PolitiFact | Not a radical group, and Ayers didn’t run it

PolitiFact | Not a radical group, and Ayers didn’t run it:

“This attack is false, but it’s more than that – it’s malicious. It unfairly tars not just Obama, but all the other prominent, well-respected Chicagoans who also volunteered their time to the foundation. They came from all walks of life and all political backgrounds, and there’s ample evidence their mission was nothing more than improving ailing public schools in Chicago. Yet in the heat of a political campaign they have been accused of financing radicalism. That’s Pants on Fire wrong.”

(Via Politifact.com.)

Still bald faced lying. Truly desperate.

Dealing with the Devil

YouTube – McCain Booed For Calling Obama A “Decent Man”:

(Via YouTube.)

After about a week of letting Palin make outrageous attacks against Obama and getting into the game himself, it looks like chickens coming home to roost for John McCain. You can’t make a deal with the devil and get off scott free. His campaign now employs Charlie Condon, the same guy from Bush’s 2000 campaign who made disgusting racial smears against McCain. And we know how that turned out. McCain sold his soul to the devil, and is now trying to reverse course after he’s starting to take heat for some of the worst hateful speech we’ve seen in campaigns in quite some time. I’m willing to believe that McCain’s change is more a matter of principle than political expediency, but it’s too little, too late. The train has left the station. McCain is now the candidate who is supported by racists and xenophobes. Sure it’s but a small sliver of his base, but that’s not how it looks. And in this game, looks matter. I feel bad for him but this is the price you pay for dealing with the Devil.

Anger consumes John McCain support as poll gap widens – Times Online

Anger consumes John McCain support as poll gap widens – Times Online:

“Events this week have been marked by ugly outbursts from crowds. In Clearwater, Florida, shouts of ‘kill him!’ could be heard amid a chorus of boos when Mrs Palin attacked the Democratic nominee over his links with 1960s radical, Bill Ayers.
Journalists were reported to have been taunted with obscenities or racial insults from members of audience when Mrs Palin blamed the ‘mainstream media’ for what she described as her ‘less-than-successful’ – and much-parodied – television interviews.
At a rally on Monday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mr McCain asked: ‘Who is the real Barack Obama?’ A man in crowd screamed back the reply: ‘Terrorist!’”

(Via Times Online.)

It’s turning ugly. My question is why not speak against such outbursts when they happen or perhaps later? Truly frightening these two.

CNN Covers Palin Rape Kit Story (VIDEO)

CNN Covers Palin Rape Kit Story (VIDEO):

(Via The Huffington Post.)

I first heard about this on The Daily Show and was pretty shocked. It’s a pretty crazy situation and disturbing. Not a smart move to attract women voters.

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – Fact Check: Is Obama ‘palling around with terrorists’? « – Blogs from CNN.com

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – Fact Check: Is Obama ‘palling around with terrorists’? « – Blogs from CNN.com:

“Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now ‘palling around,’ or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.”

(Via CNN Political Ticker.)

Palin supporters call her “real.” My question is: Real what? Nasty? Liar? Honorless? A candidate for the presidency with terrorists? I can’t even say it without laughing.

What’s the Difference?

So Palin can speak in complete sentences. She still knows nothing about foreign policy. – By Fred Kaplan – Slate Magazine:

“More to the point, he noted that McCain has never explained how his policies would differ from Bush’s on Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, or Iraq. In other words, even if Palin is right that 2009 is Year Zero, what would she and her No. 1 do differently? She didn’t answer the question, any more than McCain ever has, perhaps because there is no answer.”

(Via Slate.com.)

About the only thing the McCain smacks of change is it’s slogan which has as the campaign wears on. Now it’s, “Change is Coming.” Barack Obama is winning in the polls so I guess he’s right.

Why I Trust FactCheck.org

I received this in the email today.

