The McCain campaign and the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty
I recently received the following email from the McCain campaign, titled "Shameful Attacks":
Friends,
You've surely seen the shameful attacks Senator Obama and his liberal allies have launched against our vice presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin.
Even before our national convention, the Obama campaign dispatched what The Wall Street Journal called a "mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers" to Alaska to dig up dirt for their personal attacks on Governor Palin and her family. FactCheck.org has called the attacks on Governor Palin, "completely false" and "misleading." However, the Obama Democrats continue to launch these attacks, hoping you'll never find out the truth.
These misleading, offensive attacks must be stopped.
Factcheck.org was on Hardball this week, and in a very non-partisan manner debunked McCain's claims:
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From a man who just recently approved the most misleading and sleazy attack ad of the entire political season. Second, the very same FactCheck.org website that John McCain cites in his email has a new post up today saying that McCain's attack ad is distorted their finding.
For McCain to say that "these misleading, offensive attacks must be stopped" is downright ridiculous. But then again, it's becoming clearer every day that McCain's strategy consists of lying and lying, hoping that the media and fact-checkers can't keep up. It's gonna be a long, tedious two months. Buckle your seat belts.
whose stretching the truth? - lets fact check McSongbirds P.O.W. storys.
This kind of desperation means something. These people act like they are in fear for their lives.
Biff Limbaugh @ 1:
I have an idle interest in seeing some of those videos McCain made for the enemy. Wonder where they are.
What shameful attack exactly has Obama launched against Palin?
Was it that TV-ad where he implied Palin is some kind of pervert? Oh thats right that was a McCain ad against Obama.
"liberal allies" would be those who have pointed out that spending has soared under Gov Palin's leadership.
Wow! The MSM actually doing it's job? Where were they in 2000 and 2004? I guess millions of newly registered voters who are extremly pissed off is changing their tune. The public isn't buying the MSM's bullshit anymore and they know it.
Anonymous Hussein @ 3:
He had it classified
http://www.videosift.com/video/McCain-kept-information-about-his-POW-his...
I understand the motivation to call out the other side for hypocrisy and dishonesty, but at some point (sooner than later), Obama et al. need to stop giving so much attention to the other side and start talking about the good things Obama-Biden have to offer. In fact, I think Obama's best strategy at this point is to completely ignore the other side from here on out and only talk about his side and what they bring to the table. Focusing on the other side (even if it's negative) is still focusing on the other side (all publicity is good publicity), and is only making the other side stronger.
Just keep repeating:
JOHN McCAIN IS A LIAR.
SARAH PALIN IS A LIAR.
GEORGE W BUSH IS A LIAR.
If you had a female surgeon you would expect her to have held a a scalpel prior to your pending surgery.
If you had a female lawyer you would expect her to have been in a courtroom previous to your pending lawsuit.
If one had a female auto mechanic you would expect her to have held a socket wrench before.
There would be nothing sexist in any of those expectations.
It is not unreasonable to expect a candidate for Vice President of the United States have minimal qualifications for the job.
Sarah Palin does not. There is nothing sexist about the expectation that she should have.
Choosing her was a complete act of cynicism.
Another thing that the Palin/McSame combo have in common with Bush is it's easy to tell when they are lying, if their lips are moving they're lying!
Actually, that wasn't Factcheck.org, it was Politico.com.
"these middle of the road answers are a little complicated"? Ah, Tweetie.
on Hardball, I mean
Maybe it's not lying. As I watch McCain . . . his behavior is reminiscent of what I witnessed in my Dad, as he lost his intellect to (undiagnosed) Alzheimers. My 84-year-old Mother, on the other hand, is extremely sharp. Occasionally she will "lose" a word or a fact--but she doesn't just substitute ANY word or fact to fill the void. Beyond early stages of dementia, my Dad could still "carry on a conversation" if all he had to do was nod agreeably, and occasionally interject some key word or phrase (sometimes inappropriate to the conversation) to give the appearance of attentiveness and participation. Didn't we see the same thing with "The Great Communicator"? Only thing is . . . McC is angry, seems to have impulse-control issues, and primitive survival techniques--all in all, much scarier than Reagan. And Second-Amendment Sarah does not inspire confidence as a 'back-up.'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26690739
You decide.
mcfuckhead has proven this week on the view
that he will deliberately lie to win this election.
and he and palin will take away all the progress
that has been made for the entire history of
the United States.....he wants to reverse
women's rights to free choice on abortion
take away women's and afro-american's right to vote
he just wants rich old fat men to have rights in this
country.
well, i say
fuck him.......low life m-f#cker
Couldn't you have ended the clip at 2:53? :/
My Friends,
How dare the Democrats attempt to do research on a person who could very likely become President? Why can't they just take my word for it? If you don't trust me, vote for Obama, you c#$ts.
Signed,
John McCain's secretary (John doesn't do email)
John Fund was on Maher last night beating this drum harder than he beats his own weenie.
Paycheck over here, Fundboy!
If you're going to slam people on falsifying facts, you had best get your own right.
