I may be guilty of wishful thinking, but I believe that if you were to consider the facts — and not just the tired distortions of the Republicans’ talking points — you’d see things more clearly.

You’d see that John McCain is NOT a “maverick,”…not when he votes with George W. Bush 90 per cent of the time.

That he’s NOT a maverick when he boasts that “no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have. And those are McCain’s own words.

That he’s not a maverick when he endorses tax cuts for the wealthy that have been Bush’s only excuse for an economic policy.

And I don’t know what McCain is — except stunningly wrong and out of touch — when he says that there’s been “great progress economically” under the Bush administration.

Equally as disturbing, McCain has become a practitioner of the very politics he once deplored. He hired a protege of Karl Rove to run his campaign, and has blanketed the airwaves with misleading attacks on Barack Obama, attacking his character and distorting his ideas.

I suppose if I had to defend the Republicans’ record of the past eight years, I’d also be at a loss for words, and would do everything I could to change the subject and make this election about everything BUT the issues.

I’m sure that explains McCain’s strategy of talking about lipstick and pigs instead of the economy and energy and taxes and matters of substance and importance to voters.

The McCain campaign continues to repeat a number of outrageous lies, even after watchdogs in the media called them “shamelessly misleading,” “thoroughly dishonest,” and “a toxic mix of lies and double-speak.”

So “John McCain campaigning on the high ground” has become as much of a myth as John McCain the maverick always was. It’s clear that he would rather lose his integrity than lose this election.

I would also ask you to keep in mind that John McCain is determined to overturn Roe vs. Wade and take away a woman’s right to choose.

Sarah Palin would go even further. She would prosecute and put in jail any woman who had an abortion, and the doctor who helped her — even in the case of rape or incest.

Is that the kind of society you want to live in?

For heaven’s sake, THINK before you vote!!!

No one has demeaned her experience as a small-town mayor; what the press has done is seek background information about an unknown candidate who’s running for the second-highest office in the land.

An unknown candidate who was chosen by McCain to pander to the right-wing fanatics in his party…the same fanatics who warned him that there’d be a revolt if he chose Joe Lieberman or any pro-choice running mate.

If John McCain REALLY put “Country First,” he would have chosen someone with stronger credentials than Palin. It proves he’s willing to do anything to win this election.

McCain is a raging hypocrite. And a liar.
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I agree being a community organizer does not qualify you to be President of the United States but he was a state senator and a United States Senator after that.

Spreading our soldiers throughout the world in questionable military operations has done much more to weaken our national defense than anything Senator Obama has proposed.

Show me how more tax cuts for the wealthy and big businesses will help our economy. We have tried those tactics for 8 years and look where it has got us.

Oh, really? As I’ve noted here previously, this is the McCain who:

Either lied about, or doesn’t understand the chronology of the Anbar Awakening and the Surge — the very centerpiece of his campaign!

Has confused Sunnis and Shia.

Referred to the “Iraq-Afghanistan border,” when in fact the two countries are not immediate neighbors.

Has accused Obama – that’s right, Obama — of being responsible for the high price of gasoline.

And has accused him of being “willing to lose the war in Iraq in order to win the election.

So not only is McCain consistently wrong factually, he has engaged in an outrageous and disgusting personal attack on his opponent.

So much for “Drill Here! Drill Now! McCain,” the man of “experience and character” who promised to run an honorable campaign.

Things are certainly more entertaining around here since Billy came on board.

I wouldn’t have nearly so much to say if he wasn’t publishing his tin-eared balderdash.

If he’s not summoning Aunt Jemima’s pancakes when he’s talking about flip-flops, then he’s invoking ‘vigorously’ wedded politicians, in contrast to unvigorously wedded ones like John McCain.

Truly, Billy is an ever-flowing fount of malapropisms, as when he has Obama ‘igniting’ ideologies as if they were stacks of firewood, or his campaign insidiously engaging in ‘maniacal’ fund-raising.

Well, those maniacs aren’t doing so badly in Hawaii, where they raised 1.3 million dollars.

Perhaps Billy is envious, on behalf of his favored candidate, a politician Obama is “consistently criticizing”, and from whom, according to Billy, “he is no different”.

Hmm.

Do I have to say it, but if there’s no difference between them, then why bother to vote at all?

I must admit, when it comes to fuzzy logic, or tortured syntax, Billy is truly lord of the realm.

How anyone with an IQ over 100 can support a political party that assumes all of its consitutents are idiots beats the hell out of me.

You sure like to dish it out.

Pointing out that Republicans lie about Obama and his stance on taxes isn’t pointless.

McCain’s past makes Edwards look like an amateur in the adultery department.

Don’t you use Firefox’s ‘check spelling as you type’ feature?

You need more than an editor, dude, you need a fact checker.