Democrats: McCain reneging on pledge to run clean campaign

Sarah Palin – A Disguised Conspirator against America?

If guilt-by-association becomes a political measure in the presidential race, Sarah Palin would the guiltiest. She is currently roaming around the country on a campaign that is funded by taxpayers parading a man who is an ‘underground’ member of the Alaskan Independence Party. AIP aims to tear America into pieces and walk away with our massive land and rich oil reserves.

AIP creation was inspired by the extremely violent anti-American founder Joe Vogler. The AIP website has a statement by Joe that reads "I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." In 1992 when Vogler renounced his allegiance to the United States he said, "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government." He cursed the stars and stripes and said, "I won't be buried under their damned flag. When Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."

The political career of Sarah was launched by radical right-winger, Steve Stoll and the extremist Mark Chryson who directed the AIP in the 1990s. Both men played a pivotal role in the election of Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. Stoll and Chryson not only contributed to Palin’s campaign financially but played active major roles. As a result, “First Dude” Todd became an active AIP member from 1995 to 2002. While Palin has been careful in her dealings with AIP as she rose through political ranks; she has privately remained in close touch with the organization and its members and leaders. She attended the 1994 and 2000 AIP conventions and in 2006 she was the convention keynote speaker. She did not personally attend the 2008 convention but she recorded and sent a video of greetings and good wishes. She asked the AIP leaders and members to keep up their good work!

Neither Sarah nor Todd has ever denounced Joe Vogler or their association with the AIP. During this campaign, Sarah has remained very silent about this dark side. Based on her own logic, it can be said that she continues to "pal around" with her unpatriotic husband and friends who not only hate America but want to destroy it. Under the same theory of “guilt-by-association,” John McCain can be accused of having a “disguised conspirator” on his ticket. It was a bad judgment of him to select someone with such tarnished background.

Sarah has refused to publicly share her views and opinion about this nation. Her struggle to answer simple questions by Katie Couric is a testament of her inner negative feelings about America. In a follow up interview with Carl Cameron, Sarah surprisingly said, "The Sarah Palin in those interviews with Katie Couric was annoyed.” Then she added, "I did not want to get clobbered.” What was she annoyed of and what was she afraid of being clobbered for? Simply, her longstanding association with the AIP and its members has not only made Sarah an ignorant and bitter person but also a disguised conspirator against our nation. Since the relation between Obama and Ayers has been investigated we the campaign major news media such as CNN, NYT AP and others would investigate Sarah’s association with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party as well its current and former members.

I am a registered Republican. My intention was to vote for John McCain.
But then his VP nominee caused me to reexamine McCain's thinking. His VP pick
along with the obvious lies (even to a Republican) leads me to the fact that this is
NOT someone I want in the White House. I now firmly believe that McCain's
mental health is not what it should be to hold this office. He says one thing on day one, and just the opposite on day 2. I think it's because his memory is shot.
McCain was probably a good man at one time, but not now.

Like Obama kept his agreement about the campaign spending cap. Hypocrites !!

Where have you been???? All McCain wants to know is what most of us want to know, "Who is Hussein Obama"???

Listen MY FRIENDS, slight change in priorities, instead of our Country First logo, we are changing it to "Let's whip up hysteria and hatred and make average unwilling to be educated Americans into Blood-thirsty Zombie Freaking Racists to try to elect me President" First
What a bunch of idiots you all are at your pathetic rallies

McCain's slide into demagoguery and hate mongering is despicable.

McCann has an absolute right to enlight the American people of Obama's radical past. One thing McCann has not mentioned: Obama wrote in his first book about Frank Marshall Davis and that he and Frank visited in Hawaii, read poetry, and that Frank was full of hard earned knowledge and advise. Obama also wrote that Obama attended socialist conferences. The American people have to right to know that Obama has a man as mentor who was a member of the communist party subservient to the Soviet Union. Obama is a liar, a thief (he's got ACORN stealing voter registrations: they even registered the entire Dallas football team as residents of Nevada; that state's attorney general found this out when his staff searched Las Vegas' ACORN office. ACORN is illegally registering illegal voters, dead people, felons, etc. in a number of states and will use those names to vote for Obama. Obama is not only attempting to steal the election with the milions upon millions of contributions from foreign govts. and foreign organizations but he is lying his was to the White House. Americans, remember Germany in the 30s and 40s and how their citizens were brainwashed and what occurred. Obama is dividing our nations as it has never before been divided. He would strip this country of democracy. I've recently heard from people so very angry that they are seriously considering moving to another country (and this ain't Hollywood, folks). I myself would like to see my state leave the union if Obama is elected.

