John McCain is coward and a liar.   What he did 30 years ago no longer matters.   He is not worthy of America's respect anymore.  Those were tough sentences to write as I was a McCain fan for many years.   But the facts are the facts.  He has sold his soul to Karl Rove and Steve Schmidt.  Period.  No debate.  End of sentence.

Why does a so called "maverick" like John McCain need to embrace the tactics of distortion, of outright lies in the current political race that looks as if it has become as down and dirty as any election in recent years?  Doesn't a maverick refuse to join the herd, to march to a different drummer?  If John McCain has already employed the tactics of the last eight years of the Bush administration (lies and deceit as in Iraq's WMD or that Iraq was responsible for 9/11), hasn't McCain already shown that his administration (should he win the election) will simply be a continuation of the untruths and distortions that are a hallmark of George Bush and Company?

Perfect! That is exactly what it was, very carefully chosen words...he knew he could defend it by saying it was a common phrase that even McCain himself had used, but Obama used it right as it was the most popular line in America from one of his opponents,
and even waited on his delivery for the laughter...everyone knows he meant it...it was clever to use, but he did mean it.

Why is there no discussion of the fact that John McCain himself used the same phrase? The McCain campaign is really pathetic! Is there no low they won't sink to, to win this race? I supported McCain in 2000, I voted for him in the primary over Bush, but this John McCain isn't fit to carry the jockstrap of that John McCain.

Let me see, how many recent lies does that make for John "I'd rather lose my integrity than lose an election" McCain?

Plus will someone in the MSM ever mention that Phil Gramm, McCain's primary Economic Advisor and future Sec. of the Treasury, is the Senator most responsible for the Wall Street deregulation and crippling of oversight that is resulting in the financial system collapse?

Talk about putting the fox in charge of the hen house! Does anyone in the media do any actual reporting?

ROME IS BURNING AND FIRST READ IS TALKING ABOUT PIGS?

AMERICANS ARE HURTING AND LOOSING A FIST FULL OF DOLLARS BY THE MINUTE AND YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME ON PIGS?

WHEN PIGS FLY!

Am I in the TWILIGHT ZONE???

45% of Americans think this NUT is FIT to be POTUS?

LORD HELP US ALL!

I Cannot believe it!  THIS MAN lies STRAIGHT TO YOU FACES and he is not even in office yet.  Can you imagine all the lies that would go on if he were elected?  Him and his partner in crime Palin (with LIES of her own)...

WAKE UP AMERICA - BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

Here is a good story to highlight from the NYT. It is truth.

McCain’s Radical Agenda
By BOB HERBERT
Published: September 15, 2008

Talk about a shock to the system. Has anyone bothered to notice the radical changes that John McCain and Sarah Palin are planning for the nation’s health insurance system?


McCain Plan to Aid States on Health Could Be Costly
These are changes that will set in motion nothing less than the dismantling of the employer-based coverage that protects most American families.

A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan.

There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much attention because the chatter in this campaign has mostly been about nonsense — lipstick, celebrities and “Drill, baby, drill!”

For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.

“It means your employer is going to have to make an estimate on how much the employer is paying for health insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to pay taxes on that money,” said Sherry Glied, an economist who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Ms. Glied is one of the four scholars who have just completed an independent joint study of the plan. Their findings are being published on the Web site of the policy journal, Health Affairs.

According to the study: “The McCain plan will force millions of Americans into the weakest segment of the private insurance system — the nongroup market — where cost-sharing is high, covered services are limited and people will lose access to benefits they have now.”

The net effect of the plan, the study said, “almost certainly will be to increase family costs for medical care.”

Under the McCain plan (now the McCain-Palin plan) employees who continue to receive employer-paid health benefits would look at their pay stubs each week or each month and find that additional money had been withheld to cover the taxes on the value of their benefits.

While there might be less money in the paycheck, that would not be anything to worry about, according to Senator McCain. That’s because the government would be offering all taxpayers a refundable tax credit — $2,500 for a single worker and $5,000 per family — to be used “to help pay for your health care.”

You may think this is a good move or a bad one — but it’s a monumental change in the way health coverage would be provided to scores of millions of Americans. Why not more attention?

The whole idea of the McCain plan is to get families out of employer-paid health coverage and into the health insurance marketplace, where naked competition is supposed to take care of all ills. (We’re seeing in the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch fiascos just how well the unfettered marketplace has been working.)

Taxing employer-paid health benefits is the first step in this transition, the equivalent of injecting poison into the system. It’s the beginning of the end.

When younger, healthier workers start seeing additional taxes taken out of their paychecks, some (perhaps many) will opt out of the employer-based plans — either to buy cheaper insurance on their own or to go without coverage.

That will leave employers with a pool of older, less healthy workers to cover. That coverage will necessarily be more expensive, which will encourage more and more employers to give up on the idea of providing coverage at all.

The upshot is that many more Americans — millions more — will find themselves on their own in the bewildering and often treacherous health insurance marketplace. As Senator McCain has said: “I believe the key to real reform is to restore control over our health care system to the patients themselves.”

