There he goes again — and again
September 19th, 2008 at 08:11am Pat Cunningham
 
FactCheck.org says John McCain once again is DISTORTING Barack Obama’s tax plan.
But isn’t that par for the course? McCain also is falsely DECLARING that former Fannie Mae head Franklin Raines is an adviser to Obama “on mortage and housing policy matters.”
The Obama campaign says Raines has never advised the senator “about anything — ever.”
Raines says: “I am not an advisor to Barack Obama, nor have I provided his campaign with advice on housing or economic matters.”
UPDATE: WaPo Fact Checker GIVES McCain two Pinocchios for the Franklin Raines stuff.Â
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1. swamprat | September 19th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I see Karl Kockroach wrote a new commercial for McCain already so he could pretend to be an expert on the impending disaster.
2. Mike Carroll | September 19th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, that hotbed of Conservative thought, report that 77% of Mr. Obama’s commercials were negative last week, compared to 56% of the McCain spots.
3. Pat Cunningham | September 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Mike: But what percentage of McCain’s ads are lies? Negative ads are commonplace in political campaigns. McCain’s ads are setting new records for dishonesty (lipstick, sex education, taxes, etc., etc.). C’mon, your hero’s campaign has been taken over by Karl Rove and his proteges.
Check this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/19/new-mccain-attacks-echo-r_n_127767.html
4. Mike Carroll | September 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
If I ever willingly go to the Huffington Post you will know that I can be declared officially brain dead.
5. Pat Cunningham | September 19th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Mike: The article to which I linked contained material from Fox News, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, PolitiFact and a McCain TV ad. But the article appeared on Huffington Post, therefore it is somehow unworthy. Too bad you can’t refute the article on its content rather than on the name of its carrier. Even I can acknowledge that sometimes Fox News gets things right. I dare say, however, that HuffPo’s record for accuracy is far better than Fox’s. But you’ll never know that.
6. SNuss | September 19th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Speaking of lying political ads………
The most egregious example of Obama’s shifting strategy is a new Spanish-language ad called “Dos Caras.” Airing in the crucial Southwestern swing states of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, the spot attempts to equate McCain with Rush Limbaugh on immigration. As a picture of the conservative talk-radio host appears onscreen beneath a pair of bigoted-sounding quotes–”Mexicans are stupid and unqualified” and “Shut your mouth or get out”–the announcer says that “they want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance.” He continues: “They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much. John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush.”
The main problem here is that tying McCain to Limbaugh–especially on immigration reform–is deeply unfair. It’s not just that McCain broke with his party and nearly torpedoed his presidential bid by co-sponsoring last year’s failed comprehensive reform bill at the same time Limbaugh was regularly lambasting immigration reform and expressing hostility toward illegal immigrants on the air. It’s that Limbaugh actually opposed McCain’s candidacy because of his stance on immigration. He still doesn’t care for the Arizona senator. What’s more, the quotes from Limbaugh are taken out of context. As ABC News’ Jake Tapper points out, the “larger point” of the first one–while “not one of [Limbaugh’s] most eloquent moments, to be sure”–was that “NAFTA would mean that unskilled stupid Mexicans would be doing the jobs of unskilled stupid Americans.” Offensive, sure–but consider it an equal-opportunity slur. The second quote, meanwhile, was part of a riff mocking Mexican law–not a call to Mexicans “get out” of America. To imply that McCain agrees with these twisted quotes when he doesn’t even agree with Limbaugh on immigration is absurd. Has McCain moderated his immigration rhetoric for political reasons? Absolutely. But even blogger Andrew Sullivan–Obama’s No. 1 fan–says that “Dos Caras” crosses the line. “Playing racial politics this way is not what Obama promised to do,” he wrote yesterday. “Cut it out.”
See the rest: http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/19/obama-fights-fire-with-fire-predictably-enough-that-whole-postpartisan-thing-was-never-going-to-work-out-was-it.aspx
7. Pat Cunningham | September 19th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Snuss: For once, I agree with you. That Spanish-language ad for Obama is unfair and inaccurate.
8. SNuss | September 20th, 2008 at 7:51 am
So, we now both see that Obama is just another politician, running just another sleazy campaign. No “change”, just more of the same.
9. swamprat | September 20th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Um, Snuss. I think you should insert McCain’s name there instead of Obama’s. Or Palin’s.
Palin’s lying and stonewalling the trooper investigation, where is the change? To a good ole girls network. Some change.
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