Rendell: If I Was Palin You'd Be Calling For My Impeachment

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/08/rendell-if-i-was-palin-yo_n_124879.html

Gov. Ed Rendell decried a double standard in the treatment of Sarah Palin on Monday, saying that if it was he who was at the center of the "troopergate" investigation, the press would be calling for his head.

"She a reformer," said the Pennsylvania Democrat. "And yet she is being investigated on the charge that she used her power as governor to fire someone who was going through a messy divorce with a relative of hers. Could you imagine if I was doing the same thing in Pennsylvania? You would be calling for my impeachment."

The remarks came at the end of a long list of criticisms that Rendell, one of the foremost supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, launched against the Republican vice presidential nominee. Ignoring the directive of the Obama campaign to focus attentions on McCain, Rendell called out Palin on everything from ethics to earmarks.

" has tried to again obscure the facts about Gov. Palin. 'She is a reformer and against earmarks.' No she isn't, when she was mayor of that town she hired a lobbyist to get earmarks... 'She was against the bridge to nowhere.' No she wasn't. She was for the bridge to nowhere first... She is a budget balancer. But she left the town in greater debt then when she became mayor, so she is not a budget balancer."

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Would she siphon of Clinton supporters in Pennsylvania? No, said Rendell, who expected Obama to receive somewhere along the lines of "95,96, or 97 percent of the vote."

[crazylikafox]

1. Go Eddie!

[ryanmuegge]

2. Damn right.

[firedupdem]

3. Go Get em!

And Obama asked that children not be targeted. Her ass is out there spinning lies and she needs to be called on it. The repigs are just disgusting and the people that walk around supporting this ticket must have really not paid attention to what has happened in this country under the leadership of the repig party.

[napi21]

4. I actually think, behind the scenes, the campaign managers are

telling the surrogates "GO FET HER"! It's a GOOD idea for Barack to publically say he doesn't want that to happen. It's the same damn thing Shrub said back in 2000 against the swiftboaters. Stop it, stop it, publically, but behind the curtain, he was saying thank you, thank you!

[summer borealis]

5. Pennsylvania is a state.

Alaska is more of a shitstew of genetic inbreds. And moose.

[monmouth]

6. Speaking of pit bulls, I'd say Eddie is da man....n/t