Amazing
Wow.
I can’t believe this. I found, probably, the most ridiculous political ad of the year. A new McCain ad calls Obama the most liberal senator in the Senate, something that was correct for the year of 2007. It would be hard to argue that Obama was not liberal, and I don’t think Obama has denied being liberal. The McCain ad, however, suggests that he said that people calling him liberal were lying. By using Obama quotes saying “They’re not telling the truth” and “Folks are lying”, which were responses to other attacks, such as an anti-choice group claiming Obama was in favor of infanticide, the ad tries to say these were his words in response to claims that he was liberal. How amazing is that?! Let’s just reiterate this, because it’s so great. McCain is using a quote from when Obama was denying being in favor of infanticide to say that he was denying that he was liberal.
This is where it gets better. McCain’s campaign as released a press release acknowledging that the ad is wrong. They back it up, however, claiming that when Obama has been confronted about his liberal voting record he calls everyone who attacks him a liar, which also isn’t true. What he said was that the people who gave him the label “Most Liberal Senator” need to reevaluate it because he missed so many votes due to campaigning. He also said that he felt the votes on bipartisan ethics reform should not be considered liberal or conservative due to the nature of the issue. Never did he say that the group was lying, just that he felt it needed to be looked at again taking into account missed votes and bills that were not leaning one way or the other on the political scale.
For more information on the ad, you can check out FactCheck.org, a non-partisan fact checking group that’s part of the Annenburg Public Policy Center.
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