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John McCain Lies, Says He Won't Lie
Centuries-old John McCain is still saying he will never, ever, ever in the 400 years he plans to live attack the patriotism of Barack Obama.
That is just simply not true.
After Obama canceled his visit to a military hospital in Germany during his international masquerade, McCain and his lackeys jumped on him for skipping out because he couldn't bring the media with him.
The only problem with that claim -- and there is only one problem -- is that there is absolutely no evidence, no reports, no statements and no truth whatsoever to back it up.
The Obama campaign says it canceled the visit because the Pentagon was concerned it would become an inappropriate political event since one of the staff members is a military adviser.
But instead of checking that out, or looking up any real articles whatsoever, the senior senator from Arizona appeared on TV and made up the news.
McCain lied to Larry King on Monday night and said, "I know that, according to reports, that he wanted to bring media people and cameras and his campaign staffers."
False.
The Washington Post decided to look into this. They called up Tucker Bounds, McCain's fall guy. He said this: "It is safe to say that, according to press reports, Barack Obama avoided, skipped, canceled the visit because of those reasons. ... We're not making a leap here."
Oh yeah? Well show me those stories, Tucker.
The Post asked Bounds for the alleged "press reports." Then Bounds gave the Post three of them -- and none of them said anything about Obama wanting to take the media along with him. Leaps and Bounds, indeed.
A certain quote comes to mind after reading all this stuff about the McCain camp lying so bad to sway the electorate. Why is it so important for them to repeat that falsity over and over again?
"Because he knows it's very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country."
Hey, guess who said that? Bingo! John McCain. And he said it about Barack Obama on June 3, the day theIllinois
Still. We can only forgive so many memory lapses because of old age. The difference between lying and forgetting is pretty simple: Lies are repeated.
That is just simply not true.
After Obama canceled his visit to a military hospital in Germany during his international masquerade, McCain and his lackeys jumped on him for skipping out because he couldn't bring the media with him.
The only problem with that claim -- and there is only one problem -- is that there is absolutely no evidence, no reports, no statements and no truth whatsoever to back it up.
The Obama campaign says it canceled the visit because the Pentagon was concerned it would become an inappropriate political event since one of the staff members is a military adviser.
But instead of checking that out, or looking up any real articles whatsoever, the senior senator from Arizona appeared on TV and made up the news.
McCain lied to Larry King on Monday night and said, "I know that, according to reports, that he wanted to bring media people and cameras and his campaign staffers."
False.
The Washington Post decided to look into this. They called up Tucker Bounds, McCain's fall guy. He said this: "It is safe to say that, according to press reports, Barack Obama avoided, skipped, canceled the visit because of those reasons. ... We're not making a leap here."
Oh yeah? Well show me those stories, Tucker.
The Post asked Bounds for the alleged "press reports." Then Bounds gave the Post three of them -- and none of them said anything about Obama wanting to take the media along with him. Leaps and Bounds, indeed.
A certain quote comes to mind after reading all this stuff about the McCain camp lying so bad to sway the electorate. Why is it so important for them to repeat that falsity over and over again?
"Because he knows it's very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country."
Hey, guess who said that? Bingo! John McCain. And he said it about Barack Obama on June 3, the day the
Still. We can only forgive so many memory lapses because of old age. The difference between lying and forgetting is pretty simple: Lies are repeated.
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PAM
5:43PM 5:43PM Jul 31st 2008
Nice article Matt. Just wish more people would take the time to find out the truth rather than listen to this guy lie!! I'm afraid that many people, though, make decisions based on sound bites rather than facts!!!!!
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Geoff Barker
11:05AM 11:05AM Aug 1st 2008
Since McPain is obviously senile he probaly cannot distinguish truth from lies.
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peterssuite
12:27AM 12:27AM Aug 4th 2008
IT'S CALLED EARLY ONSET ALZHEIMERS--REMEMBER REAGAN HAD IT ALSO.
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God
2:02PM 2:02PM Aug 1st 2008
McCain needs to stop bearing false witness.
