Them lies don't tell themselves

Maybe it's because everyone's so in awe of John McCain being a prisoner of war that no one feels like they can call him out on his bullshit when he exploits his time in the Hanoi Hilton (which he does plenty) for political gain. Earlier this year, it was claiming that he recited the defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers under interrogation when, in fact, he had written in his book that it was the Green Bay Packers' offensive line. Now, it's some little story about seeing a 'cross in the dirt' when he was a POW that gave him strength.

Nice little story, except that it's eerily similar to a story the late Alexander Solzhenitsen wrote in "The Gulag Archapelago". Given that McCain never started pushing the story until later on in his political career, it's pretty clear that he's pushing another little lie in order to score some cheap points with the religious crowd. What's worse? Having other veterans come out and cover McCain, even though they are known members of the shady 527 political action committees, including the infamous 'Swift Boat' group of liars from 2004.

But none of this matters, of course, because John McCain is an honorable man.

Not.

Pure, unadulterated bullshit

Anyone who knows my politics knows that I am about as big an anti-religion person as it gets when it comes to the involvement of faith in politics. That being said, America is the last developed country that lets religion play an inexcusably large role in its politics - and explains why both Barack Obama and John McCain took time to visit another evangelist pastor, Rick Warren, to go talk about their beliefs.

What's more of a farce is that the whole thing was unbiased, though. Both candidates were asked the same questions, but with Obama going first, McCain was supposed to be under a 'cone of silence' (what the hell kind of term is that, anyways) - in other words, he and his advisers were under the honor code in not watching the questions ahead of time when they were posed to Obama. Republicans, being the amoral kind of people they tend to be when it comes to politics, didn't obey the rules...which explains why McCain answered the questions before they were even asked. Given that he finished 5th from bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, it's not really much of a surprise that he would cheat.