"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.
The McCain campaign "did not elaborate" on Obama's ties to ACORN.
A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest "those already struggling to make ends meet."
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."
Under the House health care bill, the government "will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year."
The proposed excise tax on "Cadillac" health plans will hit "those making less than $200,000" the hardest.
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."
Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
On a cap-and-trade plan.
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
Obama would "experiment with socialism."
"The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."
"Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago."
"As mayor, every year I was in office I did reduce taxes."
"We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."
"You had supported John McCain's military strategies pretty adamantly until this race."
"Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line."
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