Of course McCain and the GOP have been lying shamelessly for eons and no one seems to call them on it; a fact that leads to the generalisation that the average american is shamefully naive at best and embarrasingly and wilfully ignorant at worst. The righ wing media's coverage of the election has been a shameful indictment of the lowest of the low point of the state of media in this cover. Sad, pathetic.

Could someone with extensive biblical knowledge please chime in here on where in the bible it tells Sarah to lie?

I would honestly like this woman challenged on her so called "faith" - because it sure is not showing!

She's a one trick pony. Repeating lies.

To me that is the most disgusting and disgraceful part of this. Lying and Slander are not virtues.

Maybe that should be the slogan. Lying is not a virtue, Sarah!

The new polls out of NC should be fixed. They are not SurveyUSA. They're from PPP.

Also, I don't understand all of the panicking about the new poll numbers. This isn't a Palin bump. It's a convention bump. Tuesday after the convention represents the high point of the McCain bump and the best he can do is tie Obama? That's not good folks. By next week, McCain will be 3-4 points behind again. Keep the faith!

PPP has proved that SurveyUSA poll in NC was nothing but an outlier.

Obama needs to directly challenge John McCain's integrity and McCain's honor as to the sleaze and dishonesty emanating from McCain;s campaign.

Enough....enough.

CNN political page main headline is: "Palin backed 'bridge to nowhere,' then opposed it"

Well, that's a start...

I'm laughing my ass off that Biden is preparing for the debate opposite Jennifer Granholm.

That's a great choice, and I think it reveals that the Obama campaign understands exactly where the risks lie for Biden in this debate.

Yes, Granholm is a female governor. But more specifically, she's a babe governor. Against that kind of opponent, Biden is going to be tempted to flirt, or condescend, or pull punches, or show off his own knowledge -- and he better get it all out of his system!!

The "worried" Congressional Democrats are cordially invited to bite me. Just what have they done to HELP?

Rasmussen:

Mon O47 M48
Tues O48 M48
Wed O48, M47

Let's hope we're looking at the peak of a curve.

I am liking this "McCain is a liar" narrative, it is one we can make stick and it can undermind McCain's entire message. Let's keep that one up folks.

"Liars have no honor" is a good line. I am not being sycophantic of Josh M., he just had that in the middle of one of his ascerbic comments, but the works nicely as a stand alone, I think.

Look, up in the sky....it's a bird, it's a plane...it's.....

THE PALIN TRUTH SQUAD!!!

"...a coalition of state and local politicians dubbed the Palin Truth Squad has been created by the McCain campaign to, in their words, "set the record straight."

http://tinyurl.com/5jtfp4

When will the repugs split up and campaign separately? Will any crowds show up for McCain? That's why he wants her with him. She's his prop for drawing out the crowds.

How about the 9th commandment, from Exodus:

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

It was on God's Top Ten list.

PEACE

I don't understand how sex-ed is corrupting. Sex ed at my old school was conducted by the gym teacher and he spent the whole time trying to scare the crap out of us with stories about STD's and pregnancy.

Halperin now featuring a series of quotes from "worried Dems" (Panetta, etc.) at top of the page. Why the hell can't Dem "strategists" and elected just SHUT THE HELL UP? What is this constant need to bare one's soul to the media? And why are they such wusses? It reflects on the campaign and the entire party. We are in this to win this and the whiners need to buck up and shut the **ck up!

sorry for the rant.

That's another problem we have, along with the lying rethugs, a feckless press that won't hold them accountable--and worthless congressional Dems who do NOT know how to keep their mouths shut. Every time there's a challenge, there's some half-wit Dem fully opening his or her mouth.

They don't speak up when we need their voices, and they can't shut up when we don't. Geeze...

I think it's become personal for Obama because of McFreak's last ad. Ob has always been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but now McFreak's fat, clammy little fingers have touched his kids.

I predict that Ob will kick up the intensity now if for no other reason than to put this sleaze bag in his place.

I'm glad to see E.J. Dionne speaking out, but he cites his paper's front-page story as a welcome acknowledgment of the campaign falsehoods. But it is part of the problem. This is another falsely balanced "analysis" that suggests that both sides are equally to blame.

"As for exaggerations, Obama said yesterday that he had supported a measure in the Illinois Senate to double the number of charter schools in Chicago. In fact, he was one of 14 state senators co-sponsoring a non-controversial measure that passed unanimously." In fact? How does that contradict the assertion? Did he support the measure or not? Yes, he did.