I am so disappointed in McCain--I am broad minded but he really is running a very nasty, dirty campaign. Cindy needs to keep her mouth shut too. She is also ugly acting. I admire Obama for trying to be a better man than McCain. He shows leadership and is honerable.

John and Cindy McCain, Sarah Palin, you are what's wrong with this country, you should be ashamed of your campaign, it is disgusting and so are the freaks who act like medieval idiots who go around burning books and go on witchhunts.
You need to leave this country NOW if we have any chance of turning this country around and acting like the civilized country we claim to be.

As an Asian American voting the State of Virginia. I believe the media is bias toward Hussain Barrach Obama. When over 90% of blacks vote for Obama, I call that racism. The media is not fair at all. Shame on you.

Since when has McPalin's word meant something?

This is sad but even more serious is the hatred that McCain and Palin are stirring up among fringe groups. I remember the civil rights movement and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. I am a southerner and I know all too well what these people are capable of. I hope that Obama has more than adequate security.

Isn't Obama the guy that also said he wasn't going to run a negative campaign?

Hmmm....I don't think I have ever seen an Obama ad where he isn't attacking McCain. So I don't get it.

McCain should be ashamed of himself--not only for his own lies about Obama, but for that Alaskan pitbull he has serving as his enforcer in other states.

First pledge did not even make it till the election ...oh yeah you can trust this man.
After Bush and their relations with the house of Saud for 30 years (remembering that 13 of 18 terrorist there) and we should be worried about Bill Aters. Give me a break. Its laughable if it were not so sad .He does not even have the judgement for the position he has in the senate.

At the beginning of the 2008 general election, McCain and Cindy both announced to the world: "I will run a clean campaign, I will stick to the issues" (John McCain) and, "we will run a clean campaign, we will still with the issues" (Cindy McCain). It is clear McCain, Cindy, Palin and their campaign cannot tell the difference between the issues and personal attacks. But it is also very clear John McCain, Cindy, Palin, and their campaign are HUGE liars and are not to be trusted. It is not surprising, as John has gone back and forth, first he is for something and then he is not. And on and on he goes. ERRATIC AND UNSTABLE!!!

Obama is the dirty one. His should not have been nominated in the first place because he is someone who is not always proud to be an American; wants America to lose the war and wants USA to become just "one of" an UN country.

McCain & Palin are clean. It is the liars like the slanted media and Democrats who say his campaign is unclean.
Palin has every right to right to point out the issue of lack integrity & judgement of someone who wants to swear to "honor and defend the constitution" which he already is dishonoring and mocking by his past actions.

Thi

I think the McPalin campaign is despicable. If McCane would reneg on "running a clean campaign" then that makes him a liar. I wouldn't trust him and his out-of-control running mate to run this country ever. I've never seen such desperation in a campaign. You know what?? McCane can dig up all the dirt he wants on Obama but Obama will still win. Look what the republicans have done to this country and McCane will follow in Bush footsteps. His choice for a running mate is scary too. That certainly says something about McCanes judgement.

In the blog "The Daily Beast," Republican conservative and writer Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley has announced that he has decided to vote for Barack Obama for President. Citing McCain's temperament and recent erratic behavior and calling his latest attacks, "mean spirited and pointless," he has decided to break with his party. Buckley thinks that Obama has a "first class intellect" and says, "(Obama) is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for." I think ALL Americans, conservative, moderate or liberal, would be well served by emulating Mr. Buckley's careful analysis and remembering, as he cautions, "that we are all in this together."

McCain is a lying sleazebag demagogue.

For those of you idiots supporting him, feel free to look up the word 'demagogue' instead of embracing ignorance.

Some of you posting who support McCain don't even know the candidate's freaking name. It's not McCann, it's McCain and he's becoming quite ugly in all this hatemongering.

Those people who are asking "Who is Hussein Obama"?, in a frenzy, have already madeup their mind on what should be the answer, no other answer would satisfy them, so repeating truth, any number of times does not seem to reach them.

McCain is a lying sleazebag demagogue.

For those of you supporting him, feel free to look up the word 'demagogue' instead of embracing ignorance.

