To the Ladies of ‘The View,’ McCain Misrepresents Palin’s Earmark Record

Obama needs to hammer home the number of lies McCain has told. And the media needs to stop “excusing” him for the lies in his ads by saying “he’s an honorable man who probably doesn’t know about them.” He knows about them. He approves them and he perpetrates them himself.
“McCain/Palin: Lies, Cover-Ups, Distortions, Abuse of Power. If they campaign like Bush/Cheney, you can bet they will govern like them!”

If her record is so great why does the McCain campaign continually lie about and embellish it?

Jake,
There is a nice discussion of this topic by Senator Jim Demint in WSJ titled:
“Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge.”
For fairness sake, I hope you will not delete my post.
Thank you.

It’s a sorry comment on the fourth estate that the hardest hitting questions for this old liar have come from the ladies of The View.

Apparently it above the paygrade of this blog but governors can’t secure earmarks.
That is done by legislators.
How about a little honesty here, Jake?

Governors can and do secure earmarks. Palin did exactly that. Mayors can and do secure earmarks. Palin did exactly that. In the federal government, legislators get earmarks but it’s the execs in city and state governments who get them.

you have to remember, with democrats and liberals, it’s not what you did or what you plan to do, it’s what you say. so them, they feel very very tough. They get this from thinking that popular actors are the greatest thing in the world and have all the power.
no doubt the obama kool-aid drinkers will think this was a stupendous victory. they don’t understand everytime they ambush someone, they push middle america further and further into Palin’s lovin’ arms
poor dems, hoodwinked by Moveon.org and DNC power elite. Had their real candidate stolen and now hollywood and the liberal media will cost them this election……again

McCain has become a pathological liar. He lied again on the view with Palin taking no earmarks.
A LIAR CANNOT BE TRUSTED AND THEREFORE HE IS UNFIT TO BE POTUS
McCain = LIAR = fact

Thank you Jake for pointing out all his lies
John McCain is telling lie after lie. Not off the cuff remarks that can be excused as accidents or flubs but the same lies consistently and many of them. Serial liars are never trustworthy people — that is a truism. But it also demonstrates a deeper character flaw. A normal job applicant would be disregarded out of hand after such a record became clear. – Josh Marshall (he said it well)

In the clip, McCain says he’s been consistent on every issue. Not so. He mentions torture- one of McCain’s most shameful flip flops. According to the Bush administration position he now supports, McCain himself was not tortured in Vietnam-just subjected to “interrogation techniques.”
Give me a break! The guy is desperate and he’s lying.

The View has been in the tank for Obama from the beginning (except for Elizabeth).
I rank them up there with MSNBC, CNN, NBC, and Oprah.
They are so biased they can barely contain their gushing for Obama and their hatred of Hillary, McCain , Palin, and Elizabeth.
What kills me is Whoopi’s fear of Palin-calling her a Nazi. But she isn’t afraid of Obama’s relationship with Trinity church and Farrakhan.
I can’t stomach The View or Oprah anymore.

The View has to be the stupidest show on TV and Joy Behar…come on…so far left…please. Sarah Palin is being treated so unfairly…keep it up you left wing crazies! It will just help them get elected!!!!

I hope that Jake the rest of your troop is finally going to start calling them what they are…lies.

McCain and Palin should not be able
to go near the White House. They should
be placed in the record books as the
biggest liars of this century. They even
top Casey Anthony!

TREATED UNFAIRLY!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!
If they weren’t lying about her record this would not be an issue! Every canidates record has been under investigation! This is not unfair treatment it’s what reporters do!

