflicts of interest, mismanagement
and malfeasance in "governing" and of course -- LYING TO THE PUBLIC --
when this backlog of bad news is disclosed, all those gun- and
religion-hugging ignorant racist intolerant Bush-backers will realize
she poses incalculable threats to the nation.

And she'll be pressured to step aside, pure and simple.

And, "my friends," that future is almost here.


I thought that for a few moments after I heard her at the GOP
convention, and then, as it became apparent she was even more simple
minded than I figured, *and* all the little problems began to rise...well..

I don't think so anymore. Boobus Americanus has fallen in love with the
veep candidate version of Harriet Miers, and you can bet the GOP will
not let McCain dump her for cause.

If McCain wins, you'll be stuck with Palin, and when McCain falls over
and dies in his first term, well, it'll be a shooting war with the
Russkis...or worse.

I'm having an artist buddy draw up a new logo for the GOP...it's going
to incorporate the best known symbol of abortions of old...a twisted
coat hanger, dripping with blood.

On Sep 14, 10:32*am, Quiffie wrote:
WHEN the enormous backlog of Sarah Falin's hidden crimes, sexual
pecadilloes, family dysfunction, conflicts of interest, mismanagement
and malfeasance in "governing" and of course -- LYING TO THE PUBLIC --
when this backlog of bad news is disclosed, all those gun- and
religion-hugging ignorant racist intolerant Bush-backers will realize
she poses incalculable threats to the nation.


you have more confidence in them than i do.

the GOP let whores run the interior dept; murdered many citizens of
new orleans by putting a horse lawyer in charge of FEMA; let kids die
by putting an industry lobbyist in charge of the USDA and letting
rotten food into the market...

and now the redneck gun and god crowd is shrieking about how mcbush is
the agent of change back to true conservatism....

wf3h wrote:
On Sep 14, 10:32�am, Quiffie wrote:
WHEN the enormous backlog of Sarah Falin's hidden crimes, sexual
pecadilloes, family dysfunction, conflicts of interest, mismanagement
and malfeasance in "governing" and of course -- LYING TO THE PUBLIC --
when this backlog of bad news is disclosed, all those gun- and
religion-hugging ignorant racist intolerant Bush-backers will realize
she poses incalculable threats to the nation.


you have more confidence in them than i do.

the GOP let whores run the interior dept; murdered many citizens of
new orleans by putting a horse lawyer in charge of FEMA; let kids die
by putting an industry lobbyist in charge of the USDA and letting
rotten food into the market...

and now the redneck gun and god crowd is shrieking about how mcbush is
the agent of change back to true conservatism....

I am wondering why the lunatic left would publish a story as fact when
the source is unnamed aides. Their trash talk about Sarah has turned
off most of America and shows the world how low the Democrats have
fallen.

"Jack G." wrote in message
...


wf3h wrote:
On Sep 14, 10:32?am, Quiffie wrote:
WHEN the enormous backlog of Sarah Falin's hidden crimes, sexual
pecadilloes, family dysfunction, conflicts of interest, mismanagement
and malfeasance in "governing" and of course -- LYING TO THE PUBLIC --
when this backlog of bad news is disclosed, all those gun- and
religion-hugging ignorant racist intolerant Bush-backers will realize
she poses incalculable threats to the nation.


you have more confidence in them than i do.

the GOP let whores run the interior dept; murdered many citizens of
new orleans by putting a horse lawyer in charge of FEMA; let kids die
by putting an industry lobbyist in charge of the USDA and letting
rotten food into the market...

and now the redneck gun and god crowd is shrieking about how mcbush is
the agent of change back to true conservatism....

I am wondering why the lunatic left would publish a story as fact when
the source is unnamed aides.
===============================================
Maybe because that's common practice when the "unnamed aides" have reason to
fear retribution, as it was during Watergate and Monicagate.


--
I'm not really anti-Bush . . . I'm really just anti-stupid.
I support the right of all Americans to arm bears.
The only Bush I trust is my wife's.

On Sep 15, 4:45*pm, "Jack G." wrote:
wf3h wrote:
On Sep 14, 10:32 am, Quiffie wrote:
WHEN the enormous backlog of Sarah Falin's hidden crimes, sexual
pecadilloes, family dysfunction, conflicts of interest, mismanagement
and malfeasance in "governing" and of course -- LYING TO THE PUBLIC --
when this backlog of bad news is disclosed, all those gun- and
religion-hugging ignorant racist intolerant Bush-backers will realize
she poses incalculable threats to the nation.

you have more confidence in them than i do.

the GOP let whores run the interior dept; murdered many citizens of
new orleans by putting a horse lawyer in charge of FEMA; let kids die
by putting an industry lobbyist in charge of the USDA and letting
rotten food into the market...

and now the redneck gun and god crowd is shrieking about how mcbush is
the agent of change back to true conservatism....

I am wondering why the lunatic left would publish a story as fact when
the source is unnamed aides. Their trash talk about Sarah has turned
off most of America and shows the world how low the Democrats have
fallen.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

On Sep 15, 4:45*pm, "Jack G." wrote:
wf3h wrote:
On Sep 14, 10:32 am, Quiffie wrote:
WHEN the enormous backlog of Sarah Falin's hidden crimes, sexual
pecadilloes, family dysfunction, conflicts of interest, mismanagement
and malfeasance in "governing" and of course -- LYING TO THE PUBLIC --
when this backlog of bad news is disclosed, all those gun- and
religion-hugging ignorant racist intolerant Bush-backers will realize
she poses incalculable threats to the nation.

you have more confidence in them than i do.

the GOP let whores run the interior dept; murdered many citizens of
new orleans by putting a horse lawyer in charge of FEMA; let kids die
by putting an industry lobbyist in charge of the USDA and letting
rotten food into the market...

and now the redneck gun and god crowd is shrieking about how mcbush is
the agent of change back to true conservatism....

I am wondering why the lunatic left would publish a story as fact when
the source is unnamed aides. Their trash talk about Sarah has turned
off most of America and shows the world how low the Democrats have
fallen

the moron has had his dose of free hezbollah (AKA the GOP) kool aid.
when faced with proof of lies, the GOP puppet merely denies, denies,
denies.

and if it's turned off america, why has her approval rating dropped 14
point in 4 days?