The alternate title for this piece is "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Lie Them".

John McCain. What a piece of work. Putting aside for a moment his five years as a resident of the Hanoi Hilton (I almost said "involuntary", but he did voluntarily enter the U.S. Naval Academy and put himself in harm's way in Vietnam, which means he contributed to his status as P.O.W., something Bush, Cheney, and a host of other Republicans--um--shied away from.), which is difficult because the man does throw that time spent in everyone's face, the man is running a dirty campaign and using the very media that adores him to do it.

Liberal media? Puh-leaze! While Barack Obama was in Berlin and the Middle East, the geographically-challenged Republican candidate was doing an interview with CBS about the situation in Iraq. The senator from Arizona stated that the Surge precipitated the Al Anbar Awakening, as a means to "prove" that the Surge was effective. The trouble is the Al Anbar Awakening started in September 2006 and President Bush didn't even mention the Surge until January 2007. When the CBS story aired on television, McCain's flub had mysteriously disappeared through some timely editing.

For other instances of John McCain's using the media to distort the truth, click here:
John McCain--Media Matters

With Sarah Palin as presidential hopeful John McCain's running mate, the distortion of the truth has a new wrinkle. That is not to say that the McCain Campaign hasn't tried to damage control her spotty record, but that seems to have also taken on the same McCainiac Strategy of "Bash Obama to Distort the Truth". The lipstick pig incident, which was taken out of context and twisted into a complete falsehood, is but one example of the McCain camps willingness to lower the bar when it comes to campaign ethics.

For other instances of Sarah Palin's contributions to distorting the truth, click here:
Sarah Palin--Media Matters

There is no way for John McCain to win if he sticks to the issues. If there were, his campaign would not have gone negative so quickly. I'm not saying Barack Obama is the Messiah or that I am going to vote for him--he is not and I am not. What I am saying is that the Republican supporters would do well to try to stick to the issues when debating the worthiness of the candidates for president/vice president and stop quoting the lies that John McCain and Sarah Palin put out through their loyal media sources, including the political attack ads that even the media is beginning to refuse to run.

What the McCain strategy tells us is that the only thing he brings to the table as a viable presidential candidate is that he is "not Obama", which is hopelessly unqualified.