Is the Palin Canadian health-care story true?

[lame54]

The reason I ask is because Palin said it.

With the way she lies and panders to American audiences, why wouldn't she lie and pander to her Canadian audience?

[Oregone]

1. Its not unbelievable she stopped there on her way to negotiate with Putin

She can see both places from her house

[Cleita]

2. She told the same story but to a different audience and in that story, her

brother was taken to Juneau for his burned foot. :shrug: Who knows if the whole story is even true? She's such a blatant liar. I frankly don't believe much of what she says, even those things that make sense. The rest of her conversation is just babble.

[Spazito]

3. Yep, according to her father...

"Palin's father said his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice - once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in."

http://news.ca.msn.com/canada/cp-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23602333

It seems more than just those on DU noted the hypocrisy by Palin.

Oh, and about her pandering, check this out:

From an article in the Skagway News in 2007:

"Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point. Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital. “All these years later, that’s still what people have to rely on here in some instances,” she said."

http://www.skagwaynews.com/051107GovPalinvisit.html

From the msn article link above:

"Believe it or not - this was in the '60s - we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing, and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse, and I think, isn't that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."

Yep, yep, yep, I'd say that was pandering also too yabetcha!

[HeresyLives]

4. We should send her a bill.

Marked OVERDUE.

[Spazito]

5. LOL, to be honest I have no idea if they paid or not...

given the family's grifter tendencies but I do enjoy the outing of her hypocrisy regarding the horrors of 'socialized healthcare' and the icing on the cake was Sarah did the outing herself. Now THAT is ironic!

:rofl: