John McCain may be trying to sell himself as a “maverick” and a “straight talker” who will tell the truth no matter the consequences, but independent, non-partisan watchdog groups aren’t buying it. But, since he wrapped up his party’s nomination, John McCain has offered more of the same false attacks and smears. To date, independent, nonpartisan fact checkers have published more than 79 fact checks debunking John McCain’s lies and distortions.
To hold John McCain accountable to his own standard, the Democratic National Committee will count and chronicle the lies here on the McCainPedia’s “Count the Lies” page:
McCain and Palin’s positions fluctuate like El Nino.
Palin once said that global warming is a myth. In the interview with Charles Gibson, she reversed course by saying that man-made activities can be contributing to global warming.
McCain charged that Obama will “raise your taxes”. In fact Obama will lower taxes for everyone under $250,000 a year. Speaking of waging an honorable campaign.
[quote]Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said Sunday that Sen. John McCain had gone “one step too far” in some of his recent ads attacking Sen. Barack Obama.
Rove has leveled similar criticism against Obama.
“McCain has gone in some of his ads – similarly gone one step too far,” he told Fox News, “and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the ‘100 percent truth’ test.”
The Obama campaign immediately leaped on the quote.
“In case anyone was still wondering whether John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest campaign in history, today Karl Rove – the man who held the previous record – said McCain’s ads have gone too far,” said campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor, in a statement sent to reporters minutes after Rove’s on-air comments. Rove masterminded both of President Bush’s successful White House bids.
Rove said both candidates need to “be careful” about their attacks on each other.
"They ought to – there ought to be an adult who says, ‘Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don’t we make our point and won’t we get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don’t include that one little last tweak in the ad?’ " he said.[/quote]
[quote=“Toe Tag”]John McCain may be trying to sell himself as a “maverick” and a “straight talker” who will tell the truth no matter the consequences, but independent, non-partisan watchdog groups aren’t buying it. But, since he wrapped up his party’s nomination, John McCain has offered more of the same false attacks and smears. To date, independent, nonpartisan fact checkers have published more than 50 fact checks debunking John McCain’s lies and distortions.
To hold John McCain accountable to his own standard, the Democratic National Committee will count and chronicle the lies here on the McCainPedia’s “Count the Lies” page:
It would be a good idea for you to quote that properly instead of just straight copying and pasting it.
Wait a sec.
What the heck am I doing in Crossfire?
I’m getting out of here!
OK here’s a quote… [quote]John McCain is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in. [/quote]
Oh dear… it looks like Obamessiah is a liar, too. Shocking, isn’t it?
[quote=“Ruth Marcus”]The symmetry of sin is suddenly looking more equal. Last week, I flayed John McCain for dishonesty – flagrant and repeated dishonesty – about Barack Obama’s proposals. Obama was by no means blameless, I argued, but his lapses were nowhere near as egregious as his opponent’s. I stand by everything I wrote.
On immigration, Obama is running a Spanish-language ad that unfairly lumps McCain together with Rush Limbaugh – and quotes Limbaugh out of context. On health care, Obama misleadingly accuses McCain of wanting to impose a $3.6 trillion tax hike on employer-provided insurance.
Obama has been furthest out of line, however, on Social Security, stooping to the kind of scare tactics he once derided.
This is simply false – even leaving aside the incendiary language about “privatizing” Social Security. As the invaluable FactCheck.org noted, the private account plan suggested by President Bush and backed by McCain would not have applied to anyone born before 1950. It would not have changed benefits by a single penny for current retirees like the nice Florida folks that Obama was trying to rile up… …Obama’s cartoon version of private accounts is not what Bush suggested, and it certainly is not something being peddled by McCain now.
Obama’s ads on Social Security are equally misleading… …As FactCheck notes, “this is a rank misrepresentation.” …The Obama campaign stretches the truth beyond recognition when it says that this would cut benefits in half.
