John McCain Can't Handle the Truth: Taxes, Troops, and Clean Energy

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John McCain Can't Handle the Truth: Taxes, Troops, and Clean Energy

By PA Staff Writers

The past few weeks have seen John McCain make a number of claims that are misleading or outright lies.

First, his campaign tried to push the idea that Barack Obama canceled a visit to military hospitals in Germany to thank service members for their sacrifice during an overseas trip last month because he could not bring the media.

After number of media outlets, such as the Washington Post, reported the truth that the Pentagon informed the Obama campaign that the visit would be viewed as a campaign event and therefore should not be done, the McCain camp continued to insist on their version of the story.

Although the hospital visit was initially approved, Andrea Mitchell of NBC reported, there were hints that McCain advisers with ties to some top military officials pressed the Pentagon to raise the political question and prevent the visit. The McCain people then turned around and falsely accused Obama of not wanting to visit the troops.

More recently the McCain campaign has aired TV ads claiming to promote energy independence, with whirling wind generators in the background, and charging Obama with planning to raise taxes.

But as TPM Election Central reported earlier this week, John McCain's record on energy policy is stunningly opposite to his claim. In the Senate, McCain opposed tax breaks to develop the wind power industry and alternative fuel additives like ethanol, even has he proposed billions in new tax breaks for Big Oil.

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