Politifact is not Factcheck.
We were just watching the hurricane damages on msnbc. All the while there was a crawl on the screen talking about Palin saying she was against earmarks and an explanation about how many she has requested just this year. I'm wondering if msnbc has jumped the republican ship. Are they now willing to sail into the dangerous waters of not sucking up to the McCain Campaign? Maybe that's what happens when the msm gets attacked by a campaign, as McCain's campaign has attacked the them.
pics from reject palin rally in alaska
http://laurainak.blogspot.com/
Hypocrisy, dishonesty, and racism.
RAWSTORY is reporting about a Family Values' summit where some racists were selling Obama Waffles....complete with a caraciture of Obama, picture of him in Muslim wear, etc. Sickening. There's a link to the speakers at this summit, but it doesn't go through for me. There's also a report that Lou Dobbs was there holding a box of that waffle mix, saying that his wife would love it. There's a link to a picture of him holding this....but it doesn't seem to work.
Can someone find that picture of Dobbs, and the list of people there? I'm still looking.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Seemingly_racist_Obama_waffles_popular_at_...
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bibimimi @ 19:
did anyone question fund about his assertion that obama had sent a mini army to alaska?
did anyone ask him if he would do the honorable thing and resign from his position on the wsj for printing blatant lies that are not fact checked?
bet they didnt
bibimimi @ 19:
He works for the Wall Street Journal what do you expect.
pissed@21, I have noticed that too. Remember, it is just on the crawl, but it is a start. In 2000 amd 2004, Kerry had no allies. MSM slammed him. They parroted everything the Bush campaign told them too. Now the climate is changing. Must drive the McCain camp nuts to be called on the carpet for their smears and distortions. Good!
pissed off patricia @ 21:
I just hope they don't book any lipstick advertising between segments, or Charlie an his Angel will blow a gasket.
My friends, that lipstick ad was meant to insult the governor of Alaska.
dadams @ 16:
McWorse on The View this week got caught lying so much and was really blindsided by Whoopie's question, "Do you want me back to being a slave?" (Sorry if I got that quote wrong, but that's the general idea.) when he said he would nominate strict constructionists to the Supreme Court.
For McCain to say that “these misleading, offensive attacks must be stopped” is downright ridiculous . . .
It is utterly predictable too.
Notice that the Republican strategy this year is one of projection and cooptation. Obama's campaign theme of change was working, so they coopted it. The notion that the government is fundamentally broken is shared by almost everyone, so they're yammering about it like they and their ilk are not the ones who broke it.
And now, they know that they're the ones who have been lying and smearing, and they know they've been called out on it by even some otherwise reliably pro-Republican talking heads in the media. So, they're coopting the theme. They know Obama is going to talk about how they're lying, so they'll just come out and say he's lying.
They're putting up pictures of themselves on the correct "side" hoping you won't notice that they pointed the camera at a mirror.
terry740 @ 26:
Also on Maher last night "shooting defenseless animals from a plane" was mentioned by Roseanne, Janine Garofolo and Bill Maher talking about her $150 bounty for wolf legs
General Jack D. Ripper @ 23:
10:1 says that was a box of Aunt Jemima waffle mix before they doctored it.
Janeane Garofalo pretty much cleaned Fund's clock on Maher.
Smitty @ 24:
I hope this does hit hard....just need to be prepared for repug 527 ads....betcha they'll be on abortion....in other words, there need to be a lot more 527s ready for Obama as well.
First came the dot.com bubble...
Then the housing bubble...
Then the credit bubble...
And now... wait for it... at long last --
THE DISHONESTY BUBBLE!
McSame thought wow, it worked for Cheney, it worked for Bush, and here I am with this impervious POW War Hero Maverick brand equity, surely *I* of all people can get away with all the lies I care to tell. And then --
** POP **
I just remembered where I've seen Sarah Palin before.
Monica Goodling.
Yep, Sarah Palin looks in a mirror and sees Monica Goodling staring back at her.
But would anyone even contemplate having Monica Goodling running for vice-president, a heartbeat away from being president?
The Monica Goodling who broke law after law after law at the U.S. Justice Department, who abused the public trust by using her position at the Justice Department for personal and religious vendettas against other U.S. citizens, who then lied about what she had been doing?
The same Monica Goodling who graduated from a fourth-rate law school, who got a high-level job at the Justice Department and immediately began to break her oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution from our nation's enemies, both foreign and domestic...from someone like herself?
The same Monica Goodling who decided that her religious beliefs and her religious "laws" trumped the "rule of law," our nation's laws, as established by our Constitution, with Monica Goodling implementing a religious litmus test for Justice Department job applicants, directly violating our Constitution?
Oh. That Monica Goodling.
Sarah Palin IS Monica Goodling.
And if Palin gets to be vice-president, a heartbeat away from president, then there is no doubt in my mind that Palin will do as much damage to our nation, our Constitution, as Goodling did to our Justice Department, our Constitution...which in my view far exceeds the damage done and deaths incurred on 9/11 by an attack on our nation of right-wing religious fundamentalist fanatics.
