“Obama is an Arab” Lies

As it turns out, the crazy McCain supporter who was spouting off about Obama being an Arab during a McCain rally works for the McCain campaign and has used her position to spread these vicious lies about Barack Obama.

Remember that woman who stood up at a recent McCain rally and claimed Obama is an arab? Thankfully McCain quickly corrected her, but as the following interview that was conducted directly after the event shows, she still believes Obama is an arab.

What’s even more disconcerting is it appears as if she’s sending letters that states this belief and making calls to voters using McCain campaign resources.

Lies About Troopergate

ABC News’ Jake Tapper calls out Sarah Palin for her blatant lies about the “Troopergate” scandal in Alaska:

On Saturday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin twice spoke to reporters about the so-called “Troopergate” scandal and the investigative report on whether she had abused her power in trying to get her sister’s ex-husband Mike Wooten fired as a state trooper, and for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan one year after she, her staffers, and her husband Todd began unsuccessfully pressuring Monegan to let Wooten go.

Palin spoke on the phone with Alaska reporters about the report. The McCain-Palin campaign only allowed one question per reporter. The journalists came from the Anchorage Daily News, KTVA-Channel 11 and KTUU-Channel 2. No follow-ups were allowed.

The call can be heard HERE.

“Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing,” Palin said, “any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.”

That’s just not the case.

There’s plenty more strongly and unequivocally worded journalism if you click through to the original article.

Rolling Stone covers a few of McCain’s more blatant lies in a piece called “The Double-Talk Express“.

Example:

THEN
2001: “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans.”

NOW
2007: “I will not let the Democrats roll back the Bush tax cuts.”
2008: “I think that what we need is more tax cuts.”

McCain Lies About Keating Five

Not so long ago, John McCain freely discussed his involvement in the Keating Five scandal of the late eighties. He admitted it as one of his greatest personal failings. As Daily Kos now points out, times have changed:

Earlier today the McCain campaign had the gall to hold a conference call and have McCain’s lawyer from the Keating Five scandal, John Dowd, claim that:

…he vehemently disagreed with the judgment of the Senate Ethics Committee that McCain had made some serious mistakes. “That’s not something that as his counsel I accepted,” Dowd said.

Dowd singled out the late Sen. Howell Heflin (D-AL), who vocally criticized McCain at the time, for particular scorn. “But you know, Sen. Mitchell was the majority leader, and Howell Heflin was his stooge,” said Dowd. “And he was doing what he was told because the rest were Democrats in the hearing. So it’s sort of a classic political smear-job on John.”

And what did John McCain have to say about it…back in the day when he wasn’t losing a presidential campaign, that is?

I created the appearance of impropriety so it was my – I was guilty, and therefore did not represent the people of my state in the manner which they expected of me. [CNN, Larry King, 10/12/02]

The biggest mistake that I made in my life was attending a meeting with four other senators and four regulators because of the appearance of impropriety, and it is something that will always be a mark on my record, and something that people will judge me for the rest of my life. [GOP Presidential Primary Debate, 1/7/00]

Despite my recovery, the Keating Five experience was not one that I have walked away from as easily as I have other bad times. Twelve years after its conclusion, I still wince thinking about it and find that if I do not repress the memory, its recollection still provokes a vague but real feeling that I had lost something very important, something that was sacrificed in the pursuit of gratifying ambitions, my own and others’, and that I might never possess again as assuredly as I once had.  [McCain, Worth the Fighting For Page 204]

For nearly 20 years, John McCain has talked about his involvement in the Keating Five scandal as the biggest mistake of his political career, but now that it’s become a part of the campaign conversation, McCain is too much of a coward to stand up and accept responsibility for his past words and actions.

1.3 million people making a living off of Ebay?

In the second presidential debate, John McCain just claimed that 1.3 million people are “making a living” off of Ebay. That is just not true. Newsweek reported in May on that misstatement.