A Spanish-language McCain radio ad gets nearly all its facts wrong.
Comment: Those in Miliatary Knows, ..." MILITARY CODE"........WE are Brothers and Sisters in Military,We die for each Other s,Black,Hispanic,White........When you're discharge..from Miliatary.........YOU bastard Color
Comment: Yeah judgment like voting NO for the NEW GI BILL, Hey Mr. McCain who are we suposed to be killing in Iraq, sunni or shia? What's a Kurd? And even though the US weapons inspectors said there were NO weapons, expolsives, or ammunition from Iran, and the latest NIE said Iran had backed away from uranium enrichment...why are you deterimined to take this country into another, a third war? Is it because of your "experience" and "Judgment"?
Comment: OMG Look at what CornHolyO posted...it's amazing...
Posted By: HolyRoller @ 07/11/2008 21:56:41
Comment: 4+ a gallon. If Israel bombs Iran US gets involved, McBushes wet dream, except we have NO military to support a third war, more of our children die, which if fine with McCain as he does not support them anyway oh yeah, soon 7-8/gallon.
McCain-Killing and Drilling now
"Handsome"-kNOws it will have no immediate effect on prices and infact would take years and caot billions to even get to, cost passed on to the US in dollars on the gallon, and if there ever was oil found, NO promise from any of the US oil folks to NEVER RAISE PRICES AGAIN ABOVE 1$ a gal.
McCain-Nucular Energy Plants Now but also thinks that NE plants have root and grow in the ground
"Handsome"- tells George Bush the word is NUCLEAR...
McCain-Clean Coal Energy Now, thinks this means polishing all the little pieces of coal, insists this would be a great job for illegals.
"Handsom"-NO problem with it at all, unless you ask Sean Hannity.
McCain-Shale Oil Now, thinks that Shale is another faction of epople from Iraq, sunni Shia, Shale, and "What the hell is a Kurd."
"Handsome"-NO problem here either, wow he's on the ball.
McCain-Independent from Middle East Oil or stay in Iraq for 100 yrs? What ever comes first
Hussein-kNOws, they are out of oil in Saudi in 2015, let them dry up and blow away. along with the oil a$$es here.
McCain-American Hero, crashed 5 fighters before being shot down, cried "my daddy is an admiral" when he was caught, willingly did 32 propagnada films for the VC, earning the nickname ":Song Bird" (google it)because as soon as he was caught he started singing for the enemy, lied to America's POWs when he said he wouild never politicize his status as a "pow", and then never stopped doing it. Turned his back on our troops on the recent GI Bill Vote, where he no showed and no voted because he was to afraid to face the music and just vote against it...my hero.
Hussein-Not only out of power but DEAD and even though that was our "mission" we are still in Iraq and our children are still sying,
NOTHINGLIKEOBAMA!!!
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WOW! What a statement, good for you ConrHolyO, way to go...glad to see you come around
Comment: This ad targeting Latinos in Florida is typical McCain double speak. He puts out a bunch of "facts" and figures, all of which are WRONG. He knows they are wrong, but he doesn't care, because McCain knows that his media image is more important than the truth.
For instance, McCain claims to be in favor of revising immigration laws in ways favorable to illegal immigrants for Mexico. He goes on TV and says so, people hear him say it and assume that is what he believes. BUT when bills come before Congress pertaining to immigration, McCain abstains form voting. He refuses to vote for the bills he says he is supporting.
Let's look at McCain's votes on March 13 and 14, 2008. On those days we know he was present, because he voted on 22 bills. But he refused to vote on 22 other bills. He failed to vote on several bills concerning border security, alien removal and English in the workplace, even though he has set himself up as the candidate who wants immigration reform favorable to Hispanics. He also failed to vote on the bills regarding efficient energy production, even though he claims to be in favor of this. He must not be very much in favor of efficient energy and immigration reform since he refused to vote even though he was present. As for Obama and Clinton, they were both present those days, and they both voted on all 44 bills.
McCain knows that public perception is all that matters, so he gives a news conference and says he supports certain issues, even though he refuses to vote in favor of them. He knows that most Americans never take the time to look up his voting record, and he makes sure that his Senate web page doesn't include this information. Obama's Senate web page contains a link that shows you how he voted on every single bill before the Senate, but for McCain you have to find this information on other websites, like this one from the Washington Post:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/votes/
Comment: Just in case you happened to see the ABC News piece
(if you watch ABC News) with interviews of 5 military folks in Iraq - 3
planned to vote for Obama and 2 for Hillary; no mention of any McCain
supporters. Well, here???s the ???Rest of the Story.???
This from Major General (ret) Buckman
My niece, Katelyn, stationed at Baluud , Iraq was assigned, with others of her detachment, to be escort/guard/ watcher for Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John McCain???s recent trip to Iraq
Katelyn and her Captain stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GI???s walking past. They kept count of the GI???s and you should remember these numbers. She asked 60 GI???s who they planned to vote for in November. 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama and 2 for Hillary.
Katelyn called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they???d see her on TV. Mom and Dad of course, called and emailed all the kinfolk to watch the newscast and maybe see Katelyn.