The al Qaeda terrorist attack on 9/11 was a hit-and-run event, while Palin, Goodling and so many other domestic religious fundamentalist fanatics are into a slow-motion, cancerous attack on our Constitution and the inherent liberties of all U.S. citizens, with the preeminent American liberty being the right to be free from tyranny, especially religious tyranny!!!
I will definitely vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Neither one of the Democratic Party candidates strikes me as being a religioius fundamentalist fanatic, someone out to subvert our Constitution and establish a Taliban-like theocracy in America.
Obama/Biden '08 ! ! ! !
Agreed, Karen.
And speaking of trying to debunk the Republican'ts lies (like McCain is a maverick) and smears, I've just posted a new 30-second ad to YouTube that poses the question: 'Is John McCain a maverick, or a pack mule for the failed policies of George W. Bush?" Please check it out, post a comment, and pass it along!
Please pass the link along to everyone you know. I'm new at this, but had to try to do something to fight back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl_XhrPwZN8
Thanks!
I give up on your American election. Two years of campaigning later, and we get lies about lies, and no issues. No wonder your country is so fucked. I come to C&L half as often as I used to. Not because of any fault of C&L, you're just reporting events.
I just think your country is in a mess and most of the citizens are too stupid to care. The rest of the world is scratching it's head, and cluing in, "what a bunch of fucking idiots" live over there.
Most people outside of N. America don't really understand what "redneck" is. I guess they're finding out now.
D4P @ 8:
maybe so it's tough..........but i believe the current strategy is to identify mcLiar/palin as more bush
she is a parrot and the people that want to be objective will see that......most people don't appreciate lying that's what's developing if he/she are going to lie like bush did it's more of the same.
Can you believe that we may well go from a mentally challenged, doofus President and his mentally deranged sidekick VP, to a senile, lying, decrepit, old fart President with a completely unqualified 'hawkey mom' as his VP?
It's hard to believe. What did we do to deserve this.........?
Sean-B @ 33:
She actually called him a liar to his face ,I love Janeane! We need more calling out like this.
"The McCain campaign and the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty"
When has it been otherwise. It should be the "Lies and Hypocrisy Express."
Edwin Hussein @ 42:
i like it.........it tells it like it is
Every RESPONSIBLE unbiased media outlet really needs to call out the McCain camp as outright liars, instead of bringing on two spin doctors to debate who's telling the truth. While there are plenty of people who can decipher the truth, there are plenty of others who's judgment is more clouded.
y doesn't obama equate mccain camp lies to bush 9/11 & iraq link, wmd, economy is great, etc. lies?? or r there too many people, along w/palin, that STILL believe this crap??
It seems the McCain/Palin campaign might even be lying about the "large crowds" the devious duo was drawing according to RAWSTORY/Bloomberg.
The campaign claimed they were getting the figures from the secret service and in one case from a fire marshall in Va. In both cases the sources sited denied giving the McLies campaign any attendence figures.
McCain is a known to like to gamble and he seems to have doubled down in running a blatantly dishonest campaign,
It's simple, if close to half the voters are low information (a polite way of saying dumb or ignorant) or racist, the GOP can purge thousands of voters, flip some votes in a swing state and pull out a win.
On the other hand, if McCain runs an honest campaign he doesn't have a chance.
D4P @ 8:
Whether the manner in which Obama is addressing the other side is counterproductive could make for a worthwhile debate, but admonishing him to ignore the lies and attacks smacks of lethal naivete.
In this country, measuring by popular opinion, to be accused is to be convicted. Not fighting back only makes people more certain of your guilt. And that's with anything. It's especially true in politics. In fact, it's precisely how Democrats have lost election after election after election since 1994.
Karen @ 30:
Thank you for saying this. It's bad enough that they can't even think of any new ideas of their own. Instead, they have to rape and pillage a successful campaign in order to get that post-convention boost.
Everyday, I wonder what will it take for the American people to open their eyes against McCain and Palin. Both truly stunk in interviews, speeches and other public venues. You'd think that alone would have sunk them. But no! Here comes the cavalry in order to clean up behind them and to make sure to continuously blame Obama for every little nuance.
Seeing these acts of wrongdoing by the McCain camp happen with little or no refutation should make anyone livid beyond control.
I would ask what happened to justice and decency. But after Bush got into office, those two concepts are on the endangered species list.
I never expect to hear the truth from a republican ever!
james Ratliff @ 49:
You should never expect to hear the truth from ANY politician. Just expect it even less from republicans...
flavor409 @ 46:
This is the exact thing that pisses me off.
McCain can run a dishonest campaign and people call him "experienced" and a "maverick". He comes off smelling like a rose. Palin, much to my chagrin, doubly.
If Obama did the same thing, he'd be bounced out of politics in no time.
Again, this should be teaching a lot of folks in "mainstream" America about institutional and personal racism by virtue of the MSM.
JHR @ 40:
I'll tell you!