It is amazing to me that some people would think that the View is a reputable show without bias? Yes, Sarah Palin is new to the Washington seen so her record as with Obama’s is not as strong as say Bidden who feels that Hillary would probably have been a better VP choice. The fact is that Obama has less executive experience as Palin he has ran his campaigns on empty words and he has nothing to show for it. I am not saying he is a bad guy but let us also remember that Palin is not running for President it is Obama and McCain but you really cannot pick on McCain except to push that he is just like Bush which I think his record shows he is not. Is that all Obama can do is try to link McCain to Bush? Oh, and when you are doing the numbers on any earmarks with Alaska versus Illinois or Arizona remember it is population size that changes the size of the number Alaska has a small population cannot same the same for Arizona and Illinois. So of course it would seem like Alaska is getting more but maybe if you went per square footage of Alaska versus the other two the numbers would be quite different. I am not saying that these canidates are perfect but think, ask questions do not take the information that the media gives you as God’s word!! There is an agenda for everything they are just people. People who all love there coutry and I mean all of them. Educate yourself and read between the lines. Then you can make a decision that is based on factual information not media bias.

Barbara, Joy and Whoopi, what is the matter? Is John McCain’s recent rise in the polls making you a little crazy? Barbara, today you let 30 some odd years of journalism go right out the door. No professionalism on your part only arrogance. Shame on all three of you, your bias was obvious!

i love how when people point out the misinformation being spewed by the mccain campaign, republicans point to media “bias.” give me a break people, a lie is a lie. it has nothing to do with bias, it’s called DECENCY. we teach our children not to lie, why should politicians get a pass?

these are proven facts (attack the facts)
NOT FROM THE VIEW
ETHICAL QUESTIONS: Bloomberg: “Palin’s office approved a state job for a friend and campaign aide with whom she shared a land investment, financial records and interviews over the past two weeks show. She hired a former lobbyist for a pipeline company to help oversee a multibillion-dollar deal with that same company. She named a police chief accused of harassment to head the state police. And she sent campaign e-mails on her city hall account while serving as mayor of Wasilla — conduct for which she later turned in an oil commissioner on ethics charges.
“These incidents raise ‘some serious questions about her judgment and serious questions about her standards of ethics in public service,’’ said James Thurber, director of American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in Washington. Suggesting a real estate investment partner for a job ‘may be acceptable in Alaska; it would not be acceptable in Washington, D.C., a place whose norms she wants to

John McCain is the worst lying politician I have ever seen. He does not even to pretend to tell the truth as do most politicians. Why would any intelligent American fall for this? Sarah Palin is laughable. Wake up people! Though Obama is far from perfect,he holds our only hope for change in this election.

The View and ABC continue to embarrass themselves. To see such pathetic individuals like Joyce Behar, Whoopie Goldberg, and Barbara Walters try to ask a question is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard. Compare it to the Obama lovefest.

Stephen Gianelli,
McCain said she did not take earmarks.
We know that is false.
He knows that is false.
Saying something you know to be false is called lying.

Speaking of earmarks, did you hear the one about Barry’s earmarks amounting to 1 million per day for every day that he’s been in the Senate?

What I don’t understand in this whole thing is why John McCain keeps saying we wouldn’t have gotten here had Obama accepted his invitation to townhall meetings. Now, does that mean he’ll invade any countries because the leaders do not agree to his invation? In my opinion it’s a lame argument. It shows the character of the candidate. Maybe people were right to caution against his temperament.

Jake,
Just let you know, that it is cold out there, infrustructure is not the same as in Arizona, it is dense area, but very important for our future, we need to invest now in order to get results tomorrow from Alaska. It is economics 101. But maybe you know this. Just be fair and compare apples to apples.
Andrew

Pretty soon Sarah Palin and John McCain will also claim that she isn’t a hockey mom and doesn’t hunt and has never even heard of the NRA. Does this surprise anyone, they started this entire campaign pretending they weren’t Republicans…

Interesting “view”……for us independents, its become obvious that we need to move towards McCain if we’re really wanting to change Washington. McCain has a fairly long history of working for the reform of our government. Sarah Palin has a demonstrable record of reform even during her short time in politics. Yet for most of us, we still don’t understand what change means to Barak Obama because he has never really had the kind of aggressive media questioning being thrown @ McCain and Palin. And the more we all sit @ home and watch the media love fest with Obama being contrasted with a thinly veiled contempt for McCain/Palin, the more us independents are being driven towards McCain with a fast sprint. Please understand that most Americans (especially independents) are too sophisticated to have our votes swayed by bias from either the right or the left. The one thing I can say is this…..I have never been a viewer of FOX News assuming its too swayed to the right. However I am now getting all of my political news from the folks @ Fox because it really is more fair and balanced….you know exactly which folks are from the left and which folks are from the right. Of course we now know which folks in the mainstream media are from the left. Unfortunately up until this election cycle, I had kind of naively assumed that all of the stars of the current mainstream media (like Barbara Walters) were truly unbiased, and that is obviously not the case.