"A McCain quote Obama has often used -- that the economy is fundamentally sound -- is months old. Since he said that, McCain has said almost daily that the economy is struggling." Yes, McCain has finally been forced to acknowledge that people are hurting, but has he really changed his position? See his convention speech.

The McCain campaign knows that it will get away with outrageous lies (like the sex ed ad) and insistent contradictions of established facts (like Palin's support for the bridge and other earmarks) because it knows that the press will present them in the context of falsely-balanced articles that suggest that both sides exaggerate or stretch the truth.

There is no comparison between Obama's sound bites and McCain's blatantly false assertions.

Yesterday CNN did yet another analysis of the Bridge to Nowhere that suggested that it was a controversy, that both sides claimed to be right, as if there were not demonstrable facts involved.

The press also falls for the false, distracting stories, like the "pig" quote. Every story about this fake issue is a victory for the McCain manipulation of the press, which would never show such deference to the Democrats.

An American Tragedy

John McCain has fallen from grace through his own vain desire to become president. As James Vega said:

In the 2000 presidential race the Bush campaign – led by Karl Rove – viciously attacked John McCain’s wife and child – they said his wife was a drug addict and that the child he and his wife adopted from an orphanage was actually his illegitimate Black daughter. On election night, his wife was in tears.
Back then, McCain was disgusted. He said there was “a special place in hell” for rumormongers like these people. He made a promise to his family and to his supporters that he would never run a dirty campaign like that. Never.
But early this year John McCain hired Charlie Condon, the very same man who was behind those vicious smears to run his South Carolina campaign. And then several weeks ago he brought Steven Schmidt - leading protégé of Karl Rove and master of the political hit job - on board to be his campaign manager and write the talking points for the new negative campaign against Barak Obama.
It’s sad to watch, McCain’s willingness to humiliate himself by hiring the same gang of people who horribly insulted him and his family. It shows that he has become so desperate to win this election that he is willing to sacrifice his principles and his personal honor in order to do it
Let’s face it. A real man would have said to those people – “Get the hell out of my office before I throw you out” the minute they walked in. A person would not have to be a tough guy like John Wayne to say that. A gentle, decent man of character would have told them the same thing.
But what did John McCain say about Bush’s dirty politics gang?
He said: “I had to get over it … it was a long time ago”

And now John McCain is trying to score political points by taking an effort to protect our youngest children from sexual predators and bearing false witness against Barak Obama by twisting it into a claim that Obama was advocating sex education to kindergarteners.

I am sorry for John McCain. I though he had more moral strength. He has my prayers and my pity.

McCAIN'S GONNA WIN, McCAIN'S GONNA WIN...JUST ASK JOSH MARSHALL, OR KURTZ. IT'S SAMCK DOWN WRESTLING AND THIS HANDICAPPED OLD MAN IS GONNA WIN.

The polls really are accurate(they can mention the comparison with electoral count but not with how these polls are arrived out leaving out that modern day invention THE CELL PHONE) How many polls included cell phone interviews=none. How many actual voters use cell phones exclusively= unknown but the majority of them are voting for Obama. (Remember all the protesters arrested outside the RNC...they have many friends). I get tired of all the fear mongering on this site about how Obama is going to lose. With the corruption spread throughout the media and all government agencies we are expected that the polls have been untouched and are devoid of any corrupt input...especially sisnce we now have the proof that the '04 election was stolen...but the polls are right on....to which I say bullshit. Obama will win in a landslide...these polls are a set up so we will believe it whne they try to steal it ("duh, well it was a close race so I guess it's possible that the same majority who rejected the Bush administration decided they would go ahead and continue it with McCain")

Rally around Obama and be proud of our candidate doing whatever you can to make sure he wins...but stop threatening his loss unless he does what you think he ought to be doing. I believe that voters heard the repubs bragging about cheating and lying to win the election by duping the American voters...and they resent being tricked and laughed at. I believe the majority will not be so easily duped this time.
btw...why has Bush, Cheney, Iraq, Iran, Torture,spying,and corruption at the DoJ been dropped from media coverage the last 6wks. Repubs are trying to make it all seem like Bush never happened. Look at this site...when was the last time any of this was mentioned here. Seems TPM as been bagged with a republican agenda...forget the issues and the reality of our current disaster and focus on the smack down huh?

Obama is not the ONE...he is the RIGHT ONE...at the right time to end this republican disaster.

Obama is the answer to our prayer for change (maybe that's why, in spite of some praying for his acceptance speech to be rained out, God made sure it was beautiful weather for Obama's speech but sent a Hurricane to disrupt the republican convention...if you believe such things).
Obama represents us...McCain represents himself.