We voted for Bush twice, we did not challenge him on any of his lies because he said it was not patriotic to do that.
We let the media get away with white washing everything and we let Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Reid do Bush's bidding over and over.
We are getting what we asked for and we are going to let them put it to us again and again.
In most European countries a revolution would be errupting by now. Americans just take it.
Frankly, I think McCain's ads are going to do him more harm than good if they continue. The "bridge to nowhere" tale has pretty much been debunked by every media player. It is so blatant that I think most people will think twice about his ads, except for those who will vote for him regardless. Couple this with the fact that the campaign essentially told he media that they would allow them to speak with Palin when and if the campaign wanted. I think that attempt pretty much made the media take notice. Even Fox News is mocking the campaign and their attempt to limit information and spin. The veracity of his ads are now a major subject and the media seems to be interested, if for no other reason to laugh at the stupidity.
Oh, for godsakes - Governor Palin DID go to Kuwait and visit troops there. The other place that might have got glossed over was Ireland where they refueled. I can't call this dishonest here folks.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 25:
Jeanine Garafolo brought it up, but Fund brushed her off and then there was cross-talk so it was dropped.
Somebody needs to shame him -- Sean Hannity style -- into admitting these attacks are false.
"Sen. McCain, do you really believe Sen. Obama wants to teach 5 year-olds about sex, a claim that every major news organization has said was false?"
"Will you denounce your remarks?"
MSNBC, ABC, NBC are all in cahoots for Obamanation. Witness: if you send negative info to the MSNBC online story about Obama, you won't see it appear. If you send in positive stuff on this guy, say, very, very derogotory things about McCain-Palin, you'll get it to show up.
All of the posts above are completely sold out to the nets - don't you guys EVER read anything else?
Swsttalker @ 58:
What in the world are you talking about?
Edwin Hussein @ 38:
Hey Edwin, calm down. Obama will win, and by a margin that is larger than anyone now imagines. Yes, we make a big f*cking mess here in the States, but eventually we get around to cleaning up. We now arrive at another big U.S. cleanup moment, our biggest since 1932. Awkwardly, inelegantly, but we are finally preparing to arrive. And those massive LIES to which you allude are just the catalyst that was needed. By going over the top McCain has jumped the massive, lie-bloated mother-of-all-SHARKS. Soon it will be game, set and match!
We're about to rejoin the world community. Please hang in there and keep rooting for us to get it right.
galmud @ 4:
He hasn't had any. That's how they get the dumb to vote.
"He's sexist. He wants woman in the kitchen baking apple pie."
That's why he married Michelle. A lawyer, a Princeton and Harvard grad. You know, a chic who can't think for herself but can put dinner on the table. Lives in a house with two other girls who tell him what to do. He's sexist, no doubt.
Swsttalker @ 58:
can you alittle more specific with examples versus being melodramatic.....each broadcasts have demographics......like fox i don't watch it's NOT my demographics i prefer less lying so i watch charlie rose
long interviews not like fox where you get cut off in mid- conversation.
General Jack D. Ripper @ 34:
Funny you should say that because as we speak there is a war going on at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQobIUE1zTU
and the repugs are already trying to equate aerial wolf & bear killing with abortion. That means they are trying to change the subject. I knew this ad would hit hard and it is.
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Bob in PA @ 60:
Only thing missing in these two post was the violin music.
Serioulsy though, look at the foreigners weighing in. November is important. This is gonna be great.
The McCain ads are pure Rovian slime. The Dems are now FOOLISHLY trying the same tactics with the dumbass commercial making fun of McCain for not being able to use a computer. Whenever Democrats IMITATE Republicans, they lose. We were discussing some new or different types of ads the other day. Here's what Obama should do:
Take the McCain adds, and dissect them in their own adds, exposing the lies. ie-show the McCain ad make a claim, freeze frame it, superimpose the truth. Then, at the end of the add, show a picture of Karl Rove, and say "McCain: Same old Bush style smear campaigns. More of the same. Just turn the ad back on them, to PROVE that they are just more of the same. Same policies, same political METHODS.
That would work pretty well with the "Kindergarden sex education" ad. Only classical Rove/Republican style smear campaigns could turn a piece of legislation designed to protect kids from sexual predators into a smear claiming it was intended to teach kids how to have sex. ONLY ROVE or his PRODIGIES would or could SINK THAT LOW.
