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THE LIES AND DISTORTIONS BY McCAIN & PALIN

By Lee Dimin. - Oct 7th, 2008 at 7:41 am EDT

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Today's quotes (there are several):-
"A poor man is better than a liar." Proverbs xix,22
"I hate a liar." - Plautus, Mendacem odi,
"We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth." - Cicero, Divinatione
"All liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with brimstone and fire." - Revelations xxi,8
"Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolators, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." - Revelations xxii,15
"A liar is much worse, and does greater mischief, than a murderer on the highways; for a liar and false teacher deceives people, seduces souls and transforms them. - Martin Luther, Table Talk
"The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth." - J.C. and A.W. Hare. Guesses at Truth.
Comment: - The following are several links respecting the lies of George W. Bush, which have, to date, killed more than 4,177 American troops, plus non-military personnel, the deaths of some 1,273,578 Iraqi civilians, the wounding of more than 30,680 American troops and with mental wounds. to more than 300,000 American troops. Murderous lies that have been taken up by the Republican candidates for President, John McCain, and his Vice President choice Sarah Palin, both of who have disgraced American politicos by accepting the influence of Karl Rove protégé, "Bull is be the way ethead" Schmidt and rinning their campaign on the basis of character assassination and disgusting lies. If then this is their approach in dealing with other world leaders with whom they disagree,, this country may never again regain the stature it once had, when after 9/11 almost every nation in the world supported this nation, and the Bush administration, with people of the mind-set of John McCaintossed iot all with their lie and misinformation, instead of capitalizing on it. the results seven years of "f----d-up" war efforts at a cost of hundred of billions of dollars as well as the live and limbs above accounted for, over a periosd of seven years (longer than both our actions in World Wars I and II).. Read the links, about the liars who seek to succeed the biggest liar, to date, to ever hold the office, and see if you want even one more day of their lies and distortions of facts.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/09/04/palin_speech/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/29/obama_convention_speech/index.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/05/palin_bush/index.html
http://rebellenation.blogspot.com/2005_08_21_archive.html
John McCain has proven himself to be, not only as good a liar as George W,. Bush, he lacks G.W.B's stupidity to "excuse" his repeated lying, but is not smart enough to refuse to say in his lying TV ads, "I approve this message", and therefore, unlike Bush, admits to lying.. John Sidney McCain III is not running an honorable campaign. It's an unpatriotic campaign. It's a dishonest campaign. Every ad his campaign has put on the air since his convention has been untrue. The campaign is full of untruths, distortions, and lies. He knows he can't win a campaign based on the truth, so he lies to the American people to win. John Sidney McCain III is not running an honorable campaign. It's an unpatriotic campaign. It's a dishonest campaign. The surprising thing about McCain's campaign is how openly dishonest it is. Past candidates usually let outside groups do the lying (such as the Swiftboat Veterans' group in 2004). But this year the lies have been coming straight from the candidate's mouth. Here are some examples:
McCain keeps saying that Obama will raise taxes on the middle class. McCain has been saying this in his speeches and in at least eight ads. Several speakers at the Republican convention also picked up on the theme. But Obama's plan is very clear: He will raise taxes on families making $250,000 or more, and lower taxes on families making $150,000 or less. The majority of Americans (about 80% according to CNN) would have their taxes lowered under Obama's plan. But McCain keeps repeating this false claim, long after it has been debunked. The nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center found that Obama's plan would save the middle class more money than McCain's plan would. Obama's plan would also result in a smaller federal deficit than McCain's plan would (although both plans would increase the deficit). McCain's excuse for spreading these lies is that Obama will have to raise taxes even if he doesn't want to, but that is equally true of McCain. In fact, it is more true of McCain because McCain wants to give additional tax cuts to the rich.
McCain keeps mentioning the figure $42,000 a year, saying that Obama will raise taxes on families making that much and more. He claims this because Obama twice voted for non-binding resolutions to allow Bush's tax-cuts-for-the-rich to expire (as they will in 2010 if Congress takes no action to extend them). When those tax cuts expire, some families may see a small tax increase. However, Obama proposes to adjust the tax laws so that no middle-class families see a tax increase. Again, McCain is just lying. The great irony of this is that Obama's plan would give middle-class taxpayers a tax cut that is three times as big as McCain's plan would give.
McCain has been saying that Obama voted to raise taxes 94 times while in the Senate, but that just isn't true. First of all, McCain is including duplicate votes in that total (a bill or resolution may be voted on many times before it becomes law). Also, McCain is including votes against tax cuts. Some of Obama's votes were to raise taxes only on the rich. Some of the votes were to raise taxes on the rich while also lowering taxes on the middle class. But the majority of those votes were for nonbinding budget resolutions which didn't have the force of law (a budget resolution is like a budgetary blueprint or guideline which Congress uses to draft appropriations bills). Factcheck.org said that Obama has been consistent: He has voted to raise taxes on the rich and to lower taxes on the poor and middle class. (Factcheck.org is a site run by the University of Pennsylvania which examines the veracity of political claims.) This claim that Obama has voted to raise taxes 94 times is a good example of how McCain and the Republicans distort the truth in order to make their claims.
McCain has resurrected an old lie of George Bush's. McCain has been saying that Obama's tax plan will raise taxes on 23,000,000 small-businessmen. Bush used this lie against John Kerry in 2004, but Bush said that Kerry would raise taxes on 900,000 small-businessmen. As you can see, McCain has multiplied the lie by a factor of 25! Factcheck.org said that there are not even 23,000,000 small-businessmen in the country, and only a small percentage of them make enough money to have their taxes raised under Obama's plan. In fact, Factcheck.org said that more small-businessmen would have their taxes lowered than raised under Obama's plan.
In July, 2008, McCain ran an ad in which he blamed Obama for high gasoline prices (because of votes Obama cast against off-shore drilling). Obama has been in the Senate for less than four years, and his votes could not possibly be responsible for pricing in the oil and gas industries. It is well known that high oil prices are due primarily to supply and demand, speculative trading and other market forces. Furthermore, the Energy Information Administration, a government agency, estimates that off-shore drilling would bring prices down only slightly, and that it would take more than twenty years for that to happen.