Sen. Joe Biden doesn’t need to be “vetted” by ABC News…he’s been on the national scene and has run for president and has been scrutinized. Why do all these Palin supporters continue to dodge the obvious? She isn’t qualified, as illustrated in great success during her damning interview with Charles Gibson. Bush Doctrine? Eh? What?

The far right wing of the Republican party is dangerously flirting with Nazism. Enough of the lying, deceiving, slandering, profoundly vicious personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with their exptremely selfish greedy agenda. Enough of the juvenile schoolyard poltiics and the constant barage of trash talk from extrememly biased right wing pundits. Grow up and act like adults. John McCain is no more “Country First” than I am Miss America. He picked Palin as a trinket to get unhappy Clinton voters to jump on his bank wagon and that is the only reason he picked her. Neither McCain or Palin are ethically, morally, or emotionally competent to run this country especially with the enormous issues the Bush Admn. has caused. In addition, they feed to the same base that has been ruining this country for the past 8 years! Out with all far right wingers!

Just saw this cartoon with a little girl answering the phone at 3am then she holler out Hillary it’s Obama! Did Hillary hit this one right
What about when Joe B looks at Obama in dem debate and say “the presidential position is we can not have an on job thejob TRANING and I WOULD BE HORNERD TO SERVE WITH JOHN MCCAIN
WHAT ABOUT KERRY WANT HIM TO RUN AS HIS VP

Of course McCain lies about Sarah Palin’s record! If he told the truth he’d have to admit that she’s a joke, that she’s Limbaugh in Lipstick, that she’s in WAY over her head, that she is every bit as dishonest and hypocritical as he is, and that choosing her was a reckless political gimmick to help pull him limping across the finish line.
She did well in debates for Alaska governor. But Gwen Ifill won’t be asking any ice fishing and caribou questions.
Yes, Governor Palin, we could see that you were faking it during the interview with Charlie Gibson. You’ll have to fake it many more times between now and November 4. McCain can continue to lie about your record, but he can’t continue to hide you. You’ll have to come forward and answer questions that weren’t on the cheat sheet. Good luck.

Barbara Walter is so silly.
Did she press Obama on the same question?

“What I don’t understand in this whole thing is why John McCain keeps saying we wouldn’t have gotten here had Obama accepted his invitation to townhall meetings.”
Its simple. McCain was getting little media attentions and wanted the free attention town halls generate.
Obama said no. He instead offered a debate on July 4th McCain said no.
Since then, the McCain campaign went on to sleazy attacks and gaudy media moves like picking Palin.
They now blame Obama for their strategic move.
This is the real John McCain, a tempermental individual who blames others.

“While we are on this subject, may I remind you that BOTH Senators Obama AND Biden VOTED FOR funding the Bridge”
Do you think we are stupid? Obama wasn’t even in the Senate at the time. Give me a break.

Perhaps McCain was having a series of “senior moments” when he was defending his running mate, or perhaps his memory is failing. His integrity and any claims he had to being “independent” and “an agent of change” have already failed–miserably!

The more the media overreacts to John McCain’s gains in the polls (and Obama’s sinking numbers in key voting blocks), the more they show how desperately they want Obama to win and the more shrill they become, the more McCain gains in the polls.

Have you noticed that McCain no longer wears his flag lapel pin. I guess he has too much respect for the flag to lie while wearing it.

JC:
Wasn’t Obama elected in ’04?
Of course he was in the Senate then, and he certainly did vote for the “Bridge to Nowhere.”