While Republicans are busy with voter suppressing, voter machine hacking, generally lying, and most importantly rallying around vacuous issues; Democrats miss campaigning a narrative about the democrats themselves. The people that have lost jobs, the REAL PTA (non lying) mothers that have noticed the pace of inflation especially at the grocery counter. The worker in all of us that feels angry and STUNNED by the price of gas especially aware of the enormous oil company profits (and yet they want MORE, off shore drilling). The impact on the families, among millions of nightmarish mortgage scenarios. The campaign should STAND UP PROUD AND LOUD and remind everyone about the surge; how's its success is SOLEY due to the Democrats demanding the dismantling of the "blank check" Bush/Rumsfeld war policies and failures. Our intervention not only cause Rumsfeld to resign but it changed the course of this war. It is now common place to read about time lines as we predicted. This campaign is about a war that to date if we ask, are we better off than we were 8 yrs ago before this administration, the answer is a resounding NO, by a majority of Americans. We are not only not better off, but the rest of the world is also not better off and they know it. Obama's campaign should be about the PEOPLE that has catapult him to this position of trust. Obama's campaign should show the Democratic Vets who have suffered the from a multitude of issues such as stop loss, being under manned and equipped, to medical care discrepancies (Walter Reed is not only a middle school), and most notably a national disgrace of veteran suicides. Obama's campaign should be rallying vet groups to promise no soldier will be treated with the disregard this administration has afforded vets; an administration which lies with words and is exposed with deeds (as is McCain) on vet issues. Obama's campaign needs to demonstrate that despite the job losses, food cost, gas gouging, mortgage realities, and the many multi level issues that envelope us; we are foremost Americans and we believe WE CAN DO BETTER.
The Obama campaign (with Valerie Plame at his side) should patriotically declare that his administration will never expose an agent of the United States for political reasons. The Obama campaign should declare the McCain/Bush "Apocalypse Now" version of American, can not only not continue;IT WILL NOT STAND, ENOUGH!
(the horror,the horror).
For all the complaints about the media -- which are valid, and I in no way belittle them -- McCain seems to have crossed some sort of line. A lot of the press is pointing out that he's lying, even sections of the press we might not expect. It's at least a step toward objectivity.
As for our befuddlement about people's willingness to vote for McCain/Palin, we have to remember the absurd political party duopoly here. It's not just symptom of our archaic electoral system. It's become part of our culture.
Imagine that the Democrats nominated someone completely unpalatable. Stupid, untrustworthy, etc. Loyal Democrats might ponder just how much would it take to vote for a largely palatable Republican. I admit that my rational side would have a tough fight with my emotional one. After what I've experienced under the Republican brand, my opposition to it has become part of my identity.
Despite the mess we are in, and the 80% of people who acknowledge that the Republicans have caused it, there are Republicans just yearning for a reason to trust McCain and distrust Obama -- a rationalization that will make it easier for them to vote. Because McCain has now essentially branded himself as someone untrustworthy, and his lies are getting press, Obama has a golden opportunity to insist that McCain cannot be trusted. He needs to make it emotionally easier for some of those Republicans to vote for him. He has to connect to them with his rhetoric. He needs an ethos that makes him feel palatable.
Fortunately, I think Obama is exactly the candidate who can do this. Gore proved unable. Kerry proved unable. Obama can do it.
It will depend on how he responds. It must be forceful and funny, but most of all, comforting. He needs to reach out to those people who yearn for a reason to vote with their long-held political identity, and make them trust him. They already are wary of John McCain.
This crap is quite literally out of the Republican handbook. By which I mean 1984. Remember in the old days, when accusing somebody of this was always an exagguration?
Blackwhite is defined as follows:
“ ...this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that white is black, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. "
And let's not forget about Duckspeak, meaning regurgitating slogans without expending any rational thought on it, because to do so would risk Thoughtcrime. The following is straight out of the White House press room:
"An example of a skillful duckspeaker in action is provided in the beginning of chapter 9, where an Inner Party speaker is haranguing the crowd about the crimes of Eurasia when a note is passed into his hand – whereupon he continues the speech with nothing changed in his voice or manner, but according to the changed party line he now condemns the crimes of Eastasia, which is Oceania's new enemy."
Or, "We have never claimed that Iraq was behind 9/11. We have never said that bin Laden was the mastermind behind it. all those videotapes are clearly lying. Why do you hate America?"
Swsttalker @ 58:
That's it? The media? We've been duped everyone!!!! This guy has figured it all out. IT'S THE DAMN MEDIA!!! Why hasn't Rush or Hannity been talking about this stuff. You think we'd hear it from O'Reilly . But no, it took Swsttalker to enlighten us.
Hey, I'm just impressed he figured out how to copy and paste.
Palin never in Iraq, campaign now says
There goes one third of her Foreign Policy experience: Canada, Mexico, Germany, Kuwait,
Iraq,Ireland..Unless she gets credit for living close to Russia ..
But she's qualified!
She's actually got the beginning of Cheney's snarly lip going in this pic, only it's her right lip.
Palin's Snarl
Pericles @ 65:
I agree with your assessment. We should not be imitating them. We can't do Rovian politics successfully. We can't connect with it. It only appeals to a certain kind of person, and that person isn't voting Democratic anyway. When we do it, we only look like posers. Moreover, it turns off people who do vote Democratic.
Obama has a rare charisma in politics. Rightly or wrongly it has gotten him this far. He needs to build on it, and get enough people to trust him.
Oh, for George Carlin.
The operative word in McCain's press release is "shame".
Shame is the nectar of the religious right.
Shame must have been the by-word in the McCain household, with the Admiral holding court, and poor little Johnny quailing in his Daddy's shadow.
