More lying. Say it loud.

When did a little thing like truth matter to a politician?

geez lets be honest, both sides are lying.

There is no comparison. Factcheck has had to correct McCain twice as much. Obama has interpreted McCain's statements in a worst-case manner sometimes, but he has not laid flat-out lies anything like this on the public. "Simply not true" are words only McCain has earned, and he has earned them by the dozen. Search "lies" on my clips and count up the people who've called him on them - even Republicans, even Rove, even conservative Don Fagan, even Chuck Hagel, even the Army Times, even Bill O'Reilly.
He has sacrificed his character for his ambition, and is not worthy of the office.

I don't think he's in charge masbury. His campaign staff has taken him in the only direction they think gives him a good chance to win. He's going along because he wants to be President. I think deep down he's not pleased with his campaign.

Perhaps, deb - but then, what does that say about him? He'd be surrounded by people more powerful than they are, if in the White House. I have often wondered how many of Bush's terrible errors were of his own making, and how many were things from powerful people he simply didn't have the character to resist.

I concur wholeheartedly mas. I'm just not sure that's an exclusively Republican practice. Regardless, McCain is now taking credit for saving the taxpayers from the bailout. THAT IS A LIE and I have proof. The shift started a week ago by an army of people protesting en mass with an alternative plan proposed on this website. The Republicans embraced it way before McCain "suspended" his campaign, but they are chosing politics over truth again.

Alas, you're right - I wish Obama, and especially the DNC, would cut the truth a little more cleanly, and I have complained to them about it.
Even so, their distortions are usually of the "McCain said ..." variety, taking McCain's foolish statements at their worst possible meaning.
By contrast, McCain's lies are simply bald-faced lies that everyone close to the truth agrees are just not so.
So while I wish Obama would tighten up the hyperbole filter, the difference between the two is the difference between the aircraft-carrier-sized whopper and the surf-board sized exaggeration.

good analogy there..