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- twoofmyfriends, on 09/06/2008, -46/+209McCain sucks.
Digg me up - McCain sucks
Digg me down - McCain is a cool - KungF0o, on 09/06/2008, -16/+140The media is controlling this election. This race is not as close as they make it. Don't buy it.
We all know the polls are biased because they generally only registered voters with landlines. These are same demographic as people who still use AOL to get online, the same people who voted Ronald Reagan as the #1 greatest American.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestameri ...
We need to win in a landslide just to win, else they will just alter a votes in Ohio/Florida/Colorado and so on.
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2005/09/more-p ...
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/wa ...
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1003-32.htm
Do anything you can, even if it's just telling your friends/family. I post on Digg and various other sites to spread the word. I'm not paid by anyone to do this. I am just sick of the republican institution that has destroyed this country I love over the last 8 years.
I can't afford it and will probably eat another 2 or 3 bowls of ramen because of it, but I just donated 15$ to Barack Obama's campaign for a car magnet. At least I can say I did -something-...
If McCain/Palin win or steal this election, god help us all. - JenniferInMO, on 09/06/2008, -7/+106How about that. I have been complaining that the media no longer does investigative journalism. Still none here, but at least they are relying on a nonpartisan source which ferrets out the truth. For the most part factcheck.org is reliable. There are only a few issues addressed here, but they are presented into easy to chew pieces for those who do not follow politics closely.
- snakesonasam, on 09/07/2008, -2/+84There is a section for Obama as well...
- tbredofsin, on 09/07/2008, -4/+56You know it's Digg when an article about McCain AND Obama's lies gets labeled only as McCain's.
- Fjosnisse, on 09/07/2008, -6/+44McCain AND Obama lies. Ya douchebags.
sorry for that, i have low blood sugar. - inactive, on 09/07/2008, -3/+36It's for Obama's lies too. Of course I'm sure I'll somehow be buried for supporting Mccain by saying that they both lie.
- inactive, on 09/07/2008, -4/+36It is a shame he has changed so much... for the worse... :-(
- Catspaw, on 09/06/2008, -6/+35More lies covered here:
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/ - Raiderkid6, on 09/07/2008, -5/+34Im guessing you didnt need to include "Obama Lied: Things Obama lied about during his convention speech" as well...
- fuzzmeister, on 09/07/2008, -2/+27Even though I'm an Obama supporter, I would only digg this if the submission made it clear that both speeches had inaccuracies.
- ThinkBox, on 09/07/2008, -13/+37You clicked the Obama tab too - Digg me up.
You are sheep - Digg me down - LaComedia, on 09/07/2008, -1/+24Article titles like this are exactly why people are asking if Digg is partisan. The CNN and FactCheck.org article linked here outlines BOTH McCain's and Obama's "lies" during their speeches. I am voting for Obama in the next election, but titles like this that mislead people are getting tiresome.
- dannydawg5, on 09/07/2008, -4/+27
I can see that you care about this election as much as I do. Will you please help me spread this around? I don't want any supporters to be denied because of a technicality.
For many states, the deadline to register to vote is 30 days, which is October 5th. If we don't vote, then politicians will ignore us, and statistics show our demographic never votes. Please register in time, so on November 4, we can make them listen to us!
If you haven't already, please go here to register: http://www.rockthevote.org/ - OstrakonX, on 09/07/2008, -1/+23I did, but if you look at his statements, it comes down to:
Obama - slight misrepresentations
McCain - Outright lies - rdizzle, on 09/07/2008, -30/+49factcheck.org identified 7 lies Obama told in his speech. Digg has been destroyed by McCain/Palin haters. It's a waste of time. You're not swaying people. We can see through the BS and identify the things that are accurate and those which are not. On the flip side, I admire Obama's approach, but it's the crap on Digg that sways people to not like him because you start to paint him and McCain as people they are not.
- Shiftgood, on 09/07/2008, -1/+20click the 'obama' button, they're there.
- OfNumbers, on 09/07/2008, -1/+20It's like a glimpse in to the primaries!
- TedLW30101, on 09/07/2008, -3/+21Funny, if you read the article it is information regarding BOTH Obama as well as McCain.