Smitty @ 24:
This ad should be played in every living room in America right about dinner time.
So every time people here the name "Sarah Palin" they feel nauseated.
With good reason.
MountainMan23 @ 73:
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The real losers in all these lies are the american people. What ever happen to country first. What a myth. These religious freaks are going find out sooner or later like the KKK did years ago that justice will prevail. God is always on the side of right. The republican party think they have been right for the last 8 yrs. Than I want to know why everything is falling apart the last 12 yrs or so. The republicans have been in charge. The democratics only got the house back in 2006.
Alice X - When will we overcome human nature? @ 10:
So you want a veteran experienced already corrupt candidate? I thought this election was about change!?
McCaint has Stockholm Syndrome so bad that he probably suggested running an ad that implies his opponent has a black baby.
"The McCain campaign and the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty"
Huh? Are we serious? It's more like a lull.
Edwin Hussein @ 38:
No kidding. They haven't figured out that an election campaign doesn't need to take an entire television season to be figured out. This thing goes on longer than American Idol. It is no wonder that their elections are so close. Voters can't vote without some idiot on television giving them the 1-900 number to phone in their choice. Sad. It's like a circus coming to town and never leaving.
ConcernedCanuck @ 76:
Huh?
This morning our 527 ad that is playing in Ohio started with 112,000 hits on YouTube.
It is now over 190,000 hits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQobIUE1zTU
Hit it to make it viral - the comments from the "other side" are vituperative and scared. It must be working.
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McCain's campaign has Rove pecker tracks all over it.
Omnidrew @ 9:
All Republicans are liars and crooks (or is that Crooks and Liars?). Rinse and repeat Obama.
Has anyone noticed that John McCain is a rich white man? And he has lobbyists running his campaign.
Hopefully Clinton, in his conversation with Obama, can reinforce that we are now dealing with REPUBLICANS, not a primary campaign against dems. They are different animals. Forget the silly campaign tactic known as Palin...forget it. Move on. Eye on the prize. Drop her name from our conversations. Republithugs want to win. Do we want to prove to the world that Palin is a joke? So what. They have one hundred different tactics, from McCain's black baby, to the Reverand Wright. Don't we all know this? Is this our first election? Let's go! No whining! Please!
I have given McCain the benefit of the doubt.....Rove is in charge of the campaign and McCain has absolutely no idea what is going on. But he appears at the end of every one of those obnoxious ads and says "I approve of this ad" and by God he better know what he is approving.
While we are all being distracted by these ads and the trivial crap coming from the McCain campaign, the Republicans are quietly finishing plans to once again steal the election. Read about their dirty tricks regarding college students being told they cannot vote where they live; non-official absentee ballots being sent out; and numerous other tricks to keep Democrats from voting or their votes from counting. Obama's campaign should be very vigilent in watching what is going on and don't waste their time responding to the Republican's childish complaints about ads, etc.
Do Nothing Because They Both Do It
What a defense. This kind of fact checking seems to have Rovian origins. It sure assures nothing official will be done to John McCain for all out lying about Obama. You can take what Chris Matthews did to summarize things up as support for his conservative buddies. Matthews knows what he did will do more to make McCain and Obama look the same, hence it is okay. Bastard.
Also, McCain says in his ad "as Obama comes down in the polls, he will do more of the same." Does McCain know something we should know about theses conservative polls? Since their convention, the Republicans seem to own the boards. Rasmussen polls have dominated every poll in many states. I wonder how big Rasmussen is. Or maybe they just have heavily leaded pencils? Whatever the case, they have been very busy. Actually, if you look closely at the origins of many resent polls, they clearly release in favor of conservative candidates.
I am not buying it. I have scene the many stupid mistakes McCain makes on a daily bases. Mistakes that would end Obama's chances to be president. It is almost like McCain is made of Teflon. In 2000, the polls showed Bush leading up to the end of the campaign. It was suppose to be a "done" deal before voting started. It was much closer then the polls had it. I have a feeling from here on we will see McCain leading Obama in many conservative polls. The University of Cincinnati Poll does not have a bit of history in any polls for this year. Yet, it gave McCain a 4 point lead that the pollsters used to justify giving him Ohio.
I am not giving up. However, I am truly sadden and less hopeful this country will seat a Black candidate in the office of president.
Joseph
Omnidrew @ 9:
I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!!! Check out actionfund@defenders.org and see exactly what this woman the IM-PALIN-ATOR, is all about. I have been fighting the Alaskan wolf massacre for the last six months!!!!! Long before her name was ever mentioned as a veep!!!!! Yes, this woman is evil, for real!!!!!!! check the site and see the real truth and tell everyone!!!!! We cannot have her doing this everywhere!
I have been a member of actionfund@defenders.org for a long time, and for the last six months we have been trying to stop the Alaskan wolf/bear massacre. I call her Sarah Im-palin-ator. Please check the site and see exactly what this woman is all about and what monsterous things she does to the wildlife in her State. She is also involved with the pro-aerial hunting lobbyists, who give big $$$$$$!!!!! Check it out for yourselves, and spread the truth about her to everyone. Do we want her in charge?!
