He Cannot Not Tell A Lie
by georgia10
Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 10:31:24 AM PDT
It's fascinating that John McCain lies not only about the big things (his desire to stay in Iraq for decades, his claim that he's a "reformer" when his staff is chock-full of lobbyists, etc.) but he has an uncanny ability to fib even about the most mundane of items--like filing out campaign questionnaires:
John McCain at the NAACP convention today assured a questioner that he will indeed fill out the group's civil rights survey, a comment that prompted a smattering of applause.
"I'll look forward to filling it out," McCain said. "We fill out literally every survey, so I'll be more than happy to do that."
Literally ever survey. Except, as Hotline points out, the Project Vote Smart Survey:
Every survey? Well ... not quite. Rewind to April 10, 2008, when Mother Jones reported that McCain was booted from the Project Vote Smart board for not completing the organization's Political Courage Test. Mother Jones: "PVS contacted the McCain campaign 25 times from June 2007 to February 2008 in the hopes of avoiding the embarrassment this move entails for both the organization and one of its long-time board members."
And as a commenter at Hotline points out, he also didn't fill out the AFL-CIO survey. He also did not respond to the Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire. Or the Human Rights Campaign questionnaire. Or the Oregon Fair Trade questionnaire. Or the American Association of People with Disabilities questionnaire...
You get the idea.
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