"Dishonorable?" John McCain's Picture Should Be Next to the Word in the Dictionary

John McCain's latest ad contains not just his usual exaggerations but a flat out lie made by chopping a sentence of Obama's in half and making it seem the opposite of what it really is.

The ad has the announcer begin a sentence with a quote from Obama in the middle:

(Announcer) "He says our troops in Afghanistan are..." (Obama) "...just air-raiding villages and killing civilians..."

The announcer then says "How dishonorable" (using the same whiny voice that makes me cringe whenever I hear it).

What did Obama really say? This:

"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there"

He wasn't saying we are JUST air-raiding villages, and he wasn't criticizing the troops at all so much as saying they needed more help.

McCain knows this. He's a liar and the one who really is dishonorable.

McCain is unfit to be president and unfit to even be a U.S. senator. Worse than that, he's a loathesome scum-sucking piece of shit of a human being. And so is anyone who supports or condones his behavior.

McCain: "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?" McCain Supporter: "Terrorist!"

What little remains of John McCain's claim to decency or honor is disappearing on a daily basis.

John McCain -- Shameless, Unrepentant Liar

In this clip you can see McCain brazenly justifying his distorted ad about Obama's support for a sex education bill, and even trying to defend the infamous "lipstick on a pig ad" despite the fact that he himself has admitted that he knew Obama wasn't referring to Palin.

Sad to see what a despicable, loathesome creature John McCain has devolved into. He deserves to lose this campaign -- by a lot.

Andrew Sullivan on McCain's Integrity

Andrew Sullivan joins the growing list of decent people who are thoroughly disgusted by John McCain and no longer willing to put up with his "man of honor" charade:

"For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must, that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?

So far, he has let us all down. My guess is he will continue to do so. And that decision, for my part, ends whatever respect I once had for him. On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil.

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Yes, McCain made a decision that revealed many appalling things about him. In the end, his final concern is not national security. No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it as his replacement. No one who cares about this country's safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base. No person who truly believed that the surge was integral to this country's national security would pick as his veep candidate a woman who, so far as we can tell anything, opposed it at the time.

McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it."

John McCain - I Got Nothin' Left

Years ago I liked, admired, respected and honored John McCain.

When he abandoned his political independence, I stopped liking him, but I still admired, respected and honored him.

When he said that he didn't want to make a big issue out of his POW status, but then started using it as a centerpiece of every speech, I stopped admiring him, but still respected and honored him.

When he promised to run a clean contest against Obama and then immediately betrayed it with a dirty smear campaign of lies, mockery and veiled accusations of treason against his opponent, I stopped respecting him, but I still honored him.

When he and his campaign picked Sarah Palin for vice president, in full knowledge that they had not properly investigated her, in full knowledge that the pick was purely for political purposes, in full knowledge that she was not ready for the job -- on that day, he showed that he did not in fact put country first, and I stopped honoring him as well.

Now, I have nothing left but to shake my head at the complete unraveling of what used to be a great man, and hope that he will find some way to salvage his reputation and his legacy after this campaign is over.