"Dishonorable"

This is such a sad commentary on what used to be a great man. McCain's tactics are just plain sad and pathetic. He has diminished himself and tarnished his image so badly by his recent behavior. I am sorry he chose to run for president at all, his legacy is forever changed and not for the better.

The bottom line is that lying works. Regardless of the medias sincere efforts to 'fact check', people have a tendency to believe what they want to hear. What Palin/McCain is doing is playing to the folk who are looking for plausible reasons to believe what they want to believe. This is a derivative of he adage, 'where there's smoke there's fire...'The candidate wouldn't be saying of there wasn't some truth to it.

It is clear that McCain is on the run. Even if you hadn't seen any recent polls you can tell by his actions and the actions of his minions. I guess the people on the right are OK with Palin's lie's and distortions because, "Well she ain't none to bright but dag gum it she's just like me, 'un that's the bees knees in my book, phhffftoooowie!" They've sent her out to do their dirty work and ratcheted up the "pray to the lowest common denominator crowd over at FoxNews." Have you noticed that Fox was really trying (to their credit) to attempt to shrowd their Republican leanings in a thin viel of decency but with McCain down in the polls all bets are off! They are not even trying to pretend any more. They had been keeping Ann Coulter in her hole where ever that may be, but they drug her out and are unleashing her particular brand of evil along side that bastion of neutrality Sean Hannity. I for one think that Barney Frank has a lot to answser for and may very well best serve this country by resigning. However for some nin-comepoop like Bill O'Rielly to scream at a US Senator and foam at the mouth is a little beyond Journalistic due diligence isn't it? In fact it is pretty much like everything else Mr. O'Rielly does, disgusting. And and his horde to say that he was in the right is a little odd, when you consider that Mr. O'Rielly has had at least one interview with George W. Bush and didn't call him a liar and a coward. It seems as though making mistake (and that is being generous I think we all know that Bush knew there was no reason other than his own ego to attack Iraq) that has lead to the death of over 300,000 people 4,000 of which were Americans, simply because you wanted to be able to say, "I am a war time President" as though you were in a Godfather movie, is a little more disgusting than propping up Freddie and Fanny. McPalin is cute and folksy but let's make sure she isn't allowed near anything that might explode or cost money.

truthful and to the point. The ad is right on target. The press can distort all they choose too. the American people are on to your biased attempts to select obama. We shall see if it works. Used2bdemocrat

In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: "I am a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I'm the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small 'c' communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me. I don't like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams [...]"[27]In 1970 Ayers was called "a national leader"[28] of the Weatherman organization and "one of the chief theoreticians of the Weathermen".[29] The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[30] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."[31] In June 1974, the Weather Underground released a 151-page volume titled Prairie Fire, which stated: "We are a guerrilla organization [...] We are communist women and men underground in the United States [...]"[32] The Weatherman leadership, including Bill Ayers, pushed for a radical reformulation of sexual relations under the slogan "Smash Monogamy".[33][34]

For those women who were excited about the Palin choice, do you not see the degradation from the McCain campaign? Her role is clearly defined as an "attack dog" because she can get by with it and apparently her only value is that it is safer for her to do McCain's dirty work for smears and rumors. She is being "handled" by the campaign with little if any respect and obviously is told very little about the campaign. So is this what it means for a woman to break through the glass ceiling, mor of the same?

If Aristotle alive today, he would have label McCain as cowardice.

The whole use of truncated sound bites should not be allowed in political ads. If the sound bit distorts the meaning of the whole sentence, then the person running the sound bit is misleading the voters.

I believe that John McCain is feeling pretty desperate right now. By now, he has realized that Sarah Palin was a HUGE mistake; therefore, he is resorting to the famour Karl Rove tacttics of coming up with anything and everything to smear Obama. Remember that Karl Rove is the one who propelled George Bush into the presidency! I hope that people realize what he is doing and I wish he would STOP, STOP, STOP.

To Sarah Palin: You are not qualified and I would like to know why you have ignored a subpoena in your home state of Alaska. Are you hiding something or just afraid something will come out? Sounds a lot like Dick Cheney but he was figured out in the end and Sarah will be too.

A vote for Obama is for change this country needs to get us out of this financial mess caused by eight years of the Bush/McCain era.

