Forget the Obama/Hillary question for a moment, the DNC has been attacking John McCain for some time now. For weeks now Howard Dean has been warning of McCain, "he's promising nothing more than a third Bush term." Now after the NY Times implied McCain had an affair with a lobbyist (they've now admitted their own inappropriate behavior) they are going for the kill by filing a complaint over his effort to withdraw from the matching funds program.

McCain said "We're doing exactly what Howard Dean did in a previous election and what the FEC ruled in the case of Congressman Gephardt."

Joe Sandler, General Counsel for the DNC said in a DNC email, "But that's a lie -- John McCain isn't doing what Governor Dean and Congressman Gephardt did at all." They offer as proof his letter from the FEC (pdf) approving his withdrawal. All that proves is the FEC approval, it does not tell us anything about the events of the roughly 7 weeks from the date of his request or other events leading up FEC approval. Is Dean showing his hypocrisy? I think so:

What did his opponents say?

Howard Dean and the DNC are lying, even in their complaint. The complaint states:

As I pointed out yesterday, the bank that furnished his loan said "the loan terms specifically excluded from the collateral any potential share of public matching funds McCain was entitled to receive."

Case closed, the DNC is wrong. McCain notified the FEC of his intentions just as Dean did. His problem is there aren't enough commission members to hold a vote to release him from his request, but the DNC and Dean are outright lying.

Is that what politics has come to in this country? Are the Dems afraid to run against a well-financed Republican? Do these people not know about the internet and what we can find out there to remind us of their past? Do they even care, or is winning everything?

BABRAM

Dean, Gephardt, etc... IMO, are rolling in the mud with one "Bill Clinton." There is this lingering Democratic sneakiness that started in the late 1980's. Edwards though, sincerely for the most part, I think is on the up and up. What I found interesting is that in last nights debate Obama chose not to go after McCain, with exception to Republicans in general perhaps once, maybe twice. Perhaps he will on follow-up today. Obama will, of course, provided he gets the nomination, debate McCain on schedule and both sides will run general election ads. Obama's campaign success is making the Clinton regime, in general the DNC, re-think their politics as usual nastiness, fund raising issues, etc... But let's not fool ourselves here, the Republicans attempt cut-throat silly campaign measures trying to keep up with the DNC. One recent speaker trying to hit upon Barack Obama's middle name being "Hussein," followed up by McCain not being aware of the actions. Whatever? Like we are naive to the ploy. So what that his middle name is Hussein. His first name "Barack," in Hebrew spelled Barak, translates to "lightening." He's not even of the Muslim religion. Or for another example: the NY Times, old news, giving legs to the idea that John McCain stuck his tongue down a lobbyist throat is rather "no news," in my opinion. I have enough reasons not to support John McCain based on pressing issues.

NeedKarma

More stuff to know about McCain:
Things You Should Know About Senator John McCain « Lighthouse Patriot Journal

RickJ

Sites like that are abundant. There's no shortage of them about any candidate. Unfortunately the majority of them are bent.

NeedKarma

Agreed. But if it's about Democrats or Liberals you can bet Speech finds them and posts them.

RickJ

haha, I confess that I would too if I were not an Administrator here

It's nearing time for me to break out one of my favorite avatars

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NeedKarma

Sorry, dude, just lost a little respect for you if you would spend your day, every day, attacking another group.

RickJ

I wouldn't go that far.

I admit too that every one of them has things they believe, things they've done and things they plan to do that they'd prefer the public not know.

Since a write-in will never win, all we can do is pick from who we think is best....from the options none of which are perfect.

speechlesstx

Bobby, no doubt it's going to get uglier before it gets better...if it gets better. McCain apologized for Cunningham's remarks, which in turn irritated Cunningham.

tomder55

As Cunningham correctly pointed out there was no issue when Jon Stewart called him during the Academy Awards Iraq Hussein Osama. lol

Look ; I think the Dems are hypocrites on this issue for sure . But McCain set himself up to this by his high and mighty attitude about campaign finance reform. He "reached across the aisle " to come up with his mostly unconstitutional McCain-Feingold Law ;and now he is reaping what he sowed.

It would almost serve him right if Obama were to forgo public financing restrictions while he were forced to comply with them to the letter of the law. The fact that so many of the candidates have bowed out accepting public financing just proves how flawed the law really is.