John McCain is a Liar

Update:

1. McCain ran an ad claiming that Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a “pig”. He did not.

This is what Obama actually said:

But it’s not; it’s a political ad. And it goes on to imply that Obama made a personal dig at Palin, calling her a “pig,” and that commentators decried his sexism for derailing the campaign. This is bunk. Let’s look at what Obama actually said at a campaign rally in Virginia:

Obama, Sept. 9: John McCain says he’s about change too. And so I guess his whole angle is, watch out, George Bush — except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we’re really going to shake things up in Washington. That’s not change. That’s just calling some, the same thing something different. You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

2. John McCain ran a despicable ad claiming that Obama was ready to teach kindergarten kids about sex ed. In fact he was in favor of teaching them how to avoid predators.

McCain’s campaign also released an ad criticizing Obama’s education record, which makes this claim: “Obama’s one accomplishment? Legislation to teach ‘comprehensive sex education’ to kindergartners.”

The Facts: The bill, introduced in the Illinois legislature, never became law. It called for non-mandatory sex education for grades K-12 that was “age and developmentally appropriate.” For kindergarteners, that included, among other things, “how to say no to unwanted sexual advances.”

Obama voted for the bill in committee and says he supports similar laws in other states. He said the point was to help parents teach their children how to deal with sexual predators.

3. John McCain ran an ad that criticized the Obama campaign for smearing Sarah Palin and included a valid screen shot of a Fact Check article….the trouble is the Fact Check article had nothing to do with Obama.

Summary
A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama’s attacks on Palin “absolutely false” and “misleading.” That’s what we said, but it wasn’t about Obama.

Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign.

The McCain-Palin ad also twists a quote from a Wall Street Journal columnist. He said the Obama camp had sent a team to Alaska to “dig into her record and background.” The ad quotes the WSJ as saying the team was sent to “dig dirt.”

Update, Sept. 10: Furthermore, the Obama campaign insists that no researchers have been sent to Alaska and that the Journal owes them a correction.

Straight Talk???? Forget it: John McCain is a liar, period.

Note: this is nothing new; this is a 2007 video: