http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/16/203823/008/1013/601053

It was inevitable.  James Taranto of WSJ knows that the current market crisis is an albatross around John McCain’s neck.  Today, he tried his best to deflect attention to the Democratic Party’s vote on a bill which lies at the nucleus of Wall Street’s bloodletting – naming Joe Biden and Harry Reid as having supported that bill, and exonerating John McCain.

Problem is, he is lying.

[Don] Sipple, the Republican strategist, voiced concern that Mr. McCain’s approach could backfire. “Any campaign that is taking liberty with the truth and does it in a serial manner will end up paying for it in the end,” he said. “But it’s very unbecoming to a political figure like John McCain whose flag was planted long ago in ground that was about ‘straight talk’ and integrity.” Source.

Let me get this straight, if he had not run on a principle of integrity, would lieing repeatedly like he has be ok?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

But I can’t think of any precedent, at least in America, for the blizzard of lies since the Republican convention. The Bush campaign’s lies in 2000 were artful — you needed some grasp of arithmetic to realize that you were being conned. This year, however, the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute, and repeating these assertions over and over again.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0914chapmansep14,0,4287762.column

But McCain has concluded that a fact-based case about Obama isn’t enough to prevail in November. So he has chosen to smear his opponent with ridiculous claims that he thinks the American people are gullible enough to believe.

He has charged repeatedly that his opponent is willing to lose a war to win an election. What’s McCain willing to lose to become president? Nothing so consequential as a war. Just his soul.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/15/212231/278

McCain and Palin don’t just lie about big things, like tax policy, Iraq and the economy. They even lie about petty trivialities — any tiny little thing is fair game, if it lets them preen for a moment in front of their audiences.

52 lies and counting, completely fact checked and sourced.