The Peasantville Blog

For John McCain Lying is Standard Operating Procedure

Joe Klein of Time Magazine calls 'em like he sees 'em -- and he sees John McCain as a liar.

Illustration by Stephen Kroninger for TIME; McCain: Alfredo Estrella / AFP / Getty

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Klein points out that no only is McCain a liar, he's a serial liar of unprecedented proportions in a presidential campaign.

"Worse than the lies have been the smears. McCain ran a television ad claiming that Obama favored "comprehensive" sex education for kindergartners. (Obama favored a bill that would have warned kindergartners about sexual predators and improper touching.)

The accusation that Obama was referring to Sarah Palin when he said McCain's effort to remarket his economic policies was putting "lipstick on a pig" was another clearly misleading attack — an obnoxious attempt to divert attention from Palin's lack of fitness for the job and the recklessness with which McCain chose her. McCain's assault on the "élite media" for spreading rumors about Palin's personal life — actually, the culprits were a few bloggers and the tabloid press — was more of the same.

And that gets us close to the real problem here. The McCain camp has decided that its candidate can't win honorably, on the issues, so it has resorted to transparent and phony diversions."

John McCain - Confused, Disoriented, Unfit

More evidence John McCain is unfit to lead:

""McCain said this near the end of the clip below, as he's talking up Palin's foreign policy/national security credentials:
'I also know, if I might remind you, that she is commander of the Alaska National Guard. In fact, you may know that on Sept. 11 a large contingent of the Alaska Guard deployed to Iraq and her son happened to be one of them. So I think she understands our national security challenges....'

"The ceremony Palin attended at Fort Wainwright last week didn't involve the Alaska National Guard. Palin's son is in the Army, and his unit - 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division - deployed to Iraq.""

But then, McCan apparently thinks Spain and Mexico are the same geographic location.

CBS Edits Out McCain's Embarrassingly Naive Statements - Liberal Media?

McCain sells his version of what happened - of course, that requires him to revise the facts to fit his version.

Noonan Gives Honest Assessment - But not on Purpose

Peggy Noonan let's it all hang out!!  One must take care not to speak into a microphone that may still be on.

And There Goes Ted Stevens in the Footsteps of Randy Cunningham, Bob Ley and Others

Indicted on Seven Federal Counts - and he's down for those counts.   It's all about home improvement, without Tim Allen.  Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars worth of home improvements. "

And he made quite the sweet heart deal trading cars, too.  Traded an old Ford for a new Land Rover. What's wrong with American cars, Ted?  No matter - at 85 years of age, Ted's looking at a life sentence.

WE know what a criminal White House looks like -- The Bush White House

Frank Rich Tells It Like It Is:  "And so we’re back where we started in the summer of 2001, with even shark attacks and Chandra Levy’s murder (courtesy of a new Washington Post investigation) returning to the news. We are once again distracted and unprepared while the Taliban and bin Laden’s minions multiply in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This, no less than the defiling of the Constitution, is the legacy of an administration that not merely rationalized the immorality of torture but shackled our national security to the absurdity that torture could easily fix the terrorist threat.

That’s why the Bush White House’s corruption in the end surpasses Nixon’s. We can no longer take cold comfort in the Watergate maxim that the cover-up was worse than the crime. This time the crime is worse than the cover-up, and the punishment could rain down on us all."

A good read.

McCain Adviser Seeks Al Qaeda Endorsement for His Candidate

In a Fortune magazine piece just published, McCain Adviser Charlie Black, referencing a terror attack on our nation, said, "Certainly it would be a big advantage to (McCain)."  They want more dead Americans to use as campaign props for McCain, just like they did George W. Bush.  Charlie Black is looking for an Al Qaeda endorsement.

Black is also quoted as saying the "unfortunate event" of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto earlier this year "helped us."

How very sad.

Reason to Vote Republican

Makes you want to re-think that decision, doesn't it?

John McCain is Just OK With Enronomics.

John McCain and his friends, the practitioner's of Enronomics.  Apparently McCain's philosophy is let big oil do unto others -- just so long as they contribute big to the McCain Campaign.

John McCain is Just OK With Enronomics.

John McCain and his friends, the practitioner's of Enronomics.  Apparently McCain's philosophy is let big oil do unto others -- just so long as they contribute big to the McCain Campaign.