Dear Subscriber:
We have retracted a portion of our article, “FactChecking Biden-Palin Debate,” and have posted the following correction:
Correction Oct 3: This article originally faulted Biden for saying that McCain had voted “the exact same way” as Obama on a controversial troop funding bill. We said that McCain was absent for the vote and so didn’t vote at all. Biden was however correct.
McCain did vote against the troop-funding bill in question, H.R. 1591, on March 29, 2007, when it originally cleared the Senate. The vote to which we referred, and which McCain missed, was a later vote on the House-Senate compromise version of the same bill, on April 26, 2007. McCain opposed the bill, which Obama supported, because it contained language calling for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Biden was responding to Palin’s accusation that “Obama voted against funding troops.” Obama voted for the bill March 29 and April 26, then on May 24, 2007, following a veto by President Bush, Obama voted against a similar troop-funding bill, H.R. 2206, that lacked any withdrawal language.
Please accept our apology for our error.
-Brooks Jackson

This is why I trust them.

Answer the Question!

Watch Palin dance. Facts are tough!

Style vs. Substance

Transcript of Palin, Biden debate – CNN.com:

“PALIN: People aren’t looking for more of the same. They are looking for change. And John McCain has been the consummate maverick in the Senate over all these years.
He’s taken shots left and right from the other party and from within his own party, because he’s had to take on his own party when the time was right, when he recognized it was time to put partisanship aside and just do what was right for the American people.
That’s what I’ve done as governor, also, take on my own party, when I had to, and work with both sides of the aisle, in my cabinet, appointing those who would serve regardless of party, Democrats, independents, Republicans, whatever it took to get the job done.
Also, John McCain’s maverick position that he’s in, that’s really prompt up to and indicated by the supporters that he has. Look at Lieberman, and Giuliani, and Romney, and Lingle, and all of us who come from such a diverse background of — of policy and of partisanship, all coming together at this time, recognizing he is the man that we need to leave — lead in these next four years, because these are tumultuous times.
We have got to win the wars. We have got to get our economy back on track. We have got to not allow the greed and corruption on Wall Street anymore.
And we have not got to allow the partisanship that has really been entrenched in Washington, D.C., no matter who’s been in charge. When the Republicans were in charge, I didn’t see a lot of progress there, either. When the Democrats, either, though, this last go- around for the last two years.
Change is coming. And John McCain is the leader of that reform.
IFILL: Senator…
BIDEN: I’ll be very brief. Can I respond to that?
Look, the maverick — let’s talk about the maverick John McCain is. And, again, I love him. He’s been a maverick on some issues, but he has been no maverick on the things that matter to people’s lives.
He voted four out of five times for George Bush’s budget, which put us a half a trillion dollars in debt this year and over $3 trillion in debt since he’s got there.
He has not been a maverick in providing health care for people. He has voted against — he voted including another 3.6 million children in coverage of the existing health care plan, when he voted in the United States Senate.
He’s not been a maverick when it comes to education. He has not supported tax cuts and significant changes for people being able to send their kids to college.
He’s not been a maverick on the war. He’s not been a maverick on virtually anything that genuinely affects the things that people really talk about around their kitchen table.
Can we send — can we get Mom’s MRI? Can we send Mary back to school next semester? We can’t — we can’t make it. How are we going to heat the — heat the house this winter?
He voted against even providing for what they call LIHEAP, for assistance to people, with oil prices going through the roof in the winter.
So maverick he is not on the important, critical issues that affect people at that kitchen table.”

(Via CNN.com.)

Look at the contrast in the responses of Sarah “Toothpaste Ad” Palin (friends words can’t take credit) vs. Joe “Gaffe Master” Biden. Which had style? Which had substance? Well, for my money robotic talking points are just not up to snuff. There’s too much at stake.

John McCain was a Maverick

Video – Breaking News Videos from CNN.com:

(Via CNN Video.)

McCain on the maverick party: “You don’t have to go home, but you have to get the heeeeellllll outta here!”