McCain calls Obama a liar

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Republican John McCain is calling Democratic rival Barack Obama a liar.


The GOP presidential candidate told a campaign rally: "Sen. Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed."

In some of the harshest language yet, McCain said the campaign comes down to a simple question: Who is the real Barack Obama?

McCain drew the loudest cheers when he said the Democrat has written two memoirs but "he's not exactly an open book."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_...

[LisaM]

1. ROFL! ROFL!

For emphasis:




The way this race has shaken out, I think it's clear, CLEAR, that the Democrats had an exceptionally talented pool of candidates this year. The Republicans are completely handcuffed when it comes to this election. There is nothing they can do that makes sense. Nothing!

[TwilightGardener]

2. Oh, boy--he's scraping bottom now. He was calling for more deregulation

as recently as March.

[last1standing]

7. Hell! He was demanding that health care be as deregulated as other businesses last week.

Mcsame is a liar, a thief and a traitor to the people of this country. He should be tried, with all his deregulation pushing friends and executed for treason.

[radfringe]

8. he voted for the bailout

then said bush should have vetoed it because of all the pork...

if there was so much unacceptable pork in there - then why the hell did you vote for it???!!!!

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_wants_Bush_to_...

[People4Change]

19. McCain's big DEREGULATION vote in 1999

In 1999, John McCain voted for passage of the Senate version of a bill that would eliminate current barriers erected by the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and other laws that impede affiliations between banking, securities, insurance and other firms. The bill also would exempt small, non-urban banks from the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), revise the Federal Home Loan Bank system and require that owners of automated teller machines (ATMs) provide notice on the ATM and on-screen of any charges imposed for the use of the terminal.

The bill was co-sponsored by PHIL GRAMM, McCain's CAMPAIGN ECONOMIC ADVISOR. You know, the guy that said Americans were whiners, we were having a mental recession.

Do these people have no shame?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. That's what he's got?

He can namecall and that's all?

Oh, man, how pathetic is that? He's got nothing.

The next two debates should be interesting.

Think McPOW's been taking lessons in looking at the man who's gonna whomp him?

[9119495]

4. Technically, McCain is right...not about the liar thing.

He has called for both deregulation AND regulation so he can conveniently claim he is for both. What a POS.

[TwilightGardener]

12. He cosponsored one bill, and then when it failed to make it out of committee

he didn't cosponsor it again the next time it was introduced--the Hagel bill. Attached his name to one bill that never saw the light of day, gave one speech, and NEVER MENTIONED IT AGAIN in the ensuing years, until a couple weeks ago. I'm certain he forgot all about it.

[54anickel]

5. Project much lately, McCain?

"...if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed"

How's that been workin' for you so far, McCain? Guess it just hasn't work as well without the Republican noise machine carrying the water for you. So now you want to project that tactic onto Senator Obama?

[LisaM]

9. Like the Swiftboat lies against Kerry?

That his party pushed all during the 2004 campaign?

[melissinha]

29. bingo! its all projection...

have you noticed that everything that McSame accuses Obama of is something that he himself is more vulnerable on?

[Mark E. Smith]

6. Guess we're going to have to roll the tape

Poor McWhine is running against the toughest
campaigner of all - reality.

[cui bono]

10. When you fail to negotiate, reality steps in and negotiates for you.

-someone, can't remember who.

[NJmaverick]

11. Shouldn't your post be titled "McLiar calls Obama a liar"?

[thecrow]

13. "McCain drew the loudest cheers when he said..."

From one of his less than capacity audiences?
Uh... how many were cheering?
Three, you say?

[izzie]

14. A man like McCain is not going to let a man like Obama beat him.

Face it he will say anything to win. I am willing to bet McCain thinks that this job is some thing he was born to do. No up-start like an Obama is going to take it from him. I am sure McCain thinks he is some thing special. And please God save us from Plain and the Bush's of this world. Must have been what Germany felt with Kaiser William in control like having 8 years of Bush. They just leave a mess every place. Just think we could end up with a Palin as the first woman Pres. I can not re-call 8 years turning out so bad for this country.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

15. Pot, Kettle, Black....

[chat_noir]

16. A great resource for many of McCain's deregulation quotes

John McCain: The Deregulator

http://progressiveaccountability.org/2008/09/17/john-mc...

