Is there anything the McCain campaign won’t lie about? It’s becoming pathological:
The McCain campaign has started airing a new Spanish-language television commercial in the battleground states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that lays the failure of comprehensive immigration reform at the feet of Barack Obama and his Democratic colleagues — despite the fact that Obama supported the bipartisan John McCain-Edward Kennedy efforts to enact such reforms and voted for their final proposal last year.
… "Obama and his Congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants," the ad’s announcer says in Spanish in the spot, released Friday. "But are they? The press reports that their efforts were ‘poison pills’ that made immigration reform fail. The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that being on our side? Obama and his Congressional allies: Ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead."
This is a complete reversal of the real picture: Republicans, not Democrats, killed immigration reform, and it had nothing to do with “poison pill” amendments. It had to do with right-wing Republicans who hated the “amnesty” portions of the bill that McCain himself supported.
As you can see in the above video, the nativist nutcases actually claim credit (with good reason) for killing immigration reform. And they will continue to be the largest obstacle.
Even the Washington Times is calling bullshit on McCain’s ad (with its own right-wing take, of course):
It’s McCain’s second attempt to try to tie Obama to unpopular congressional Democrats, and this one’s a stretch. The immigration bill didn’t die because of poison pill amendments; it died because it was unworkable from the start — a mishmash of ideas and policies that never quite worked together, that was always skewed too far toward amnesty to truly win much conservative support, and that never quite got the buy-in such a deal needed from both sides.
This is only the latest lie coming from these people, as we all know, and it has permanently changed the campaign narrative. McCain’s campaign has officially become the Fast Talk Express.
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Cabron.
Did McShame vote on the sunset amendment if so how.
Lies, dam lies and statistics.
they haven’t got to statistics yet…
Su madre
statistics are elitist
Juan McCain tiene cara de chango.
Juan McShame tiene cara de Hypocrocia
Arctic Ice in “Death Spiral,”
I’ve been waiting for the folks in Boulder to put out the 2008 season numbers.
http://news.nationalgeographic…..a-ice.html
This will be hailed as an opportunity to drill, drill, drill.
McCain = mentiroso
Ehy! Don’t recall seeing you here before Mr Peabody. How’s things at the Shinbone Star?
McCain = Lügner
Obama killed the immigration bill while McSame was busy inventing the blackberry, dirty trick it was.
Palin is going to “sd” at the I-hate-Iran get together but Mrs Bill is canceling. What the hell was she scheduled there for in the first place I want to know. It is peopled by neo-con, muslim hating, RWNFs……..oh.
And as to your link, it will be used as proof that Global Warming doesn’t exist since the predictions were that the summer ice could disappear this summer and it didn’t happen. Therefore, there is no such thing as Global Warming/Global Climate Change. /s
He just can’t help himself, bless his black little POW heart.
Lies are now as natural as breathing for McCaint.
Haven’t we had enough lies from the White House?
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Had Enough?
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Only if they are Upitty not Downitty
more ca-ca from Trent Lott who is more concerned about violence and vulgarity and its impact on our young people than the economy!!!!
ay carumba
hey now, you sound like a “hater”!
That’s the first shot from a Republic orchestrated effort to now make the election about porn! They are desparate to change the subject. It’s going to be nasty.
He had to lie as a POW that’s why he gave his captors the names of the line of the Green Bay Packers eerr the Philadelphia eagles eerr (where is he today)
Today, it’s the Green Bay Eagles.
This is crazy
There is a lot of porn and vulgarity running for office his name is John McShame
Nah, just pissed at how eternally stupid the Dem “leadership” is.
If the ad were translated into English and played in NC, GA, and the western states, I wonder if a few knuckle draggers might stay home, Palin or no Palin.
That is great news!
There is a difference between a negative ad that points at something factual and outright lies unfortunately it doesn’t appear the brains that did the study included truthfulness
Y tu Mama tambien!
lol
Now that’s an excellent idea!
Also send a copy to Lou Dobbs. The resulting foam from his mouth would confirm his case of rabies.
Heh. Saw the film. Didn’t get it but I remember the title and 1 or 2 scenes…
FunnyD
John McCain is hoping the spanish speaking people,he’s targeting are too stupid to find out the truth on their own!
which they are not (speaking as a latina–though a Portuguese speaking one)
OT Here is the future AG under McShame/Palin -Talis Gonzales Colberg
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi…..es_wil.php
Aren’t McCains blatant lies an insult to all voters?
