In all the hullabaloo about the investment banking meltdown (also known as the day I kissed my retirement goodbye), John McCain more or less admitted the lies in his most recent ads and claims to a collection of reporters in Florida. Reports the AP:
Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe? "No," McCain said Monday. The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama "chooses his words very carefully."
So, all the bluster last week that anyone called Sarah Palin a "pig" wasn't really based in truth, McCain admits. Yet, he never stopped his campaign from lying.
He was asked about nearly $200 million in congressional pet projects Palin requested for 2009 for her state, despite her boasts that she opposes such projects and his claim that she didn't ask for any. McCain responded by criticizing Obama for seeking more than $900 million in these earmarks, by one count.
Once again, McCain sidesteps the question and says, "Yeah, but look at Obama!" Except what he's pointing to really is a stretch. It is true that Palin asked for almost $200 million in earmarks this year. Obama? He hasn't asked for any, this year. Over the course of his Senate career, Obama has asked for hundreds of millions, but McCain makes it seem like this year, Palin asked for $200 million and Obama $900 million. That's just not the case -- not by a long-shot.
McCain cut off a question about the "Bridge to Nowhere," which Palin claims to have killed in Alaska even though Washington pulled back money for the project before she turned against it."The important thing is she's vetoed a half a billion dollars in earmark projects..."
Again, a tacit admission that the Bridge to Nowhere line is a lie.
I guess today would be the day, when it almost is guaranteed no coverage, for McCain to back off the lies his campaign has been telling. The question remains, though, if John McCain knows these are lies, and can't even bring himself to defend them anymore, will he continue to sell his soul in his quest for power? Will he continue to "approve these messages" the next time a new lie is presented to him?
Those ARE rhetorical questions, aren't they? Of COURSE he'll continue. Deception and repeated propaganda are all the neocons have left in his campaign.
Does McCain plan to cherry pick his “transparency and accountability;†where is it with the Palin Troopergate investigation, her tax records, and his medical records?
Mika asked: the way a campaign is run is indicative of how one would govern. Some of your ads are questionable on the facts. How do u reconcile this disparity? (not verbatim)
Sen McCain said “check our website it says the ads are factual.†Morning Joe, 9/16/08.
Independent and non-partisan sites refute this, as do many journalist. So are they to be discounted?
Reminds me of the incorrect information that led us into the pre-emptive war in Iraq.
Sen McCain didn’t read the Iraq NIE of 10/2002. The NIE effected there is no compelling case that Iraq is currently pursuing the development of WMD.
Meet The Press:
"In hindsight, was it a good idea to go into Iraq?" McCain's reply that the invasion of Iraq "was certainly justified" because "every intelligence agency in the world, not just U.S., believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."
Except the National Intelligence Estimate which was made available to all members of Congress before the vote, according to The Washington Post.
Had McCain availed himself of the information contained in the NIE, would he have voted differently?
It's all a method of distraction so people won't see how clearly INARTICULATE he really is.
He either tries to identify with the questioner, makes some sort of joke, sarcastic or self deprecating or
launches right into listing Obama's faults
.......O wouldn't do town hall meetings with him......HOW long do we have to endure hearing that???
get over it already!!!!!!
When all else fails, he resorts to the POW experience, that always brings it home for him.
This man is not mentally sharp enough to be our President.