Time.com rips McCain a new asshole

[27inCali]

Joe Klein calling it as he sees it:

"McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a consistent—and witting—disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to say, "Obama says he's 'open to' offshore drilling, but he's always opposed it. How can we believe him?" This persistence in repeating demonstrably false charges is something new in presidential politics.

Worse than the lies have been the smears. McCain ran a television ad claiming that Obama favored "comprehensive" sex education for kindergartners. (Obama favored a bill that would have warned kindergartners about sexual predators and improper touching.) The accusation that Obama was referring to Sarah Palin when he said McCain's effort to remarket his economic policies was putting "lipstick on a pig" was another clearly misleading attack — an obnoxious attempt to divert attention from Palin's lack of fitness for the job and the recklessness with which McCain chose her. McCain's assault on the "élite media" for spreading rumors about Palin's personal life — actually, the culprits were a few bloggers and the tabloid press — was more of the same. And that gets us close to the real problem here. The McCain camp has decided that its candidate can't win honorably, on the issues, so it has resorted to transparent and phony diversions."

When making points to potential voters, it's getting easier now to just say, John McCain is liar, he's running a dishonest campaign, what you've heard about Obama that you don't like are lies: Just read any of the serious journalists in all the different magazines and papers, they themselves are saying how outright dishonest McCain is being, give Obama a chance before you let yourselves be convinced by a bunch of lies.


link:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842030,00.html?xid=rss-politics-cnn

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wow..Truthiness in the MSM!! How unique..

[Cha]

2. Joe Klein has been a

media savior for us lately with his spotlight on john mccain's lies.

[budkin]

3. Awesome.

[blossomstar]

4. Well how about that? The truth for a change!

[zulchzulu]

5. McCain has always been a traitor. He denounced his country within 72 hours of capture.

McCain is nothing but a vaporous charade. He is no hero. Everything he seemingly has stood for has been tossed like a loose toupee and he has sold himself to the Religious Reich, for whom attacked him before.

Is McCain a liar? That's a fucking compliment.

[autorank]

6. Even The Money Party is frightened b y this ticket

This is just like Foleygate. Brian Ross rolls out a ton of articles, relentless, then Time weighs in.
They only do it in exceptional circumstances (the Republicans in Congress, the majority, was a
menace). It's that time and it's Time for McCain and Palin to assume the position and go directly
to the political slag heap.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Sidenote: How often do you see the word "witting" as opposed to "unwitting"?

Hardly ever!

[avaistheone1]

8. Woohoo! TG

[JimGinPA]

9. Excellent!

K&R

[DeadElephant_ORG]

10. just... f-cking wow...

[BlooInBloo]

11. BlooInBloo decides at this moment to buy stock in Depends.

[NYC_SKP]

12. BTW...New Obama Office opened last week.

Did you know we just opened a new office in your town, 1825 Pacific Avenue, between the theater and the coffee place on the Miracle Mile?

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/SanJoaquinGrassrootsAction

PM me if you want to get involved in any way.

NYC_SKP

:patriot:

[Window]

13. K/R.

[democracy1st]

14. thank you Mr Klein

[democrat2thecore]

15. Wow - that was one hard hitting piece. Deservingly so! -nt

[eridani]

16. Signs that our real elite is bothered by loose cannon McSame

--and his fundie whackjob running mate who, unlike Bush, actually believes all that End Times crap.

[pleah]

17. K&R

:kick:

[vanderBeth]

18. What a a disturbing subject line.

But good article.

[RNdaSilva]

19. "John McCain and the Lying Game"

And don't forget, Time is in partnership with CNN.

[Jennicut]

20. I am officially stopping my nickname for that man from McLame and changing it to McLiar

One big fat liar with is ugly pants on fire. I have never seen any candidate in modern history lie so much and so blatantly.