Fact: Obama never said any of the things the McCain campaign alleges he did. Here is the backup from Factcheck.org http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/mccain-palin_distorts_our_finding.html
I’ve only included a top three list. Alternet has a top 20 list of McCain and Palin lies that should be seen. It is located at http://www.alternet.org/story/98502/mccain_and_palin's_top_20_lies,_myths_and_flip-flops_/ . If McCain and Palin keep things going like they are now, Alternet may have to increase that to a top 50 list before long.
To be sure, the Obama campaign has to get after these lies by McCain. As good as Factcheck.org is and as good as articles by the New York Times and accompanying graphics like this one http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/09/13/us/politics/13mccain_graphic.ready.html are, Obama has to go out and make the case that McCain is out there pushing falsehoods and he has to do that without getting off message and forgetting to bring up the things he intends to do to solve our economic and foreign policy problems.
By the way, Sarah Palin has jumped on board with the McCain campaign’s deceitfulness and distortions. As her recent interview made painfully clear, Palin lied in her acceptance speech about opposing the Bridge to Nowhere. She was an enthusiastic supporter of the $400 million dollar wasteful project for a long time until unfavorable scrutiny was placed on it. Even then she tried to hold on to the project until it became politically untenable. Even THEN, however, she did not have Alaska return the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Federal Government had given the state to start construction.
Palin also lied in her assertions that Alaska supplies 20% of the country’s energy needs. Factcheck.org indicates here http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/energetically_wrong.html that Alaska supplies about 3.5% or 2.4% depending on which measurement you use. One would expect the Governor of Alaska to know this and thus know that what she was saying was a bald-faced lie.
Here are some videos that show exactly what McCain has become:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
these videos show a man who has sold out completely and has no values or integrity left other than saying and doing whatever it takes to get elected. The joke is that McCain and Palin are trying to portray themselves as Mavericks who will also bring change to Washington. McCain and Palin embody the worst of everything that comes to mind when you think about Washington. You cannot trust anything that John McCain or Sarah Palin say. Their words mean nothing other than what they think will sound good at that moment.
My guess is that the McCain campaign is betting that with only about 50 days left until Election Day, they can get away with enough of this to fool the public into voting for them. I think, with a little help from Obama and the press, they will be proven wrong.
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