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• Bush/McCain Policies Want 4 More Years, and Willing to Lie to Get Them

  Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 11:44PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  I wasn't surprised when Sarah Palin's speech was a mean-spirited, often hateful rant, but when John McCain took the stage with his meandering, written-by-committee Speech To Nowhere, I was very disappointed when he lied each time he characterized Barack Obama's platform, and lied each time he characterized his record. Doesn't McCain want to appeal to voters who fact check?

  And then there was the "content" of McCain's speech, admitting guilt for voting with President Bush more than 90% of the time over the past eight years of foreign policy and domestic policy disasters, but begging for another chance because he plans to "shake things up" now that he has Sarah Palin to hide behind. Huh?

  This cartoon in the Washington Post sums up the irony of claiming you want to "shake things up" when the polices you propose in the VERY SAME SPEECH are a 90% carbon copy of those we've suffered under during the last 8 years of Bush/McCain leadership.

  
  
  
  PS:  The comment below led me to add this video from 2001:  John McCain on The David Letterman, just weeks after the September 11th attacks, saying the "next phase" will be invading Iraq, and justifying the foreign policy disaster that was about to unfold with a deliberate lie  --  a scare tactic, implying that the Anthrax attacks that were happening at the time were linked to Iraq.  Disgusting.  It's one thing to be wrong on foreign policy decisions; but it's a whole different matter when you lie in order to make disastrous foreign policy decisions politically viable.  Check this out!!!!
  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlAUj4s6sT0