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McCain’s Dirty Campaign Starting To Anger The Press

Posted on 15 September 2008

It has become painfully obvious that the McCain/Palin campaign is starting to anger the press.  You only have to look at CNN and other news outlets to see the constant fact checking and proven outright lies that are now common on the nightly news, to see that many are not sitting back idly and accepting the dirt and mudslinging that both candidates promised not to participate in.

Let’s face it, John McCain is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.  The candidate that said he would run an honorable campaign and change politics as usual, is running the biggest attempted smear campaign since McCarthyism.

Even after confronted with statements from reputable sources such as FactCheck.org, who called McCain’s commercials as “Less than honest” and defiantly stated that McCain used quotes from the site that they did not say, or did not say in the manor that they were used,  the McCain camp still continues to run the commercials.

Even after Gov Palins trademark statement “..and I told congress thanks, but no thanks” on the bridge to nowhere was proven to be false ,and showed proof that she actually supported the bridge first and is seen with the t-shirt…they still repeat the same tired line as recently as today. (although not as commanding)

Governor Palin claims that Alaska produces 20% of this country’s energy, but according to the Dept of Energy, it’s actually 3.5%.

John McCain has decided that we are too stupid to see the truth, and as long as he plants sensational ideas in our heads, no matter how wrong, low, or sleazy they are, it will serve to either influence your decision because…you want to believe him, or he is playing on some underlying issues in this country and playing on the fact that you want to hear terrible things about Barack Obama, so that you can have an excuse not to vote for him.

Unfortunately, some of us are that stupid.  If it didn’t work in the past, they wouldn’t still do it.

It is apparent that the Mccain/Palin camp is out of control, when the king of the sleazy campaigns, Karl Rove, says that McCain’s ads have “gone too far”.

It is also evident that the McCain platform is put together on perception and not reality.  Why else would his running mate Sarah Palin be nestled under McCains arm like a new chick in the nest..far away from reporters, and only giving pre-worded speeches, repeating the same catch phrase lines over and over again all across the country.

This is the ethics and judgment of the people who want to run our country.

I had hoped that we would get a campaign of issues and discussions, instead we are constantly redirected by cry baby like tactics about lipstick and pigs, while the unregulated mortgage and investment companies in this country continually fold around us and drop off of the face of the earth, from lack of regulation over the last 8 years.

McCain needs a reality check. He has decided to try and win the election by any means necessary.  He has sold his soul, and is being led astray by the very same lobbyist running his campaign that he has sworn to protect us from if he were to be President.

It is the epitome of ironies.

With every sleazy tactic that his band of lobbyist pull out of their hat in dishonest sensationalism, (instead of running for President), my respect for him as a Senator and an Honored Veteran is slowly withering into disgusted pity for what seems to be an old man desperately grasping onto his last chance to be President.

John Mccain has forgotten about respect and dignity, the cornerstone of that military service he clings to as a platform for change in this campaign.

After so many years of service to America, what a shame for his actions during this election to forever stain what would have been an honored legacy.

But then again, what do I know, I’m just an average American Citizen.

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3 Comments For This Post

  1. Brannan says:

    Excellent summary. I’m in the military. McCain graduated low at the Naval Academy, so I guess he stepped out for a beer the day they were teaching honor: that we don’t lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.

    I’ve voted Republican for years. Not this year. The Democrats are running an honorable campaign, and frankly, this country cannot afford four more years of the same Republican incompetence.

  2. Trevor says:

    Brannan,

    I served, as well. I became disenchanted with the Republicans following the Iraq invasion once the lies they told were revealed. Five years later, we’re still there with our brothers spilling their blood and our nation squandering its treasure on a pack of lies McCain continues to endorse.

    And now to see his campaign take such a nasty and avoid in every attempt discussing the real issues facing this nation is completely disheartening. And yet nearly half of those polled still express a desire to vote for him. I believe they feel he’s still the same man as he was in 2000. He’s not. He’s abandoned principles in an effort to win the White House and has given in to the “agents of intolerance” he so thoroughly despised. It’s sad to see. But he must not be rewarded for these actions. I pray that America makes the right choice on November 5th.

  3. Vickie says:

    After watching the news this morning and seing Sarah Palin talk down Obama like a dog, I am totally disgusted. I was already going to vote for Obama, but the way they are talking down Obama in every way necessary, there is no way I’d vote for McCain. If he and Palin will lie now, they’ll definitely lie once they get in the White House. I really never thought they would run such a nasty campaign and I’ve lost all respect for them.

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