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rhapsody
10:42AM 10:42AM Aug 3rd 2008
Why would it be innapropriate to bring a military adviser to a military base?? That statement itself, is ridiculous. Also, I believe it was this same website that informed me of the base commanders' statements about how obama could only bring his original campaign staff and not his traveling media caravan. Not that that is the reason for the cancellation, necessarily. It is in my opionion a coincidence and I would not be suprised if McCain or anyone else saw it as a correlation.
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magic
10:45AM 10:45AM Aug 3rd 2008
You are not well education, lack any sense of the world around you,and are a total bore. I've stepped in puddles deeper than Obama, as for you, saying that would degrade a puddle.
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JOSEPH PERRONE
12:27AM 12:27AM Aug 4th 2008
MCCAIN SAID HE KNOWS HOW TO WIN WARS? WHJAT WAR DID HE EVER WIN? HE SAID HE KNOWS HOW TO LEAD MEN? HE WAS A PILOT! NEVER LEAD MEN! YES HE WAS A POW AND HONORABLE BUT SO WERE MANY OTHERS,DOES THAT MAKE THEM READY TO BE PRESIDENT? LET'S START TELLING THE REAL TRUTH LIKE ON THE LETTERMAN SHOW IN ( 2001 ) WHEN HE SAIN GOING TO IRAQ IS STEP # 2 WAKE UP THE WAR WAS FIXED TO HELP THE GOP'S OIL PEOPLE AND THE MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR GO TO FIGHT AND THE RICH STAY HOME AND GET RICHER!
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michael
12:28AM 12:28AM Aug 4th 2008
this blogger is a fool. If bama isnt as deep as a puddle, what is Mccain? he doenst know a shitte from a sunni, or that iran and bin laden hate each other....and what is Bush, that fool who lied to start this war, didnt plan for it, treats the returning wounded like crap.....shame on your lack of patriotism
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james
10:45AM 10:45AM Aug 3rd 2008
well asshole....HOW DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING????
this is simply your opinion......
and it's wrong! on the ground observers in Iraq agreed with McCain's assessment. WERE YOU THERE??? nope!! so you assertions are actually LIES!!!!!!
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peterssuite
12:27AM 12:27AM Aug 4th 2008
WHY REPUBLICANS ARE WITNESSING THEIR OWN FUNERAL ! THE BEST THEY CAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT.S: A CERTIFIED ADULTERER, A MEMBER OF THE ' KEATING 5 ' SENATORS (HE TOOK OVER $100,000.00 FROM BANK SWINDLER CHARLES KEATING..WHO ALSO GAVE HIM AND CINDY-THE BEER MAVEN-3 PAID FOR BAHAMAS VACATIONS ) HE CRASHED OR LOST 5 JET AIRCRAFT IN 8 YEARS,HE MADE ANTI-AMERICAN WAR VIDEOS WHILE A POW,IN VIETNAM,THE NICKNAMED HIM ' SONGBIRD' FOR HIS CO-OPERATION,HE DUMPED HIS 1st WIFE -CAROL SCHEPP-AFTER SHE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT, HE IS A BUSH CO-CONSPIRITOR IN THIS PHONY IRAQ WAR,AND HE IS SO,SO,SO SMART AND INTELLIGENCE THAT HE GRADUATED 894th IN A CLASS OF 899 FROM THE US NAVAL ACADEMY, AND HE PUSHED THRU LEGISLATION PROHIBITING YOU AND ME FROM ACCESSING ANY OF HIS POW RECORDS AND DEBRIEFINGS...WHY?? WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO FEAR ABOUT THESE RECORDS? I MEAN ' HE'S A HERO: ISN'T HE....YOU'RE RIGHT...HE'S THE PHONIEST HERO EVER CREATED BY THE MILITARY. I WONDER IF HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER WERE BOTH ADMIRALS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS....YOU RIGHT THE PHONY HERO WAS CREATED AND PROTECTED. AND NOW HE IS BEING ORCHESTRATED BY THE BIGGEST SLIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY...GEORGE H.W. BUSH..WHO BECAUSE HE WAS 'FIRED' AFTER ONLY 1 TERM...WHAT A WAY TO 'GET EVEN....CAN'T WAIT TILL HE FINALY CROAKS.