Well, of course, we all watched and what we saw wasn???t a glimpse of Katelyn, but got a hell???uva view of skewed news. After a dissertation on McCain???s trip and speech, ABC showed 5 GI???s being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November; 3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton .. No mention of the 54 for McCain.
See I can do it too.
Comment: McWar doesn't need to use facts! He was in a war.
Comment: Just in case you happened to see the ABC News piece
(if you watch ABC News) with interviews of 5 military folks in Iraq - 3
planned to vote for Obama and 2 for Hillary; no mention of any McCain
supporters. Well, here???s the ???Rest of the Story.???
This from Major General (ret) Buckman
My niece, Katelyn, stationed at Baluud , Iraq was assigned, with others of her detachment, to be escort/guard/ watcher for Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John McCain???s recent trip to Iraq
Katelyn and her Captain stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GI???s walking past. They kept count of the GI???s and you should remember these numbers. She asked 60 GI???s who they planned to vote for in November. 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama and 2 for Hillary.
Katelyn called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they???d see her on TV. Mom and Dad of course, called and emailed all the kinfolk to watch the newscast and maybe see Katelyn.
Well, of course, we all watched and what we saw wasn???t a glimpse of Katelyn, but got a hell???uva view of skewed news. After a dissertation on McCain???s trip and speech, ABC showed 5 GI???s being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November; 3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton .. No mention of the 54 for McCain.
Comment: Dear Zombie, IF THIS IS EVEN TRUE (which I seriously doubt, considering you are posting it -- sorry -- but you post so many lie filled smears that it becomes impossible to believe you), but IF this is true do you know what it reminds me of? Did you see the coverage of the elections in Zimbabwe, where armed guards had voters locked in a room, told them to vote for Mugabe, then looked over their shoulder as they filled out the ballots.
Yeah, Right. McCain is in Iraq and a group of soldiers are asked who they are going to vote for, in front of him. Lots of factors at work here. Firstly, the soldiers in that group are picked for this photo op, and they probably were picked because they support McCain. Also, herd mentality and politeness both would account for the "results" you report. IF it is even true.
Comment: Are you still mad cause I called you out on your other lie on the other Factcheck article?
It's ok I don't hold a grudge and I forgive you.
Like you have any room to talk, your copy/paste jihad's against McCain are full of misinformation and cover-ups.
So now McCain is forcing those soldiers under duress to vote for him? Is that what your trying to infer?
So if they were picked because they supported McCain, why did ABC only show soldiers supporting Obama and Clinton? Oh yes even IF its true...just like all your posts.
Comment: This ad targeting Latinos in Florida is typical McCain double speak. He puts out a bunch of "facts" and figures, all of which are WRONG. He knows they are wrong, but he doesn't care, because McCain knows that his media image is more important than the truth.
For instance, McCain claims to be in favor of revising immigration laws in ways favorable to illegal immigrants for Mexico. He goes on TV and says so, people hear him say it and assume that is what he believes. BUT when bills come before Congress pertaining to immigration, McCain abstains form voting. He refuses to vote for the bills he says he is supporting.
Let's look at McCain's votes on March 13 and 14, 2008. On those days we know he was present, because he voted on 22 bills. But he refused to vote on 22 other bills. He failed to vote on several bills concerning border security, alien removal and English in the workplace, even though he has set himself up as the candidate who wants immigration reform favorable to Hispanics. He also failed to vote on the bills regarding efficient energy production, even though he claims to be in favor of this. He must not be very much in favor of efficient energy and immigration reform since he refused to vote even though he was present. As for Obama and Clinton, they were both present those days, and they both voted on all 44 bills.
McCain knows that public perception is all that matters, so he gives a news conference and says he supports certain issues, even though he refuses to vote in favor of them. He knows that most Americans never take the time to look up his voting record, and he makes sure that his Senate web page doesn't include this information. Obama's Senate web page contains a link that shows you how he voted on every single bill before the Senate, but for McCain you have to find this information on other websites, like this one from the Washington Post:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/votes/
Comment: "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies."
H.R. 6304 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 )
Measure Title: A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes.
Obama (D-IL), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Nay
Comment: I still think that there should be a 'None of the above' box on all ballots. Seriously. Three hundred million people in this country, and this is the best we can do?
Comment: We could have had better, Hillary, after her McCain is the next best thing.
Comment: Oh isee tyhe pecking order...Bush....Hillary...McCain...Lieberman...The Devil...
Comment: No Obama is behind the Devil.
Comment: I agree with you MCCAIN totally SUCKS and is a continuation of BUSH, NO MORE WAR FOR OIL!
Comment: Seriously, it's completely unpatriotic to not vote for someone. Anyone who says they're not going to vote are a disgrace to this great country. Our founding fathers would turn in their graves if they knew how many apathetic loosers aren't registered to vote or are too lazy to support their own great country. Where were you during the primaries? Did you get involved? Did you caucus or even vote? Did you donate any time or money for the candidate you supported or are you just now forming your opinion? Our troops have died in Iraq just so the Iraqi's could have the right to vote. Exercise your rights or the government might think you don't need them!
