McCain Caught Having People Write Fake Letters To The Editor »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 2 months ago in Political News"I spent a morning in John McCain's Virginia campaign headquarters ghost-writing letters to the editor for McCain supporters to sign. I even pretended to have a son in Iraq."
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Aidenag1 year, 2 months ago
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It's linked in the text before the article, but just in case anyone missed it. Here is the link to the actual evidence showing that this is going on:
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http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2008/09/...
Pretty sleazy tactic really, having people pretend to be military mom's who support McCain, and bash Obama. Then trying to spoon feed these fale letters to the Media in hopes of them passing them on as fact to the American public...-
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Well, a few of McCain's lies are now being addressed by the media.
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The biggest story of the campaign: Bye-bye, Rick Davis?
Mark this day down. Today – last night, actually – the New York Times and Roll Call reported (it's hard to see who was first) what may be the biggest political story of the campaign. How big? John McCain might have to fire his campaign manager. Big enough?
The story is this. The lobbying firm of Rick Davis, the manager, was being paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac until last month. That fact is a direct contradiction of words McCain had spoken Sunday night. At that time, responding to a Times story being prepared for Monday's paper revealing that Davis had been the head of a lobbying consortium led by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae until 2005, McCain said Davis had done no further work for either mortgage giant....
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amervtrn1 year, 2 months ago
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Sounds like more of the same liberal slime tactics mostly by those who have never served the USA in any way.
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Well I guess we now have a clearer view of where the candidate's priorities are. McCain, as he has done most of his life, puts his responsibilities and duties to the USA ahead of personal gain and personal comfort. But then he, as an experienced senior senator, has a connection to the post to which he was elected. Perhaps someone should explain the concept of leadership, honor, duty, and responsibility to Obama. The attitude of" Me above all else" is not a leadership trait. But then, when the Senatorial job is just a stepping stone, what can you say? But then again what could Obama, as a junior inexperienced member of the Senate, have to offer. Another vote present? -
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pderoo11 year, 2 months ago
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I wouldn't doubt if some of these ghost-writers have appeared in our local paper, in a rural area of Michigan. Either that, or the local so-called "Christian" churches are teaching a heckuva lot of hatred these days! Some of the letters in our local paper are hard to even read they're so vile! I can't imagine having that much hate and disdane for another human being that's never even done anything to me. So much for WWJD!
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LADYSMITH081 year, 2 months ago
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LOL...You're not serious! Those letters were to be used as an example letter in case you aren't good at writing in your own words. I get those sort of things from democrats all the time. It looks like you Dems are getting desperate now that McCain is closing the gap in most polls and is way ahead in the STRAW POLLS!
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libby711 year, 2 months ago
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JohnnyQuest1 year, 2 months ago
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Bloggers digging into an anti-Sarah Palin YouTube smear campaign cause a panic for Barack Obama’s astroturfing team.
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Charlson1 year, 2 months ago
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This type of underhanded politics does not surprise me. On another post McBush's Team of Vicious Tricks (TVT) mailed out absentee ballots making the ballot application difficult to correctly fill out or with wrong addresses so that they can be stricken from voter registration and denying their vote to count.
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swvmd1 year, 2 months ago
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Disenfranchising voters is the only thing they have left. And they'll use it again if the last 2 general elections are any indication. If they can keep it close enough to unleash grand scale voter fraud and vote flipping, you can bet what's left of your life's savings they'll do it again!
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
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From McSame's home state-
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http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mcc...
McCain has been getting a free ride on this-
FTA- "The story of "the Keating Five" has become a scandal rivaling Watergate. The outcome will be decided, not in a courtroom, but probably on national television.
Those who survive will be the sociopaths who can tell a lie with the most sincere, straight face. You are especially adept at this."
McCain was directly involved the last great taxpayer buyout of unscrupulous thieves running financial institutions....he has SOME experience in these matters you see, as the bandit, not the police.
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silvera1 year, 2 months ago
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I would expect nothing less from John McCain. He manages to speak out of both sides of his mouth and give us that sickly little smile at the same time.