D4P @ 8:
Good point. As you noted, Barack Obama's strength is his speaking ability. By focusing solely on these attacks by John McCain, his primary weapon has been silenced. You and I came to this conclusion in a matter of seconds. I know Obama is well aware of this dynamic. I hope he makes the right choice for proceeding. So far, he has made one mistake he can't undo and that is he did not pick Hillary Clinton for this VP. Some choices clearly have lasting consequences.
Joseph
enough @ 84:
mnwolflover @ 91:
So does the IM-PALIN-ATOR, the pro-aerial hunting lobbyists, especially the Safari Club International!!!! Check out the real truth at actionfund@defenders.org, and spread the real truth about her. This is what they want to squelch about her. See the truth, spread the truth, and stop the IM-PALIN-ATOR AND MCSHAME FOR GOOD.
This is so great! I am so excited about Palin. I wasn't going to vote at all but now that Sarah is on the ticket....Man! we live in exciting times!!! Get used to saying Vice President Palin. OH YEAH!!!! I can't wait for Nov.1st. ! Then I'll be voting on Nov. 4th. What's Nov. 1st you ask? It's a secret.... fear it, if your boy is Obama.
The momentum in CLEARLY in McCain's favor. It's going to be the first Republican Landslide Victory since Reagan! Woot woot!!
I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!!! Check out
actionfund@defenders.organd see exactly what this woman the IM-PALIN-ATOR, is all about. I have been fighting the Alaskan wolf massacre for the last six months!!!!! Long before her name was ever mentioned as a veep!!!!! Yes, this woman is evil, for real!!!!!!! check the site and see the real truth and tell everyone!!!!! We cannot have her doing this everywhere!The link you provided is for a e-mail address. You wanted actionfund.defenders.org
Joseph
Joseph @ 90:
Hey Maxine Armstrong, have you met the site monitor yet?
Joseph
dadams @ 16:
I do agree with you completely!!!! What they do not want you to know about dear sweet Sarah......the IM_PALIN_ATOR, is the fact that she is a pro-aerial hunting freak, and she is beholden to the pro-aerial hunting lobbyists, who give big $$$$$$$$$$$ to keep the sadistic, cruel, horrific way of hunting for the RICH, FILTHY COWARDS who couldn't hunt their way out of a wet paper bag!!!!!! Her freak of a hubby and his group want AK to be separated from the U.S.A! check out the actionfund@defenders.org to see what a C=can't U=understand N=normal T=thinking "B" she really is. Do you want these people in charge of our Country?! Spread the truth!!!!
Joseph @ 95:
Yes, you are correct sir!!!
Maxine Armstrong @ 93:
She is a pro-aerial hunting freak, that kills animals by chasing them with planes/helicopters until near exhaustion before finally shooting them. I would rather die than say she is a veep for this Country. See for yourself. actionfund.defenders.org see for yourself, the defenders of wildlife organization!!!!!!!!!!!
hummm sooooo killing wolf's is BAD and enough to make you say NO to Sarah.
BUUUTTT, voting in favor of with-holding medical attention to an infant who needs it, in order to kill it is GOOD. It's a darn good thing Obama will Never lead this country.
mnwolflover @ 98:
Maxine Armstrong @ 101:
Never heard that one yet, do you mean Bush?
mnwolflover @ 103:
mnwolflover @ 103:
No. I mean one of the few votes that Obama actually cast in the Senate. He voted NO when the bill was put before the Senate to give life saving measures to a baby who was aborted, but survived the abortion. I'm surprised you don't know, seeing that you are in favor of saving the lives of the defenseless.
Edwin Hussein @ 38:
We'd be happy to trade a couple dozen container ships full of them for, say, a couple of good bottles of wine and a good cigar. We'll even pay for the shipping.
How dare anyone bring something that's not just cut and dry to Tweety's show - Everyone knows Chris isn't too good with the thinking!
Maxine Armstrong @ 105:
I really only care about the wildlife, there are enough pro-lifers out there, and if the baby was to be aborted, that is what it was supposed to be so I agree with it, now that I know. I am pro-choice! I think I accidently said pro-life in the last one.
mnwolflover @ 108:
OK.
The below quote shows the McCain campaign acutely understands and is clearly taking advantage of the complete failure of the MSM:
(From the NYT)
Thanks MSM!
Of all the problems in America, the failure of the Media is the worst. Our 'Founding Fathers' anticipated all manner of failure of the gov't apparatus and to count them they ensured the freedom of the press. That the MSM still holds itself in such high regard in the face of the COMPLETE failure of the task their existence was protected to ensure is just disgusting.
When people talk about 'freedom of the press' I just laugh.
Maxine Armstrong @ 101:
Maxine go google yourself - it takes just a few minutes to do some fact checking. Obama did not want to kill babies that survive abortion- its so stupid it is absurd. WHo in their right mind would support such a position. Law already existed to protect such a baby....Illinois law already provided that physicians must protect the life of a fetus when there is "a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support"
Maxine engage your rational mind - if something sounds really stupid then it probably is stupid- but if you are not sure open a new browser and go google~ you might educate yourself
Still waiting for a correction on what website the guy was from...
