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Skriven 2008-09-16 19:44:53 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Hess
Ärende: campaign lies
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"Alan Hess -> all" <1:261/1000> wrote in news:24768$POL_INC@JamNNTPd:

 AH> Viewpoint: To McCain, truth is irrelevant

Even McCain's family say they no onger know him.

 AH> Back then, sexism directed at a candidate for high office did not
 AH> cause a wave of revulsion in Mr. McCain. But sometime in the last
 AH> year, he had his consciousness raised. So when Sen. Barack Obama
 AH> scoffed at the idea that the GOP ticket offered real change from
 AH> President Bush, saying, "You can put lipstick on a pig - it's still a
 AH> pig," Mr. McCain's camp rose up in outrage at Mr. Obama for "comparing
 AH> our vice presidential nominee, Governor Palin, to a pig."

 AH> In this interpretation of Mr. Obama's remarks, the McCain people are -
 AH> what's the word I'm looking for? - lying. They pretend to be unaware
 AH> of the clear meaning of this old cliche, and the pretense is
 AH> completely phony.

Even Karl Rove is saying McBush is going too far.
Now that says a lot.

 AH> Take Mrs. Palin's claim to have opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere." Long
 AH> after it was exposed as false, she kept making it. The assumption
 AH> behind the McCain strategy is that truth is irrelevant.

She still claims this.

In addition to saying Iraqis were repsonsible for 9-11.

 AH> Last week, he released a TV spot on education studded with falsehoods.
 AH> It quoted the Chicago Tribune calling Mr. Obama a "staunch defender of
 AH> the existing public school monopoly." But the Tribune didn't say it. I
 AH> did, in a signed column in the Tribune, which praised Mr. McCain's
 AH> support for school vouchers for low-income families.

 AH> The ad couldn't be bothered explaining why Mr. Obama is wrong about
 AH> vouchers. Instead, it said his "one accomplishment" was a bill
 AH> mandating sex education for kindergarteners. "Learning about sex
 AH> before learning to read?" asked the narrator, implying that
 AH> 5-year-olds would be taught the proper use of condoms before being
 AH> taught their ABCs. Which, as it happens, is not true.

 AH> Mr. McCain may be the only candidate who has ever gotten in trouble
 AH> with FactCheck.org for quoting FactCheck.org. Another commercial
 AH> showed a photo of Mr. Obama while saying the group called the attacks
 AH> on Palin "false" and "misleading." But the group quickly repudiated
 AH> the charge.

 AH> The FactCheck article, it pointed out, "debunked a number of false or
 AH> misleading claims that have circulated in chain e-mails and Internet
 AH> postings regarding Palin." The ad, however, "strives to convey the
 AH> message that FactCheck.org said 'completely false' attacks on Sarah
 AH> Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. But we said no such thing. We
 AH> have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin."

Remember how the then-popular "joke" was about how Gore "claimed to have
invented the Internet," even though he never said it?

Today, one of McBush's staff held up a Blackberry and said McBush helped
create it.

Even though it was developed in Canada.

 AH> Why does Mr. McCain insist on running such a mendacious campaign?
 AH> There is plenty an honest conservative might say in opposition to Mr.
 AH> Obama: He's wrong about Iraq. He's wrong about Iran. He's wrong about
 AH> offshore oil drilling. He wants to raise taxes. He favors abortion on
 AH> demand. He would appoint liberal judges. He would impede school
 AH> reform.

Because the GOP has nothing left, thanks to 7 years of lies, cronyism,
corruption, and incompetence from Bush.

 AH> But Mr. McCain has concluded that a fact-based case about Mr. Obama
 AH> isn't enough to prevail in November. So he has chosen to smear his
 AH> opponent with ridiculous claims that he thinks the American people are
 AH> gullible enough to believe.

 AH> He has charged repeatedly that his opponent is willing to lose a war
 AH> to win an election. What's Mr. McCain willing to lose to become
 AH> president? Nothing so consequential as a war. Just his soul.

And that charge is yet another McBush lie.

 AH> Steve Chapman is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. His column
 AH> appears regularly in The Sun. His e-mail is schapman@tribune.com.

And Chapman is hardly a "liberal."

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