Griper Blade: McCain's Low Road

Anyone who hasn't figured out that John McCain has pretty much no case to make for himself just hasn't been paying attention. It's never been so apparent that McCain's entire argument hinges on "Obama sucks." I've pointed out before that he hopes to make the election a referendum on Obama and McCain should hope it becomes just that -- mostly because McCain is running a completely dishonorable campaign of sleaze and lies. It's been a campaign that's been so awful, so mudslinging, so completely dishonest that people could be excused for putting their TVs out by the curb and opening all their windows to get rid of the stink.

McCain has had the balls to complain about all the press Obama has been getting, when he himself spends 90% of his time talking about Obama -- scratch that, lying about Obama. Last night, I decided to go through Annenberg Fact Check's RSS feed and look at the most recent entries. In about a week and a half (the first entry was July 22), Fact Check has shot down five McCain claims. That's one lie every other day. During that same period, the closest thing they found to an Obama lie was a lie on Obama's behalf -- an anti-McCain ad by Planned Parenthood. During this period (which, I admit, is fairly arbitrary) there isn't a single claim from the Obama campaign that's debunked.

But if it's arbitrary, it's also fairly random. Annenberg Fact Check is the gold-standard of political truth-telling; nonpartisan and in no one's camp. If you reach in a pull out random claims, find they're all false, and find they're from the same candidate, then it's pretty safe to assume said candidate is a liar...

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