Hypocrisy, thy name is John McCain.
P.S. For those of you who thinks Obama isn't doing enough, remember, this is a guy who no one believe at the start of the primaries would beat Clinton. He did and with grace. That is why I am not worrying myself into a grave.
McMonkey @ 111:
People like Maxine have no logic, they only regurgitate the latest repugnicons smears and distortions.If she had any logic ,she wouldn't be on the wrong side of the issues.
Choosing Palin was an act of desperation on McCain's part and now with all that is coming forth the Bounce he got from that pick will shortly become a Lead weight dragging him down into the gutter.
As a Life Long Republican I am so sick of my own Party and that of the Dem's as well.
I will be voting for Obama and stopped giving to McCain Long ago he is undeserving of the Money or the Nomination and will further drag our nation into the gutter.
I sure hope the American public will awaken from its sleep and force change in Washington by Voting all the Bums out, force term limits upon the congress and end this two party bickering which is only causing America to faultier world wide and this quagmire we have caused can be repaired but it will take all Americans standing up saying that we have had enough of Washington and demand change to force the cronies out of power and bring forth real change for America.
We can only hope such would happen but unfortunately in my View Americans are to self centered to do the right thing and to concerned with whats in it for them personally than they are for whats right for America...........
McCain never lies? He says Obama will raise taxes, but what Obama has been saying over and over is that he will not raise taxes on middle income people but he will on the rich.
There is something very wrong with these polls.From the very beginning, Obama has gotten record crowds of people coming to see and hear him. No bump in the polls. He went overseas and looked and acted very presidential and no bump.He has given intelligent and interesting speeches. No bump.McCain was so disliked by his own party that they were told to vote for Hillary.
The polls do say that Joe Biden is much more qualified than Palin and that Palin could become president soon. Still no bump. That scares the hell out of me.The "in the dark" Palin doesn't sound to me like she's qualified.
Why were we so anxious to impeach Bush? McCain brags that he voted with Bush 90% of the time. You liked the last 8 years? The Democrats have the best candidates in years. Something is wrong. I think we again are about to have an election stolen from us!!!
Hmm. I still think it's going to be a landslide for Obama/ Biden in Nov. It won't even be close. The Rethuglicans can only steal the election if it's close.
McCain's campaign's lies, like a slow-moving hurricane, have hit the mainstream press. At this moment, the eye of the hurricane is over us. It's the weekend, Ike's got a lot of (deserved) attention, and there's a bit of lull before the news cycle swings back into full gear tomorrow. By then, this messy McCain campaign hurricane will shift, and the media will get hit with its more destructive outer bands. Lies are highly emotional, something even Joe Average Voter can understand, and this will be the end for the StraightJacketTalk Express.
Obama/ Biden '08 !
Oh Billy @ 64:
Bob, agree with you all the way.
Just want to add from my experience that the simple reason this election is this close is that compared to the rest of the world here in the USA we have a larger proportion of hero-worshipers, who are wither stupid and idiotic, or just plain biased due to obvious reasons, which are irrational to sensible minds. Top of the rank among those obvious reasons is racism, still very much prevalent in this country, and the next to the top is hatred of the rest of the world that is non-Christian (even though Jesus Christ himself would have scoffed and beaten up at these people just as he did when he evicted the evil doers from the temple). Just as Bob has mentioned, I do believe that Sen. Obama should win this election, even though the margin may be slim.
My hope is based on the millions of young Americans who are inspired beyond imagination by Sen. Obama, and the other millions of old people like me who are in their 60’s and 70’s, who are also equally excited from the memories of the Kennedy Era. Sen. Obama has truly brought back the excitement and memories of JFK, RFK and MLK. I was a teen-ager during when these great Americans excited Americans young and old, and I can still feel that excitement, I am re-living that excitement now.
The only reason this election is this close, even with a republican candidate who is way out of our times, and who, and whose surrogates, shamelessly bask on his age-old experience in a Vietnamese prison cell (almost 75% of the RNC speech was focused on this theme only!!), and who believes that his POW status entitles him to be the US President, and with a VP nomination that should insult any sensible American, is that Sen. Obama has an African father. I am saying this because I lived through the electrifying excitements generated by RFK, and that Sen. Obama has equaled or exceeded that excitement among the young and the old who in this country and around the world.
Let's be careful here. Politifact.com and factcheck.org have plenty of questionable Obama claims on there.
Seems McCain and Palin have many more, but this Obama campaign needs to start answering the questions more directly, clean up the bullshit, and start a long streak of stating facts that are 100% testable and in specific context.
There cannot be any question of Obama's tactics. His managers and strategists must make better decisions and get to the truths. Not half-truths, not barely truths, not a little bit of truth.
State the truth is its full and unglossed context, even if it takes more money and longer ads.
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