Comment: I didn't say I wasn't going to vote, or that I'm not patriotic. I just think there has to be a better choice out there, someone that can get our country and economy back on the right track. I did vote in the primaries and I did donate money, not that it did any good. For some reason, most of the politicians I considered decent/electable at the beginning of the primaries got shoved off to the side while the press cooed and fawned over the first viable black and/or female candidate. I could care less what race, religion, sex, age that you are as a candidate. How are you going to fix my country? Honestly? Without changing your views to make you more electable? As for patriotism and supporting our troops, everyone shows each in a different way. Some people believe supporting our troops means not putting them in harms way while the country that they were there to liberate (which we did) melts down into a civil war. To be honest, I could care less whether the Iraqis have the right to vote. I care about my favorite cousin getting his butt blown off on his fourth tour of duty. I care about being able to pay for my home and put food on my table. I care about being able to afford to send my child to college when the time comes, assuming they don't reinstate the draft and send said child off to fight in some other country where the local ethnic groups/ideologies have been killing each other for a thousand years. I care about having to spend $120 every time I fill my truck up. If this makes me seem selfish or 'isolationist', so be it. I'm sure there are a lot of others out there as selfish as I am.
Comment: I agree with you....I care about the same things. I think the only way to go is to vote for the party that fights for the same things you care about. Not the party that wants to line the pockets of the corporations, pharmecuticals (spelling), insurance companies and BIG oil. I just can't stand it when people say "I don't like either candidate so I am not going to vote." I think that is a cop out. Your vote for president shouldn't be based on who you want to sit and have a beer with. It's about what's right for our country. I could also care less about Iraqi's voting. Our school system is deteriorating so rapidly that I am very worried about who is going to run this country when I get older when no one will be able to put a sentence together, much less defend our constitution. It's pretty scary. We should be coming together as Americans and not hating each other over a politcal race. A difference in policy does not mean you love your country less!
Comment: Notice how generous some folks are with their assumptions, when it comes to giving their partisan fellows a pass? "The Statistics used obviously included goods passing through Florida Ports from other state and countries".... Well, obviously. Obviously? There is no statistical evidence offered to make this excuse even plausible, much less true, or "obvious". More likely, McBush is simply following his role model, who never seemed to care if his assertions were true, so long as they were accepted long enough to permit him to do what he wanted (such as invading Iraq).
Comment: Across the country people are laughing at the flailing GOP. Around the water coolers...people are wondering, "why would anyone vote for McFossil"? Oh, because they're ignorant and uninformed and just started paying attention 5 minutes ago. Or, they're racists fascists who support corporte welfare. People keep saying Obama is going to tax everyone and give money to the poor so they don't have to work? It's beyond ignorant. It's widely known that McCain's plan gives the most tax cuts to people who earn 2.8 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR OR MORE! And that middle class families will see about $300 more per year. Under Obama's plan, working middle class families will see about $1,000 more per year. Besides, what kind of naive moron thinks taxes aren't going to be raised during a WAR? Maybe if people paid a few extra dollars in taxes the government could maintain bridges, levees and the like, and the government could work for us which is why the government exists. Gotta give the repugnant ones some credit for somehow getting people to believe that Democrats raise taxes to support people on welfare. All the while they cut taxes for millionaires, which is welfare for rich people. It's a good thing that people actually can think for themselves and have the internet research FACTS!
Comment: That is still a lot money going through Florida that puts a lot of food on the table for Floridian families.
Comment: Armywife, you make a few valid points, but seem a bit hysterical. Raise worthless children? Wow - way to discount them before they've had a chance to prove anything. I would argue that there are many ways to measure the "worth" of someone, and backing a particular political point of view should NOT be one of them. Otherwise I may just find you and yours to be worthless, which is a condemnation I wouldn't presume to spew based on my stance on one war in the history of one country.
I also find it hard to connect your logic. Does having a lot of friends die in Iraq mean that you are more patriotic than someone else? If that's the case, then the people who got us into Iraq are likely the least patriotic people around. Do you think GWB and company have a lot of close friends who have fought and died? They wouldn't fight when it was their turn, and yet you apparently support them despite that being a crucial litmus test for patriotism in your book. And if only people who have "been to one of the torture chambers in Iraq" are allowed to comment on the war, then we are truly getting a very sad perspective on this conflict. Lastly, of course, you sadly still connect the events of 9/11 to the war in Iraq, which has been disproven time and time again. Non-sequiter, non-sequiter, non-sequiter.
The most logical thing that I read in your diatribe was God bless you. Yes you can say it to a liberal, if you can for a moment condescend to us and our unpatriotic godless ways. God bless you too.
Comment: The Statistics used obviously included goods passing through Florida Ports from other state and countries. I disagree that these numbers are not critical to the Florida Economy as it requires the construction of port infastructure to move these goods and this increases employment, stevedors to load and unload these goods, warehouses and terminals to store the goods as well as port, security and trucking services. Both positions are right and both are wrong.depending on how the "facts" are viewed.
Jim Edwards
Comment: Oh, give Old Man McCain a break. Dementia is probably starting to set in. If you think his so called facts are bad now, watch what happens if he is elected.
Comment: Facts? Who needs facts? Just do what many do, like Bill O'Reilly, make things up on the fly.
Comment: Liar Liar Depends on Fire.
Comment: So McCain is either a liar or he is so incompetent that he can't get the numbers correct. I'm tired of lying and/or incompetent politicians so he doesn't get my vote.
