McCain Lies: One Simple Video Shows His Distortions

Spread this around. The video succinctly points out all the deliberate lies and out of context quotes used by McSame. McCain is desperate. He needs to be put in his place.

Sanctimonious Republicans

When you think of all the truth bending and outright lying by McCain and his trophy VP Sarah Palin, and to a bigger extent the lecturing the Right Wing tend to give on morality, keep this ditty in mind:

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor

One of the Ten Commandments. In every Bible. Not only do they break it, they LOVE breaking it. Palin is a Jesus freak, you'd never know it with her introduction to the world - full of deception, doublespeak and lies. The sarcasm toward the lower class, vis a vis the community organizers jab, was quite pious.

The Straight Talk Express is Busted, Over, Extinct

After skirting the direct question from reporter Robert Caldwell, of WCSH in Portland, ME, "What credentials does Gov Palin have in National Security", McCain, who admits to not knowing much about the economy, stumbles and spits out this gem:

McCain: I said the greatest challenge of our time is national security threats and I’ve also said jobs and economy is the number one issue facing America so, but the point is that Gov. Palin is right on the issues. She understands energy which is one of the fundamental issues of our security….She was right on Iraq, she was right on Russia….

Q: You say you’re sure she has experience, but again I’m just asking for an example. What experience does she have in the field of national experience.

McCain: Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America..

Knows more about energy than anyone else? Really? Not just oil, but the entire field of energy. Wind, electric, solar, hybrids? I'm sure she can ramble for days on the benefits of green energy.

A small TV station in Maine has exposed the VP sham in one question.

Robert Caldwell's interview with McCain video here, very good

Matthews: "It is impossible to fail as much as this President has."

Chris Matthews on Rachel Maddow's show: “It is impossible to fail as much as this President has.”



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A Real President

Barack Obama is our next President. McCain can use his lame tactics all he wants, the real mandate in this country, not the mandate of any candidate, is that we need change. "Bush Hugger" McSame is not the answer, Obama is.

This Ad Is All About Grandpa McSame

Video hits the right chord, part humor, part serious, all facts. McCain is old guy and out of touch with what is going on in 2008. He can't even find this blog or know how to email me. In this complex world with its global problems, we don't need a President you wouldn't trust with the TV remote.



America is like a massive tech company. Do you want the guy at the top to be clueless? Imagine if McCain were running Microsoft and he has no idea how his company works, would you buy the stock? You'd sell it instantly. If this video offends like-minded people who are geriatrics and don't use computers, that's ok, their ignorance is bliss. For the rest of us, competence and intellect is what we need. This is a race to the top, not to the bottom.

Palin Interview With Charlie Gibson

One of the better exchanges from the ABC interview between Palin and Gibson, highlighting the absurdity of her credentials and her "experience by osmosis" the Republicans are trying to pass off.

Behold the braintrust that is Palin.

PALIN: We’ve gotta keep an eye on Russia. … You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.
GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing inside Georgia?
PALIN: Well, I’m giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relations with all of these countries, especially Russia.

Translation: It means jack shit. It's like saying you live next to a gas station so, by proximity alone, you have the experience to deal with OPEC.

Watch this video and feel how small her brain is. Like watching a bad beauty pageant. She's like a bad poker player who gets aggressive when she's bluffing.



Note: every Vice President over the last 30 years had met a foreign head of state before being elected.

Natural Born Drillers

The Oil Industry in human form.

Paul Krugman; Blizzard Of Lies

NYT's Paul Krugman has a good op-ed today on how truthiness would be an upgrade to lies the Republicans sling these days. Here are some highlights.

On the McCain lies:

“But 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.”

On how lies are reported to appear equal with the truth:

"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.

They’re probably also counting on the prevalence of horse-race reporting, so that instead of the story being “McCain campaign lies,” it becomes “Obama on defensive in face of attacks.”

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George Bush put this country in the toilet, John McCain is ready to flush. The country will catch up and figure out this mess.

Cindy McCain: Pill Popper

I know here face is jacked and looks weird, maybe this is why......

Via FirstRead on MSNBC:

The Washington Post does a deeper dive into the story of Cindy McCain's addiction. "In describing her struggle with drugs, McCain has said that she became addicted to Vicodin and Percocet in early 1989 after rupturing two disks and having back surgery. She has said she hid her addiction from her husband, Sen. John McCain, and stopped taking the painkillers in 1992 after her parents confronted her. She has not discussed what kind of treatment she received for her addiction, but she has made clear that she believes she has put her problems behind her.”

