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Posted on Sep 26, 2008

John McCain has taken a lot of heat for his dishonest campaign ads, but it seems Barack Obama has gotten in on the game. The New York Times scolds the Democratic nominee for running commercials “that have matched the dubious nature of Mr. McCain’s more questionable spots.”


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In all, Mr. Obama has released at least five commercials that have been criticized as misleading or untruthful against Mr. McCain’s positions in the past two weeks. Mr. Obama drew complaints from many of the independent fact-checking groups and editorial writers who just two weeks ago were criticizing Mr. McCain for producing a large share of this year’s untruthful spots (“Pants on Fire,” the fact-checking Web site PolitiFact.com wrote of Mr. Obama’s advertisement invoking Mr. [Rush] Limbaugh; “False!” FactCheck.org said of his commercial on Social Security.)

Some Democrats expressed concern that Mr. Obama, in stretching the truth in some of his advertisements, was putting at risk the “above politics” persona he has tried to cultivate.

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By BobZ, September 28, 2008 at 1:10 pm Link to this comment

There is so much truthful material about McCain and the last eight years of the Bush administration it is hard to fathom why Obama would have to lie or mislead. That just doesn’t make sense.

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By Purple Girl, September 28, 2008 at 6:33 am Link to this comment

Is this their Way of APPEASING CheneyCorp????
Are they Kidding?
Please NYT, SEn Benedict McCain is once again smack Dab in the Middle of our Economic Melt Down, Only topping the LAST Time He Was involved in such High Way Robbery!!!
It is Not a Stretch Nor a Leap to connect Keating 5 to this Current Bail out!! What Mac aparently Learned was to Shelter Himself by hiding Behind Such Blatnat Criminals as Gramm & Davis! ONE DEGREE OF SEPERATION!Brilliant move if your Mentlly challenged to begin with- AND Arrogant!
This is the Best The NYT Could do for Indepth Research- Please Open a Damn History book- Feeble minded lazy Whores!
McCain is a Traitor let US count the Ways
Which NFL team (it’s hard to keep LIES Straight ah?)
Anthrax from Iraq (clearly from OUR Lab) and Greeted as Liberators /Simple- Frightening and Conning US in to a needless War- Just so Control of the oil Fields were made available to Big Oil and Their Oil ‘Royal’ Bosses?
Nominates a Dangerously Inexperienced, Ignorant Religous Fanatic as Next in Command?

Please there are Sooo many ‘Chickens’ sitting on Sen Benedists Doorstep Right now, a few inaccuracies are the Least of HIS Problems!
He is Not just in the middle of the last 7 yr Clusterf*ck, He’s been A Co Conspirator working Towards it for Decades!!

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