The Obama camp has not made any false claims about Palin. No matter how much McCain wishes the public to believe that Obama has unfairly attacked Sarah Palin, the facts do not support it. McCain's abuse of an impartial source of information to promote his lies is disgusting. The whole purpose of this site is to provide the public with accurate information and to refute just these sorts of misleading campaign ads. McCain lacks the common decency to respect this and attempts to use the reputation of this site to spread his lies.
FactCheck.org has taken issue with the McCain-Palin ad that claims FactCheck has called Obama's attacks on Palin "false and misleading". In fact, Factcheck says that they did not attribute any of the false claims to the Obama camp. "We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin", a statement on the web site reads. FactCheck says that McCain-Palin campaign has altered its message.
The ad in question is the one with the wolves that claims that Obama sent in researchers to "get dirt" on Palin. The ad falsely attributes this claim to the Wall Street Journal.
Factcheck made the following statement in the wake of the false claims made in the McCain wolves ad:
We don't object to people reprinting our articles. In fact, our copyright policy encourages it. But we've also asked that "the editorial integrity of the article be preserved" and told those who use our items that "you should not edit the original in such a way as to alter the message". With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest.
The ad also claims that the Obama campaign sent researchers to Alaska to "get dirt" on Palin and uses the Wall Street Journal to back up this claim. The actual text of the article by conservative columnist John Fund reads:
Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29.
Fund says the opposition researchers were mainly interested in information about Palin's firing of public safety commissioner Walt Monegan, not in digging dirt as McCain has claimed. Fund also does not specifically mention the Obama campaign as being behind the investigations. He only says the Democrats. Obama has denied sending any researchers to Alaska and is demanding a correction from the Journal.
FactCheck also takes issue with the McCain ad claiming Obama supported a bill to teach sex ed to kindergarten kids.
A McCain campaign ad claims Obama's "one accomplishment" was a bill to teach sex ed to kindergarten kids. Don't believe it.
Obama, contrary to the ad's insinuation, does not support explicit sex education for kindergarteners. And the bill, which would have allowed only "age appropriate" material and a no-questions-asked opt-out policy for parents, was not his accomplishment to claim in any case, since he was not even a cosponsor – and the bill never left the state Senate.
In addition, the ad quotes unflattering assessments of the Illinois senator's record on education but leaves out sometimes equally harsh criticism directed at McCain in the same forums.
How stupid does McCain think voters are? First, he attributes a false claim to Factcheck with the intent of making it seem true. Then apparently he does not think that anyone will visit the site to verify a claim that he knows is false. McCain is hoping that voters will be stupid enough to believe his lies, not do any research, and vote for him. He is callous enough to think that the truth does not matter to voters. And he is selfish enough to believe that he does not owe the voters anything, including the truth, in exchange for their trust and their votes.