Post carries Obama’s water

Yesterday, the Washington Post tried to make an issue out of Sarah Palin’s expense reimbursments, although those reimbursements were perfectly legal under Alaskan State law. Today, the Post try to say that the McCain/Palin ticket have built their surge in the polls on lies. Once again, the attention deficit crowd who  doesn’t read the entire story, willfind more red meat for their delusions.

The Post tries to defend Obama against supposed lies told by the McCain/Palin ticket about Obama raising everyone’s taxes;

Palin and John McCain, the GOP presidential nominee, have been more aggressive in recent days in repeating what their opponents say are outright lies. Almost every day, for instance, McCain says rival Barack Obama would raise everyone’s taxes, even though the Democrat’s tax plan exempts families that earn less than $250,000.

Further in the story, the Post admits that Obama will raise everyone’s taxes;

The claim that Obama will raise taxes is based on his support this year of a Democratic budget resolution that envisions all of President Bush’s cuts expiring on schedule in 2011, a move that would indeed raise rates for everyone who pays income taxes.

Funny how that works…McCain says Obama will raise taxes, and there’s evidence that he will, but the Post says it’s a lie because Obama says it’s a lie.

After pounding on the “Bridge to Nowhere” story and defending Obama from the tax-hike charges for two pages, the Post crams in two paragraphs at the very end of the article about blatant lies told by the Obama campaign, hoping their weary readers would lose interest and not quite make it that far…but they can still point to the inclusion as proof of their unbiased reportage;

Obama and the Democratic National Committee asserted for months that McCain wanted to keep U.S. troops fighting in Iraq for 100 years, when, in fact, the context of McCain’s 100-year statement was a comparison to U.S. bases in Japan and Germany. McCain explicitly said the troops would be there only if the country was at peace and there were no casualties associated with their presence.

A McCain quote Obama has often used — that the economy is fundamentally sound — is months old. Since he said that, McCain has said almost daily that the economy is struggling. As for exaggerations, Obama said yesterday that he had supported a measure in the Illinois Senate to double the number of charter schools in Chicago. In fact, he was one of 14 state senators co-sponsoring a non-controversial measure that passed unanimously.

In fact a quick perusal of the comments section of the article proved my point;

la-mute wrote:
THIS WOMAN IS READY TO DO ANYTHING and say the most obvious lies to hang on to this absolutely surreal happening !

I guess that commenter didn’t make to the last two paragraphs where his candidate is ready to “say the most obvious lies”. It is indeed surreal.

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