To Democrats who worry about whether their nominee is willing to do whatever it takes to win: You can calm down.[/quote]
they’re POLITICIANS, folks… of course they lie. what do you expect? there’s even a PC name fort it now, SPIN. and these professional liars keep other professional liars and lily-gilders on their staff too. they’re called SPIN DOCTORS.
democracy is very hard in a large country where you only have a choice between two rich liars. and don’t say that Nagle or Paul or whomever extends your choice…
perhaps you just have to vote for the one who says the most lies that you like. or vote for the one who says fewer lies, if you can tally them.
Just like to point out that “privatization” was what opponents of Social Security always called their plans, until they discovered that people hated the idea- so they changed the name, but not the policy.
Not so much McCain, but one of his advisers making bonehead remarks. Inventing the Blackberry and simultaneously being computer illiterate would have been a neat trick.
Obama’s spokesman commented “If John McCain hadn’t said that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ on the day of one of our nation’s worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week,”
[quote]Today was hardly the first time John McCain has put Country First by showily “suspending” his campaign for the White House. On March 31, 1999, a week before his scheduled “official announcement” confirming the months-old news that he was running for president, and a week after Bill Clinton sent bombers over Kosovo, McCain announced that “It’s not appropriate at this time to launch a political campaign.”
How’d that work for him politically? According to sympathetic biographer Robert Timberg,
"His decision amounted to a masterful political stroke. The Washington Post's Mary McGrory said that 'professional politicians of both parties were wowed by McCain's beau geste.... McCain has made himself the de facto Republican foreign policy spokesman, and is getting yards of publicity for a non-event.' The kudos kept pouring in, as did even more demands for him to appear on news-oriented TV talk shows. On one day alone, Monday, April 5, he could be seen arguing his case on Fox News's Crier Report, CNN's Larry King Live, PBS's Charlie Rose, two programs on CNBC, and two more on MSNBC, according to the Post's Dan Balz. Balz quoted one Republican strategist as labeling the conflict in Kosovo 'All McCain, all the time.' By week's end, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, on CNN's Capital Gang, said, 'Let me just say in thirty-five years in Washington, I have never seen a debate dominated by an individual in the minority party as I've seen this one dominated by John McCain."[/quote]
Let’s start featuring some of the lies for discussion…
[quote]Washington Post: Three Pinocchios for “Working the Refs” with Non-Denial Denial." “McCain spokesmen have tried to discredit the newspaper’s reporting with the argument that it is ‘in the tank’ for Obama, a charge that it frequently uses against journalists who cross the campaign. The attacks fail to address the substantive points raised by The Times and other news organizations. The McCain campaign responded to the latest batch of reports with a classic non-denial denial: It furiously rebutted something that was never alleged. A McCain blog entry by spokesman Michael Goldfarb said that the New York Times had made a ‘demonstrably false’ allegation, charging that ‘Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month.’ In fact, the newspaper reports pointed out that the payments were to Davis’ firm, rather than Davis himself, and that Davis is not receiving a salary from his company while working for McCain. The reports also noted that Davis remains a partner in Davis Manafort, and stands to benefit over the long term from its success. Davis’ close ties with McCain were cited as the primary reason for payment of the retainer by Freddie Mac to Davis Manafort…Rather than discuss Davis’ relationship with the failed mortgage giants, the McCain campaign is relying on the tried-and-tested campaign technique known as ‘working the refs.’ The McCain camp has accused The Times of a ‘willful disregard for the truth,’ but has been unable to demonstrate factual errors in the newspaper’s reporting of the Davis-Freddie Mac relationship.” [/quote][Washington Post Fact Checker blog, 9/25/08: voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-c … _refs.html
The pace of lies seems to have slowed lately, probably because his whole campaign is AWOL. I wonder how these invisible incompetent candidates expect to get voters if they vanish? Too old, and too clueless, to safely give speeches, or interviews. Amazing.
Current electoral vote projection: Obama 307 McCain 230. Trending towards a landslide. fivethirtyeight.com/