96% emeployed consider full employment
96 percent of the people pay their mortgage on time
Dow Jone up 3000 point
We’re in a slow down people we’re in a recession when Bush took over from Clinton and because clinton did not take Bin Laden out when he a chance we were attacked

According to some people, calling a person who lies a liar is considered “biased”.
I am a woman and it is a disgrace that McCain tries to victimize Mrs. Palin so he can win a campaign. I have all the respect for Mrs. Palin, but please stop this political bs.

McCain’s maverick view is that American’s are stupid, and you can look them straight in the face and say something that is demonstrably untrue and they’ll vote for you anyway.
Sadly, he may well be right.
It’s too bad that more intelligent conservatives don’t expect a little more from their leaders.

Wow!!
McCain got smoked on the show. Is he going to cry sexism?

When does being a governor or mayor for a short period of time not disqualify your credentials on national security? When you are John McCain and your task is to defend your vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
When does being a governor or mayor for a short period of time ABSOLUTELY disqualify your credentials on national security? When you are John McCain and your task is to defeat primary opponents Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.
Back in October 2007, when McCain’s candidacy still appeared dead and buried, the Senator berated the two Republican front runners for lacking the necessary political experience to handle commander in chief responsibilities.

“For the record, Obama has released a list of $740 million in earmark requests he made in the past three years, and it includes $1 million for the hospital where his wife Michelle is a vice president.”
Key phrase: Obama has RELEASED.
Obama believes in transparency as a means of cutting wasteful spending which is why he worked with Sen Coburn to pass their transparecny law and continue to work on expanding and refining that law.
Obama has never been against earmarks because many earmarks are for the good of the community.
What he believes is that a public informed about earmarks can make their own decision and make wasteful earmarks more difficult to pass under the watchful eye of the public.
Palin talks about removing the secrecy of the process, Obama has done it.
McCain never takes earmarks. That is his choice and fine with the people of AZ.
But for McCain to claim he is going to balance the budget by eliminating earmarks he is lying. Earmarks account for less than $100B and many of them are indeed important infrastructure projects.

McCain was caught by surprise. The ladies cornered him big time. Is this the man we want as the POTUS?
GOP hypocrisy at its best.

if you think they were tough on The View just wait til old Seanity gets a hold of Palin!

andrew
the point is
Palin and mcCain say they are against earmarks…that earmarks are bad
so i see you are saying the earmarks in alaska are good
but the ones in arizona are bad
wow
I agree with you that not all earmarks are bad but you seem to be skipping the fact that it isn’t jake that is saying that earmarks are bad…
seems McCain and Palin are saying that out of one side of their mouth while she gets an 80 % approval because she took the 506 dollars from the federal government (you know the rest of us and our tax dollars) and the tax on the oil revenue her state gets … and she increased… (that in McCain supporters words gets passed on to the rest of us)
and gave 3000 back to every resident
and you wonder why she has an 80 % approval…sounds like they really needed that extra 506 per capita worth of earmarks huh?

Thank you Jake for telling the truth about McCain and his lies.

“When are the palins and mccains going to release their tax returns?”
McCain, Obama & Biden have Senate financial disclosure forms.
I know that Biden & Obama have released their tax returns as well and I am almost sure that McCain has.

Either you are for or against earmarkts. Palin has asked and received hundrends of millions in earmark for state. That is a fact and it is not disputable.

I just wish that ABC’s the View would lob snowballs to McCain like Obama recieved. where were the tough questions at for Obama? Can we say Barbara and the panel are voting for Obama, and are using there position to push him closer to the White House……Biased interview YES. Bring Obama on and ask him about being Mr. Change and yet he chose a typical politician as a running mate. Why would ABC do that it isnt the popular thing to do so go ahead ABC be like the rest of the Biased Media out there dont stand out from everyone else be the cowards that i see everywhere else. by the way I was voting Obama but not now that i see the unfair treatment that the media is giving his opponents

dl:
I missed that…but ain’t he neat!

Some people want you to believe that the media is being rough on McCain. But seriously, isn’t it the responsibility of the media to point out lies?
If McCain keeps on lying, why shouldn’t the media point that out?

