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Sarah Palin's stump speech is chock full of lies -- this is hardly news to anyone who's been paying attention to the campaign -- so it comes as no surprise that she has distorted the facts about Obama's interview with...

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Here's the link to the Chronicle's response:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/03/MNTL13SU6S.DTL&hw=obama+coal&sn=002&sc=479

Her claim that the Chronicle kept the interview secret is completely off the mark, and her respresentation of Obama's position is predictably distorted. ]]> tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk//17.223687 2008-10-12T00:08:34Z 2008-10-12T00:08:34Z

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On the other hand, now that that backlash is here, its tenor is extremely disturbing.  The spectacle of McCain assuring his hysterical supporters that Obama is indeed not an Arab (terrorist), is a US citizen, is a decent man, etc. are the most jarring thing I've ever seen in American politics.  (McCain is of course only trying to douse the flames his own campaign started, and which as other readers have pointed out, his ads continue to stoke.)  This is much worse than the Willie Horton ads; the McCain camp has vilified Obama in a far more direct and vicious manner.  In his desperate attempt to overcome Obama's growing lead and to salvage his amateurish, schizophrenic campaign, McCain has helped bring American politics to a frightening new low.
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