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I've often suspected that many of the more conservative posters on Propeller are really Republican shills getting paid by the word to regurgitate Fox News sliming points.
A typical profile might read:"I'm an ex Marine, conservative Christian Republican. I served two tours of 'Nam and I'm damned proud to call myself an American". What it should say: "I'm a freshman at Pat Robertson's Regency University and I'm just trying to make a few extra bucks ghost writing this crap". -
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dadmartinez121 year, 2 months ago
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ces1 year, 2 months ago
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dadmartinez ...McCain has spent a lifetime perfecting...lies, cheating, dishonesty, and underhanded corruption, eg.'The Keating Five' he robbed the tax payer then, and he'll rob us again ...'The Lincoln Savings and Loan Scandal.' of the 1980's. just another example, He has no formal education..no college degree...'NADA' please tell the GOV. His greatest accomplishment...he served in the US. Navy...and barely managed to graduate
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at the bottom of his class at # 894 out of a class of 899...there was only 5 other
guys, dummer than he was....yes I guess he has brought a lifetime of 'contributions' to the election! Too bad we can't just say...Thanks but no thanks!!!!
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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I call a fowl of this whole article. See below:
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"Next to commercials and phone banking, writing letters to the editor is the most important method of the McCain campaign to attract voters."
Letters to the editor? First who still reads the papers? Secondly, what papers in the US prints a letter from someone that doesn't support their side? The Milwaukee Journal rarely prints anything contrary to their liberal policy. That is unless it's poorly written, misspelled and difficult to understand. They they might print a conservative piece. But other than that...-
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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Hold on, if the McCain team did this, so what? Isn't this the same thing like when they send out the DNC talking points. Everyone remembers the word: Gravitas. It's a Latin word dating back to the Caesars time. Other than the DNC operatives, no one used that word in centuries in daily conversation. Then in a 24 hour period, you heard it from the Clintons to the New York Times. It was the DNC word of the week. This is the same thing. Only difference, these are grass roots people being asked to write letters, not paid politicians and the media.
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tchef1 year, 2 months ago
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The DNC letters are still written and submitted by real people, not some one pretending to be several people.
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One thing that I do know is my local paper prints letters from both sides and before they print it they call you and make sure that you wrote it. -
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
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It's not illegal, but it is sleazy.
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Sleaze has become synonymous with todays republican party tactics.
As the King of sleaze Rove has said an educated voter is the one demographic he can not manipulate. That is not a point of pride. It's a point of shame. -
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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So does that mean the DNC stops the corruption here in Wisconsin and Illinois? My father, a life long member of the GOP died 20 years ago. Somehow the man has come back to life 4 times since then to vote. Go figure he's registered as a Dem. We've had Votes for Smokes filmed by an ABC affiliate. We've had voter bingo in nursing homes. This is where they get Alzheimer patients to vote absentee by having them sign their names on ballots already filled in with the DNC candidate. Sign and you get a piece of candy. They did this last time here and had my grand mother fill it in but I caught them, filing a complaint with the state. My grandmother was on the county GOP chairman's board for for 30 years. Her high points were meeting Ike and Reagan. The tires of the GOP vehicles helping people get to the polls were slashed by the son of Congress woman Gwen Moore. He was charged but given the lightest sentence possible. There's an effort by her people to have the governor pardon him and remove all of this from his record. There are others too. This is very typical of the DNC operatives we have to deal with here. Most are home grown lefties but many do come from Chicago and New York.
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You want change, let's change the laws. Break campaign rules go to jail for a very long time. Vote illegally, life in prison. Commit this on a huge scale as happens in Chicago, I say public execution. Okay maybe not that far but in the last 2 big elections, we had over 5000 fraudulent votes case. Without them, we would have been a red state.
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bluetexasvalley1 year, 2 months ago
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And now:
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 2 months ago
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Politics is just a really dirty business, our founding fathers tried really hard to prevent corruption and lay out the foundation for a democratic free society. They did not for see in the future that not utilizing the popular vote and putting the electoral vote in place would really screw us over big time.
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Just imagine where this country would be had Al Gore rightly won.
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