Comment: Sir, I think you are extremely mistaken in the fact of Sen. McCain being incompetent. He is one of the very few Senators who have been consistent in their voting. Sen. Obama, has not. Sen. Obama has not even been present for any of the major votes in the Senate. Thus, he has no experience. If you think that you could do much better, why don't you run?
hankfm6: Sir, my husband is an Iraq veteran. And I find it completely asinine that you are calling the men who lead him and his troops, criminals. Are you a veteran? This Iraq war is a volunteer Army there sir. If you have never served in the Armed Forces, or been to one of the torture chambers in Iraq, then I would suggest you shut your mouth. And my questions are if you know Obama will make mistakes (the first being that he will pull all of the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, which will only make the terrorist groups Al Qaeda and Hezbollah feel like they are winning this war, and regroup to plan more attacks on our soil) then why will you sit here and crucify our political leaders? In case you have forgotten, our country was set up on a system of checks and balances... which means that no single person has total control over anything in our politics. If you are going to sit here and just blame a president, or a single senator, maybe you should pick up a history book or an American Government book on the way the system works. It's people like you that are raising a bunch of worthless children who won't stand up and defend their country, protect their freedom, and their future children's freedoms. What sacrifices have you had to made because of this war (rising gas prices don't count)? I would honestly like to know how many of your friends have died over in Iraq and Afghanistan? I would also like to know how you felt knowing that your husband was deployed WILLINGLY in a hostile enviroment, worrying about him everyday, hoping to get a call, because it's protecting our FREEDOM. I would much rather have a war fought in a foreign land then an event like Sept 11, 2001 EVER happen again on our HOME SOIL.
I would also like to ask if you could think back to the day of Sept 11,2001. Think about the things that happened in our country and the way you felt that day. The anxiety, horror, upset, confusion. Then think about feeling that every day... You should also try to read a book by one of the people that Saddam Hussein's Bathist Regime tortured.
Maybe then you can understand why we are fighting a war over there. Just think of your family member being tortured for something such as being a woman, or a different religion then others.
I hope you support your troops. Because without them, sir you would not be able to post your thoughts here without fear of persecution and or death.
May God Bless You (if I can even say that in a post to a liberal) and to all the Troops that are reading this and their Families, I understand why you are fighting. And thank you for serving, and risking your life for
Comment: Well there are SO many things wrong with what you have just said, I don't know where to begin.
1. You speak of McConsistancy, in the past 2 years he has been present for less than half of the votes.
INCLUDING NOT SUPPOPRTING YOU OR YOUR HUSBAND when he noshowed/no voted Bill# S22 aka"THE NEW GI BILL, this is you man of consistancy?
The only thing consistant about McCain is the fact that he is CONSTANTLY CHANGING HIS POSITION.
and is CONSTANTLY confused about who is who in Iraq, hell, when asked what he thought of the "Kurds" he responded "WHAT THE HELL IS A KURD!"
2. 911 had NOTHING TO DO WITH IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOT IT!?
This conutry WAS united when we went to Afghanistan ti kill those who attacked us. We devided when BUSHand MCCAIN took us to IRAQ to war with a country that has NEVER ATTACKED THE US. If your so concerned what aboutthe Congo, or Dar Fur? Much more violence there, I mean we could have gotten to Iraq but if it was to help peole in peril, there are far worse places then IRAQ mam.
3.As far as the "troop support" should'nt that standard be held to the man you want for president? Also I hope YOU undrstand the ultimate SUPPORT of troops is not wanting them in harms way, especially not for OIL! That is it, the only resaon we are in Iraq, Believe what you like to make yourself sleep better, but that is the reason, that alone.
4. As far as you "if Ican even say that in a psot to a liberal" comment, F@#K YOU! You think you think those who have sent our sons and daughters tro DIE FOR OIL know God? You think you do? The right has destroyed all the Jesus and our God have ever stood for, twisted it and used it to manipulate the sheep of the country.
So MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU when you stand to be judged, because you surely do not follow him.
Good day ;)
Comment: AMEN!!!
Comment: Ma'am. Without the criminals in the White House, your husband may not have ever gone to Iraq to serve. You must understand that people can support the troops and not the lying warmongers who put them in harms way to begin with. The troops make the ultimate sacrifice to so honorably and bravely defend our great nation, and they never question the reasoning. That is why their service is so appreciated by the citizens of this country and unfortunately ignored by the very men you say "lead" them into this war.
Also, please do your husband a favor and get informed as to why the US invaded Iraq in the first place. Nothing to do with 9-11. And may God Bless you and yours - coming from a god loving (not fearing) LIBERAL. If the word offends you, you don't know what it means.
Comment: So McCain is either a liar or he is so incompetent that he can't get the numbers correct. I'm tired of lying and/or incompetent politicians so he doesn't get my vote.
Comment: This is great stuff. Our candidates need to be taken to task when they try to mislead anybody. I just hope that factcheck.org is keeping the same kind of tabs on Mr. Deceit himself, Obama.
Comment: Why don't you go to Factcheck.org yourself....there is even a link on the first page of this article. Yeah, Obama has some items on there, but there are MANY more lies coming from McCain.
http://www.factcheck.org/
Comment: Ha ha oh yeah Obama has a lot on there don't try to down play it.