“I just wish that ABC’s the View would lob snowballs to McCain like Obama recieved. where were the tough questions at for Obama?”
I guess you did not watch the ABC sponsored democratic primary debate between Obama and Clinton. ABC asked the tough questions then, like how it is asking the tough questions now. So please, don’t pretend the whole world is after McCain.

Score one for the View gals….but
does anybody remember this covey
EVER badgering a liberal in this way?
There are respectful ways to ask
questions of perceived foes. McCain
shows lack of judgement in even
appearing on this venue. These liberal
harpies will eventually help him
in middle America…they are too dumb
to realize it.

dl (the real one):
Jake put it out there like he is a watchdog for the taxpayers. I just pointed out that Alaska is not Arizona and Alaska needs investments.
And Sarah Palin used these bridge funds for some other projects. Also she reduced earmarks during her governorship, so according to your logic her approval ratings should fall? Wait, it is 80%. That means it has nothing to do with earmarks. It is logic 101 for you. There is no correlation here.

“What is Obama trying to hide regarding his relationship with Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist who Obama said “was just a guy in my neighborhood”? When in fact, Obama’s relationship with Ayers goes back to 1995.”
They’ll do an expose on it 3 1/2 years into his presidency. He’ll be proven a failure by then and it will be safe to attack him.

Well, I sincerely hope that Charlie Gibson, in the second day of his interviews, asks Palin all about the earmarks for her state, the Bridge, etc.
That way everyone will have her side of the story, which I’m sure Charlie will “follow up” on if he thinks she’s wrong (how these media people think they know her mind better than she does is beyond me), then maybe we can move on to some other topics…………….

While people are saying that the McCain campaign is gaining ground, I’d say that it is at best short lived.People learn not to lie at a very young age, it’s only a matter of time before most American’s realize what is going on here.

Jake, while I appreciate your and your fellow journalists’ intentions at least to reminisce the good, ol’ days of a real Fourth Estate, you need to stop sugar-coating. We’ve had enough of that, and frankly, this nation can’t afford its watchdogs’ “careful walking on eggshells” to keep corporate ad revenue coming in. A any publication of value, the publishing and editorial departments always are separate.
This is a good statement: “McCain’s claim that “as governor she didn’t” is simply not so.”
But after being lied into what may be the worst economy and national security crisis faced by this country, you should have written: “McCain’s claim that “as governor she didn’t” is A LIE.”
As taxpayers and media-consumers, we deserve that kind of honesty.

“I hope he doesn’t wreck the economy”
-a guy named keith
have you not been reading the news for the last 6 months. it’s a little late for Obama to “wreck” the economy.

McCain’s a liar. It’s plain and simple. Facts are facts. Good for these non-journalists to actually take him to task on that. Palin did seek earmarks ($260m in ’08 & $200m in ’09). She kept that money for the Bridge to nowhere. It wasn’t returned like she said. It would be nice if people actually checked out the facts.

Those who are backing McCain-Palin should give your heads a shake. Don’t understate Obama’s great speaking ability. His ability to inspire young Americans cannot be underestimated. Sure there are questions about his experience, but who really has any experience as President except the Xes. In a time when morale is so low and the disdain for Americans are so high from abroad, Obama is the much better of the two candidates to inspire everyone and restore hope for this country.

Sarah Palin made a fool of herself during her interview with Charles Gibson.
Sarah Palin has the IQ of a potato(e)

“Why should anyone not be surprised at the harsh treatment of McCain on this show. When will these ladies address the same degree of issues with Obama who has yet to explain Avery or Wright.”
You mean Ayers and Wright. Obama has explained this ad nauseum. Is this the bbest you can do? Let’s move on to some other criticism.

Yes ‘reason’… pointing out plain and simple facts when McCain goes on national television and lies about them is nothing but “piling on by the sexist liberal hate machine”. How dare they inform the public about reality anyway? Reality is clearly sexist otherwise it would agree with every totally untrue but very flattering thing the McCain campaign says about Palin!
It is the responsibility of the media to point it out when major national figures are feeding people lies. Calling it “sexist” of them to do it just because it’s a woman the McCain campaign is lying about is so absurd it defies description.

