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Gutter Politics: McCain Campaign
Called Out For Half-Truths |
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September 10, 2008 The Washington Post has
an article today on the repeated lies and lack
of accountability in the presidential race:
From the moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
declared that she had opposed the infamous
"Bridge to Nowhere," critics, the news media
and nonpartisan fact checkers have called it
a fabrication or, at best, a half-truth. But
yesterday in Lebanon, Ohio, and again in
Lancaster, Pa., she crossed that bridge
again.
"I told Congress: 'Thanks but no thanks
for that Bridge to Nowhere up in Alaska,' "
Palin told the crowds at the "McCain Street
USA" rallies. "If we wanted a bridge, we'll
build it ourselves."
The New York Times looks into how Obama's
lipstick line was taken out of context:
A new character is making a debut at
Senator Barack Obama's campaign rallies: His
name is John McCain.
It began quietly on Monday in Michigan,
but grew in volume as Mr. Obama made his way
from Flint to Farmington Hills, carrying
over to a speech on Tuesday morning in Ohio.
By the time he arrived for an evening stop
in the southwestern tip of Virginia, Mr.
Obama's sales pitch contained nearly as many
references to Senator McCain as to himself,
suggesting how the McCain campaign has been
driving the recent dialogue of the
presidential race.
"John McCain says he's about change, too
-- except for economic policy, health care
policy, tax policy, education policy,
foreign policy and Karl Rove-style
politics," Mr. Obama told his supporters
here. "That's just calling the same thing
something different."
With a laugh, he added: "You can put
lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig. You can
wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called
change; it's still going to stink after
eight years."
In the latest sign of the campaign's
heightened intensity, Mr. McCain's
surrogates responded within minutes and
called on Mr. Obama to apologize to Gov.
Sarah Palin for the lipstick remark. But to
those in the audience, it was clear that Mr.
Obama was employing an age-old phrase --
lipstick on a pig -- and referring to Mr.
McCain's policies. He had not yet mentioned
Ms. Palin at that point of his speech.
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