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Are the Lies of John McCain Catching Up With Him?

September 13, 2008 By yellow-dog

Mr. Obama has also been accused of distortions, but this week Mr. McCain has found himself under particularly heavy fire for a pair of headline-grabbing attacks. First the McCain campaign twisted Mr. Obama’s words to suggest that he had compared Gov.

Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, to a pig after Mr. Obama said, in questioning Mr. McCain’s claim to be the change agent in the race, “You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig.” (Mr. McCain once used the same expression to describe Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health plan.

Then he falsely claimed that Mr. Obama supported “comprehensive sex education” for kindergartners (he supported teaching them to be alert for inappropriate advances from adults).

Those attacks followed weeks in which Mr. McCain repeatedly, and incorrectly, asserted that Mr. Obama would raise taxes on the middle class, even though analysts say he would cut taxes on the middle class more than Mr. McCain would, and misrepresented Mr. Obama’s positions on energy and health care.

A McCain advertisement called “Fact Check” was itself found to be “less than honest” by FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan group. The group complained that the McCain campaign had cited its work debunking various Internet rumors about Ms. Palin and implied in the advertisement that the rumors had originated with Mr. Obama.

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  1. cambridge_paul says

    September 13, 2008 at 11:51 am

    as well which was pretty funny.

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    • silver-blue says

      September 14, 2008 at 4:19 pm

      than he did on the separation of church and state question? Wow.

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      p>I loved Whoopi at the end: “so should I be worried about being a slave?” after McIdiot said he wanted judges that would interpret the Constitution “as the founding fathers intended”.  Yikes – you go, Whoopi!

  2. sabutai says

    September 13, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    McCain figures that by the time all his lies are discounted, it will be after the election.  If the discounting — by campaigns and yes by media — happens at a faster rate than McCain’s injection of new lies, than it will catch up with him.

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    p>The media just needs to persevere.  It may be boring to point out that something is a lie the 20th, 30th, 40th time McCain says it…but it still has to point that out.

  3. pablo says

    September 14, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    From Mudflats, an Alaska women reject Palin rally.  Note the sign on the left.

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