Palin's a politician, after all. They all stretch the truth. Do you really think any of the numbers Obama's administration has been putting out about "jobs saved" from the stimulus bill, or "green jobs created" and "energy cost savings" if the emissions cap-and-trade bill passes, or "savings in health care costs" from health care reform have any more basis in reality than her "lies"? Aren't these other politically fudged numbers just as much "lies" as Palin's, and on a lot more serious issues than the cost of ethics investigations in Alaska or the veracity of a departing governor?

So what is the real reason Salon and so much of the left leaning media is still going after Palin in this way? Certainly she's not been the only questionable VP candidate over time, and probably won't be the last. The next presidential election is more than three years away. So I really don't get it. Is it just good for the media's readership/viewership ratings, or is something more disturbing at work here?

To say that a person is lying implies that the individual in question knows what the truth is. When talking about this space cadet, we can't be sure that she's aware of what goes on around her. This is the one who doesn't know what a Vice President does, who thinks that there is a Dept. of Law empowered to protect the president, and so on and so on. There is good reason to believe that she hasn't a clue as to what is really happening in Alaska.

I'll admit I skipped to the end of the comments, but are people actually trying to compare Harry S. Truman to Sarah Palin? You've got to be kidding me. This woman is closer to Paris Hilton than Harry Truman. I cannot believe how badly some people want to believe that utter mediocrity is somehow good enough, just because they themselves embody it.

Interesting comment about your ex boyfriend. I used to be married to his sister, and I know exactly what you are talking about.

My theory is that most of us who seem to be focusing on Palin's foibles, are just trying to nip another GW Bush in the bud.

The similarities are jaw droppingly eerie, the possible end result unfathomable.

I think that's where this all is, at the end of the day.

ja, Obama doesn't lie. Obama told us McCain was against stem cells, LIE. try reading Greenwald. Obama was no way no how on renditions, opps a lie.

Don't even get me started. Obama is a very very good liar, because the media (mass) won't call him one. They, like you, forgive his lies, as changes or morphs or what the heck ever. If no one calls you out on your lies, then watch out! they will get worse!

Selma anyone. Polleezze. Obama is going to give us a 13 trillion dollar deficit but he Promised not to raise taxes on the middle class. oh yeah, he'll just wait until he is out of office and let the next president step into HIS mess the way he stepped into Bush's mess. The more subtle the lie, often the greater damage.

They all lie. It is just that women are not allowed to lie, and... to be a politician of any success, one must lie on occasion.

This was mentioned by readerreader on page 2, but I still wanted to respond to it. He says the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer published a spreadsheet with information on Palin's $2 million figure, including costs from request for the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The state incurs no charge from FOIA requests, because it requires everyone who makes a request to pay for it.

I don't know enough to dispute the other information, but I never found that FDN article with the information, and I would like to see it.

Also, it should be stated:

That ethics board that's "cleared" her of all charges, including troopergate, is appointed by her. She can fire them at will. They're not impartial. They are dependent on her, and they are her friends.

How about getting on board and insisting that congress stop stonewalling these investigations and bring Dodd,Rangle etc to justice? Bank of America has even voluteered to disclose the friends of Angelo Countrywide details but they are being blocked by many members of Congress that would also be caught and brought under investigation. Since it has been determined without doubt that the current economic crisis is tracible back to Mortgage regulations that were both past and stopped during the time these sweetheart deals were given shouldn't we follow the money back and expose the true culprits of this mess? No the paid for MSM distracts us with Micheal Jackson's death and Sarah Palin's per diem. How sick you are to go along with this.

OJ Simpson has not willingly paid anyone for the crimes he did either. Democrats have a hard enough time just paying what they owe in taxes nevermind anything else they've managed to swindle. What Gov Sebilius failed to disclose that Dr Tiller gave to her or Tom Dashcle's limo benefit amount to many thousands of dollars more than any accounting mistake Palin may have made regarding kids transport or per diem. Micheal Jackson paid his accuser in the mid 1990's what exactly did that make him guilty of?

You should seek treatment if you think Palin's actions rise to any level close to all these liberal frauds.

Can anybody produce a link to the FNM article or whatever it was that included this "spreadsheet" of costs incurred by the State of Alaska to defend Palin against all these investigations?

Thing is, Sarah gets away with it. Just like she did with the bridge to nowhere fiasco, which she was for before she was against it. She knows that if she lies big enough and gets far ahead of the story, she will bamboozle her opponents who will just meekly say "well okay" before someone like yourself actually does the leg work to check her out. By then, so many people have accepted her big white lies, she has won the news cycle.