1. wayne lange | 08.20.08

Yes of course, when a politician gets caught, it’s an error. When we mere mortals get caught, it’s a lie. Humm

2. health Angel | 08.20.08

Thomas B. Edsall 8/11/08
You Get what you pay for.
2,300+ Seniors between 70 & 90 years old like Cecilia Barbier , retired church worker ( NY ) scammed out of her life savings $ 100 ,000 -left to beg for food. BY MICHAEL REAGAN ( SON OF RON ) & FLOYD BROWN.
MICHAEL SENDS LETTER ASKING FOR MONEY FOR HIS DADS CHARITY. Senior gives small donations - Michael & Floyd ?????empties their bank accounts.
They even make these seniors , get loans - Arkansas Senior - with Dementia - had life savings of $56 ,000 Michael & Floyd ?????wanted to make smear ad for John McCain , price of ad. $59 ,000 Senior ended -up taking out loan fro $5,000 to make -up the difference.
This is hearbreaking - They did this also in 2004 -Seattle Times.
MSM Silent - because McC

3. Not fooled | 08.21.08

This isn’t troubling, it’s just an example of the gop version of “thinking outside the box”.

I find it hard to believe anything from mccain, he’s changed his position on too many of the issues. He’s taken to saying anything and everything to get elected. I can’t trust that - the stakes are too high this time.

4. nancy | 08.21.08

I am an adoptive parent. I didn’t RESCUE my daughter or my son. We just wanted to be a family. During the Saddleback forum, when McCain talked about his daughter, I was angered to the point of nausea. Warren asked him about the 148 MILLION children worldwide that need families and what could be done to expedite this as a crisis. And he proposed no solution…he instead used his daughter’s sacred story to make himself look like a hero. It’s disgusting. The truth is that while we are just a family…just a different kind of miracle, the process took 18 months of exhaustive paper work, waiting, background checks, waiting, recos from friends and family, classes, waiting, and wiped out our savings both times. Many people have to go to churches or charities to raise the fees to be able to make their sons and daughters a part of their family. 148 Million kids…and McShame’s proposed solution is….”oh it’s simple; if everyone would just go out and become a multimillionaire with political influence, then they too could circumvent the whole agonizing paperwork process, and the more agonizing waiting, and just cut back on their shoe budget or not put gas in their jet for a couple of months to pay the $20K+ in fees.” And now to hear they lied about her full story for political game. Disgusting.

5. Bill | 08.21.08

Mrs. McCain plays fast and loose with the truth just like her husband and the rest of the Republicans. Check out her personal family recipes, recipes that can be found in most cookbooks or ingredient boxes or in magazines. I’m would be surprised if Mrs. McCain could even FIND the kitchen in any of her seven homes much less cooks in them. Doesn’t everyone have “staff” to do that for them?

I’m sure one of her personal employees met with Mother Teresa sometime before she died or they talked to someone that read about her and that was as good as a personal invitation from Mother Teresa to “rescue” her new daughter.

6. Lor | 08.21.08

Mother Teresa???!!! The very same Mother T who came to Phoenix on the jet of Charles Keating and squired around by him. Remember the Keating Five? That Keating. John McCain’s never mentioned Keating Five scandal.

7. Lou R | 08.21.08

The McCain story is appearing to be one of embellishment. Such stories are easily accepted by the trusting and uninformed. McCain has talked about his lack of internet savvy and this is where the informed are being informed. Also, he is sounding more like Bush, always saying something different regarding the same statement. Gaffes are a regular along the McCain campaign trail and they seem o get better each day.

8. Ken Duerksen | 08.21.08

McCain;s website reports a personal consultation with Mother Theresa that turns out to be fictional; McCain plagerizes a powerful spiritual anecdote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn on national TV; McCain derides his opponent for “elitism” and arugulophagy while flitting between his own 10 condos and mansions and wearing $540 loafers.

How long can this shameless liar remain viable - even for a gutter-level organization like the GOP?

9. Niels | 08.21.08

There is one more story that has changed over the years and that is John McCain’s knowledge of the arrival of Bridget and Leela (the girl who was adopted by McCain aide Wes Gullet and his wife).

In most current accounts John McCain claims he had no prior knowledge of their arrival, as he did in dadmag.com in April 2006.

He was asked: You knew about your wife’s decision before hand?

McCain: (laughs) No. She arrived and said “Say hello to your new little daughter.”

While an article in the Arizona Star from December 25, 1991 says: The senator didn’t learn he was about to become a father again until his wife called from Bangkok, Thailand.

While the first story is already absurd and against common and ethical adoption practice, the fact the story has shifted over time, makes me question if this story is invented to cover up John McCain’s use of political influence to get Bridget to the US, circumventing proper procedures.

I wrote a longer account about this case on my own website: http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/20784

10. No Matter | 08.21.08

GOP = liars. The only people who vote Republican are multi-millionaires, billionares, and suckers. If that old person was willing to give money to a Republican, she got what she should have expected and can’t complain now.

11. No Matter | 08.21.08

Oh, and Mother Theresa collaborated with the Nazis. Look it up.

12. Zela | 08.22.08

He’s a liar, she’s a liar and it will all be revealed before November. John has never been honorable, he’s opportunistic. As he said Saturday, he didn’t know the war would last another 3 years. He would have come home, but he thought he could take a few more days and use that as clout the rest of his life.

He married a young rich girl, so he could reap the benefit of her money. Now he wants to be the President so he can start WWIII and go down in the history books as knowing how to win a war. And remember that he’ll do it with your drafted children.

People think.

13. t-bone | 08.22.08

McSame: My biggest moral failing was the breakup of my first marriage.

The Follow-up question a competent journalist would ask: You consider that a bigger moral failure than helping Charles Keating and Neil Bush cheat hardworking Americans out of their life savings and then sticking taxpayers with the bill for the S&L bailout?

14. Josey | 08.23.08

Re: “Oh, and Mother Theresa collaborated with the Nazis. Look it up.”

Looked it up and couldn’t find any evidence of it. If you’re going to post outlandish claims, make sure you have your facts straight and post supporting links.

15. jodie | 08.23.08

This is not the first lie or the last that mccain will tell, he is a pathalogical liar. He will say anything to get elected and journalism needs to hold his feet to the fire.

Mc cain is more of the same failed republican policies of taking from the poor and giving it to the rich.
The same policies of giving tax breaks to corps. who close down jobs in america so they can make maximum profits.

We will never have decent health care or potection of our jobs if we let republicans rule again

16. Sylvia Replogle | 08.24.08

Well, as for Mrs. McCain, I say some good is better than no good. My, my, the Christian Science Enquirer has arrived.

17. Jill | 08.31.08

I think the real tragedy in these comments is that any of us believe anything that any politician says. Check the record: they all lie, embellish, forget, stretch the truth, make a better story, whatever. ALL OF THEM. This is one completely non-partisan venue. Blindly voting for any politician is like believing in a fairy tale: there will always be a wicked witch, 40 ogres, and a dragon. The real trick is deciding which flawed and human hero or heroine should try to save the day. But remember, no one party can fix anything. We have to vote with eyes open and, to some degree, a wise but forgiving heart.

18. Honest Mom | 09.02.08

As an adoptive parent, my daughter has asked us to retell her adoption story many, many times. It’s a story we treasure. I would cut my arm off before I ever embellished any part of our experience for political gain!

In a time of war and economic distress, I want to hear the truth. The McCain’s can only say what they think people want to hear and what flatters them the most.

No, thank you.

19. Josh | 09.05.08

I am also an adoptive parent, and think Nancy (comment #4) got it exactly right. The McCain self-celebration is repulsive.