Comment: In fact, McCain has TWICE as many as Obama on the first page..... 4 gaffes for Obama and 8 OUTRITE LIES for McCain. Obama's gaffes are about his resume and how he worked through college, and he lied about how much lobby money the McCain camp gets. McCains lies are about Obama, and about his own voting records, and are also from the RNC lying about Obama's voting record - things that can easily be checked out. Who cares if Obama fluffed his resume or didn't work his entire way through college but got some help? Really. I love how that new add says "McCain sounded the alarm on global warming." That's the funniest shi*t I have ever heard. All you repugs have been calling Al Gore insane ever since HE sounded the alarm so many years ago and now all of a sudden McCain's taking credit. What a crock!! You're definitely a zombie, go drink some more koolaid.
Comment: You call it gaffe, I call them lies. Semantics right. Obama lies just like every other typical politician. Just face it, all the hope and change rhetoric that got ya, was all false. You are supporting Obama because he lied to you, yet you still refuse to question him.
Yes who cares that Obama lied about his resume....people like you don't want any qualifications as long as he can speak pretty right?
Al Gore is a lier and McCain is pandering to the left with his Global Warming scare....why is it that in the last issue of Nature, the cover article was about the next ten years of Global Cooling? Those are scientists not politicians. If you want to believe what a politician tells you, then there is no hope for you.
On an aside...is LV meaning your from Vegas? Just curious cause so am I and I voted against Ensign and voted for Reid last election.
Comment: Iraq is still a mess. And what a mess we made there. It will be a mess getting out. You should be concerned with any candidate fudging the numbers. Isn't that what Bush did with your minds countless times past, present and great that there's little future in that regard. You folks keep falling for the same Bushigan tricks. You can't see the forest for the trees. We should be outraged anytime we are lied to. That way we begin to take action instead of sitting back in our little lives thinking these things are not of vital importance. These little lies add up to big problems people. When will you learn. Obama is a rookie politician whipping the moth ridden pants off McCain. McCain doesn't remember the figures he quoted and repeatedly gaffs on his facts and judgement. He is too old to be expected to perform with the sharpness needed to run a country. Why in the hell do you folks think that people his age have to requalify for their drivers licenses? There are some real dummies out there. Common sense is not the trademark of most McCain supporters as it shows here. They just don't want Obama. H'mm, I wonder what the real reason is??? Well, let McCain send your kids off to kill people who have done nothing to us in Iraq so you can support the case for bombing the rest of the middle east. Those people are very smart and don't like hipocrites bombing their people behind these lies you guys like to listen to. Mine ain't going under the sloppy judgement of these republican idiots.
Comment:
Yeah right. and the democrats are the seekers of the truth. LOL......If Obama wins it will be a typical example of the blind leading the blind.
Comment:
I see the Obamaites are finally starting to realize the McCain is George Bush tactic isn;t working. Now they have a new nickname. McWar. I guess we can only expect childish pet names from the Obamaites. I'd love to actually meet an Obamaite with a mental age of better than 20.
Comment: Better than the lies leading the lies. Ignorance is more trustworthy than deceit. It don't take a genius to figure that out.
Comment: Obama is the new Bush lite.
Comment: I suppose that truth meant so much to Bill Clinton, too, eh? Wasn't he a Democrat?
When Mark Twain was shown a grave and told, "Here lays an honest man and a politician", replied, "How did they fit two people into one grave?"
Comment: Bill Clinton is a smart politician but he was just as bad as he was good. He lied too. Forget democrat or republican. A liar is a liar, ok?
Comment: wow this is shocking and breaking news , that mccain is a lier and an exaggerator .. now who would have thought it after all his support for the corrupt bush/channey administration ?
Comment: The truth has no meaning to Republicans. None.
Comment: The McCain ad does NOT get the facts wrong --- they simply LIE like good Bushies.
Comment: Thank you for this fact check. The public needs to know the truth so they can make an educated decision in November.
Comment: If the president does not have the support of his own party and the other party controls both houses of Congress, what part of his agenda do you think will get done? Being willing to work with the Democrats would be nice for McCain but his agenda is the polar opposite of the people who control the house and senate. Gridlock will rule and the American people will suffer. McCain is not a plausible choice.
a pla a plausible
Comment: "Comment: Politics as usual. The only way we can tell the difference between McCain and Obama is their actual ability to work in a nonpartisan manner in Washington DC. Who will work effectively with the other party?"
Much to the dismay of staunch Conservatives and many Republicans, McCain has proven that he will work with the other party in a nonpartisan way. Obama, in his brief US Senate career, has not once crossed the aisle or moderated towards a non-Liberal, non-Democrat position.
That means, at least by this one measure, that McCain is the only plausible choice for President in 2008.
Comment: McCain is the only plausable choice by any measure. Unless of course you like handing over to the presidency to a junior Senator with no experience and no backbone. I loved his response to Irans missile test. Nothing about what he was going to do. Only more Bush bashing. He must have checked his Jimmy Carter political response book for that one. The left wingers looked hard to find this idiot.
Comment: Poor pre-emptive strike. Obama has very low risk factor compared to his competition.
