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A Geeky Side of Bush's Legacy that Must Be Overcome

Jaron Lanier | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Iraq War, Lies, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Waste, Dotcom Boom, Bush Legacy, Politics News

Part of the project of climbing out of the deep, deep pit George W. Bush tossed our nation into has a geeky quality. We need to learn to stop using computers to lie to ourselves.

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A Tale of Two Attacks on Campaign Volunteers

Disgrasian | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

As we said before, committing physical violence against someone who holds a different opinion from your own is reprehensible and not to be tolerated under any circumstances.

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Keith Olbermann Has A New Worst Person: Robin Hayes (R-NC)

Howie Klein | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robin Hayes, Larry Kissell, Political Extremism, Cafta, North Carolina, Lies, Congressional Elections, Election 2008, Politics News

If any member of Congress personifies a willingness to sell out his constituents' economic interests for the sake of special interests, it is Robin Hayes.

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Why Obama Can't Shake McCain

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Rumors, snopes.com, John Kerry, Lies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George W. Bush, B Arack Obama, Michael Dukakis, AP Poll, Myths, Presidency, John McCain, Politics News

That nagging AP poll hints at something that has bedeviled the Obama campaign from day one, and that's the inability to put McCain away. How could that happen?

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Top 10 Lies, Non-truths, Half-truths, Stretches, Reaches and Fibs Proving McCain Will Say Anything to Be President

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

This is a compilation of statements and allegations made by McCain or campaign surrogates that have been refuted, supported by the proof that they are mostly, partially, or completely false.

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Can You Catch McCain-Palin Getting It Right?

Carl Pope | Posted 10.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Green, Nuclear Energy, Lies, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News

The McCain-Palin ticket gets basic facts about energy and the environment (and their own records) wrong so consistently that I'm issuing a challenge to illustrate the point.

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Did McCain Compare Obama to a Nazi?

Jairus Grove | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Karl Rove, Obama, Smear, Keating Five, Home News

Yesterday, John McCain, rather than responding to the factual claims regarding his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal, engaged in the lowest form of...

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Mavericks to Nowhere

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Lies, God, Sue Katz, Sarah Palin, Truth, Politics News

Sarah Palin makes vague claims to have gay friends -- and no one can find any of them anywhere, alive, dead or in print.

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Why Is Palin Such a Good Liar For God?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Dominion Theology, Lies, Palin, Evangelical Voters, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Evangelicals, Politics News

As we close in on the 2008 election, the increasingly desperate Republicans will do what they have learned to do best: court the sincere but misinformed Evangelical voters by lying to them.

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Frank Demolishes O'Reilly: "Your Stupidity Gets In The Way Of Rational Discussion"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, Lies, Barney Frank, Bill O'Reilly, Fox, Politics News

Barney Frank just demolished Falafel Bill O'Reilly on "The Factor." It was a thing of beauty from the start, and peaked when Frank told O'Reilly that...

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John McCain: Suffering from Irregularity

Justin Frank | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Mccain Senile, Bi-Polar Disorder, Deregulation, Lies, George W Bush, Lying, John McCain, Politics News

John McCain lurches from plan to plan, from statement to statement, from action to action. His behavior reminds me of my most manic patients when I w...

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Most Americans Know Very Little About Political Issues

Dawn Teo | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Campaign Smears, Lies, Bush Administration, Bush Policies, John McCain; Barack Obama; Obama Biden; Sarah Palin, Propoganda, Political Culture, Election 2008, McCain Sunni, Democrats, Mccain Spain, Republicans, Home News

Few of my fellow Obama supporters understand what's happening outside of their own circle of friends and families. But Democrats can't win an election by thinking that all voters have the information that we have.

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Every Day a Little Death: The Five Stages of Democratic Grief

Ellis Weiner | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, Voter Fraud, Five Stages of Grief, Depression, Imbeciles, Pow, Stages of Death, Mccain, Rapture, Pit Bull, Democrats, Election, Idiots, Bush, Acceptance, Anger, Denial, Gall, Dems, Grief, Palin, Morons, Republicans, Bargaining, Manipulation, Rove, Kubler-Ross, Politics News

2. Depression: Who am I kidding? McCain winning is a nightmare and the one thing you can't do in a nightmare is "accept" it. What am I doing to do -- leave the country? Ridiculous.