In July, 2008, McCain ran an ad saying that Obama will raise taxes on electricity. That claim was based on an off-hand remark which Obama made which McCain distorted beyond recognition. Obama has no plans to raise taxes on electricity. In September, 2008, McCain once again ran an ad saying that Obama will tax electricity. The ad also says that Obama will tax heating oil and "life savings". In actuality, Obama's plan would give a tax rebate to homeowners to help them pay for heating oil. Regarding "savings", Obama will increase taxes for capital gains and dividends only for couples making $250,000 or more, or singles making $200,000 or more. Regular savings, such as money you would keep in a savings account, will not be affected at all. In July, 2008, McCain ran an ad saying that Obama will raise taxes on electricity. That claim was based on an off-hand remark which Obama made which McCain distorted beyond recognition. Obama has no plans to raise taxes on electricity. In September, 2008, McCain once again ran an ad saying that Obama will tax electricity. The ad also says that Obama will tax heating oil and "life savings". In actuality, Obama's plan would give a tax rebate to homeowners to help them pay for heating oil. Regarding "savings", Obama will increase taxes for capital gains and dividends only for couples making $250,000 or more, or singles making $200,000 or more. Regular savings, such as money you would keep in a savings account, will not be affected at all.
Several of McCain's ads say that Obama and the Democrats want "big government". In the ad mentioned directly above, it says, "Obama and his liberal Congressional allies want a massive government, billions in spending increases, wasteful pork." That may be an opinion of McCain's, but it certainly isn't a fact. Obama is against "pork" (earmarks), just as McCain is (although McCain's record on earmarks is better than Obama's). As for Obama wanting "spending increases", both Bush and the Republican congress that was voted out of power in 2006 spent money like it was going out of style. By winding down the war in Iraq and avoiding future unnecessary military involvements, Obama would decrease overall government spending.
In July, 2008, McCain ran an ad in which Fidel Castro was quoted as saying that Obama was the best candidate for President. That gave the impression that Obama is the choice of our nation's enemies (not that Castro is much of an enemy). But what McCain left out was that Castro had more negative things to say about Obama than positive things, and that Castro is not happy with either candidate. Obama is not responsible for the opinions of foreign leaders.
When Obama was traveling in Europe in July, 2008, he cancelled a visit with some wounded soldiers because the Pentagon felt that it would appear political. Since Obama was not busy, he gave an interview and visited a gym for a workout. McCain then ran an ad claiming that Obama would rather go to the gym than visit wounded solders, completely twisting the facts. McCain also claimed that Obama cancelled the visit because he could not bring cameras, but that was never true. Obama knew ahead of time that cameras were not allowed.
A commercial released in late August quotes Obama as saying that Iran is a "tiny" country which doesn't pose a serious threat to the United States, but that's not what Obama said. In the speech that McCain is quoting, Obama said, "Iran, Cuba, Venezuela – these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us." Obama was making the point that if we could talk to the Soviet Union during the cold war, we can talk to Iran today. Once again, McCain twisted the truth.
In McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, he said that Obama's health-care plan "will force small businesses to cut jobs, reduce wages, and force families into a government run health-care system where a bureaucrat stands between you and your doctor." In actuality, Obama's plan would do none of those things. First, small businesses would be exempt from the law. Large companies which already provide private health insurance could continue to offer it. Obama's plan would require children to have health insurance, but their parents could choose between the government program or private insurance. As for adults, Obama's plan would not mandate that they have health insurance at all, so it cannot be said that his plan would "force families into a government-run health-care system".
A McCain ad released in early September said that Obama "gave big oil billions in subsidies and giveaways". The ad is referring to a bill which Obama voted for, and which President Bush signed into law. The bill provided $2.6 billion in tax incentives for the oil and gas industries over an 11-year period, but it also increased other taxes by $2.9 billion, so overall taxes on the oil industry increased.
The McCain campaign started running an ad in September saying that Barack Obama tried to push a bill through the Illinois state legislature that would give sex education to kindergarteners. Obama was not one of the sponsors of the bill. However, he did support it, but the bill was not as onerous as McCain makes it sound. The primary purpose of the bill was to ensure that sex education in the schools was medically accurate. It recommended including kindergarteners in the sex-education program, but the instructions given to them were to be "age appropriate" and non-explicit. One of the reasons Obama supported the bill was that it would teach young children to recognize when they were being touched inappropriately(that' s a good thing!). Also, parents were given the right to opt out of the program..
Sarah Palin, McCain's Vice-Presidential nominee, is now getting in on the lies. She claim ed in her speech before the Republican convention that she said "thanks , but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere. Then, in an interview with Charles Gibson on ABC, she admitted that she had sought the funds to build the bridge. Then again later, at a campaign stop in Nevada, she once again claimed that she had said "thanks but no thanks" to the bridge. In other words, she continued to pretend that she didn't support the bridge even after admitting on national TV that she supported it! A politician who doesn't recognize when she is lying is a dangerous person to put in power. The McCain campaign released a commercial in September which claimed that Palin "stopped" the Bridge to Nowhere. In fact, Palin abandoned the project when it became clear that it was unpopular. However, with Palin as governor, Alaska kept the money anyway! The law didn't require that the money be returned if the bridge wasn't built, but clearly it should have been. The amount appropriated was $223 million (I am still checking this figure; it may be higher).
Now, Sarah Palin is on a "barracuda" attack upon Barack OIbama about someone who was saying things unkindly about the United States of America when Barack Obama was 6 yrs. old. This is a shameless attack, by a shameless "broad", and I call her that with the utmost disrepsect, for I cannot show respect for someone who is so willing to attempt to destroy another human being's character And she claims to be a "Christian. one who is manifesting the teachings of Christ or of his teachings " Her religious beliefs are even fraudulent, as proven by her attacks on another human, both in this campaign and in her past political ambitions in Alaska. What a disgusting human being is Sarah Palin!