Comment: Hurray for Newsweek! It's been too long since the press honored its true role investigating and verifying the constant propaganda we hear from politicians. The Republicans have perfected the exploitation of the press through their "big lie" euphemisms. It's such a relief to hear a voice grounded in reality and willing to challenge them.
Comment: Ha ha factcheck has been doing that for years now....but oh wait....factcheck has some article too of Obama lying and fudging numbers too....do you still like factcheck now?
Comment: I agree. I just hope they start doing with the empty suit soon. But they are all afraid of being called a racist by the Obamaites if they say anything bad about him. Disgusting how his campaign has used the race card to protect this swindler. I just watched a video of Obama campaign people in indiana in the primary. The election people had to chase them out since they were campaigning two feet from where they were casting votes. But then I guess since it was Obama and his cronies it's ok to break the election rules. I laughed when they tossed them out. How many Obamaites have been to factcheck.org to check out his claims. Not many iwould assume since you are still voting for this crook.
Comment: Politics as usual. The only way we can tell the difference between McCain and Obama is their actual ability to work in a nonpartisan manner in Waashington DC. Who will work effectively with the other party?
Comment: Correct, one candidate has a record of cross aisle cooperation, the other has talk.
Comment: The real reason why the figures don't jive is simple; the promoters of this ad want FL so badly, they will lie and do anything to get it. Also, they say that this would create 5,000 new jobs; that may be true, but they will undoubtly be for illegals and they will be paying 8.00. 5,000 jobs is nothing to FL at this point unless they are worthwhile jobs and all over the state, not just in Dade County.
Talk about pandering, this is the ultimate!! And I'm sure our illustrious governor has jumped right on this band wagon!!
God help us all!!
Comment: McCain's facts on many issues to include the war are simply wrong. It is amazing how many of you who support our being in Iraq are the very ones who will never and would never themselves go into harms way in support of this or any war, however they don't mind sending others children to do their dirty work while they blindly speculate on what will happen if we leave Iraq. The "great surge" is working but not because we are all of a sudden winning the war but because we have stopped many of the missions outside of the FOBs resulting in less direct contact with the insurgents and opportunities to encounter IEDs and small arms fire. The premise for the surge (a larger show of force) will only be successful if you plan to continue at this rate of personnel on the ground forever. The insurgents only have to wait us out, outside the combat zone until we drop our numbers back to pre-surge totals and move back into the combat zone and restart their attacks. Bottom line is the surge is only a temporary fix unless you are planning to be there forever. I wonder how many of you would still be in favor of staying if your children and possibly grand children (If McCain has his way) are forced to go to war in Iraq, (DRAFT). It is time to get out of this useless situation and refocus on the actual war on terror.
Comment: And wait us out they will. Just like the blowout that happened to russian troops. Some people don't have any vision, they can only see what's directly in front of them. Our voting record says alot about our mentalities. Come-on, really, think about it for a minute folks ( You have voted Bush into office twice). I think that in-and-of-it-self, speaks volumes. But I try to refrain from calling people names. I'll leave that up to the Iraqis. They are the ones who have lost in this BLUNDER OF A WAR!
Comment: Gee, I wonder why they didn't reprint the Obama inaccuracies found at FactCheck.org.
Maybe its because Newsweek is a disgrace to journalism and is just a mouthpiece for whatever Demcrat is running against a Republican.
In fact, the story was so important that it got on the front page of MSNBC too. No bias there either.
Comment: They do but all the Obama supporters go on a "factcheck" is biased diatribe. Then those same people come to a factcheck about McCain and its all...."See McCain lies." Totally forgetting that they were calling factcheck biased and unfair....blah blah blah....cherry picking the information.
Yeah McCain's campaign fudged the numbers....big deal....all typical politicians do it even Obama.
Comment: Whether Obama's ad is inaccurate is a separate issue. What about McCain's ad? Republicans are great at always changing the subject when they're caught in a lie...which is most of the time lately. And slamming Newsweek in the process is a waste. If Newsweek was such a left wing magazine as you claim, then why are reading it? It's always the easiest way out of an argument by attacking the source with no actual information...you're just throwing out the accusation without backing it up with facts...again something that seems to be happening a lot lately.
Comment: The facts are there; and in this ad there is only one!! The only way McShame can win is to lie, just like the present GOP!!
Comment: It is typical for some to automatically attempt in some strange way to blame Obama for McCains errors. Please let grandpa be responsible for something! I mean Great Grand Pa! Stop trying to divert the isses, Joe.
Comment: An interesting diatribe going on here, obviously partisan and totally uproductive. When are we going to get it through our heads that career politicians are all snakes, willing to bend or distort the facts to get relected. IMHO, we should push for term limits on all senators, congress, supreme court justices etc., so that people in all areas of government are less insulated from the people place them in thse positions of power. Career poiticians have absolutely no concerpt of what real life is and how the average person goes about their life and what issues they face on a daily basis.
Comment: Drinks are on the house. Well said. But I know Obama will do his best and he will make mistakes. These idiots called republicans aren't working with someone who's made mistakes. This guy called POTUS has committed no fewer than 30 crimes while in office and it is a low down dirty shame that our citizens are so weak not to demand to have his ass served up on a silver platter and dished out to the inmates in a maximum security prison. How many more soldiers and Iraqis have to die under this criminal??