“While McCain's accounts have captured the pain of her addiction, her journey through this personal crisis is a more complicated story than she has described, and it had more consequences for her and those around her than she has acknowledged. Her misuse of painkillers prompted an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors that put her in legal jeopardy. A doctor with McCain's medical charity who supplied her with prescriptions for the drugs lost his license and never practiced again. The charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, eventually had to be closed in the wake of the controversy. Her husband was forced to admit publicly that he was absent much of the time she was having problems and was not aware of them."

Imagine if this were Michelle Obama with a problem with stealing pills.

More here

Pigs And Lipstick

Here is the entire quote by Barack Obama:

“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”

With a laugh, he added: “You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still going to stink after eight years.”

So the McSame camp turns around and says Barack is talking about Sarah Palin, calling her a pig? Right Wing papers like the NY Post put her picture next to the quote to help spread this fallacy. This is not a question of interpretation. McSame is willing to outright lie in public. This is your Republican Party. Out of ideas, living in the past, 8 years of failure, using lies to cover up their inept divide-and-conquer culture war approach to politics.

Andrew Sullivan notes: "This claim is absurd on its face, like the Palin nomination to begin with. Absurd. And you can now tell who on the right has even a scintilla of intellectual honesty. That's all this episode is about: another tail-spin in the death throes of the Republican party."

Entire NYT article here.

Barbara Boxer On McCain McSame

McCain loves to live in the past, fighting old wars and old problems the old way. Too bad McSame is not quite the fighter on important issues for Americans according to colleague Sen Barbara Boxer.

"In the 16 years that we have served together in the Senate, I have seen John McCain fight.

I have seen him fight against raising the federal minimum wage 14 times.

I have seen him fight against making sure that women earn equal pay for equal work.

I have seen him fight against a women’s right to choose so consistently that he received a zero percent vote rating from pro-choice organizations.

I have seen him fight against helping families gain access to birth control.

I have seen him fight against Social Security, even going so far as to call its current funding system “an absolute disgrace.”

And I saw him fight against the new GI Bill of Rights until it became politically untenable for him to do so.

John McCain voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time in 2007 and 100 percent of the time in 2008 — that’s no maverick.

We do have two real fighters for change in this election — their names are Barack Obama and Joe Biden."

Article here

Channel 11 in Anchorage Outs Palin

Here is what the local News in Anchorage has to say about Sarah Palin and The Bridge To Nowhere. Politics as usual for the reformer maverick. While not all appropriations and earmarks are wasteful, this one was the biggest and got National coverage due to her buddy Ted Stevens. Republicans love denial. Palin, at last check, has repeated the unthruth 23 times. Swap out the Bridge and put in WMD and you've got the Right Wing echo chamber in full effect.

Sarah Pain In Hiding

Sarah Palin is now in hiding. She has to learn about America, our government, the world. That should take about a day for the Republicans to be pleased. As for the sexism angle, could the Republicans be more insincere.

John McCain Gets BarackRoll'd

Pretty funny. Obama scores again.

Palin: The Woman From Nowhere

Good article at The Economist website on Sarah Palin called "The Woman From Nowhere". Touches on the dangerous decision making process of McCain, the 15-minute vetting process of Palin, and the Right Wing's problem with appointing so many incompetents because they were sound on Roe v Wade.

"Mrs Palin’s elevation suggests that, far from breaking with Mr Bush, Mr McCain is repeating his mistakes."

Read article here.

"No Maverick" Ad

Grandpa McSame pretends he was the Maverick from 8 years ago. Palin is the Governor of the state with the largest per capita pork spending in the US. The Republican Party screwed up the country and these two are going to change it?

McCain Mythos Is Over

The McCain myth is over according to WaPo's Sebastian Mallaby:

"He opposed the Bush tax cuts before he supported them, saying that they would deepen inequality. But now he touts a tax reduction that is larger and more radical than even President Bush proposed, and he slams his opponent for holding the view that he himself held until recently."

"McCain used to be a real straight talker. On campaign finance, spending earmarks, Iraq and immigration, he has fought bravely for his principles; and that record might have been a trump against an opponent who has taken almost no such risks. But we are now witnessing what might be called McCain’s Palinization. McCain once criticized Christian conservatives as agents of intolerance, but he has caved in to their intolerance of a pro-choice running mate. McCain claims to be devoted to his country, yet he would saddle it with a vice president who is unprepared to serve as commander in chief. In the same sad way, McCain has caved in to his party’s anti-tax fanatics. The man of principle has become a panderer. The straight talker flip-flops."