Some of you posting who support McCain don't even know the candidate's freaking name. It's not McCann, it's McCain, and he's becoming quite ugly in all this hate-mongering. I, too, fear for Obama's safety. What kind of civilized society and 'good' country do we live in if one candidate can pretty much start firing up potential assassination direction? This isn't Pakistan or something--it's the good ol' USof A. And it's dying a little now.

John McCain will do anything except make sense in a level headed way appropriate for a presidential candidate. I half expect him to start flinging feces at his opponents any day now.

Hey, John! How about the world financial collapse you and "King George the Worst" have helped to cause? How about "leadership" - ever hear of that as a strategy?

The thought of McCain in the white house is not that he will be "more of the same". McCain is emotionally unstable and likely to be worse than Bush has been. And policies? Well, that depends on which moment's impulsive comments of his you want to reference. Does he actually have policies? - or only petty accusations and character assassinations?

He's coming unwound! Don't let him anywhere near the white house! And, definitely don't ever let him get his finger on the red button for national defense!
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Palin ~ Direct evidence of McCain's poor judgement!

I'm glad to read so many of you here get it. McCain/Palin's rallies remind me of video clips of irrational hate group's large gatherings. Some attending these must know the atmosphere is full of misdirected hate and anger. Where's their conscience?

The man who stood up yesterday at a McCain rally who was quite angry about the Socialists taking over, LOL, and dumbfounded as to how Obama could be ahead, must read a narrow selection of news.

Republicans are surprised that Obama's leading? Are you kidding me? Do you really think voters have forgotten the last 8 Bush years and that McCain wants to continue many Bush policies?

How can any informed voter ignore that the Repubs. and their incompetent leader , Bush, are responsible for this mess? If the GOP had any idea how to solve our problems, they'd have tried, right?

On the Obama is guilty by association "issue", McCain is obviously desperate since these allegations were investigated during the primaries. If McCain had any new valid, (or misleading), information about Obama, it'd be in the headlines.

This is just the latest GOP way to discredit all perceived opponents like Obama and the media. Kill the messenger, scream elite media bias all you want. The media reporting the truth isn't "Gotcha journalism". You don't like the truth so you deny & condemn without concern for honesty or respect for voters.

The GOP fear mongers don't care that a Palin Presidency is one of many voters greatest fears! The main talent she seems to have is getting gullible people angry and upset and bringing out all kinds of crazy fringe groups. Palin is devisive and so arrogant, she hasn't a clue she's not qualified to be VP.

I for one, don't want another President who's comfortable with killing in any shape or form!

I am a Republician and i am very disapointed in McCain with all this negative. This does not do one thing for our country but tear it apart. I read these post everyday and i cant belive the stuff i hear my own Republician's saying. There is so much hate in this campaign and from what i read the most of it is from the Republicians. I have been a Republician for 30 years and this year is the dirtiest I've seen my Party campaign. When i watch McCain debate all i see is attacks on Obama he spends the whole 90 minutes attacking him. I ask my self why does he not talk about the things he wants to do to help our country, why he dont talk to the americian people and explain why he is the better man. More in next post
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Hey #17, what are you talking about? Palin is clean? What about her association with with AIP. This AIP want Alaska to leave the union and become its own country. How come you won't talk about that? Its true. This last March she even told them to keep up the good work. Is this what you want in the White House? A secessionist? Why are you not yelling about this? Oh, I know, she is a Republican. That figures.

From my 1st post the rest now. All i see is attacks, I wish he would stop this dirty campaign and start talking to the people. I feel when he chose Palin to be his V.P choice he was not thinking about the country, It does not take an idiot to realize she is 3 bubbles shy of level. It is a scary thing picturing her taking control of the highest office if he passes away. With this i am really starting to doubt the man and thinking of voting for the other side. As i watch him i see him with the silliy little smirk on his face thinking i just want to win the office so i can be president. This is very scary he even admitted he knows nothing about economy and still he is acting like he knows it all. If he dont stop he is going to loose my vote..

From my perspective it seems that we really need to answer the question, "Who is John McCain." The word "erratic" does seem to describe the positions he's taken over the past several months (economic strength, tax proposals, etc..) and the things he's said about how he plans to run his campaign. John McCain's judgment is, in my view, increasingly suspect.

