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AMERICAblog: McCain caught lying in effort to smear Obama

  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    I remember a time, not so long ago, when warriors who returned home had the decency to be modest or even silent about their heroism. But then McCain has always been a blowhard, a rageaholic, a wastrel, an incompetent warrior, and a self-pitying weakling who excuses all the wreckage he leaves in his wake by claiming that he is a victim of his inability to live up to a Platonic conception of himself as an honorable man.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    EXACTLY! My Grandfather served in WWII and whenever I was little, I would ask him about what things he did over there, he said "a true soldier doesn't brag about it, I was just doing my duty and serving my country".

    Those words could never be truer. I suppose tell it over and over again so that you can use it for personal gain is McSame's philosophy.

    Hmmm, new moniker, "Personal Gain McCain"!
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    agreed. i know a wonderful man who was a medic in Vietnam. He must have seen untold horror and will not say one word about it. I worry about his own health in keeping it to himself, but it's like he can't put that on anyone else.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    Not a maverick now, NEVER WAS a maverick. John, can we quit feeding into this false myth? It is a media construct, with nothing to back it up. A more apt name for him would be Free Ride McCain, since he's spent his entire life on the governments teat....
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    In its original usage a "maverick" was a stray, a straggler. That fits McShame well since he has no idea of where he wants to lead or how to get there.
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    Who first started calling McCain a maverick?
    A Maverick is supposed to be unbranded, McCain has, Bush, the GOP and Rove branded all over his ass.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    he started calling himself Maverick. That's like calling yourself a war hero. Consider the source.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    that may be, but as it's been applied to Free Ride that's not what's meant... If we MUST have a horse metaphor, how about calling him a gelding, since his masters have taken his "mavericky" balls.
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    Not horse, maverick is a cattle term, a lost motherless calf. A good horse term for McShame would be glue donor.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    Ok, confusing with mustang...

    at any rate, Free Ride has been exhibiting symptoms of "Mad Cow Syndrome" for quite some time, so maybe his new moniker should be Mad Cow McCain...
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    Or his wife's.
  • red_dwarf · 1 year ago
    Lying is what facist rePIGs do best - it is the foundation of their propaganda.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    I believe that is called grand theft, and is a prosecutable offense.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    I also am damned sure that receiving STOLEN flags is a crime too. Most likely a felony.
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    Mental health types call it projecting, seeing your faults in others. This is is the only way Repugs can deal with their flaws by transfering their guilt to others.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    We also see it in advertising. The advertising often reflects the biggest flaws a company feels they need to hide. Car companies that talk about how quiet and well build their cars are, know the opposite is true. With all the food recalls, the food companies talk about how safe their food is. Or Bush/Cheneytalking about how safe they are keeping us. They don't want us to find out the truth about them.
  • MNUSA · 1 year ago
    I am so sick of this stuff. To think that eight years ago, I actually would have considered voting for McCain if he had won the nomination. Now I wouldn't vote for him for dogcatcher. Can he sleep at night?
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    McCain seems to think an awful lot of himself when it comes to patriotism and love of country. It's almost as if John McCain thinks he's the only one who loves America, or he thinks he loves her way more than any one else does.

    The reason McCain has to make such a big issue about his own patriotism, the reason, he has to keep yelling and screaming that he is a better partriot is ... of course, he knows the truth about himself and is afraid someone else will find out the truth about his patriotism. Guess what, a little birdy told us. The little birdy's name is Senator John S. McCain. So now we know. Thanks Senator, for making things clear for us.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    This also demonstrates the emptiness of what McCain really has to offer. All he has to offer are lies, and attacks on Obama, but nothing really positive about himself. Okay, his speech and Palin's speech did make claims of positive things they said they would do for us. Ha ha! I thought they were claiming that if we elected them, they would become liberal though they avoided the word liberal which they still think is a dirty word. But all the things they promising were of a liberal nature. And you know that they won't ever do that.
  • FNReedie · 1 year ago
    If McCain/Palin wins, I wonder if he will pay her only 80% of the current VP salary? McCain could claim it as a cost cutting measure.
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    McShame is a traitor, in the POW camps and in Congress. Check out this site for details:
    http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/
  • DonS · 1 year ago
    That's right. Being tortured may affect your character, for better or worse. but it doesn't immediately translate into love of country. Could actually have the opposite effect. There is not metric I'm aware of to distinguish.
  • BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago
    Who's ever heard of a former POW that didn't go batshit crazy at times?
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    That report is a Rovian smear against the Democratic party, not just Senator Obama. It's kinda of ironic, since the GOP used fake troops in their propaganda video at their convention. Also, how can McCain claim the patriotism angle, when his campaign is run by Karl Rove, the man who outed a CIA agent tracking WMDs in the Middle East???? The Democratic party should make Rove a campaign issue. America won't survive four more years of GOP fascism.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/cbsne...
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    "The Democratic party should make Rove a campaign issue."

