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Listening to Palin’s speech, I was a little awed by how far she stretched, or outright obliterated, truths about herself and Obama. One example: “In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.” Did she forget that she ran both her mayoral and gubernatorial campaigns on being different from the incumbent? Here’s a nice summary of other untruths Palin broadcast to the nation last night. For the convention crowd, Palin’s speech may have been a “home run,” but from a fact-checker’s perspective, it was a strikeout.
