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Re: Palin Makes Huge Gaffe: Doesn't understand Mortgage Bailout.

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Originally Posted by MattLarson View Post
So, they're Government created entities and their financial problems are costing the people of the US (sometimes known as taxpayers) a great deal of money - and were before the bailout / take-over.

Looks to me like a silly partisan "gotcha" game over a statement that was poorly phrased, but not far from correct.

Matt
It's an indefensible gaffe....

She cited that the companies had "gotten too expensive to the taxpayers" as the reason for the bailouts.

It wasn't a poorly phrased statement, it was a poorly thought and factually incorrect statement. If people start excusing her lack of understanding it smells intellectually dishonest to me.
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