    Absolutely. The GOP '08 ticket is Rove/McCain/Palin.
    The Dems must skin the hound at the head of the dog pack.
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    Does anyone remember the movie the Idolmaker with Ray Sharkey? McCain is trying to be the VP maker, he or whoever is running his campaign has taken an unknown, let her make a couple of speeches then have her go into hiding keeping her away from the media and the public.
    In the Idolmaker Ray Sharkey took a busboy played by Peter Gallagher and showed him how to dance and sing ,then he would have him do a show then go into hiding and that made him very popular with fans, radio stations and magazines.
  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    Can the rethuglicans ever win without lying, exaggerating, attacking and smearing? No, they cannot, because they have NOTHING to run on.
    Their policies FAIL all the time, and the country suffers tremendously.
    Take their convention for instance. They did not have many bright ideas as to
    what they will do for the suffering masses. No policy matters touched on much, but the attacks on Obama? They should get a Medal for that one.
    Palin duped the mindless ones, by reading out a speech, which had many untruths in it, and written by someone else. Now they think she is a STAR!
    They do not know anything about this woman, and they think that someone who was in the PTA, with no experience in foreign affairs, lived next to Russia, is a gun lover who shoot moose, and rides snowmobile, is ready to step into the role of President, if the need arose.

    There is no hope for this country, folks. We should hang our heads in shame, because half this country at least, have very low intelligence, and cannot think straight.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    She's Annie Oakley.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    if you're a real hero, it shows. you don't have to tell anyone you are.

    McBraggart
  • gwpriester · 1 year ago
    Bill Moyers Journal last night had a very poignent segment on the National Guard troops who were being deployed again to Iraq. These people's families get no support from the government after about 2 weeks and have a very difficult time making ends meet.

    By contrast, I am sure the "contractors" in Iraq are probably being paid magnitudes more and have better benifits.

    Oh, but what am I saying? McCain was a POW. How quickly I forget. :-o

    What a pathetic man he has become.

    It is time for Mr. McCain and the rest of those republicans who proclaim their support for the troops to put their money where their mouth is in terms of their so-called patriotism. Put up or shut up!
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    The Karl Krew lives to muddy the waters and confuse people. They already know that POTUS is a lost cause, so they're just trying to hold onto as many seats on Cap Hill as they can possibly scrape out. They sure ain't gaining any seats!

    Has anyone noticed how the right-wing is now talking about ANYTHING BUT their own candidates these days? There must be a virus going around.
  • BarrieT · 1 year ago
    Yup, the flags were stolen. I guess if Dems really cared about the flag, they would have kept them locked up to stop Republicans from stealing them.

    This reminds me of the story about all the Ws being removed from the White House keyboards by the Clinton staff - that turned out to be baloney, too.
  • DoctorJ · 1 year ago
    The McCain campaign operatives are a bunch of petty assholes. They're also douchebags, the same people who put up a photo of a middle school behind McCain during his big speech thinking it was Walter Reed hospital.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    OT. Flipping thru channels. Landed on HBO, "Live Free or Die Hard" with Bruce Willis. Yes, I know, but I like Timothy Olyphant.

    Never realized that Bruce Willis' character in the entire Die Hard series is:

    John McClane
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    Fox reporter who smeared Kerry in 2004, is behind this latest smear. Surprised????

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214283.php
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    Kind of a "Watergate" moment.

    A desparate move by desparate people. Think of the MSNBC open mic gaffe by Murphy and Noonan. If the McCain campaign knows the party elders are saying that about the ticket, they will grasp at anything to succeed. Typical Rovian politics. Nothing has changed.
  • 1stRepublic14thStar · 1 year ago
    This move reeks of desperation, along the lines of looking through Bill Clinton's passport file in an effort to "prove" he was a Soviet spy.

    McCain and his staff would be ashamed -- if they knew how to feel shame.