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FactCheck.Org Skewers McCain Again for Misrepresenting Obama Tax Positions

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.19.2008 | Home

Read More: US Economy, Lies, John McCain, McCain Distortions, Economy, John McCain Campaign Ads, Anti-Obama Ad, McCain Campaign Strategy, Factcheck.org, Home News

By Stephen C. Rose When John McCain is confronted on his lies and distortions, his mumbled code word is "business" -- Corleone-like, head lowered. ...

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Republicans Prefer Fiction

Christopher Fink | Posted 09.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Bear Stearns Bailout, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Stock Market, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, GOP 2008, Recession, Republicans, Foreclosure Crisis, Home News

When the financial crisis hit this week, the media swiftly declared that dealing with such a reality helped Obama and the Democrats. McCain was on the defensive because actual issues, such as the economy, had taken the spotlight away from pigs with lipstick.

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Sarah Palin, by the Numbers

Daniel Kurtzman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Sarah Palin may lie, but numbers don't. Her record speaks for itself: 2007: the year in which Sarah Palin first obtained a passport (Source) 312: th...

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9/11 and the GOP's False Sense of Security

David Quigg | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Lies, John McCain, Richard Clarke, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Sarah Palin, 9/11, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, John Mccain Terrorism, Politics News

Our safety depends on us acting together. And our shared action depends on a basic shared understanding that it is far too soon to claim "never again."

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Limbaugh Claims Obama Faked Books And Life

John K. Wilson | Posted 09.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Lies, Rush Limbaugh, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Smears, Limbaugh Obama Books, Limbaugh Smears, Limbaugh Obama, Limbaugh Post Empiricism, Limbaugh Facts, Obama Dreams of My Father, Limbaugh Say Anything, Home News

Limbaugh says Obama "hasn't lived a life long enough to write two chapters," let alone two books and that the books were "written to hide and disguise who Obama is." Limbaugh's listeners no doubt believe every word.

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How Obama Should Respond to McCain's Lying (Part II)

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lying, Afghanistan, Iraq, John McCain, Barack Obama, Lies, Mccain Lies, Politics News

The strategy of tying a culture of lying to failed policies tears asunder the connections McCain-Palin lies are making with the electorate.

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More Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Please

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

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Her performance was so strong and so well focused that it would be foolish not to immediately send her out on the campaign trail and/or to as many television interviews as she can squeeze into her schedule.

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Alaska Does Not, In Fact, Supply 20% of the Nation's Energy

David Roberts | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Energy, Lies, John McCain, Alaska, Natural Gas, Sarah Palin, Politics News

This assertion from the McCain/Palin campaign is demonstrably false, based on U.S. government sources. It's been debunked several times. And yet they keep repeating it.

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Political Lies and American Democracy

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Swiftboating, Lies, Corporate Media, Lies in Politics, Mccain Lies, 2008 Election, Politics News

One function of a free press in a self-governing society is to tell the truth, which is why those who embrace a strategy of political lying make a concerted effort to denigrate the credibility of the press.

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McCain Is No Longer A Knight-Errant, But An Errant Knight

Bart Motes | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Lies, Lies, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, John McCain Lies, Politics News

Mark McKinnon quit the McCain campaign when Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination because of his respect for Senator Obama. Now we know why he felt the need to do so.

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McCain Campaign Lie Strategy -- Will It Work?

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, Marketing, John McCain, John McCain Lies, Politics News

The McCain campaign is being called out on some of the lies they have been telling. The campaign spokesman says that they are in this to win and don'...

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Friday Talking Points [47] -- Our First Anniversary

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

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Surprise! It's our first anniversary column! But before we get to that, I have to pass on this information, in the hopes nobody will get stung by a v...

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