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mahalapril
3:28PM 3:28PM Aug 4th 2008
You forgot to mention that Obama and his wife are racists.How do you account for 20 years of listening to Rev. Wright anti-white and anti-America sermons if they don't agree with him.Aside from racism he also associates with a corrupt businessman and an American terrorists.
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rick
12:29AM 12:29AM Aug 4th 2008
McCain's just trying to get himself elected in a losing campaign. He actually lost the election even before he was selected to be "the apparent republican nominee" - because he's sided with Bush too many times for too long - and nothing he says now is going to change that - whether he's lying or not (and the odds are is that McCain is lying).
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rrobin6128
12:29AM 12:29AM Aug 4th 2008
Hate to bust everyones bubble, but the military has come out and stated that they never asked Obama not to come, they were actually set up for the visit and it was canciled by Obamas people.
So for whatever reason, Obama was never told by the military not to come. They have stated this several times thru the news media. Nice try though Matt!
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Al Franken
12:29AM 12:29AM Aug 4th 2008
McCain's just a lying liar who tells lies. I bet if he had a Ben on his Cabinet that his real name would actually be Owen. And he'd be straight.
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gloria cranford
9:24AM 9:24AM Aug 4th 2008
I would not vote for McCain. He lies, and distorts the truth, because he does not have a platform to stand on.
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dungal
9:24AM 9:24AM Aug 4th 2008
All of this bickering is getting boring. We/most of us know who the next President will be.
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linda
12:43PM 12:43PM Aug 4th 2008
So, they refused to allow Barack to visit the wounded soldiers?? Seems if that were true, that would be the bigger story. Barack could have gone and visited the wounded...let there be no mistake about it. He chose not to for whatever his reasons were. I think that is the point.
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Jerre Morganti
5:31PM 5:31PM Aug 4th 2008
This is nonsense. McCain's camp was correct in his analysis. The Pentagon did not refuse Obama permission to visit the troops, they granted it. However the stipulation was that he could only bring his senatorial staff with him. He wanted to bring his campaign adviser. Why? C'mon, he wanted publicity or it wasnt worth his time.
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Bart
10:50AM 10:50AM Sep 7th 2008
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/09/why-does-todd-palin-hate-ameri-001107.php
Why Does Todd Palin Hate America?
Kola Boof | Posted September 3, 2008 12:55 AM
... the Alaskan Independent Party--a party that promotes "secession" from the United States as one of its most virally public, if not written, agendas--lists Palin's husband, Todd, as not only a two-time member of said Anti-American political party, but also as a currently "Non-Committed" voter.
(If your wife is a sitting Republican Governor, then why not at least register a party affiliation?)
... For those of you who don't know what AIP stands for; let me reprint this mission statement of the party's founder, Joe Volger:
"I'm an Alaskan, not an American...I've got no use for America or her damned institutions. The fires of hell are glaciers compared to my hate for America and her government."
So tell me--why isn't the nation in an uproar about the fact that Todd Palin hates America and that his supposedly Oval Office-caliber wife chose him as a husband in the first place? More importantly--why isn't John McCain in an uproar about this blatantly unpatriotic ice fisherman ...?
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Bart
10:50AM 10:50AM Sep 7th 2008
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/09/why-does-todd-palin-hate-ameri-001107.php
Why Does Todd Palin Hate America?
Kola Boof | Posted September 3, 2008 12:55 AM
... the Alaskan Independent Party--a party that promotes "secession" from the United States as one of its most virally public, if not written, agendas--lists Palin's husband, Todd, as not only a two-time member of said Anti-American political party, but also as a currently "Non-Committed" voter.
(If your wife is a sitting Republican Governor, then why not at least register a party affiliation?)
... For those of you who don't know what AIP stands for; let me reprint this mission statement of the party's founder, Joe Volger:
"I'm an Alaskan, not an American...I've got no use for America or her damned institutions. The fires of hell are glaciers compared to my hate for America and her government."
So tell me--why isn't the nation in an uproar about the fact that Todd Palin hates America and that his supposedly Oval Office-caliber wife chose him as a husband in the first place? More importantly--why isn't John McCain in an uproar about this blatantly unpatriotic ice fisherman ...?
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