David Catron: The Audacity of Slander — OIbama tells whopper after whopper, then calls McCain a liar
David Catron: “The truth is that McCain is the only presidential candidate from either party who called for tighter regulation of the mortgage giants before the current crisis. On May 26, 2006, McCain signed on as a co-sponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act. This bill, which would have established precisely the kind of oversight that Obama allegedly favors, was eventually killed by the Democrats. His official statement on that occasion shows that HE [MCCAIN] WAS AS PRESCIENT ABOUT THE MORTGAGE CRISIS AS HE WAS ABOUT THE IRAQ SURGE.”
John McCain, in 2006: “IF CONGRESS DOES NOT ACT, AMERICAN TAXPAYERS WILL CONTINUE TO BE EXPOSED TO THE ENORMOUS RISK THAT FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC POSE TO THE HOUSING MARKET, THE OVERALL FINANCIAL SYSTEM, AND THE ECONOMY AS A WHOLE.”
David Catron: “Obama’s whoppers about McCain’s positions on health care, Social Security, and the mortgage crisis do not by any means exahust his repertoire of mendacity. He still tells the stretcher about McCain’s willingness to stay in Iraq ‘for 100 years,’ he hasn’t stopped misrepresenting the ‘$5 million’ joke, and he continues to distort McCain’s positions on Afghanistan and immigration. Most ironically, he lambastes the Republican nominee for ‘lying.’ Now that’s true audacity.” — David Catron.