I am so disappointed that the campaign has sunk to this level. Of course, McNasty is down in the polls and has resorted to the very levels he vowed not to plumb. I guess this shows us his true character. Better now than November 5th.
I hate the fact that Barack Obama has to stoop to the Repubs level to fight the smears. Barack has run a great campaign, trying to stay out of the mud, but we all remember what happened to Kerry when he chose the high road.

I believe John McCain has lost the will to fight honorably, as noted by Niccolo Machiavelli "Anyone who examines the life and actions of this man (John McCain), therefore, will find little or nothing to attribute to fortune; for as was said before, it was not through anyone's favor, but rather through his own advancement in the ranks of the army, won at the cost of thousand hardships and risks, that he gained the power which he then maintained by many bold and hazardous undertakings. Still it cannot be called virtue to slay one's fellow citizens, to betray one's friends, to act without faith, without pity, without religion. By such methods one may win dominion but not glory" (Machiavelli, 1513).

MCCAIN HAS IGNORED OUR VETS, CONTRARY TO HIS SPIN ADS.

He has been an absentee landlord for our men and women in uniform.

McCain, as ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, apologized for not knowing that the privatized company at Walter Reed Medical Center, connected to Cheney, was ripping off and then threatening our wounded troops. When the Army blocked testimony of the fired general before a Senate investigating committee, (read White House) no indication that McCain took any action on behalf of our wounded soldiers when he should have taken a baseball bat into Cheney???s office to get some answers. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/mccain-apologizes-for-walter-reed/

if you have the stomach, just Google Army Times Walter Reed for a long list of articles.

And then we have McCain???s voting record against vet benefits. He is hot to send our troops into combat, but suddenly becomes fiscally conservative when it comes time to care for the families of the dead and wounded. http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1856

McCain missed every Armed Services Committee hearing In the last two years that discussed Afghanistan http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/mccain-missed-every-armed-services.html

I sent a personal letter to McCain to stop the process of falsifying secret homosexual reports at the US Naval Academy as a tactic for bypassing the UCMJ in difficult political situations (I was a victim of a summary dismissal) to protect legacy midshipmen like McCain. He responded with a campaign contribution solicitation.

For anybody with a full deck, supporting corruption in our military justice system poses as much a threat to our men and women in uniform as some of the Arab terrorists.

As the third of three brothers to enlist, one of whom paid the ultimate price, I believe that McCain deserves our respect as a POW and deserves the very best in nursing home care??? but I wouldn???t trust him to walk my dog to say nothing of sending my son to war.

Do we really need 8 more years of bayoneting OUR wounded???

US Naval Academy 66 for Obama

Just another in a long line of lies, smears, and distortions from McCain...Paris/Britney, taxes for the middle class, sed-ed for kindergardners, and now this. Who is John McCain???? He's the one who approves these knds of messages. We don't need another president who lies so easily..

I used to think John McCain was a man of honor and integrity, but it is sad beyond belief to see how far he has fallen.

Accusing Obama of "palling around with terrorists" and all the other slanderous statements made in the last few days is nothing short of cowardice; a pathetic attempt to slander Obama's character instead of dealing head-on with the issues, issues which are too important to see sliding into a mudslinging match.

I never believed I would see the day when I called John McCain a coward, but that day has arrived.

What a shame.

???Country Club First???McCain has decided that if he is going down he is going to take the country with him.

Snowjob Squareglasses has turned into a political manure spreader showering the land with BS.

She is a verbal garbage dump.

An Evangelical McCain/Palin Justice Dept will only cover up the crimes of the last Evangelical Justice Dept.

And, the right wing has hundreds of billions in government contracts at risk that they have no intention of losing under any circumstances.

As far as sewer politics, we haven't seen anything yet.

Do we really need another 8 years of bayoneting OUR wounded???

US Naval Academy 66 for Obama

Desperation breeds this kind of attack. The best way to combat it is to vote for Barack Obama and make the McCainiacs of the world eat their words.

The McCain/ Palin rallies are turning into the closest thing to a KKK rally yet.

People yelling Terrorist and Kill Him at McCain & Palin political rallies sets this country back 40 years and should scare every American. If John McCain does nothing to stop this spread of hatred he will ruin himself forever and our dear Ms. Palin will be known as the next best thing to David Dukes. Check the facts for yourself. Go to www.factcheck.org