You wanted proof that McCain doesn’t know how to operate a computer? This post would have clued him in that he was gonna be in for a bad time. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/10/23059/8106/837/593093
“I believe that the separation of church and state is very necessary for this country because we’re a country that welcomes all religions, people of all kinds of backgrounds and the minute it becomes one kind of religious country I’m very concerned. It feels not like a good idea. I like the separation.
Barbara : It’s against the constitution. The constitution guarantees the separation of church and state.
Whoopi : Well you know, but it doesn’t.
Barbara : But doesn’t in exact words.
Whoopi : Right.”
“Barbara : But the fact that it’s god’s will in a way takes the responsibility away from you – ‘Oh, it’s god…’ On that point ‘Oh, it’s god…’ And I think that’s….concerning.”
“Barbara : It’s one thing to believe in faith, it’s another thing to say that things that occur… a war… a pipeline…are god’s will.”
McCain also defended the ‘sex ad,’ saying it was not a lie. Check the tape.
Whoopi later discusses how Obama cannot be seen as ‘a black man hitting a white woman.’
And yet today, McCain released an EPR (electronic press release…let’s stop calling them ‘ads’ for there are no known airtime buys for them) where he does indeed dog whistle to racism.
They call the piece “Disrespectful” and implies a black man is not being respectful to a white woman. So the dishonored non-hero McCain is now using racism to sell his message. Any wonder why he has people like this http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/09/12/neo-nazi-magazine-to-feature-obama-assassination-cover/ on his side?

McCain sit on The View and lied through his teeth when Joy asked him about the advertisemets that he has apporoved. He suggested that Obama has disrespected Palin and “chooses his words carefully.” IN A PHRASE COMMONLY USED, HE DOESN’T HAVE TO BE HINTING AT THE BEAUTY QUEEN, UNLESS MAYBE SHE SEES HERSELF AS A PIG. Anyway, McCain only answered the lie about the lipstick comment. His answer was a lie as well. He never mentioned anything about the lie out stating that Obama wants to teach Kindergartens sex education. Its a lie because he wants our kids to be to recognize how predators may inapprpriately touch them. That’s a huge problem for me that centers on more than politics. That’s about the invasion of a child and Obama is correct in wanting to protect them from perverts. McCain has serious issues suggesting otherwise. It makes one think that he is a pervert himself, not Obama. He is really out of touch because we live in a nation where people that visit your house everyday will prey on little innocent children. It sickening.

Great conversation…
…everybody lies!
White lies, Grey lies, Black lies… usmilvets dot org!
The left lies, the right lies and it is us Independents that will ultimately decide the race on who lies less! ;-)

How can McCain say he took on special interest when he has all lobbyists running his campaign?

At 4:54 Timmy said:
“Latest polls show that McCain is overwhelmingly leading Obama with young voters!”
Timmy, unless you can cite your source, you are merely spreading disinformation. According to the latest Ipsos/McClatchy taken Sept 5-9, “Obama leads among voters age 18 to 34 by a margin of 55 percent to 34 percent”.
Anyone can check the veracity
Why does everyone have to spread false information? More than half the posts on this site are outright lies or opinion masqueranding as fact.

Obama and Biden need to get on the offensive now or just kiss this election goodby.
By their lack of aggressivness they are insuring four more years of the same old crap or worse.

Why does this man just keep on lying!? It seems to me that there are only two alternatives: a) he is a completely unprincipled or b) he’s becoming senile and can’t remember what he says from one day to the next. I don’t now which possibility is more disturbing.

McCain said on the show that he thought Roe vs. Wade was a bad decision. He knew he would get that response. I would question his judgement.

I don’t care…..Obama on the other hand has 932 million in earmarks!

Thank you, Kate mom of twins. It is amazing the amount of disinformation that is given out by people who post on sites such as this. And sadly, some people accept it as fact.
The McCain campaign is flat-out lying about a lot of things and I hope it backfires on them. In my opinion it was a disgrace to spring this unknown candidate on us just two months before the election.