I wonder why the poster's headline is one-sided..... - Ceeman, on 09/07/2008, -2/+16They both lie stop following blindly just because someone has a R or a D next to their name.
- GawtMilk, on 09/07/2008, -3/+17I don't think that these are "lies", just partisan inaccuracies. His sources and speechwriters aren't liars, they are trying to make his points look better. For example, if they were reading a quote of a range of prices on oil imports, lets say, $500,000,000,000 to $700,000,000,000, the Obama staffers might chose a number at the lower end of that range while McCain's speechwriters would choose the larger number.
I mean, look at the article that was submitted. It is titled "McCain's lies". The subheading on the article is:
Story Highlights
- McCain, Obama had a few inaccuracies in their convention speeches
- McCain misrepresented Obama on health care, trade
- Obama misrepresented McCain on Afghanistan, defining "middle class"
If you click on Obama's name, above where the pictures show, it shows the inaccuracies - NOT the lies - he relied on in his speech.
McCain got facts wrong in the following statements - ones about: Health Care, "Corporate Welfare", Energy Independence, Trade. Obama got facts wrong in the following statements - ones about: Fiscal Responsibility, Afghanistan, Defining "Middle Class", Personal Income.
As you can see, this CNN article did a very good job of staying neutral. The Digg submission, on the other hand, is a partisan load of crap. - ginestony, on 09/07/2008, -4/+17I love how this election is the educated vs the uneducated. Why would anyone want to make their base voters the middle-class uneducated white vote? Apparently the uneducated white middle-class voters that are McCain's base are too uneducated to realize that they don't mean anything to him except for a vote. It's been made plain obvious by the choice of Palin, and by their decision to keep her away from the media. They don't want the educated voters to ask her educated questions and have her give a stupid answer that would actually make the uneducated voters' brains start working and saying "hey, you're a ***** douche!".
This election is like playing a chess game with a stupid highschool jock. His only defense to your good moves are to yell at you incoherently and get his other stupid followers to heckle you out of the building. - Revlution4ever, on 09/07/2008, -1/+14a) look at this guys profile. He's a racist and a McCain troll. Really, a disgusting individual.
b) let me guess, you love the "unbiased" reports on Fox News, right?
If everyone who reads this reports him, we might be able to make a difference. - ginestony, on 09/07/2008, -4/+17It's refreshing to see people so fired up about their country again. I admire your determination
- gmacnay, on 09/07/2008, -5/+18As a lifelong Conservative voting Canadian, I identify with the US Democrats 90% of the time and can not imagine McCain and Palin for the next four years. GOD help the US steer themselves in the right direction for the betterment of themselves and the World.
- ajames01, on 09/07/2008, -4/+16If the source isn't biased the digg title of course has to be. This is lies they've both told.
- ThinkBox, on 09/07/2008, -3/+14Yeah, I love how obvious the slant is here. There is an OBAMA tab too. But seriously, if you speak about policy in vague terms and focus more on inspirational feel good speaking, its not like they can nail you as much...
- DanMiller, on 09/07/2008, -1/+10However, a million people giving $15 is quite powerful. Don't knock his willingness to sacrifice for his desired representation.
- Skafia, on 09/07/2008, -0/+9Yeah...
McCain used to be to the democrats what Lieberman is to the Republicans now. - Subriot, on 09/07/2008, -3/+12Read the article, I'm sorry to break it to you, but Obama lied too.
- HappyScrappy, on 09/07/2008, -2/+11"average" is an imprecise term and can refer to arithmatic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, median or mode, or indeed a lot of other things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
Just because you usually think of the arithmatic mean doesn't mean that any other use of "average" is incorrect. - Cattywampus, on 09/07/2008, -0/+8I agree...
Digg submission headline: "McCain's Lies"
First bullet point of actual CNN article:
"McCain, Obama had a few inaccuracies in their convention speeches" - ginestony, on 09/07/2008, -2/+10The $15 donation is a gesture to himself, not to Obama. Idiot.
- bjornski, on 09/07/2008, -1/+9Let's see. Racist AND childish. Check.