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By Dallas Rutledge Oct 7th 2008 at 7:58 am EDT (Updated Oct 7th 2008 at 7:58 am EDT)

Excellent post filled with excellent facts. I wish all McCain voters could read it but as we all know by now republicans detest confusing issues with facts. (Just last night I had to try and convince a couple of friends-both of them otherwise intellegent individuals-that Barack is not and never has been a Muslim.) The republicans are still on the same threads sending out information to folk hoping they havent looked at the facts. As in 2004, the only chance the republicans have is misinformation.
I'll give McCain one little point here though..I guess since he thinks someone needs to have 5 million in the bank or in assets to be considered rich, he might very well consider someone making ONLY 2 million a year to be middle class. He's so far out of touch with reality on this subject he might be making a true statement (from his own prospective) when he says Barack will raise taxes on the middle class..lol.

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By Lee Dimin. Oct 10th 2008 at 2:46 pm EDT (Updated Oct 10th 2008 at 2:46 pm EDT)

Seventy years ago, at age eighteen, I was told that the average mentality of the voter we 12. Looking at those supporting John S. McCain the mentality of the average voter today seems to have declined with the economy. read my latest on "John McCain says 'i know how' but doesn't te;;; us".

With every bill payment I make by mail, and with every letter I now mail, I print next to where the stamp is placed, "VOTE OBAMA-BIDEN" AND HIGHLIGHT IT.

We, who realize it know we can longer wait for CHANGE. We must nmake i happen now.

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