The View panel could have been more composed in dealing with McCain, but I think they were probably reacting like any American could no longer take being lied to over and over again.
I applaud them for actually standing up to McCain and calling out their blatant lies. Something the MSM has failed to really do.
Oh yeah, Obama’s earmarks – he’s not running on a platform against it. McCain/Palin are. That is what makes them so hypocritical.

Nice job Ladies! Way to pull the covers off the Hypocrite of the year! The straight talk express just got derailed! lol
Obama 08′

I think the questions that were put to McCain and his wife were right on target and well thought out in attempting to flush their real agendas. I am a 57 year old wife and mother that was shocked, saddened and very insulted in McCain’s choice of a running mate. It only proves the USA will continue it’s almost decade long anti-intellectual march into the insanity of a book-burning group who can not think beyond their own limited lives.

I would like to thank the ladies of the View for asking John McCain all of the questions that I wanted to ask him myself. I don’t know why he keeps saying that if Barack Obama had taken me up on the town hall meetings I wouldn’t have to go negative that doesn’t make any sense. To see John McCain continue to lie like that after being called out was a disgrace on his part. I lost all respect for John McCain after he started lying, pandering and running such a negative campaign. I want to say thank you so much for caring about providing your viewers with the truth. I don’t know why everyone thinks that this was John McCain’s first time on your show and that you are always mean to him. Or that Elisabeth didn’t question Barack about the Reverend Wright situtation because she did. I don’t know why people want Michelle Obama to be grilled when she isn’t running for office. And as for Joe Biden he has been on meet the press more than 40 times and has ran for president twice so he has been vetted. As for Ms. Palin every American should want reporters to help us to get to know her. You don’t just hear one speech from a person and say bam I’m sold. Obama has been on the O’Reilly factor and answered questions to O’Reilly. He went to Saddleback and answered questions from the Christian right. Obama has been campaigning for over a year. People you need to admit when your candidate is lying. If Barack lies, I say he lied. If I disagree on his policy position I say I disagree. Don’t sit their like lemmings and follow McCain off a cliff. You should demand the truth out of your candidate regardless. If he lies to you during the campaign even after being called out on it, I promise you he will lie to you when he is in office. John McCain promised he would not run negative ads on September 11 but he did so any way, that is a lie. And as for Obama accepting earmarks he never said he was against them. It is the hypocrisy of it all. Palin is a social conservative and McCain is a fiscal conservative and that’s the truth. And think about this if John McCain is such a maverick and says how has he changed I am still the same. Then when was the last time he bucked the administration?

Wow, they totally disrespected MCcain. I don’t recall them treating Mr or Mrs.Obama like that. That’s fine that they don’t agree with his views, but why go after him and his wife that way. There is an appropriate way you ask questions and press issues and this wasn’t it.

To the cackling hags on “The View” : it is disgusting how you fawn over a phony like Barack Obama and his equally phony spouse. You never question him about his experience -none. Nor his record – none. Nor his past associations, plenty. If he is such a great agent of change then ask him what he did in Chicago and that corrupt political machine he was part of. What did he do to change it ??? You won’t ask him the question because he did absolutely nothing and it doesn’t fit your agenda.

Even as Governor of Alaska,
Palin has continued to be
a major earmarks requester.
She continued to do what she
had done as mayor of Wasilla.
The ladies of The View were
familiar with her mayoral
record but not with her penchant
for federal pork as Governor.
McCain ever the wiley politician
countered by saying, No as
Governor she was a reformer and
opposed pork barrels.
The ladies didn’t challenge him
on that – just another one of
his far too many lies.

The women of the view showed John McCain more respect than he deserves. In theory nobody respects a liar. In practice, the more John McCain lies, the more republicans seem to respect him. That’s what I call values voting.

Posted by: ness | Sep 13, 2008 12:24:36 PM
Funny you want equality only when its convenient.
Everytime McCaine opens his mouth he lies.

I don’t care…..Obama on the other hand has 932 million in earmarks!
Posted by: Debra | Sep 12, 2008 9:34:40 PM
I live in IL, where are those 932 million? We sure could use them.

