McCain - Palin ticket tests whether the US is ready to enter into a new dimension of political lying

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/091308.html

Will McCain-Palin Lies Hurt Them?

By Robert Parry
September 13, 2008

Despite all the chatter about how “historic” Campaign 2008 has been, it is the McCain-Palin ticket that it is truly testing the limits, not of race or gender politics, but whether the United States is ready to enter into a new dimension of political lying.

Until two weeks ago, it would have been hard to believe that any political figure would have had the audacity to step into the national spotlight by telling the bald-faced lies that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has. Yet, many Americans have embraced her enthusiastically and don’t want to hear anything negative about her.


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But Palin is not alone in simply denying reality. Her partner, John McCain, has shown his own ability to not blush while lying.

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When one considers how other recent presidential candidates, such as Al Gore in 2000, were treated for perceived misstatements about their personal records, it's striking how effectively McCain has escaped serious criticism for lying – and how he has sustained his reputation as a supposed “truth-teller.”

So, perhaps, the current pattern of McCain approving dishonest ads and embracing a calculated strategy of false statements about Barack Obama shouldn’t come as a surprise.

McCain now seems to have located a soul-mate in Sarah Palin, who shares McCain’s assuredness in making public statements that are clear-cut lies and then insisting they are absolute truth.

The only remaining question is how well this strategy will work.

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1. One set of rules for them, another set for their opposition. Disgusting.

Sociopathic. The Rove machine has truly changed politics & elections to be about propaganda and catapulting the truth (away).