Okay, this is truly disgusting. I'm going to say it, and you can agree or disagree, but John McCain has no honor.
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transcript:
WALLACE: But Senator back, if I may, back in 2000 when you were the target of robo calls, you called these hate calls and you said--
MCCAIN: They were.
WALLACE: And you said the following: "I promise you I have never and will never have anything to do with that kind of political tactic." Now you've hired the same guy who did the robocalls against you to, reportedly, to do the robocalls against Obama and the Republican Senator Susan Collins, the co-chair of your campaign in Maine, has asked you to stop the robocalls. Will you do that?
MCCAIN: Of course not. These are legitimate and truthful and they are far different than the phone calls that were made about my family and about certain aspects that -- things that this is -- this is dramatically different and either you haven't -- didn't see those things in 2000.
WALLACE: No, I saw them.
MCCAIN: Or you don't know the difference between that and what is a legitimate issue, and that is Senator Obama being truthful with the American people. But let me tell you what else I think you should be talking about and the American people should be talking about. In the debate the other night, I asked Senator Obama to repudiate a statement made by John Lewis, a man I admire and respect and have written about that connected me and Sarah Palin --
WALLACE: This is the congressman, civil rights leader.
MCCAIN: Civil rights leader, American hero. That connected me and Sarah Palin to segregationists, to the campaign of George Wallace, and even alluded to the bombing of a church where four children, four children were killed, and I asked him to repudiate that statement. I have repudiated every statement made by any fringe person in the Republican Party. And it has come up from time to time, and it probably will. The fact that Senator Obama would not repudiate that statement I think is something the American people will make a judgment about. That robo call is accurate. It’s totally accurate. And there is no comparison between it and the things that were done and said in South Carolina.
This is what he's defending:
What is true in there?
Colin Powell got it right when he said:
Mr. McCain says that he's a washed up terrorist, but then why do we keep talking about him? And why do we have the robocalls going on around the country trying to suggest that because of this very, very limited relationship that Senator Obama has had with Mr. Ayers, somehow Mr. Obama is tainted. What they're trying to connect him to is some kind of terrorist feelings. And I think that's inappropriate. Now, I understand what politics is all about, I know how you can go after one another and that's good. But I think this goes too far, and I think it has made the McCain campaign look a little narrow. It's not what the American people are looking for.
and
"Those kinds of images going out on al Jazeera are killing us around the world. And we have got to say to the world, it doesn't make any difference who you are or what you are, if you're an American you're an American. And this business of, for example a congresswoman from Minnesota going around saying let's examine all congressmen to see who is pro America or not pro America, we have got to stop this kind of non-sense and pull ourselves together and remember that our great strength is in our unity and diversity. That really was driving me."
John McCain is running a nasty honorless campaign. He has decided that he can't win telling the truth, so he's going to LIE about Senator Obama who has repeatedly told the American people about his relationship (or the lack thereof) with William Ayers (who, by the way is now a perfectly respectable member of society).
Also, McCain is flat out LYING about repudiating every negative thing his supporters have said about Senator Obama. Someone needs to call him on that lie.
On top of this McCain smears Obama by claiming that his donations are not legitimate. Well I have news for you John McCain, I've probably given close to $500 now in small increments. I'm a student, I have no income right now (I did have a job this summer). I donate to Senator Obama because I like his POSITIVE message. I believe in his ability to mobilize the United States so that we are acting as ONE nation and not a bunch of little separate interests.
Just to make McCain sweat more DONATE! Obama needs all of the money he can get because he's now clearly running against a man who is completely out of touch with reality. Let's pile on! I'm going to go donate right now (even though I really did just donate yesterday)
UPDATE: I had a live feed of the rally, it's over now, so I took it out and changed the title. So don't be confused about comments re: the rally
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