The Smear Gap

Referring "Obamaweek" readers to a fact-check site with a relationship to the publisher of this article is obviously an unbiased approach. After all, obama has never hinted that McCain and the Republicans are going to use race in the campaign (which they haven't done) or that McCain's platform is "four more years o f George Bush." Newsweek need to break the code that everyone knows it is the house organ of the Obama campaign.

sorry for essentially posting the same thing twice. I didn't realize the first one made it.

Who Started Cold War II?

http://antiwar.com/pat/index_pat.html

by Patrick J. Buchanan

The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO.

Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with Russia, facing war in the Caucasus, where Moscow's superiority is as great as U.S. superiority in the Caribbean during the Cuban missile crisis.

If the Russia-Georgia war proves nothing else, it is the insanity of giving erratic hotheads in volatile nations the power to drag the United States into war.

From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, U.S. presidents have sought to avoid shooting wars with Russia, even when the Bear was at its most beastly.

Truman refused to use force to break Stalin's Berlin blockade. Ike refused to intervene when the Butcher of Budapest drowned the Hungarian Revolution in blood. LBJ sat impotent as Leonid Brezhnev's tanks crushed the Prague Spring. Jimmy Carter's response to Brezhnev's invasion of Afghanistan was to boycott the Moscow Olympics. When Brezhnev ordered his Warsaw satraps to crush Solidarity and shot down a South Korean airliner killing scores of U.S. citizens, including a congressman, Reagan did â?????? nothing.

These presidents were not cowards. They simply would not go to war when no vital U.S. interest was at risk to justify a war. Yet, had George W. Bush prevailed and were Georgia in NATO, U.S. Marines could be fighting Russian troops over whose flag should fly over a province of 70,000 South Ossetians who prefer Russians to Georgians.

The arrogant folly of the architects of U.S. post-Cold War policy is today on display. By bringing three ex-Soviet republics into NATO, we have moved the U.S. red line for war from the Elbe almost to within artillery range of the old Leningrad.

Factcheck.org needs to do a fact check on this article. Go to the website and you'll see there are just about as many misleading Obama ads/statments as McCain ads/statements. There is no "smear gap" - neither in the number of "smears" nor the degree of smeariness. The author wants us to believe that the Obama camp is somehow above all of this though. Go to the website and judge for yourself. This is biased journalism, plain and simple. Thanks Newsweek.

The mainstream media is so biased its pathetic. Saying that McCain is smearing Obama,etc., etc. is just the media's effort to insulate their chosen canidate (from all sources, covering him favorably almost 3 to 1) from ALL critiisism. Sorry Newsweek, Americans aren't that stupid.

The mainstream media is so bias, its pathetic. Featuring an article accusing McCain of smearing Obama is just their way of trying to insulate their (by all sources, 3 to 1, in favorable coverage) chosen candidate from ALL critisism. Sorry Newsweek, Americans aren't that stupid.

Please, Please. And the Democrats don't do the same thing????? For years, yes years, we've heard about the "terrible Republicans." This piece whines too much. When the Democrats do the same thing, not a tear is given. What hypocrisy. Among the offenders: Michael Moore, John Dean, EgObama, the DNC attack machine, George Soros, Moveon.org, et al.

Obama plays dirty. Everyone who followed Clinton and saw what he did to her knows it. McCharacter only has to run a half-decent, inside the norm campaign to win, because everytime Obama is up to his usual tricks our immense dislike of the man wakes from the dormet stasis from those days. Being called a flip flop and celebrity unfit to lead is way acceptable, when you think about how the Obama-campaign branded Clinton a liar, crazy, dellusional, a killer and assasine.

John McCain, Randy Scheunemann, Joe Lieberman and Certain Republican Officials were counting on this Georgia-Russia CONFLICT to HELP Jon McCain.....

It has'nt, as well as the Saddleback SetUp

It Exposed John McCain as an Antagonizer and Propogandist, who will Do Absolutely ANYTHING to stack the Cards in his FAVOR, REAGARDLESS of the CONSEQUENCES.

JOE LIEBERMAN: WHO WOULD YOU WANT IN A WAR OR SECURITY CRISIS ? SOMETHING BIG HAS HAPPENED DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF A NEW PRESIDENT, WE NEED SOMEONE THAT CAN "HANDLE SUCH A CRISIS"...

RESPONSE: AN DO WHAT ?

START A NUCLEAR WAR WITH (RUSSIA) THE NATION WITH ONE OF THE LARGEST, IF NOT THE LARGEST, STOCKPILE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS...GIVE ME OBAMA.

JOHN MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN: IF A WAR WERE TO OCCUR, BEFORE THE ELECTION OR DURING THE ELECTION, IT WOULD BENEFIT "JOHNMCCAIN"

THIS WHOLE THING IS A POORLY EXECUTED PLAN, TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE AN IT STINKS TO THE LOWEST OF LEVELS....

STRAIGHT DOWN TO THE BOWELS OF HELL !!!

JOHN MCCAIN IS A NUT...A BONAFIDE, CERTIFIDE AND QUALIFIED.... NUT !!!

Bush smashed the Piggy Bank, McCain wants to try to glue it back together. Obama will put the money into a real bank so that only people with sense have access to the account. This is true leadership. Glory seekers need not apply.

How can anybody vote for another obvious administration of secrecy as is evident by McCain's previous work in the service of the US Senate?

The Georgia conflict has shined a spotlight on McCain's chief foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann.

Scheunamann was a major organizer of the campaign to get the U.S to invade Iraq. He was a board member of the Project for a New American Century that circulated the now-famous manifesto signed by key Neo Cons that first called for the Iraq invasion. He was a founder of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. More recently he has been a paid lobbyist for a number of foreign governments including Macedonia, Taiwan and, most importantly, the Republic of Georgia.

According to records from the Justice Department's foreign agents registration office, Scheunamann's two-person firm has received $830,000 from Georgia since 2004. Though Scheunamann now claims to have taken a leave of absence from lobbying, his latest contract, with Georgia's National Security Council, was signed as recently as April 17th. According to the Los Angeles Times, McCain spoke by phone with Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili that day and then issued a statement denouncing Russian moves to "undermine Georgian's sovereignty."

The paper also cites lobbying forms filed by Scheunamann's firm Orion indicating that McCain sponsored or co-sponsored four Senate resolutions on behalf of Georgia and other Orion clients: Latvia, Macedonia, Romania and Taiwan.

The poor judgment McCain showed by appointing a man who was serving as a paid foreign agent to be his chief foreign policy adviser is simply breathtaking. It is even more so because of the history of the current conflict.

foreign policy blunders are without question McCain's strong point of consistency