The Dish Rag

John McCain won't do a negative campaign? Oh, please!

By Elizabeth Snead

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October 8, 2008 12:35 PM

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John McCain made a lot of noise early on about not wanting to stoop to negative campaigning, name calling, insults, slurs, smears and innuendos.

His wife, Cindy McCain, even said John would rather lose than cheat the American public with those kinds of campaign tactics. And Cindy McCain now accuses Barack Obama of waging "the dirtiest campaign in American history."

Huh? What campaign news is she watching?

Seems to me that Obama is the one who isn't stooping to a negative campaign.

Who? Oh, you know him, John. C'mon, he's the guy you called "That one!" during the debate last night.

What do you think? Whose campaign has been the dirtiest so far?

Photo: Republican John McCain embraces his wife, Cindy, following his second presidential debate with Democrat Barack Obama. The Oct. 7 match-up was held at Belmont University's Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn.

Credit: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images


43 Comments

This campaign will do ANYTHING to get the presidency. They lie and twist things around to make it look like they are the victims. If elected, John McCain will make us the victims. Vote for Barack Obama, the only clear choice for the restoration of truth and responsibility for our nation and the presidency.


Mc Cain is the dirty bird for sure. He just does his dirty work through his little moose hunting minion. Mc Cain has continutally insulted Baracks background, his judgement, and even tried unsuccessfully to label him as a terrorist. I don't know if Cindy remembers when Mc Cain opponents many years ago tried to say his adoptive child was an illegitimate child- does she not think THAT'S a dirty campaign, or was she too high on vicodin at the time?


Mc Cain is the dirty bird for sure. He just does his dirty work through his little moose hunting minion. Mc Cain has continutally insulted Baracks background, his judgement, and even tried unsuccessfully to label him as a terrorist. I don't know if Cindy remembers when Mc Cain opponents many years ago tried to say his adoptive child was an illegitimate child- does she not think THAT'S a dirty campaign, or was she too high on vicodin at the time?


Hear, HEAR!!!!


Actuall6y - besides McCain's condescension, Palin is the one throwing the most dirt these days. Maybe McCain is just letting her dish all his dirt so he can say HE is being positive????


Good News: A LOT of internal polling data is coming in today, and it IS NOT looking good for Senator McCain. Voters appear to be waking up to the fact that the McCain-Palin ticket isn't just dirty, slimy, underhanded, desperate or dangerous - it is potentially apocalyptic! Both "candidates" have a penchant for viewing our military as the panacea for anything that ails the world. Both hold extremist, borderline fascist positions. And both seem willing to stoop to ever lower lows in the blind raging pursuit of power. In short, ever more Americans aren't just disatisfied with the McCain-Palin ticket - they're DISGUSTED by it. And, then there's Cindy's quote - a quite interesting inversion of the ACTUAL POLLING data, which shows that fully 89 PERCENT OF AMERICANS SURVEYED BELIEVE THAT JOHN McCAIN IS RUNNING "one of the dirtiest campaigns in modern history." Perhaps, Cindy should check the data before she spouts off. But, then again, neither she nor her husband have ever been all that concerned with the facts.


Obama tried to run a more reasoned campaign, but McCain's "Celebrity" ad instantly created a climate where not to respond in kind was to risk another Kerry Swiftboat scenario. I know that "he started it" doesn't give Obama a free ride, and I'm not happy with the degree of negative campaigning on either side, but with the recent addition of Palin's "pitbull" slurs against Obama in her speeches, the McCain campaign has reached a dangerous level of provocative attack rhetoric that clearly justifies awarding the dirty campaign Oscar to John McCain. McCain wants to win at any cost, and it shows. It's sad, I used to like and respect him, but regardless of the outcome of the election, his good image is permanently tarnished for me.


Obama tried to run a more reasoned campaign, but McCain's "Celebrity" ad instantly created a climate where not to respond in kind was to risk another Kerry Swiftboat scenario. I know that "he started it" doesn't give Obama a free ride, and I'm not happy with the degree of negative campaigning on either side, but with the recent addition of Palin's "pitbull" slurs against Obama in her speeches, the McCain campaign has reached a dangerous level of provocative attack rhetoric that clearly justifies awarding the dirty campaign Oscar to John McCain. McCain wants to win at any cost, and it shows. It's sad, I used to like and respect him, but regardless of the outcome of the election, his good image is permanently tarnished for me.


What a shame! I actually backed McCain in 2000 ... something difficult to admit for a life-long Dem. However, back then, he seemed to be the voice of reason in the wilderness. Now, however, he just snarls and snaps and distorts and smears like the Bushies. It's sad what people will do to win power.


I think the interesting - not mentioned thing - is that while Palin is suddenly aggressive - Obama campaign responded to her insults to Obama with a 13 minute documentary on McCain full of nonsense. OBVIOUSLY they had the documentary prepared WELL in advance. So WHO was planning to smear whom?

Seems to me that the Obama campaign planned their attack a long time ago.


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