Does anyone even WATCH the view?

I am a white woman college educated medical professional and registered Republican.
I totally congratulate the ladies on the view for saying outright John McCain has lie and his lies have been proven without a doubt. I was shocked John McCain “continues to lie right in interview saying he is not lying.”
A couple of these ladies are Republican.
A couple are not – appear to be Democrats. Makes no difference!! These ladies are just asking for why he is lying and continues to lie in just these two examples?
John McCain is lying!!
My thanks to the women on the View!! They are saying they know!!!!! John is lying!! But then he has been lying alot lately. All proven by new media, analyst, fact check, etc. John McCain continues to lie alkl the time!!
Americans have a right for knowing the truth!! Americans go investigate. I am so ashamed to say I am Republican.

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Please, Senator, tell us who Sarah would reform in Washington. What, what? OMG! This is too hard a question! I can’t think. I can’t think!
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Can you imagine McCain discussing “real” issues with World leaders? He couldn’t handle the pressure of simply being called out on capaign distortions. Embarrassing to say the least.
John McCain has sold himself out for the chance of being President. The fact that after decades of being known as a “Maverick” (which lacks merit) he has bowed to the GOP to be their nominee sickens me.
When he chose Sarah as his V.P. the first thing I said was what, there were no QUALFIED Republicans in Congress? What exactly does that say about the Republicans who are currently serving?
Now that Greenspan has called out the flaws in his “tax cut” philosophy it will be interesting to see how many Americans can actually “grasp” this fundamental economic concept. Something tells me it they would rather say Greenspan knows less than they do. That’s sad and laughable at the same time.

A lack of comprehension or did he just not know the answer to Barbara Walters’ question regarding Sarah as reformer. When John McCain was asked who Sarah would reform in Washington, he could not come up with a coherent answer. The answer he gave in fact, seemed to be to a question that he asked himself. No wonder Barbara was frustrated. No wonder she tried to restate the question several times. No wonder the Republicans are upset and once again flailing about, attempting to vilify those who would attempt to get a simple answer to a simple question. Shame on the Republicans.

They were not loud and disrespectful of McCain; HE was disrespectful to come on THEIR show and LIE! LIE! LIE! Did he think he was talking to YOU

In response to blah,
Obama only recieved $3.3 million dollars through his own sponsorship. He requested earmarks in accord with other Illinois lawmakers. They didn’t recieve the total requested amount over those years.

Sarah Palin and John Mccain are big fat liars. Its just that simple.

From a political view, it was as I expected. From a humane view, I was disgusted with the women from the view. They may think he’s a liar when it comes to his politics but they showed him little to no respect. How dare these women bash him about his choice for vp. Why would they not give them a fair chance especially when someone gave each of those WOMEN a chance. I mean, if this episode has brought up so much controversy, don’t you think that this was even a bit unfair?!

I am sorry but if you have really listen to Obama and are really true followers then I am scared for you and your children. Look at the facts! Open your eyes and look at the facts! He was not asked about policy or any political views! He was told he was sexy! What the heck?!? I am either a republican or democrate, I listen and research each side and Obama scares me. His background, his connections.
Think about this: In order to work at/near the White House you have to have a Top Secret clearance and secret clearance. My husband has a secret clearance and would be allowed to apply and receive a top secret if we had the funds although his company could fund it. There is a extensive background check that is involved and it is not easy to come by. Obama does not have one and would not be able to get one. WHy? Because of his background and who he has been affiliated with. You think I am lying…check it out. If he is elected then our President, who will have the nuclear codes, will not have a Secret or Top secret clearance.

Sarah Palin must have been so famous on the web. She campaigned on the idea that she was against earmarks, or government funds that are pegged for a specific cause. The only problem is that she asked for $140 million to be set aside for her state, which makes Alaska one of the biggest users of earmarks in the U.S. This is after she gave a large cash advance building an oil pipeline. And she’s also having her daughters’ contentious break up to deal with. Rumors are still going around about her running in 2012, but if she fails to live up to campaign promises it won’t be an easy sell for Sarah Palin for President.