McCain flat lies
Leslie mentioned this earlier, but Talking Points Memo has a nice short clip that shows how directly and blatantly John McCain lied to Barbara Walters.
The Obama campaign capitalizes with a stinger: John McCain would rather lose his integrity than an election. The camera doesn't lie. McCain does.
ALSO: What? A national news service doesn't roll over?



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Ohhh...Honest Abe....where are you? Are we real sure the real McCain didn't die in the POW camp and those shifty North Vietnamese didn't send back a body double? What's wrong with this man that he lies so damn much. I can't bring myself to say he's dishonest (oh yes I can) so I'll have to chalk it up to saying things he's told to say that he's too lazy to research himself or too old to remember the truth. Either way......John McCain lies all the time. And so does his little buddy Sarah.
Today NPR was all about how the Republican VP selection has changed everything about the election. Adding Miss Wasilla has suddenly made old tired bump-jaw McCain attractive to the base again. Well....that old teddy bear Charlie Gibson nearly accidentally ate her lunch yesterday. What will happen to her when the media with teeth get hold of her?
There are a thousand women in America that can be the next VP or P......maybe 100 thousand women......Sarah Palin is at the bottom of the list like John McCain was at the bottom of the list of graduates at West Point in 1958. We got Bush off the bottom of the list....isn't that a big enough lesson for ya?
And Sarah Palin reminds me of when I went to an antique car auction in LR in 1975. I didn't have any money, I just went to look at cars. But I was paying attention like I had a pile of money or something. It didn't take me long to notice that the buyers were often overlooking really classic antique cars in need of a little spit and polish and instead were buying cars like a 1953 Buick 4-door, a car that will never be worth much. The buyers were buying fairly worthless cars as long as they had a shiny new paint job that looked good from up in their seats.
I was down there a foot from them and a lot of those cars got painted over rust, and dents and even bugs I could see under the paint. They looked great from a distance, but they weren't worth much and they weren't going to get better over time. I think that explains this Sarah Palin phenomenon. She looks pretty from a distance, but she's not worth much and she'll look worse as time goes on. Hide and watch.
Another thing. Everyone knows Dick Cheney has been calling the shots for the last 8 years. Bush is Cheney's lapdog.....Bush jumps when Cheney hollers. It's not worked out well for America or the world. Now we're going to do it again? While President McCain sleeps after his warm milk, Vice President Palin will be down in the war room running the country? Who the hell thinks that's a great idea? If she's so great, switch the ticket and put her running for President.
Now....I want to make it very clear...I don't want anything to knock McCain or Palin out of the running. I'm very happy with the Republican ticket we have before us. Don't change a thing! Let them keep lying and covering up and acting more like secret lovers than candidates and I think all but the insane 28% hard core wingnuts will slough away from McCain-Palin like dead skin falling off a leper and we'll get to present President Obama to the rest of the world next January. That will be the first good news since late 2000. Finally we'll have a reason to party like it's 1999!
I'm DBI and I don't approve of McCain-Palin's message.......
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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September 12, 2008 03:45 PM
http://ec2-75-101-218-88.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
Check this out...don't know how reliable it is but....may as well add fuel to the fire
Posted by: Love my job and my students...
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September 12, 2008 03:47 PM
"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."
"War Propaganda", in volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925), by Adolf Hitler
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it." -- Often attributed to European leaders who lost World War II.
Posted by: Jake da Snake
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September 12, 2008 03:56 PM
"This truth should be kept constantly in mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and poise indispensable to the permanent success of self-government." - Teddy Roosevelt
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Lenin
"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."
From "War Propaganda", in volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925), by Adolf Hitler
So, who do we want to listen to? Teddy Roosevelt or Hitler and Lenin? Guess which one the Republicans of today follow. Not Teddy, for sure.
Posted by: Jake da Snake
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September 12, 2008 04:04 PM
Sorry about the multiple posting. Stupid laptop has the willies now and then.
Posted by: Jake da Snake
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September 12, 2008 04:06 PM
I'm Sorry, So Sorry, I can't even pick a VP mate without messing up. My own guy, Biden, said someone else (Hillary) should have been picked. I have really flubbed this one. Please forgive me Bill and Hill. It looks like its going to be a GOP landslide in Nov. I'm Sorry, So Sorry. Do I sound like Patsy Cline yet?
Posted by: Hussain Obama
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September 12, 2008 04:07 PM
Brenda Lee, I'm just saying Hussein.
Posted by: Phaedrus
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September 12, 2008 04:11 PM
How about:
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ah Ha!!!
Posted by: Jake da Snake
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September 12, 2008 04:19 PM
What happened when John called Sarah that first time? -- click on name.
Posted by: Jake da Snake
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September 12, 2008 04:23 PM
Dig deep enough and you will see that all politicians lie. How do you think they get you to vote for them?
Posted by: JNYJ
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September 12, 2008 04:49 PM
"Everybody lies." - Dr. Gregory House
Posted by: Jake da Snake
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September 12, 2008 05:55 PM
So...what your saying JNYJ is that we should just scrap the election and keep the wonderful guys we got in the White House? Can I borrow a cup of herpes please?
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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September 12, 2008 09:06 PM
I am ashamed of my fellow Americans. I am a liberal, Christian, white woman who is ashamed of many of her fellow country men and women. I am ashamed of the greed displayed by so many during this recent crisis of hurricanes - gas going up 50 cents a gallon, when nothing has happened yet. I am ashamed of the fact that the Republicans think that Democratic women are so fickle that we would vote for John McCain when he's picked a running mate who is anti-abortion, creationist, prays for the construction of a pipeline. Does he think women - particularly Democratic women - are that stupid that we don't know the difference. i am ashamed of Democratic women for not being brave enough to say that the Clinton campaign blew their chance - when they didn't have to - instead of whining about how she should have gotten the nomination. Yes, if she had run a smart, bright campaign, she would have won. But she didn't. She let her ego get the best of her. Is that the kind of woman we want? I don't think so. I don't think it's Sarah Palin either. I am ashamed of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who purportedly are Arkansans but don't act like Arkansans, for not standing up and fighting for what they "say" they believe in. I am ashamed of the fact that America has become a place of entitlement - everyone thinks they are "entitled" to something - more money, better cars, etc. Everyone wants to get more, but no one wants to give anything. What kind of country do we have, if we can't think about the less fortunate person. Where are we going to be if we continue going in this direction. I'm sad to say, that we are headed for disaster. Think about it, America!
Posted by: Jim
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September 12, 2008 09:15 PM
Shame on you there Deathbyinches! I would no sooner sleep with a cactus than wish a repeat of this fiasco we have been forced to endure!
Posted by: JNYJ
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September 12, 2008 09:46 PM
Jake that video was the funniest of the campaign. I'm sharing!
Posted by: eLwood
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September 13, 2008 02:16 AM