No difference between a negative ad that is true and one that isn’t I guess?
But, hey, the anti-immigrant, English Only types won’t understand the ad, because it’s in Spanish! So McShame can be both pro- and anti- immigrant simultaneously!
Pretzel logic, meet mobius strip!
FunnyD
(where is everyone? working?)
Only if they’re aware that they’re lies.
Wait a minute you are being disrespectful.
Did you ever for a minute think you’d ever hear the words “deference” or disrespectful in a political campaign? Especially coming from the biggest mudslinger there is?
Well, for most folks, I think a truthful ad pointing out negative facts about someone is just telling the truth.
But in Hacktacular Howie Kurtz’s world, the truth can’t be used because of its known liberal bias…
And from the person suggesting that Obama is an elitist
I would love to tour the Southland
In a travelling minstrel show
Yes I’d love to tour the Southland
In a traveling minstrel show
Yes I’m dying to be a star and make them laugh
Sound just like a record on the phonograph
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago, oh yeah
Well I say fuck him.
Good thinking hadn’t thought of that angle!
In my world, it’s only a negative ad if it is a personal attack on the candidate or especially if it’s on his/her family, or if it’s a downright lie. This one qualifies.
But, hey, the anti-immigrant, English Only types won’t understand the ad, because it’s in Spanish!
Paging Lou Dobbs – Mr. Dobbs, please pick up the nearest bigot-phone…..
Jane has an amusing sounding post up entitled: Jeb Bush says McCain Can Clean Up His Brother’s Mess.
Not necessarily. An insult is an insult, whether or not one knows to be insulted. As long as someone else knows it’s an insult. Which actually makes one both insulted and ignorant.
Bwahahahaha!
I think the Knuckle-draggers should be apprised that McShame IS NOT CAMPAIGNING IN ENGLISH ONLY!!!! He’s encouraging voter fraud, because everyone knows that anyone not 100% proficient in English isn’t a REAL ‘MERKIN!
FunnyD
Better you than me, bro!
FunnyD
How do McCains Holy Roller supporters reconcile their beliefs ,with McCains lies?
Yeah, it all kind of runs counter to McCain’s statement in the GOP debates that he wouldn’t have voted for his own immigration-reform bill last year, doesn’t it?
It’s the mobius-strip, pretzel logic at work.
His stance on any given issue is determined by audience and geographic location, which correspond to coordinates on the mobius-pretzel.
Might that clip of the GOP debate, plus subtitles to this smear ad make a decent response ad?
FunnyD
rut roh better tell my folks not to even try to vote. Their english is ok but not 100%
Pretzel Logic
oops. Sorry, Wobbs. Forgot my snark tag.
Bet their English is good enough to stand up to any race-based challenge.
‘Specially since, afaik, Portugese isn’t one of the standard “other” languages for official ballots.
FunnyD
Actually, Jon Stewart had a funnier line with a cute picture: the Circular Talk Express…..
Actually, there is a video like that here.
I like Forked Tongue Express myself …
Maybe because I think I coined it.
“Hi, I’m Barack Obama, and as you know, I’m running for president.
Every political campaign does things that the other disagrees with: presidential campaigns are by definition a hard-fought competition to present a compelling case to the voters.
But this campaign season, we’re starting to see something new, something that we haven’t, quite, seen before. I’m talking about lies.
While most campaigns can be accused of hyperbole or exaggeration, there’s usually a kernel of truth somewhere in there upon which a claim is based. But recently the McCain campaign has abandoned reality, and begun to make claims that have no truth in them whatsoever. When I was a kid we called them lies.
In the latest ad, the McCain campaign accuses Democrats of killing campaign finance reform. That’s simply not true – the Republican party killed campaign finance reform on . The McCain campaign claimed that Governor Palin opposed the so-called “bridge to nowhere” when in fact she supported it, and kept federal funds allocated to Alaska for the project.
Time and again the McCain campaign is simply misrepresenting the truth – that is, they’re lying. Lying in a manner that is quickly and easily disproven, and which can be reviewed on my website.
This strikes me as a reckless and disrespectful way to treat the American voter, suggesting as it does that people aren’t going to see through these lies. It’s a desperate tactic from a party seeking to distract the public from the economic crises resulting from Republican policies.
So I’m calling upon the McCain campaign to reject lies, both its own and those of its surrogates and 527’s. Respect the American people and our most important political process by confining your claims to those that are true… or at least those that contain a kernel of truth.
C’mon John: you’re better than that!
I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.”
We should all approve that message.