Yet another radical element of McCain’s plan is his proposal to undermine state health insurance regulations by allowing consumers to buy insurance from sellers anywhere in the country. So a requirement in one state that insurers cover, for example, vaccinations, or annual physicals, or breast examinations, would essentially be meaningless.

In a refrain we’ve heard many times in recent years, Mr. McCain said he is committed to ridding the market of these “needless and costly” insurance regulations.

This entire McCain health insurance transformation is right out of the right-wing Republicans’ ideological playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone.

You would think that with some of the most venerable houses on Wall Street crumbling like sand castles right before our eyes, we’d be a little wary about spreading this toxic formula even further into the health care system.

But we’re not even paying much attention. "

How about analyzing the conflict in what McCain says from time to time, instead of generating your own "implication" to avoid naming him as the habitual liar he has become?

Will it never end??
Mccain campaigns on lies, distortions, exaggerations
and attacks, now he is trying to change that by
more lies, distortions, exaggerations and attacks.
We American voters are not stupid.
Mccain, the republicans cannot campaign on
accomplishments as they have none.
They cannot campaign on policies as theirs
have almost destroyed our country.
They cannot campaign on records as they
are criminal.
He has destroyed any integrity, honor he once
had in trying anything to win this election.
We cannot allow a man or a political party to
continue to destroy our great nation.

What is wrong is the child like reasons for McCain's behavior.  While I am trying very hard to wait until the debates before making a decision, McCain's win at all cost is getting hard to swallow.

How do you sleep at night, John McCain?

After what you went thru in 2000, you have made a deal with the devil to win at all costs.

You are therefore fundamentally untrustworthy and your image of a straight talker is over.

I knew it! McCain and his campaign people are really not communicating with one another that well. They need to regroup and reorganize that mess they have over there...LOL

McCain keeps changing his mind about a LOT of things.

Or is he "forgetting" what he said and has to be reminded.

To go from the economy is fundamentally sound in the morning then to the economy is in a crisis later in the afternoon is disturbing.

How the heck can the guy run the country when he can't remember anything he says just a few hours ago?

Although I didn't always agree with his politics, I always felt that John McCain was at least a man of honor.  It is very obvious that he is no longer the John McCain of old.  Poor, rash decisions (Sarah Palin), totally selling out to the extremely right wing nuts, blatantly lying.....  It really seems as if he has morally lost it by basically selling his soul to become president, or he is mentally losing it.  Either way, he is a really, really bad choice to be our next leader.  I don't necessarily agree with all of Obama's positions, but it is completely evident that he is an honorable, thoughtful man with a lot to offer.  McCain is either senile, morally bankrupt, corrupt or all of the above.  Not who I want for president.  Don't even get me started on Palin....     Obama/Biden '08  THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE!

He was "slyly up to something"??? That makes NO sense - either he was calling her a pig or he wasn't. And since even they now admit that he wasn't, then exactly WHAT was offensive about it?

McCain is a LIAR with NO HONOR.

When this is all over, he will go down in history as having run the most dishonest, dishonorable campaign in modern presidential history.

pathetic.  absolutely pathetic.

false outrage indeed.

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I am shocked by Senator McCain's "outrage" at the Obama quote which was taken out of context. I would love to see a repeat of Senator McCain when he used the same quote actually referring to Senator Clinton, or his other derogatory comments referring to Chelsea Clinton or Janet Reno.  There are many more sexist McCain comments where he actually WAS putting down women.  Is the word lipstick no longer to be a part of our vocabularies because Palin now owns the word?  Must we walk on eggs shells to protect the already overly protected Palin?  Is this what a female candidate is all about?  Are they so inferior or thin skinned they need to be protected from the news media or scrutiny or harsh words?  McCain has shown his dishonesty, his mean streak, and that he will do or say ANYTHING to win.

McCain is no dummy he knows it is time he starts trying to retract some of the lies he and his campaign has told. Too late shall be his cry!!!

McCain is unraveling before your eyes. NOW if the MEDIA would do their job and report the TRUTH!!
Sick of the LIES

Well that only leaves one piggy left..
That little piggy went we we we all the way home...
and
John how can you find government pork when you have so much lipstick on...?

Chaney has used it,Bomber you have used it to many times to count.you used it to slam Hillarys health care program,your daughter said you used this phrase many times,I myself have used the line.And after all the wind you and your spokes people blew,and the croc tears,the sexist overtones they spewed,and your own former speech has written a book about the term and the way politians use the term to decribe spin,whice is all I hear comming from the bomber camp.You approved the message,knowing what he said was about you.

By McCains own admission Obama is a very eloquent speaker. While McCain is considered a crude hot-tempered,impetuous, profanity using speaker. Which would be the best person to represent the United States in a meeting with Allies as well as foes? I do not think that a blowhard hothead liar will make relations any better with either. Think people, we do not need 4 more years like the last eight!

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