McCain Campaign's Double-Speak

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Registered: 10-08-2008
McCain Campaign's Double-Speak
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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 12:12pm
When it comes to Barack Obama and whatever relationship he may have had with Bill Ayers, the McCain campaign sure can't seem to get its own story straight about what's important. After Tuesday night's debate, in the "spin room," McCain flack Nicolle Wallace told a couple of assembled reporters and cameras that:

Nobody in America sitting around the kitchen table trying to figure out if they're gonna be able to make the mortgage or worried about the price of groceries or price of gas, nobody cares about Mr. Ayers, and neither do we.


Wallace went on to say:

What we care about is that Barack Obama described him as a guy in his neighborhood. He is more than a guy in his neighborhood.


She further clarified that the only reason Ayers was important in this race was that Obama had not been truthful, in the McCain campaign's opinion, and that speaks to his trustworthiness, credibility, judgment, etc, etc.... In other words, it's not the ex-radical, it's the lying. Where have I heard something like that from the GOP before? LOL.

Unfortunately, Ms. Wallace was retroactively kneecapped (and the McCain campaign, once again, did the rhetorical equivalent of stepping on a garden rake and having it smack them in the nose), when the very next morning, the McCain campaign headquarters blast-faxed a press release containing the words of one John Murtagh. Never heard of him? Me, either, and neither has anyone else, prior to this week, I suspect. That's because the important news Mr. Murtagh had to put out via the McCain campaign concerned the fact that when he was nine years old (which, coincidentally, was Obama's age at the time, too), the Weathermen tried to firebomb his house (note: not even Ayers himself, just the Weathermen in general):

ARLINGTON, VA — Today, John M. Murtagh made the following statement on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers:

“When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama’s friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didn’t do more.


Hmmm....so much for the "we only care about whether Obama was telling the truth" stuff. The McCain campaign is deliberately attempting - despite their other-side-of-the-mouth denials - to recite and publicize the forty-year-old crimes of Ayers and other members of his group in order to claim - as Palin did explicitly on the stump a few days ago - that Obama is in league with terrorists. It isn't just "concern that he didn't tell the truth." That sort of stuff gets thrown around in every political campaign - McCain's fudged and outright lied a-plenty already in this election season, on various issues. No, a simple charge of untruthfulness, while possibly significant, is pretty run-of-the-mill. And it's not - obviously - why the McCain campaign is banging the Ayers drum so hard right now. That they would so transparently allow their paid flacks to lie about it on national TV is above-average on the mendacity scale....but sadly, not out of place for a McCain campaign which has clearly decided that if they can't win clean, they're OK with winning dirty, and damn the truth and their own integrity, if necessary.
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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 12:31pm
bump
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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:07pm
You're preaching to the choir with me - you really think the Obama haters are going to respond?
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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 5:34pm
Of course not - that's why a post such as this one gets two responses, then drops off the radar screen: because the McCain supporters find it inconveniently unable to fit into the current narrative that the only thing that really matters here is the LYING (now WHERE have I heard that before? ROFL), and not Mr. Ayers' actions forty years ago. Seeing the McCain campaign be so schizo (read: lying and deceptive) about such things, in less than twenty-four hours....just doesn't fit in with their image of McCain.....it does not compute....so they ignore it and hope it'll go away.
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:13am

((Seeing the McCain campaign be so schizo (read: lying and deceptive) about such things, in less than twenty-four hours....))

McCain will govern the way he is "running" or letting the GOP run his campaign. We would ALWAYS be in CRISIS...McCain's favorite word!