McCain Unleashes Lies from the Pits of Hell -- Pray to Heaven His Falsehoods Do Not Succeed!

Eight years ago we had the travesty of the 2000 election, in which the media were prone to emphasize Vice-President Al Gore's exaggerations while letting George W. Bush off the hook, and then in 2004 we had the swiftboating of a real American hero Senator John Kerry. If being in prison because you allowed your plane to be shot down qualifies one for hero status, what about being shot in your body for your country like Kerry?

But now we have the dirtiest, most false campaign of them all, with every lie approved by the once honorable John McCain. "The biggest liar in modern political history," writes Michael Tomasky, the editor of the Guardian America, about John McCain. There are indeed so many lies associated with the Republican campaign that truth seems a distant memory. You have to go back to Reagan and Papa Bush to find Republican truthfulness, and then it was few and far between compared to Eisenhower and Ford. (Even if Cheney was his chief of staff, Ford was too decent a man to lie like the devil).

The lies of John McCain include the recent "Who is Barack Obama" ad, misrepresenting Obama's postion on Afghanistan. With obviously quick, devious editing, they turn an understandable statement by Obama into a statement that seems to question our troops.

At a town hall meeting in New Hampsire in 2007, Senator Obama was asked if troops should be moved out of Iraq to better fight terrorism, Obama turned to Afghanistan, where he has long supported having more troops so the job could be done well, and we did not rely solely on air power which often has resulted in civilan casualties, and said, “we've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." Notice the first part of his statement, about having MORE troops in order to fight more effectively, is purposely left out of the McCain lying ad.

Then a woman's voice scolds: "How dishonorable." Yes, she is trying to smear Obama, but she could easily be talking about the ad that her voice appears in!

What is more, the McCain ads have covered a multitude of other lies. Remember the despicable efforts of the McCain campaign to portray Obama as being in favor of teaching sex education to 5-year-olds and the Spanish language ad accusing him of opposing immigration reform? Other lies include McCain's claim that Obama will raise taxes on the middle class or McCain’s statement to the women of "The View" that Sarah Palin never requested earmarks.

All were proved factually inaccurate, but the McCain campaign does not care. They feel they can win with their lies. A lie a week changes the news cycle from issues that actually matter.

Those of us who once admired John McCain for his supposed truthfulness now realize the true depths of his deep moral depravity. Plus, as Alan Wolfe writes in Salon.com, when McCain is linked to Palin, moreover, as he so frequently wants to be, “lying experiences something of a multiplier effect. These candidates lie so much that they have taken to lying about their own lies.“

Of course, George W. Bush was a consummate liar in both his presidential campaigns, and he still won, (rather he was awarded the presidency, one by the Supreme Court, the other by Diebold in Ohio). Then he continued to lie in office, and look what a horrible mess that got us! Wolfe see the Republican lying problem’s core as an ideological one – “the form of conservatism to which they all adhere demands that if they are to win they have no choice but to lie.”

In the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush, then something of a political unknown, claimed to be a compassionate conservative and promised the country a "humble" foreign policy. Lies both. Wolfe rightly says that Bush purposed to invade Iraq before 9/11, and Bush wanted to privatize Social Security, the most compassionate program ever adopted in this country, and was simply waiting for the right opportunity to do so.

Even beyond the lying smears and character assassination that McCain and Palin are deeply engaged in, Wolfe sees a basic falseness in the Republican propaganda: “the conservative populism that has swallowed up the contemporary Republican Party lies because conservative populism is itself a lie. It claims to be guided by faith, when it is run by corruption. It speaks of diversity, but remains overwhelmingly white. It uses women to push an agenda that would expose women to harm. It speaks of reform tomorrow, but works to slash the reforms of today. It seeks popular support to enact policies that, if revealed for what they really were, would be wildly unpopular.”

SOUND THE ALARM! RING THE BELL! HELP WAKE UP AMERICA! WE MUST NOT ELECT ANOTHER SERIAL LIAR! GOD SAVE AMERICA!