"Later, when questions were raised about Palin's lack of experience in national and international affairs, the McCain campaign pointed again to her military command experience as governor. Some reporters have tried to follow up.

" 'n you tell me one decision that she made as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard?'CNN journalist Campbell Brown asked Monday while interviewing McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds. 'ust one?'

"Bunds couldn't, because Palin has never personally ordered the state guard to do anything.

"Instead, here's what he said: " 'Any decision she has made as the commander of the (Alaska) National Guard that's deployed overseas is more of a decision than Barack Obama's been making as he's been running for president for the last two years.'

"However, the governor has no command authority overseas or anywhere in the United States other than Alaska, said Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, the service commander of the Alaska National Guard.

" 'When members of the National Guard are federalized, they work for the president, ' Campbell said Wednesday.  'It's not just overseas. They could be federalized to go to other states or they could even be federalized in the state.'

"Occasions in which Palin retains command authority over the 4,200-member Alaska National Guard are whenever the Guard responds to in-state natural disasters and civic emergencies, said Campbell, who also serves as the commissioner of the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

"Natural disasters are fairly sporadic, said Jeremy Zidek, the public information officer for the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, which is part of Campbell's department.

"Last year, during Palin's first year as governor, there wasn't much action, Zidek said. “Thankfully, we didn't have any major disasters."

Some examples?

" 'We've deployed individuals in state service all over the state under Sarah Palin, ' he said. 'We had defense men down in Seward for the (Mount) Marathon run doing security.

"Last year, Palin journeyed abroad to visit 500 members of the Alaska Army National Guard who were stationed in northern Kuwait for 15 months. She also stopped at a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, to visit wounded Alaskans, including regular Army troops based at Fort Richardson.

"The journey marked the first time that Palin had traveled overseas, according to Sharon Leighow, a spokeswoman in the governor's office.

"The Alaska National Guard receives about 75 percent of its funding from the federal government, Campbell said. All the federal funding is pre-allocated by Congress."

Palin's speech last night was full of lies. (Initially pre-written by McSame speechwriters for a masculine candidate, it had to be re-worked for Palin.)

Just one example: "PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

"THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

So, there are now two liars with no integrity on the Republican national ticket: McSame and Palin.  That speaks volumes about the Republican Party and their nominees.