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Snubbing Wounded Troops?

factcheck.org — A McCain TV spot falsely insinuates that Obama canceled his visit because "the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras."

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  • thejimmyo, on 07/28/2008, -2/+18Factcheck.org also calls out McCain for falsely suggesting that Obama is to blame for high gas prices.
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_full_tan ...

    It seems that McCain's strategy is to just lie about his opponent, and see if any of it sticks.
    • aussiejan, on 07/28/2008, -1/+5I'm not an American so I don't understand your election laws. Can somebody explain how a candidate can blatantly lie about another candidate in an ad? This would never be allowed in Australia. I'm pretty sure here you need to be able to back up your claims.
      • bbatsell, on 07/29/2008, -1/+3Generally, companies cannot lie in advertisements (though it isn't prosecuted a whole heck of a lot), but campaigns are not treated as companies (though they certainly act like them the majority of the time). Campaigns are regulated by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the board of which is comprised of 3 Republicans and 3 Democrats. Due to the neverending power struggle there as well as the at-times nebulous concept of "free speech", candidates are pretty much allowed to say whatever they want. Historically, the general wisdom has been that campaigns are deterred from out-and-out lying by the negative press attention they would receive as a result — though that has happened during this election cycle (see the Tuzla episode), it has yet to happen to John McCain, who has engaged in copious amounts of blatant lying with impunity. The members of the press covering the Senator openly admit to loving the man personally and that manifests itself in their willingness to gloss over all manners of things, a courtesy they do not extend to almost anyone else.
  • alapoet, on 07/28/2008, -1/+16Desperation in a political campaign is not a pretty thing.
  • papabean, on 07/28/2008, -1/+14I wish these were the stories that made the front page of Digg.
  • samhouston3, on 07/28/2008, -1/+9This is just another tactic of the SLIME GOP McCAIN/BUSH machine.
    Everytime McCain lies about Senator Obama the bigger lead Senator Obama receives.
  • TCP7, on 07/29/2008, -2/+10McCain is playing politics with our wounded troops. This is the same John McCain that said in 2007: “How can we possibly find honor in using the fate of our servicemen to score political advantage in Washington? There is no pride to be had in such efforts. We are at war, a hard and challenging war, and we do no service for the best of us-those who fight and risk all on our behalf-by playing politics with their service.” [Congressional Record, 5/24/07]
  • embryodb, on 07/29/2008, -7/+2McCain can suck a big fat *****.
  • superkendall, on 07/29/2008, -4/+2Obama is using the troops just as much as McCain, by claiming he has gone to listen to them and then ignoring the advice they give. What is his Iraq tour but one big campaign push?

    As for the snub, Obama says he was told not to go but who is to say what really happened there? It still looks really odd. It's not like you can trust the mainstream media to report the whole story there.
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