Opening the Day: McCain Cheated at Saddleback, Lied About POW Story?

by: Matt Stoller

Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 08:30


The lightning strikes tonight in Bellevue are amazingly beautiful, I wish I could have caught them on camera.

  • So McCain might have heard the questions prior to speaking at Rick Warren's forum, a clear violation of the rules of the forum.  He was not in the 'cone of silence', as Rick Warren said he would be.

    "The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous," Ms. Wallace said.

  • Oh, and that moving story about a prison guard in Vietnam who drew a cross in the sand?  Yeah, that might have been lifted from Solzhenitsyn.

  • Obama has a good piece on Social Security in the Manchester Union Leader.

  • Claire McCaskill says that McCain is undercutting Bush on Georgia.

    "I think John McCain's reaction to what happened in Russia did not reflect well on the position he should have taken, and that is one of understanding we have one president in this country, and that Secretary of State Rice and President Bush need the support of both presidential candidates in a very tricky time as it relates to Russia and the neighboring states that are trying to establish democracies," McCaskill said of the Arizona senator's reaction to the conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia.

  • Obama is going to win.  "Don't worry about it", he's telling donors.  And the campaign is taking off the gloves.

  • Apple's having serious problems with the iphone, with reception complaints skyrocketing.  Don't close your networks, dammit.

  • AT&T is launching a PR attack on Google and privacy.  This is a vicious Capitol Hill smear campaign designed to undercut the tech lobby.  Telecom and cable interests are nasty.

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So McCain Lied And Cheated In Church (0.00 / 0)
and folks there loved him.

Why am I not surprised?

"Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition"


Yup, he'll make a perfect Republican president. (0.00 / 0)
He makes up s  t about what happened to him during the war, just like Ronnie.

And the press won't start calling him on it until the middle of his second term, when the dementia is clear to all.

War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; McCain/Palin 2008


[ Parent ]
Nah... (4.00 / 2)
...they will whine and throw temper tantrums if any press person reports anything negative about him, and the media wil fold like an accordion to please their saint...

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!


[ Parent ]
Satan could openly run on a platform of anti-abortion, anti-gay, and low taxes... (4.00 / 1)
and he would get at least 40% of the vote in this country and that 40% would include most of the evangelicals!

[ Parent ]
Nah! (0.00 / 0)
Cause:

(1) Satan's not a natural-born US citizen.

and

(2) Satan's not John McCain.

"Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition"


[ Parent ]
At&T is attacking Google on privacy ... (0.00 / 0)
that is pretty rich ... I am not a tech guy .. but we know At&T doesn't believe in privacy(see FISA)

neither does Google (0.00 / 0)


Michael Bloomberg, prince of corporate welfare

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This ain't about privacy. (4.00 / 2)
It's about net neutrality. And in this particular war,  I'm wondering  when Google and Microsoft are gonna launch an offensive against the cables/telecoms.  Or have I missed something?

[ Parent ]
You lost me (4.00 / 1)
where in the cited article does ATT say anything about Net Neutrality?

strikes me this is about ATT trying not to be the sole focus of national snooping inquiries by congress. which is good. the more infighting between ATT and Google about privacy violations the better for Americans.

Its ridiculous to paint some corps as bad and others good as in Matt's black and white frame. ATT and Google will sell has sold everyone out for profit. Google will just as quickly allow federal snooping so that the SEC et al will not block mega merger deals like DoubleClick or Yahoo like acquisitions.

Or best hope is pitting the big boys against each other.

Michael Bloomberg, prince of corporate welfare


[ Parent ]
Obama on SS: excellent (4.00 / 1)
For better or worse, this is Obama at his best. He's wrapping reality-based positions in frames which can be easily digested by the GOP-bamboozled public. If you strip out the boilerplate and the campaign stuff, you get good policy:

We all know the system isn't perfect -- but it isn't broken. The underlying system is sound and the actual problem, a projected cash shortfall over the next 75 years, is relatively small and can be readily solved. For starters, that means strengthening the program over the long-term by returning to basic fiscal responsibility, so we're not borrowing billions from the Social Security Trust Fund.

This would have been fine language to use during the nomination process -- as I recall, he did claim that SS was broken. Some donor must've given him religion on this subject recently. Excellent.


Krugman probably has an ear to ear grin this morning ... ;-) (0.00 / 0)


[ Parent ]
or he's having a hissy fit (4.00 / 1)
because he finds himself in agreement with Obama again.

Michael Bloomberg, prince of corporate welfare

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I'm Reading (0.00 / 0)
Jane Smiley's novel, "Ten Days in the Hills", kind of a Hollywood version of Renoir's great film, "The Rules of the Game", set in the LA hills during the opening days of Cheney's Iraq invasion.

I'm also reading Tom Frank's, "The Wrecking Crew".


Actually, The Model Is The Decameron (14th Century Novel) (0.00 / 0)
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Google love affair (0.00 / 0)
You're just in love with Google, aren't you Matt? You should know that corporations team up on one another in Washington D.C. for their own financial gain, not for any benevolent purpose. Just ask Larry Lessig.

The truth about Saxby Chambliss

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