[Claire Beth]

17. Show thy temper McShame! n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

18. Now we see if the press is stil his base. He is DARING them not to show him opposing regulation.

[PatrynXX]

20. Thief

does this guy have any original ideas? This coming from the Bridge to nowhere lie repeated over and over and over an...

[Nambe]

21. Liar Liar, the polls are on fire. This Shadow boxing won´t help Johnny

[Arkana]

22. Too late, John--we beat you to the liar punch already.

Now you're just projecting.

[LynnTheDem]

23. Let me quote John McCain...

“I didn’t want to do this. But I could tell from the desperate looks of my staff that we had an enormous problem. And that it could come down to lying or losing. I chose lying.”
John McCain in his book, 'Worth the Fighting For'

[HopeHoops]

24. Geeze, is there ANYTHING, ANYTHING Obama can use that McSame won't appropriate?

[LynnTheDem]

25. Dear Republicans; are ya gonna let John "Liar" McCain con and dupe you

just like George W. bUsh did? Or are ya gonna check the FACTS for yourselves, in which case you will discover the FACT that John "Liar" McCain did IN FACT vote to DEREGULATE.

Just wondering if you're "party uber alles" or "facts rule".

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[CJCRANE]

27. The status quo is global economic collapse.

Heckuva job Bushie.

[LynnTheDem]

28. Oh look!

It's one of the 24%!

Very exciting, as you're so very rare nowadays!

[biglefthander]

30. It's called a "FACTOID..."

...saying something over and over until the listener(s) begin to believe it is true. A classic tactic of Republican propaganda that McCain indulges in with gusto.

For instance, McCain's comment after the VP debate, "How about that Sarah Palin, Heh!? Heh!?" implying she actually won the debate despite the slough of polling data that indicates otherwise.

The McCain campaign has amused me to no end, but it has no idea on how to win this election. Going with smear tactics at this point only helps him amongst his right-wing base, which is a dwindling group to begin with if one looks at the voter registration data.

The Silly Season is in full swing now. It began with the nomination of Palin, which can only be interpreted as a political stunt given her absurd lack of any qualification for an office above that of harem girl. Then the GOP convention where John McCain's campaign strategy became "I am the White Obama...Change! Change! Change!" And finally McCain's Airborne Rescue of Washington during the Bailout Negotiations that only muddied the situation and called McCain's own policies, temperament and character into question.

McCain has a woman on his ticket, but he is the Drama Queen.

[and-justice-for-all]

31. Obama and McFucked's voting records...

is public knowledge and accessible to everyone. If someone really wants to know, all they have to do is look.

Sorry McFucked, but you and 4 other bastards did cause a financial scandal that lasted over a year. McFucked is a LIAR.

[JonLP24]

32. McCain calls Obama a liar, faults his Chicago ties

Source: WOKV (Florida)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Behind in the polls, Republican John McCain on Monday called Democratic rival Barack Obama a liar as he leveled his harshest criticism yet, and said the campaign boils down to one basic question: Who is Obama really?

Adopting an aggressive tone on the eve of their second debate of the season, the Republican presidential candidate criticized Obama's ties to Chicago, his legislative record and even his pair of best-selling memoirs.

McCain, speaking about the financial crisis, took offense at Obama's accusation that McCain opposed regulation that would have prevented the credit crunch. "I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed," McCain said.

The Arizona senator, a veteran of more than two decades in Congress, told his audience that while he is a known quantity the same cannot be said about Obama, who is midway through his first term as a senator from Illinois.

"You need to know who you're putting in the White House _ where the candidate came from and what he or she believes," McCain said. "And you need to know now, before it is time to choose."



Read more: http://wokv.com/common/ap/2008/10/06/D93L9P804.html

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McCain, like you repeatedly keep saying Obama wants to raise everyone's taxes

[grannylib]

33. ROTFLMAO!!! His statement sums up the entire rePigliCon philosophy!

Tell lies, loud and long, and hope people are still stupid enough to believe anything that comes out of a rePigliCon's mouth...
What rubbish.

[ixion]

34. well, that one's been fact checked, so I guess we know who the REAL liar is

'nuff said.

[paparush]

35. This next debate should be a doozie! (if not a DUzy)

I hope steam comes out of Johnny Lockjaws ears.