I 've questioned McCain's judgment ever since he made the comment about Chelsea Clinton during a 1998 republican senatorial fund raiser ("Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father was Janet Reno"). A wise man would not say that type of thing about an 18 year old girl.

We've seen the same types of attempts at character assasination, guilt by association, and misinformation before - McCain's tactics look increasingly like the tactics used by another senator with the McC last name - Joe McCarthy in the 1950's. Instead of focusing on important national and international issues (which McCain is typically pretty good at) he's using scare tactics to drum up support.
In some of his rallies he is allowing people to say things which are dangerous, inappropriate, and dishonorable - all because the ends apparently justify the means.
Great leaders need to lead by example - John McCain is showing us his stuff and it's not very wise, not honorable, and not the kind of leadership this country needs in difficult times.

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The problem is Obama is so slick and comes off so smooth, he sounds reasonable. This is a problem because of what he and the democrats have done in the past few years. Denying something over and over, does not equal truth. especially when you can search the internet (youtube) and see the evidence of their fraud.

For example, McCain points out the democrats and Obama's setup of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for failure and their responsibility as they refused any attempt at controlling the GSE's. for years The result being they were financially mis-managed such that they are the center of the global financial meltdown. Sounds really bad, but it's true. They blame Bush for the downturn, but the reality is, the democrats, starting with Carter, advanced by Clinton and defended by Franks and Dodd are in the center of this mess. Search youtube and find the videos, it's not hard.

So McCain, comes across as breaking his promise. But the truth of the matter is, through direct and indirect means the Democrats are lying through their teeth.

Put another way, 2 years ago, voters voted for change and boy did they get it.
- The worst financial meltdown in a generation
- The worst congress in a generation - Do Nothing, shrill and full of themselves. Thanks Harry. Thanks Nancy for proving just how badly the job could be done.

To signup for 4 more years of this, just vote the fools back in. If you think it' bad now. Just wait till they have no restraint.

Be afraid. Be very very afraid

@Thomas Tan

There is no candidate named "Hussain Barrach Obama" running in this election. Please don't cry about racism when your post contains thinly-veiled jabs. As an Asian-American, I am ashamed of you.

As our financial world is crumbling the last thing we need to see or hear is more negatives! Which ever side your for....GREAT.....Let's just talk about how awesome it is that we are going to see record number of voters out for this election. Oh what a Glorious Day that will Be!!

In response to Dan, where he said he has never seen Obama where he isn't attacking McCain, my guess would be you have been cheery picking your viewing material. Obama avoids even mentioning McCain by name at most of his speeches, and if stating that you disagree with somebody or feel their policy is off base is "attacking" someone, then you and I have very different ideas of what a real attack is.

Reading some of the ignorant responses makes me ashamed to be an American. I'm sorry, but half of you numskulls make me embarrassed to be an American. And if your response is: well, get out of my country. This is my country through blood lines of the natives and the invaders, so I think not. I'm very patriotic, but when I read unintelligent remarks, anti-socialist ideas, non-progressive rhetoric, and obviously veiled racism, I think, come bomb those sons-a-bitches. Those Americans aren't us. Americans are about freedom, liberty, justice, and most importantly equality, but you all rant like small-minded, narrow scoped individuals. You AREN'T US. YOU ARE THEM. You are the TERRORISTS of this country and we don't want you here. Go take your right-winged inferiority complexes and move back to the European nations your ancestors come from. Oh, wait, if you did that, you might learn something from those cultures.

Hey, I don't hear ad hominem attacks against McPain-lin from Obama. Some of what Palin jaws against Obama is really vile. The lies being repeated ad nauseam will never make them true. That stuff is just turning voters off big time. Sure way to ensure a continent slide for the Democrat.

McCain and Palin have sown the wind with their hate speeches against Obama. They are generating an Aryan Nation, Skinhead response that is reminiscent of the Nazi rallies at Nuremburg and our own KKK lynch mobs. Shouts of Traitor, Kill Him! Off with his head! are frequently heard. McCain and his partner in crime are fully aware of the meaninglessness of their charges but it plays well to blood-thirsty rabid supporters who cannot accept McCain's impending defeat. McCain's campaign is a disgrace.

Obama is telling his fans to argue and get in peoples faces if they don't agree with voting for him... What is that about?.. i thought he was this great man telling people to be violent is not a good man.

i hope Obama wins and when things are not going good for him and you start complaining you have no one but you to blame. That would be a big change dem's blaming them self for their mess ups...maybe this will be a good change.