    And while I think of it, this is a CLASSIC example of why Democrats lose elections. You shouldn't be "sad" and "disappointed" that someone stole your flags and then falsely said you threw them away. You should be "angered" and "outraged" and you should file a police report, followed by a press release DEMANDING that the thieves be arrested and brought to justice. Oh, and of course, you also DEMAND the return of your flags.
  • newscruzer1 · 1 year ago
    RIGHT ON!
    Your right, where is the back bone of the democrats?
    If they don't begin acting like people with guts, this election will be handed to the far right, who are so far wrong.
    If the Christian majority say their going to heaven, then, please, please send me to hell.
    It's hard enough now being around these shallow fools, let alone forever.
    They make my skin crawl...eekkk!!!
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    This is how Real Americans show respect for their flag:

    (0:13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfibaWamS70&feat...

    (0:21) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOLr0Oa0ESA&feat...
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    And yet, none of this will make a bit of difference. Republicans and Democrats both have become blind to the faults of their candidates.
  • gregwire · 1 year ago
    PITCHFORKS!
  • democrattotheend · 1 year ago
    False as it is, sadly, this will probably make its way into a new smear e-mail that a lot of people believe. GRRRR!!

    Malia and Sasha's Daddy for President
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    I didn't see a lapel flag on McCain. He hates America for our freedoms.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    I noticed that, too.
  • 1stRepublic14thStar · 1 year ago
    McCain and his staff would be ashamed -- if they knew how to feel shame.

    And while I think of it, this is a CLASSIC example of why Democrats lose elections. You shouldn't be "sad" and "disappointed" that someone stole your flags and then lied about you by saying you threw them away. You should be "angered" and "outraged" and you should file a police report, followed by a press release DEMANDING that the thieves be arrested and brought to justice. Oh, and of course, you also DEMAND the return of your flags.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    Country first, honesty second.
  • kiki · 1 year ago
    "It's one thing to be a hero, and quite another to think yourself the hero."

    No truer words were ever spoken.

    It's starting to be annoying. Can't they think of anything else to talk about, like what they are going to do????????????? Some substance would be nice, but I'm sure they are at a loss for that. They only thing they're good at is lying and degrading people, but that's only because they are the only "perfect ones."
  • kevinbgoode · 1 year ago
    Someone who was handed a career to them "serving" himself, rather than the country (by his own admission) has little business being called a "hero" simply because he was shot down after a couple of dozen hours in action. There is nothing heroic about spending years collecting a salary from the American taxpayers while confessing no love for his country.
  • kiki · 1 year ago
    PS

    I also love the way McBush is trying to make his campaign theme "Change." Couldn't think of a theme so he had to steal Obama's. WHAT A JOKE! Obama shouldn't even waste his time defending himself for this jerk!
  • newscruzer1 · 1 year ago
    What I would like to know is why the media is not trying to locate other POW's who were with McCain to get their views on just how he either never sold out., or that he did.
    I have heard that McCain's nickname is " SONGBIRD M Cain"
    I would like to know the truth on this subject, and not just here say.
    As far as choosing Palin for V.P. what a masterful stroke that was, performed just like a politician .
    That will get the female votes who were going to vote for Hillary. Won't make any difference if she's qualified or not, as long as it's a female in their.
    McCain already has one foot in the grave, and if he should wind up with the other one in there, we might as well kiss it all good by.
    I don't want to see her with her finger on the nuclear button, that's for sure.
  • jauleb · 1 year ago
    With Obama in the lead, garnering more and more support each day, and running a strong and well-organized campaign, one would think that McCain would try to match his campaigning efforts, mobilize more volunteers, and prove himself the stronger candidate in a respectable, honest way. Instead, the McCain campaign resorted to attacks on Obama’s character and on nasty tricks to deliberately confuse voters about Obama. McCain, in choosing to attack his opponent rather that prove himself more worthy of the nomination through his campaign message and vision for America, made it clear that he is the weaker candidate. McCain’s attempts to make Obama mysterious and dangerous by questioning his history, and linking him to questionable groups, is a strong implicit racial appeal to voters, and is a clear attempt to scare voters out of voting for Obama. Perhaps if McCain put as much effort into proving himself to the people of America as he has smearing Obama and trying to scare the American public, he would receive more support. Sure his tactics work to an extent, he has manipulated the fears and vulnerabilities of the American people and exploited the racist ideas internalized by so many American; however, he underestimated the millions of Americans who want a candidate who will create positive, progressive change and America, not take advantage of the weaknesses that currently exist.