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Friday, September 12, 2008

A Compilation of McCain's Lying Lies

Here's a very simple video exposé that catalogs a litany of McCain's lies this year:

Posted by Metavirus at 9/12/2008 03:39:00 PM 0 comments  

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McCain Campaign a 'Blizzard of Lies'

Must-read op-ed from Paul Krugman:

I can’t think of any precedent, at least in America, for the blizzard of lies since the Republican convention. The Bush campaign’s lies in 2000 were artful — you needed some grasp of arithmetic to realize that you were being conned. This year, however, the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute, and repeating these assertions over and over again...

Why do the McCain people think they can get away with this stuff? Well, they’re probably counting on the common practice in the news media of being “balanced” at all costs. You know how it goes: If a politician says that black is white, the news report doesn’t say that he’s wrong, it reports that “some Democrats say” that he’s wrong. Or a grotesque lie from one side is paired with a trivial misstatement from the other, conveying the impression that both sides are equally dirty...

And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?

What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse.

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Posted by Metavirus at 9/12/2008 01:26:00 PM 0 comments  

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McCain Blames Obama for McCain Camp's Lies and Smears

The mental gymnastics going on inside McCain's head these days is truly stunning.

As part of last night's forum on national service, John McCain was asked about the tone and direction of the presidential campaign.
"I think the tone of this whole campaign would've been very different if Sen. Obama had accepted my request for us to appear at town hall meetings all over America."

As Steve Brenen puts it:
To hear McCain tell it, the only way for the presidential campaign to be respectful and substantive is for McCain to get to know Obama better by sharing a stage and arguing with him... This is just pathetic excuse-making -- McCain's running an ugly and deceptive campaign, but that's okay because he just hasn't gotten to know Obama very well. Indeed, by this reasoning, it's Obama's fault McCain has been so despicable -- if he'd only agreed to 15 town-hall debates like McCain wanted, McCain wouldn't have to be so persistently repugnant.

Posted by Metavirus at 9/12/2008 11:53:00 AM 0 comments  

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