Republicans wonder why people think they're morons? Here's "exhibit 1". - Shiftgood, on 09/07/2008, -2/+9I dugg you up but im not sure its going to help.
I read both as well. Im interested in your opinion, which ones were worse? - biotch, on 09/07/2008, -0/+6I dont think anyone is smug with the dollar amount. 700 billion sounds scarier than 360 billion (as factcheck.org suggests). Its sensationalist to say 700 and meant to get a stronger reaction from people who are thinking about supporting offshore and Alaskan drilling in America. What we should be doing is ridding ourselves from oil dependency all together.
- TKD2K1, on 09/07/2008, -3/+9I love how the title on Digg says "McCain Lies...". What about Obama AND McCain BOTH lie?????? The link has an equal section that shows the same number of things that OBAMA lied about too. But of course you liberals would never want to bring to light that your new idol has ever not been truthful about anything.....
Obama is a politician. He too will lie.....and he does. If he gets elected, what will you all say when he doesn't make good on all of these things? Like every other election. - inactive, on 09/07/2008, -1/+7"Republicans on average are better educated and wealthier than Democrats."
Cue: picture of guy with placard at RNC saying "MAVRICK" - ZachTorpy, on 09/07/2008, -2/+8I don't know if I should Digg you up or down, because "John McCain is a cool" could have been intended to say "John McCain is a tool", in which case you've given me too many good choices.
- charm803, on 09/07/2008, -2/+7What happened here is not that they both lied, is that they misinterpreted each other's speeches about hypothetical scenarios.
But the title is misleading, it is McCain's AND Obama's lies....
I consider a lie about something they said they did not do something but did, or didn't do something and said they didn't. - soccerman90, on 09/07/2008, -1/+6just because a majority of us are democrats, doesnt mean we have to be biased. There is a section for obama too.
- twomeyw23334, on 09/07/2008, -0/+5Here are the full lists from factcheck
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/factchecki ...
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/factchecki ... - gunwolf, on 09/07/2008, -0/+5I sent my friend this link and he reminded me of a quote from "The West Wing" that I can't verify at the moment; where in one of the characters explains that "politics is about making less mistakes than the other guy."
- PurdueJohn, on 09/07/2008, -0/+5It's hilarious how every anti-Republican article has "The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate", while most aren't inaccurate at all.
- ginestony, on 09/07/2008, -1/+6God's on vacation playing an early copy of Spore, trying to see where he went wrong.
- facelesscoward, on 09/07/2008, -3/+8Because McCain regularly talks in specifics, right? Face it. The McCain camp has been in issue-dodging mode non-stop. The only way they can win this election is to paint a deceptive portrait of Barack Obama as the big bad America-hater (he doesn't put country first!) to play on the fears of the ignorant Caps lock addicts. Barack HUSSEIN Obama has a MUSLIM father and went to a RADICAL MUSLIM MADRASSA in INDONESIA.
- theblt, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4Are you out of your ***** mind? Bury brigades? Anyone who speaks against Obama almost always gets an insta-bury here on Digg. And you want to further advance the huge circle-jerk that Digg has become?
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_Real_Palin_S ...
^^^^^^^
These stories are buried because they ARE inaccurate. Name one in the picture linked above that was actually accurate. - BeeArePro, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4Was that space at the end really needed ?
- dyvvyd, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4The linked article shows four examples of what both Obama and McCain got wrong. It never uses the terminology "lies".The poster of this item on digg is either intellectually irresponsible or not mentally qualified to vote (re: Ron Paul supporter) j/k RP has some good ideas, just a lot of weirdness baggage.
- bjornski, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4At least they can probably work it into a semi-coherent sentence at more than a 3rd grade level, unlike our poster-boy, cash4chaos up there.
But you are right. I see it on both sides. But when I see political campaigns HIRING agencies which do nothing but pretty much that, well, you've just fully legitimized it. Don't be surprised when your "enemy" starts using the same tactics back.
I'm sick of it.
The problem I see on both sides is the pigs. Remember kids. Don't fight with the pigs. They like it, and you'll only get dirty and look bad.
This goes for BOTH sides of the aisle. For *****'s sake. Grow up already. -
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