Negative Campaign

On McCain's Negative Campaign, Or, Oh No You Didn't

by: fake consultant

Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 22:37

Apparently feeling there's no other way to win, the McCain campaign is now trying to "go negative" in an effort to make Obama unelectable.

Obama has tried to stay above that sort of thing...and while Obama may be a better human being than that...I'm not.

We will divert away from the usual high minded conversation about issues today-and we will instead lay out a few unpleasant facts John McCain would rather you forget about.

Some of today's discussion reveals McCain's financial corruption...then there's McCain giving "aid and comfort to the enemy" back in his Vietnam days...and for those who may have forgotten, a few words about ugly divorces and near-bigamy and the ending of McCain's friendship with Ronald Reagan.

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