McCain Fact Check

[mattl]

I make no claims to being impartial in this election, I am for Obama 100%. I think it's important for those of us supporting the D's in this race to have info available to disseminate when we need it. Our talking points if you will.

In that spirit I offer this to start:

"McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials

By Lorraine Woellert and Jeff Bliss

Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Senator John McCain has drawn some of the biggest crowds of his presidential campaign since adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to his ticket on Aug. 29. Now officials say they can't substantiate the figures McCain's aides are claiming.

McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal. "

..."n recent days, journalists attending the rallies have been raising questions about the crowd estimates with the campaign. In a story on Sept. 11 about Palin's attraction for some Virginia women voters, Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher estimated the crowd to be 8,000, not the 23,000 cited by the campaign. "

this is a LITTLE difference between 23,000 and 8,000, but then R's are never good at math, look at the budget.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a1J0tfV3XJYs&refer=politics

 

[gansky1]

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[jeffg]

Gansky, I think it was Hunter S. Thompson who once said, "If you can get people asking the wrong questions, you don't need to worry about the answers."

I always think of that quote when I see the usual laundry list, echoed on this IOUSA site, of "what we need to do" economically.

You'll always see one thing in common among these lists: no specific mention whatsoever of our defense spending, which since WWII represents the greatest squandering of wealth in human history. Over a hundred trillion dollars, and that's not even including the USSR (during the "Cold War"; they had their own corrupt military-industrial complex, and if you haven't read Mikhail Gorbachev's first book, you should).

The U.S. now spends HALF of the ENTIRE WORLD'S expenditures on defense spending, and more than the next FOURTEEN highest countries COMBINED. And the Pentagon has lobbied for this money, year after year, regardless of actual need, and regardless of whether our country is in wartime or peacetime.

This is EXACTLY what President Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address in 1961 (see link).

If we have any hope of meaningful economic reform, it must begin with a realization of the nature of this beast: the Pentagon forms a shadow government within our government. Presidents and Congresses come and go, but Pentagon officials and advisors -- the people responsible for the never-ending stream of fabricated boogeymen since the end of WWII -- are forever. Their primary job is not to defend the country, but simply to keep themselves and their private cabal of defense contractors in business. I know this first-hand. I used to work for one of them. If the average American knew the extent of the corruption and waste, there would be a revolution.

 

[jeffg]

Oops, that quote is from Thomas Pynchon, not Thompson.

 

[danemodsandy]

One Bright Sign:

Tina Fey is coming back to Saturday Night Live to portray Palin in some skits. Given that Fey's resemblance to Palin already borders on the uncanny, and given Fey's ability to turn her subjects into comedic mincemeat, I have an idea that public perception of Caribou Barbie is going to be very different in a few weeks....

 

[bajaespuma]

Caribou Barbie!

I love it!

And Fey's performance was the talk of the town this morning. I was belly laughing from it. Stole the show and Michael Phelps(and his mother) was guest host.

It terrifies me beyond words to think that this joke could be our next president.

 

[~sudsshane]

"It terrifies me beyond words to think that this joke could be our next president".

Don't be worried. McCain will be just fine when he is elected. Look at his 96 year old mother! That woman is in unbelievable shape for her age.

Also, given McCain's history with cheating death, he should be okay throughout his 4 year term.

Then, in 2012, Palin will run against Hillary and Hillary will win!

Hillary- 2012!

 

[mattl]

But at that point it won't matter.

 

[rp2813]

So true Matt. Another four years of the same misguided and corrupt method of governing as the last 8, and the economic meltdown is a done deal. The Chinese will be in full control of everything here by 2012.

 

[dalangdon]

McCain's mother has not, to the best of my knowledge, had four bouts of cancer. Nor does she have a history of mental and emotional problems. And she doesn't have a big weird lump on the side of her face that no one wants to talk about.

But other than that....

 

[toggleswitch2]

Green Acres is the place to be..............

Interesting "they" do say the world (as we know it) will end by 2012.

I'm thinking ah needs to bah a small plot of land upstate (middle of nowhere) and lives likes a hippie. There wont be much of an economy left at this rate.

 

[peterh770]

I loved the SNL skit. The parody of Palin was dead-on funny! And they gave Hillary the short end of the stick, portraying her as a bitter, jealous sore looser.

 

[sudsmaster]

Tina Fey has the Palin look, the Palin voice, the Palin accent (sort of like a stilted Minnesota accent), and the Palin attitude down pat. I especially liked how she struck beauty pagent poses while Hillary was speaking, lol...

I thought that Amy Pohler portrayed Hillary more as exasperated and bemused by Palin's ignorant self-promotion, than as a "bitter and jealous sore loser". Especially when Palin pontificated that her nomination meant that anyone could win their party's nomination as long as they wanted it enough: Hillary laughed and said, sarcastically, "Yeah, I must not have wanted it enough", lol. And to be realistic, Clinton has thrown her support to Obama and urged her supporters to do the same. I'm not sure what more one can ask of her at this point. In most cases, where the top candidates are male, the also-rans gracefully fade from the picture. Why it should be any different for Hillary, just because she's a woman, I'm not sure.

 

[mattl]

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