Obama has run a pretty clean campaign. He didn't bring up McCain taking bribes from Keating until McCain went to Ayers garbage. Obama never brought up McCain cheating on his first wife, calling his current wife filthy names, calling Chelsea and Hillary Clinton dirty names. McCain cheating on his wife with women under his command, which any military man knows is very forbidden. McCain giving secrets to the Viet Namese. McCain bombing civilians.

It is a disservice to our country to elect a president who hates the country he wants to lead (his wife isn't proud of it either, preacher hates it, and his fundraisers wish they would bomb it more).

McCain is the lowest of the low. His strategy is to appeal to ignorant, racist, rednecks, for lack of a better description.

What else can you deduce from a group of people who constantly trot out the name "Hussein" like first grade children who do not understand that just because someone has a middle name that is the same as the last name of a terrorist....that does not make him a terrorist!!?? Really. How dim-witted do you have to be to cling to a theory like that? What McCain is doing makes him look like the leader of a KKK rally....and in fact, that it was his rallies have an air of. It makes me sick.

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It's tragic what happened to McCain when he entrusted his campaign to the people who devised these attacks. Palin is a disgrace, and ruined his chances. I am so saddened by this. The Hitleresque tenor of the McCain rallies dawned quite strongly on John McCain himself when he found himself saddened by the comment of the woman who was afraid of Barack Obama because he was an "Arab." You could see it in his demeanor. It was one of the most honest moments of his campaign. How sad it is that John McCain found himself the recipient of such vitriol from his own supporters. I think the selection of Ms. Palin has destroyed his chances.

John McCaine and Sarah Palin are liars.
I cannot understand why so many are still willing to vote them into the highest office knowing that liars are dangerous. The problem with America is that there
are too many who are suffering from a certain kind of blindness which is worse than the dreaded cancer. Like termites at work quietly, you are deviously at work. Yet, every now and then you still manage to get caught when your thought process gets interrupted. The foundation of this country is very shaky because of people like Riley, Hannity, Malkin. The whole "Fox News" crew and many more. You are a scattered nuisance and I am consoled though, when I remember
how very short our lives are. Soon, we must all disappear whether we want to or not into the next dimension. What a waste of GOD given talent and Boy! it's a sigh of relief knowing none of you guys can take that crap along.

Negative adds have an important hidden & dangerous message of no vision & hate.
Negative adds are not just a marketing tool. They tell us that McCain has no vision. History tells us that no vision is dangerous in times om crises. When someone chooses to run 100% negative adds in times when vision is needed.

Guess what happans when USA has a no-vision president he will also seeks negative war like solutions for the USA ?

Only bad leaders and regimes run negative adds and solution. History an China, Old Russia Hitler Germany are endless examples of these conspiracy ennemy and racial solutions. Cynically the intensify when the leader actually needs vision and got stuck. Negative adds show no respect and that is the basis of bad regime like racism.

Good luck and it is your task as a journalist to fight for decency. A lot of people in the world watch and see that USA looses respect amoung the leaders and therefore it is hard to respect the USA. Please USA, show respect and guide us. We need each other. Arnoud

The campaign can only get uglier, the Republicans are losing and they will stop at nothing, NOTHING to retain control of this nation. They have no solutions to your problems or my problems, only low level character attacks and outright lies.
The ads coming from the McCain campaign are 100% negative, and many of them contain half truths and ourtight lies. Obama has to fight fire with fire, but his 30% negative ads don't make up the facts, they are the truth.
The only way to counter these horrible campaign tactics which seem to be the mainstay for the Republican party for as long as I can remember is to vote Obama in by a landslide.

This campaign is bringing out the worst in people. Jesus' message of love never changed even while He was near death.
"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man" - Matthew 15 : 18.
For the non religious, heed master Yoda - “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Chuck

McCain is a disgrace to his country and to the uniform he once wore with pride and dignity. He has descended into racial baiting, feed the very worst elements in his own party, chosen a fool or worse as his VP and put at risk the very country he once served with pride - all in the interest of winning the White House. How cheaply he sold his honor. Like the first George Bush, he choose to buckle to the extremists and far right wing bigots that are fast becoming all that is left of the Republican Party rather than stand up for what he believes (if he ever did believe in anything...). How pathetic for him and the decent people who supported him.