E. J. Dionne has another good column that looks at the flagrant dishonesty of the McCain/Palin ticket. Actually, I am not surprised, which is not to say that the conduct doesn't utterly disgust me. After all, the McSenile/Palin campaign is now basically being run by Karl Rove subordinates. Moreover, in my 31 years of legal practice and exposure to the business world, with few exceptions, I have found no group that lies more consistently that the self-anointed "Christians" who wear their religion on their sleeves and then proceed to lie, engage in dirty business practices, embezzle client funds, slime those around them who are honest, and engage in otherwise reprehensible conduct. After eight years of the Chimperator's and Emperor Cheney's lies, one would think the American public would have caught on - not to mention the main stream media whose failure to challenge Bush/Cheney allowed the nation to be lead into the Iraq War based on lies. Sadly, apparently such is not the case. McSenile talks about "honor" but liars have no honor. I pray that the GOP ticket loses because that may be the only way to end this increasing cancerous campaign mindset. Like the Chimperator, McCain is making me ashamed to be an American. Here are some column highlights:*
This is not false naivete: I am genuinely surprised that John McCain and his campaign keep throwing out false charges and making false claims without any qualms. They keep talking about Sarah Palin’s opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere without any embarrassment over the fact that she once supported it. They keep saying that Barack Obama will raise taxes, suggesting he’d raise them on everybody, when Obama’s plan, according to the Tax Policy Institute, would cut taxes for “about 80 percent of households” while “only about 10 percent would owe more.”
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And now comes a truly vile McCain ad accusing Obama of supporting legislation to offer "'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners." . . . Margaret Talev of McClatchy newspapers called the ad a “deliberate low blow.” Here’s what she wrote in an excellent fact check: “This is a deliberately misleading accusation."
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McCain once campaigned on the idea that the war on terrorism is the “transcendent” issue of our time. Now, he’s stooping to cheap advertising that would be condemned as trivial and misleading in a state legislative race. And I wonder if the media will really take on this onslaught of half-truths and outright deception.
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Michael:
After hearing Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention I mentioned to a friend of mine that it sounded as if it was a chapter torn from the Karl Rove 'manual of the politics of cynicism and destruction" and it looks as if the ad man is back on the job for McCain. It's not only the lies - don't forget that it was Ron Reagan who perfected the repetition of the Big Lie approach to politics and governance so we've had 20 years of this kind of mind f**k gaming- but how eagerly the public embraces the lies.
It seems that rather than electing people who would demonstrate intelligence, good judgement and integrity in governing, the public wants politicians who they feel good about having a beer with. Or a glass of Moose Milk with I suppose.
Scott
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