A few days ago I wrote a post about the lies being spread during this campaign, with many of them coming from the McCain campaign. Most of those lies were really people just stretching the truth and being misleading (like Palin stopped the "Bridge to Nowhere" and Obama supported comprehensive sex education). This latest revelation, however, is a significant deviation from twisting the truth into a lie; it is an outright fabrication. For the McCain campaign to say that she has been to Kuwait and an Iraqi "military outpost" with a straight face is ridiculous. The boldness of this statement is unbelievable. Did they really think that no one would find out? This is Nixonian.
This all comes on the heels of McCain's appearance on "The View," where the hosts directly asked him about the lies spread in his recent campaign advertisements. The videos can be seen here (plea
A lot of the media is picking up on the McCain campaign mistruths/lies. It will be interesting to see if McCain continues his denial (as he did on The View) or comes clean (as his campaign has with Palin's trip to Iraq). They have already used the "sexism" card when confronted with legitimate questions of Palin's experience, and while some people ate it up, I don't think they want seconds. In many aspects of life, you reap what you sow, and if McCain's recent poll surge is based on misinformation and lies, his numbers will tank in the near future. That is, if his campaign does not counter these more recent facts with yet more lies. Peace.
Photos - Palin testing out training equipment in Kuwait - not Iraq (www.boston.com), McCain on "The View" (www.amny.com)
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