Comment: My, my - the difference in these numbers is certainly significant. Let's sound the alarm. Alarm, alarm, McCain ad in Florida got some trade statistics wrong. It doesn't matter that the difference doesn't matter. Gosh, what'll we do. I know, lets try to make a big deal out of nothing to help wonderful Obama. Yes! Lets help wonderful Obama! Yea, we did it. Obama and Newsweek forever!
Comment: Why oh why didn't we send Mitt Romney as the GOP candidate? The GOP is doomed with McCain as its candidate. Mitt Romney in 2012.
Comment: O that's not so unusual, his english speaking ads are misleading and tell lies also! Oh but I forgot, McCain has nothing to do with that! How could I forget that!!!!! I do believe that in McCain's old age he forgets what he vows not to do, or how he's voted in the past so he has an excuse for what he does!
I see we really need a change! Change we can believe in! With Obama we can have that change! I don't know bout the rest of you but I just could not take it to have McBush in office!
Comment: I will have to agree with the reality check. Obama made an advertisement talking about how he passed a bill through congress but it never did get through and he was absent during the vote. I believe that would be just as big as this John McCain story. All I can say is that I don't take MSNBC serious anymore. MSNBC News, LOL!
Comment: I'M SURE THAT NEWSWEEK WILL NEVER REPORT ANY OF OBAMA'S MISTAKES. THAT WOULD BE TOO FAIR AND BALANCED. WHEN WILL NEWSWEEK BE REALLY FAIR AND REGISTER AS A LOBBYIST FOR THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN?
Comment: Not to worry Reality Check, we have Fox News (Fair and Balanced), Karl Rove and the Swift Boat Veterans to give us the true, unbiased facts. :P
Comment: Now you got the ticket, believe half the bull from Fox and half the Crap from MSNBC/Newsweek, and you might actually have something resembling truth.
Comment: Big Deal, but how about the 700,000 technical and trades jobs the country would create by nuke power, oil drilling, and coal shell plus developing alt energy programs which Mac promotes and Oblowme don't.. Newsweek go back and suck up to that lame ghetto tax raising candidate that Sorros and his cronies pay you and NBC off with. Most people know Newsweek is in the red and getting money in their begger cup to say anything the left wants.
Comment: Oblowme? Are you 12? I hope you are. I hope you're not old enough to actually vote.
Comment: The term "ghetto" reveals your racial bias. Obama was raised by his white grandmother in some tough conditions, but ended up with a Harvard education, and gave much of his time helping folks in the inner city. Obama wants to reduce taxes for the middle class and working class, but roll back taxes for the wealthy to levels of the 90s. When hedge fund managers making a billion dollars a year only pay 15% taxes on their income, something ain't right. Sad that there are people like you that are so uninformed and spewing nonsense and venom.
Comment: Oh well, he can always blame it on a campaign aide, kinda like Cindy did with her whole cookie receipe caper.
Comment: Errors en Español - Weisel is wrong - wrong - wrong
A Spanish-language McCain radio ad gets nearly all its facts wrong. - nearly all - not at all - weisel is wrong
By Rachel Weisel | factcheck.org - where have you been - McCain is absolutely correct - you are wrong
You watched the news on the wrong channels, or networks, or read the wrong blogs. Wake up and smell the black roses.
Comment: Good to have fact checking ... on both sides. Both candidates are essentially decent Americans I believe, but both are politicians, let's keep that in mind. However, for this country to get back on track domestically and to repair our image internationally, I think Obama is the clear choice. I don't care about Reverend Wright or Reverend Hagey and all of the other phony crap being pandered by people such as datzamore, let's focus on the issues and what direction we want this country to move in.
Comment: That's the only way to go!! I couldn't vote for MCCain if you paid off my mortgage; I can't stand the thought of four more years as the GOP continues to overrun what's left of our Constitution and judicial system!!
Comment: I agree with your view that both are just typical politicians, saying what they say to get votes. I have to disagree with choice of candidates though. McCain is a flawed politician but he never ran his campaign claiming to be running "New Politics." McCain's judgment is head and shoulder above Barry.
Comment: I like your view of things.
Comment: Interesting. Looking at Newsweek (aka Islamweek), I would have to surmise that Barrack Obama doesn't ever get his facts wrong. It must be nice to be absolutly perfect. I say this because I only see reports where Sen McCain has gotten his facts wrong. So assuming there is no bias LOL, it must be that Sen Obama is perfectly correct in all his claims.
Comment: Islamweek? Oh, are you one of the stupid people who still clings to the urban legend that Obama is Muslim? That's adorable.
Comment: I see you did not watch any news over the holidays.
Comment: I was merely commenting on Newsweek's one sided reporting. I did not comment on any news at all. I merely pointed out that Newsweek was only reporting on Sen McCain's failures to get his facts correct. That would lead one to assume that Sen Obama never gets his facts incorrect. Once again, I was commenting on Newsweek's reporting, not on the news itself.
Comment: Of course Newsweek is biased. How many McCain ads do you see advertised on newsweek? How many Obama ads?
Comment: They do report on Obama, but that's not what this is about. right or wrong, but which story is he saying is the correct one, the speach, or the radio ad. That's what i red.
