In a speech last week at Wake Forest University, McCain said the following:
There is hardly a clearer principle in all the Constitution than the right of private property. There is a very clear standard in the Constitution requiring not only just compensation in the use of eminent domain, but also that private property may NOT be taken for “public use.”
The best part, however, is that McCain’s campaign changed the quote when they posted the transcript, and even edited the video to remove the incorrect statement.
A Clinton political TV ad (which you can see on her website) uses an image of a supposed newspaper article with the headline “Obama attacks Clinton’s gas tax plan”. But if you look closely at the text of the newspaper article, it is actually about Troopergate, an alleged scandal about Arkansas state troopers arranging sexual liaisons for then-governor Bill Clinton. Ouch! Does Hillary really approve of this message?
If the Republicans claim that you can judge Barack Obama by his relationship to Rev. Wright, then what can you make of this? George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna was married on Saturday, officiated by Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell. Caldwell, a longtime religious adviser to Mr. Bush, has endorsed Barack Obama.
In a major speech on the war in Iraq today, presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain said that the Iraqis have split into two factions, Shiites and Sunnis, with a sinister goal in mind.
“My friends, the Iraqis have divided themselves into these two groups for one reason and one reason only,” McCain told an audience in a retirement village in Scottsdale, Ariz. “They are trying to confuse me.”
John McCain claims to be a fighter for ethics reform, but yesterday, Doug Goodyear, the man that John McCain picked to run the Republican National Convention, resigned from that post. Goodyear is CEO of lobbying firm DCI Group that has earned millions lobbying for ExxonMobil, GM, and others. But the reason he resigned is that the cyclone disaster in Myanmar has inconveniently brought to light the fact that the DCI Group was paid $348,000 to run a public relations campaign for the military dictatorship of Myanmar to (among other things) denounce claims by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses.
Unfortunately, Doug Davenport, the the DCI Group person in charge of lobbying, who was directly responsible for the Myanmar PR campaign, is still a regional director for the McCain presidential campaign.
This whole mess is on top of the recent disclosure that at least three of McCain’s top advisors are lobbyists who were successful this February in getting a $35 billion military contract awarded to European plane maker Airbus, bypassing American plane manufacturer Boeing and thus costing the US tens of thousands of jobs. And McCain himself personally intervened to switch the contract from Boeing to Airbus.
From wikipedia: A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious or deeper mind and later actions or attitudes. Subliminal techniques have occasionally been used in advertising and propaganda.
