we are reading EVERYWHERE

about the mccain/sarevil campaign of lies. we're even reading (and hearing) about it from some rather surprising sources

(the view peeps the VIEW????????????)

cv rick sent me this link

and there are so very many more. i just can't list them all. but i'm NOT exaggerating. they ARE everywhere

here is something from today's wapo

The Ugly New McCain

By Richard Cohen

Following his loss to George W. Bush in the 2000 South Carolina primary, John McCain did something extraordinary: He confessed to lying about how he felt about the Confederate battle flag, which he actually abhorred. "I broke my promise to always tell the truth," McCain said. Now he has broken that promise so completely that the John McCain of old is unrecognizable. He has become the sort of politician he once despised.

The precise moment of McCain's abasement came, would you believe, not at some news conference or on one of the Sunday shows but on "The View," the daytime TV show created by Barbara Walters. Last week, one of the co-hosts, Joy Behar, took McCain to task for some of the ads his campaign has been running. One deliberately mischaracterized what Barack Obama had said about putting lipstick on a pig -- an Americanism that McCain himself has used. The other asserted that Obama supported teaching sex education to kindergarteners...........

........McCain has turned ugly. His dishonesty would be unacceptable in any politician, but McCain has always set his own bar higher than most. He has contempt for most of his colleagues for that very reason: They lie...........

i've not paid too much attention to ron paul

nor do i know much about him at all. i heard him on npr last week and, when talking about the current war in iraq, he DID make sense. however, i seemed to recall i had heard some rather disturbing things about him. he MAY (and i say may because i can't prove it) be racist. he MAY (and i say MAY because it can't be proved he actually WROTE the piece - BUT the piece WAS in his newsletter) have insulted a hero of mine, barbara jordan ("My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. " "What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." )

anyway, to all you unsuspecting admirers of mr paul - all i'm saying is be wary.....

Angry White Man
by James Kirchick
The bigoted past of Ron Paul.

If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you. Paul describes himself as a libertarian, but, since his presidential campaign took off earlier this year, the Republican congressman has attracted donations and plaudits from across the ideological spectrum. Antiwar conservatives, disaffected centrists, even young liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as a throwback to an earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-mouthed and American government was more modest in its ambitions, both at home and abroad. In The New York Times Magazine, conservative writer Christopher Caldwell gushed that Paul is a "formidable stander on constitutional principle," while The Nation praised "his full-throated rejection of the imperial project in Iraq." Former TNR editor Andrew Sullivan endorsed Paul for the GOP nomination, and ABC's Jake Tapper described the candidate as "the one true straight-talker in this race." Even The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper of the elite bankers whom Paul detests, recently advised other Republican presidential contenders not to "dismiss the passion he's tapped."............
Post Date Tuesday, January 08, 2008

where have you gone, barbara jordan, our nation turns it's lowly eyes to you

"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."

(if she were still alive, i'll bet she'd be kicking some king george and his court butt right now)