Comment: Ya your not bias at all! LOL
Instead of blaming Obama for EVERYTHING why don't you point out when Mcwar was accused of pushing lies and it turned out he was telling the truth?
Comment: Please point out where I blamed Sen Obama for anything. I merely pointed out that Newsweek was only reporting on one side of the story. You could try reading an entire sentence for a change.
Comment: WOW a whole ad of DIRECT LIES! The funny thing is we will still see the republican's bashing Obama.
Comment: I'm sure you have no problem with any of Obama's lies in his ads?
Comment: McCain lies on everything; it is a shame news media does not call him on it. He is a scumbag like Bush who has lost his bearing, and will start another war.
Comment: Around most of America; east coast, west coast and midwest....Obama is being viewed as a phony with a nice smile. The issue of Obama's "close 20 year relationship" with a bigot named Reverand Wright is being discussed at the water cooler by White, Asian, Jewish Americans and an increasing number of Latinos Americans, every day more and more. And the good reverand's "close relationship" with one of America's biggest racists, Louis Farrakhan, who was given a lifetime achievement award. (Wow). Hello? Birds of a Feather....and most of America is starting to figure it out. Especially Hillary fans and Jewish voters. Remember, this is the same nation that re-elected a very unpopular George Bush only 3 1/2 years ago during an unpopular war. - And now....46-44....the Obama Fever Gap is wearing off fast. - John McCain will win this election.
Comment: Still talking about Rev. Wright???
Who is not a bigot but a Black man with Black American experiences....but since that's all you white conservatives have to hold on too...
Comment: Submit proof of your atatement.
Otherwise, it's just that! Hot air!
Comment: You might be correct,Americans goes for the biggest lies,we are to lazy to check facts,we rather listen to he said she said.
Comment: Yep already busted the poll your basing everything from. It is highly conservative (not in a political way) and the latest change is only a minor change in a DAILY poll.
You can also go and check other polls where McWar LOST a point.
So I guess your just a fake and full of lies! Just like McWar..
Comment: What do you expect when he hired Karl Rove's right hand man to take over his campaign, the truth?
Comment: The conservatives are out to get Jon McCain. These people base all of they're so-called knowledge from false religious beliefs that would only bring our country in a backwards direction. These are the same people that are making a religious stance on the war on terrorism. The fact is that all the information can be called out like that because there are all different sources. We must move in a forward direction as a country and see what ignorance really is.
Comment: What does religion have to do with the lies in this ad?.
Comment: Religion has little or nothing to do with the ad. What I'm saying is those are the people that are looking for things wrong with McCain. Any journalist or anyone could find something wrong with information because there are so many different sources to look for.
Comment: You're ignorant......I gues people should just listen to what he says and not seek the knowledge themselves.
Comment: Why wouldn't we expect you to do that. Obama supporters have had their eyes closed for the entire campaign so far. I mean really you all believed the Tony Rezko statement Obama made. "This is not the Tony Rezko I knew" You feel for that one and never bothered to seek out the truth. When he told us that all of his records as an Illinois State Senator were lost you believed that too. So yes I think you should just listen to what he say's and not seek the knowledge just like all Obamaites do. The bottom line is the only campaign Obama can run is a mudslinging campaign. It's not like he can run a campaign based on his own experience. He has none!!!!!
Comment: Thank you for being ignorant.......
Comment: This is no suprise coming from the McCain campaign,this is all we have been getting from his campaign is lies,not facts wrong,lies.
Comment: McCain's campaign is just practicing the same "new politics" as Obama. You should all be happy. Obama has fudge numbers too and over blown his resume, just look at the other factcheck articles. Why are you all up in arms about Obama lies and deceit too?
Comment: LOL So it's Obama's fault that McWar lied again? What are you on?
Comment: Well I know your on Kool Aid. HA
No all politicians lie, even your great Obama. They all fluff their resumes, the difference is that McCain never claimed to be practicing "New Politics."
To be honest, I don't like all of McCain's policies but I don't like all of Obama's either.
McCain is pandering to much to the right with his Bush Tax policy, but Obama is pandering too much to the Left with his quasi- socialist Tax Tax Tax then give it all to the poor so they don't have to do anything. So I support McCain's more because it rewards hard work, while Obama's rewards laziness. But that's my opinion, and no doubt you think it's crap, but then again I probably think your's is too.
All policy aside, even though I'm a strong proponent of Nuclear Energy, for me it comes down to judgment. Who do you trust more?
I simply trust McCain a whole lot more than Obama.
Simply put McCain was right on The Surge and Obama was wrong. McCain tied his political future to a very unpopular strategy that drew ire from both GOP and Dems, but ultimately proved to be the right choice.
I hope your not one of those so anti-Bush Dems that fails to see how disastrous it would have been to leave Iraq in the kind of mess it was in, in 2006. I was and am against going into Iraq in the first place, but if we had left, we would have absolutely no clout on ANY humanitarian mission ever again. Any Dem that would leave Iraq like that, then complain about Tibet or Burma or Darfur would have to be shot, because the hypocrisy would be just too much.
That's not the only issue I have with Obama when it comes to judgment but the other have been hashed over plenty of times, so I'll refrain from "distracting."
