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While there is a fine line between a lie and an effort to deceive, the line is there.
Sen. McCain’s campaign treads a path perilously close to crossing over from deception to outright lying. Insisting that Ms. Palin visited troops in Iraq though she did not, that she visited Ireland when her airplane simply made a refueling stop there, professing that she killed the “bridge to nowhere” when that was actually done by Congress, the claim that she sold Alaska’s corporate jet on E-Bay when it was in truth sold by a private firm which took a commission on the transaction and that she neither sought nor accepted earmarks are all distortions of Ms. Palin’s record clearly intended to deceive the electorate about her public performance.
These deceptions on the part of the campaign serve to denigrate Sen. McCain when he appears in television commercials to endorse them as truth. He deserves better than that.
DUANE HOGUE
Grand Junction
3 Responses to “McCain treading line of truth and lies”
Posted September 16th, 2008 at 6:15 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Mr. Hogue states: “These deceptions on the part of the campaign serve to denigrate Sen. McCain when he appears in television commercials to endorse them as truth. He deserves better than that.”
It is not the Republican candidate that deserves ‘better’. It is the American people who do. And, if Senator McCain is not aware of what those in his campaign are doing, he should be.
As to ‘threading the line’ on truth, if even Karl Rove, the Richelieu of distortion and manipulation, states that the individual has gone too far, that is probably the one area in which Mr. Rove and I would agree.
Posted September 17th, 2008 at 6:54 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
The people behind McCains’ campaign have set new standards for mendacity and subterfuge. Rick Davis and Tucker Bounds have to be two of the slimiest characters I have seen in politics since Spiro Agnew and John Mitchell. The attitude these two bring to presidential politics borders on criminal.
Paul Begala said in a column yesterday( I don’t remember where I read it)that there are two numbers that Democrats need to remember; 91 and 134.
John McCain has voted with George Bush 91% of the time and he has 134 lobbyists working on his campaign. Does anyone really need to know more to understand “Corporate Johnny”?
Posted September 17th, 2008 at 7:53 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
I just got back to my computer after listening to McCains’ latest tirade against the “Wall Street manipulators” who have cooked up all these schemes to make unlimited profits. He claims that, on his watch, he won’t ever let this happen again. What he didn’t say was that his former chief finance advisor, Phil Gramm, was the one that cut the big banks and oil companies loose on the commodity futures market.
Check out the AP story I just posted on the forum page to read the truth.
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