Is Mccain twisting the truth for Palin

I really am not sure why they do it. Because his camp so know by now there are people just sitting around "fact checking" everything he or his camp says. I mean really why say she sold the jet on Ebay when the avg. person can look that up. Not only did she say she sold it on ebay he also said he made a profit. both ended up to be not true. His camp said oh his miss spoke really how can you miss speak about that. you wanted her to sound good to the people that didnt know who she was. i mean why would she even brag about it at the RNC if it didnt sell. "oh i put my flat screen tv on ebay" so what if you did it we dont care. now the tax papers of alaska are having to pay for her family to fly around on another plane. i am still unsure how that helped the people of alaska!

Perhaps a bit of stretching the truth. Something Obama is just as guilty of. We're dealing with humans not gods and humans screw up. Obama is not the miracle cure for what ails America anymore than McCain or any of the third party candidates. Honestly, I'm more concerned with what goes on in congress and the senate. Especially congress with some of the asinine things they do. The current democratic congress has been pretty much of a failure. I grew up being told that government works best with a republican president and a democratic congress. Checks and balances. This current joke fest just refuses to work together. They remind me of children who have a box full of blocks and no one wants to share.

This is Karl Rove at work, don't you see it? Don't you see the similarities to this campaign and the one W ran? Karl Rove is a mastermind in using the "keep them in the dark" mentality..Not allowing her to answer, having McLiar LIE about most everything and exaggerate most all of what is being thrown out there. This woman is an afront to ALL women and should not even have held a state office, nonetheless being VP of the US???!!! OMG! I cannot and will never understand the total blindness of people and actually wanting to listen anything McPalin has to say...They are warmongers at best, she is the next anti-woman movement for all women...They need to be stopped now!

Actually, it appears there was a recent OpEd article in the NYTimes about this very thing. It seems the McCain camp is deliberately (or appears to be) allowing these twisted truths to be put out there so that the opposition can run helter-skelter trying to disprove it. That way it appears the Dems are attacking her because she's a woman which will then backfire against the Dems, assuring a win for the GOP. Sounds like a Rovian scheme to me, but heck - what do I know? But, I say anyone running for office is fair game in this game. If you lie or if you sugarcoat the truth, then people should KNOW about it! And, it doesn't matter which side. Yes - I do think they should be up front about all of it. It sure would be a refrshing change to the status quo to hear right away, "Yes - I supported this, but have since realized I made a mistake." And, I don't mean supported it "yesterday", but "today" it's different, like Romney's change from being governor to running for President. He was Mr. Liberal in order to get elected in Massachusetts and then ultra-conservative to attempt the run for the Oval Office. That's pretty blatant. I mean where you believed, truly believed, "A" until you had more facts and a better understanding of the situation wherein your opinion slowly changed to "B" because you now know more about it than you did. I don't mean you supported attacking Iraq but now are saying you never did, but voted for it anyway. That's a pile of crap. I mean you supported attacking Iraq because you then believed they were a part of it, but over time came to realize that you'd been conned and regret having ever supported it. Honest change in ideas can take place, but so many either deny having ever thought differently or make changes in order to gain votes - not because they support the changes themselves. Or they are accused of flip-flopping when they are now actually realizing the folly of their former stances.

Her visit to Iraq, was a stop on the Kuwait-Iraq border. Her trip to Ireland? Fuel stop. Mexico and Canada, family vacations? I'm sure you've heard that while mayor of Wasilla she made rape victims pay for their own rape kits. Why lie? She has even lied about the amount of energy Alaska supplies (that one's new on factcheck). It's crazy.

Does a bear splat in the woods! McBushie couldn't tell the truth if somebody slapped him in the face with it.

Unfortunately what you are describing is simply politics as usual. Though Obama preaches change, he is guilty of the same sort of things. They are both human, and not perfect. They will also both say what voters want to hear to get elected. It isn't right, but that is the way it seems to work in the political world now days.

I think in McCain's case it's just gotten to the point where it comes naturally to him. He wrote in his books and stated many times through the years that when he was being interrogated as a POW he'd named some of the Green Bay Packers football team, but while campaigning in Pittsburgh suddenly it became the Steelers and was what he always thought of when he thought about Pittsburgh. OK, that last part may be true because he probably had never thought about Pittsburgh before he happened to be trying to get votes there. He allowed Bush to give him a great deal of credit for passing the new G.I. Bill although he'd been opposed to it and in fact, never showed up to vote on it. He said Palin sold the jet on e-Bay for a profit when he probably knew what the actual facts are. I guess my answer as to why they keep twisting the truth would be one of two things - first, that they've started to believe their lies are true or, second, they think the American voters are too stupid to know the difference or to check things for ourselves. Annie

Why? Because most Americans seem content to believe everything they hear, and it makes for easy politics.

There Politicans basiclly there professional liars! By the way did you know that they got the money for bridge they just didn't use it for that project. My favorite thing about Palin is she doesn't believe in carbon dating or Science in general! The fact she won't protect our enviornment is enough for me not to vote for her. Anyone that dismiss global warnming and wants to drill in Alaska is dangerous! Personally I care about the planet more then I do about saving money at the gass pump!

Politicians lie. Is this some new revelation? I couldn't count the number of times some politician has said something to make themselves look good and it wasn't the truth, or at least not the total truth. McCain lying about something Palin supposedly did was just trying to make himself look good. If your vice president looks good, it sure can't hurt your image.