More of this great op-ed here

McCain Uses Wrong Picture In RNC Video

During the RNC, John McSame spoke before a massive video screen filled with images of America and people/places relative to his message. As an example of his lack of attention to detail, or, maybe this reflects his general Republican indifference towards injured troops, he used a picture of Walter Reed Middle School in Hollywood, CA instead of the real Walter Reed Hospital in DC.

No big deal, but imagine if Obama did that in his speech?

McCain at RNC

Walter Reed Middle School


Maybe he thought it was one of his 7 mansions?

Palin Gets It Backwards

Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs [yesterday], the Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah "Glasses Make Me Look Smart" Palin claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." Umm, too bad they are GSEs and operate as private companies. It's not like this is one of the biggest issues to effect the country, oh wait, it involves 80% of the mortgages in the US. "You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

So not only does she not know what Frannie and Freddie do, she gets the taxpayers burden completely backwards. Now we are on the hook for trillions. If it was "too expensive for taxpayers", why did they just bail them out with taxpayer money? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac weren't receiving any taxpayer money, now they are. She has no clue and looks to be Dan Quayle Version 2.0. Seems she is getting her business acumen from MBA Prez and lifelong C-student George Bush.

Note: Government bailouts socialize the losses, but the profits are always privatized. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and by the same token there are no free marketeers in a financial crisis.

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Culture Of Life = Culture Of Embryo

What do John McCain and conservatives mean? This is a quote from McSame at the RNC:

"We believe in a ... culture of life. ...Government that doesn't make your choices for you, but works to make sure you have more choices to make for yourself."

This is their doublespeak for making abortion against the law, but keeping the death penalty legal. So if they make abortion illegal, and a girl becomes pregnant, she no longer has a choice of what to do. She has to have the baby because the government told her to. The government is making the decision for you. I have LESS choices to make. Their statement above is completely false.

Maybe you were raped, maybe you have health issues, maybe you are too young, accidents do happen. I can't imagine a more personal choice a person can make that is being decided on by the government. "Do I want this baby?", a decision between a man and a woman, is now, "I have to have this baby because the government, vis a vis, John McCain said I had to".

I am against abortion, I have never been involved with it, but I see it has a place and has been legally and safely used 40,000,000 times. It seems it has addressed an issue and remedied a problem over the 40 years since Roe v Wade. When conservatives say they want Government out of their lives, doesn't this open it up to the most intimate part of it?

And if the life is so important, why isn't the culture of that life important once it's born? They should call it what it is: culture of an embryo.

Quote This

This is what the Republican president of the Alaska state senate, Lyda Green, has to say about Sarah Palin:

"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"

via Andrew Sullivan:

When Palin took over Wasilla, the town had no long-term debt. By the time she was done, debt service had increased by 69 percent, the town had close to $19 million in long-term debt, making the debt around $3000 per capita. And the Mccain campaign is asking us - seriously - to consider her a fiscal conservative.

She is a Bush-Cheney fiscal conservative: low taxes, unprecedented new spending, utter incompetence, endemic cronyism and massive debt.

8 Years of Clinton vs 8 Years of Bush: Job Growth

Which 8 years do you prefer? Consider McSame wants to continue Bush's economic plans.



The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its monthly employment data, and the picture is bleak: the American economy lost 84,000 jobs in August, and the employment rate jumped to 6.1%, the highest in five years.

While productivity is up 4.3% since last year (people are working harder with better, more efficient technology), real wages have sagged, dropping .4%.

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Sarah Palin: George Bush With Glasses

Consider your self warned. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote on his National Review blog,

"George W. Bush had very slight executive experience before becoming president. His views were not well known. He won the nomination exactly in the same way that Palin has won the hearts of so many conservatives: by sending cultural cues to convince them that he was one of them, understood them, sympathized with them. So that made everything else irrelevant in 2000 - as it seems again to be doing in 2008."

Friedman: Drilling Not The Solution

Not the biggest fan of New York Times columnist Thomas "Right Twice A Day" Friedman, but he made a good point about the relevance of drilling as a solution for oil dependency.

FRIEDMAN: I’m actually not against drilling. What I’m against is making that the center of our focus because we are on the eve of a new revolution, the energy technology revolution. It would be, Tom, as if on the eve of the IT revolution, the revolution of PCs and the internet, someone was up there standing and demanding, “IBM Selectric typewriters, IBM Selectric typewriters.” That’s what “drill, drill, drill” is the equivalent of today.

That’s just what Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Nigeria want to hear Americans focusing on. They are hoping we drill and never invent new solutions.