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John McCain: The Straight-Talk Confidence Man

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John Lorenz
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McCain lies about his record. For example, he lied about his support for investigation into the government's mismanaging of Katrina, when in fact he twice voted against an independent commission.

Lie #3

John McCain attacked Barack Obama's opposition to the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which (among other things) called for labeling Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. McCain claims that Obama's opposition to Kyl-Lieberman  means that he also opposed calling the IRGC terrorists. The facts prove otherwise: Obama cosponsored an earlier bill that also called for designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization. The Kyl-Lieberman amendment did more than just label the IRGC terrorists. Obama stated at the time that he opposed the bill on the grounds that it constituted "saber-rattling."

McCain claims that Obama by inference must oppose calling the IRGC a terrorist group because Obama's Web site doesn't say anything about the IRGC. McCain's argument is a glaring example of the logical fallacy of argumentum ad ignorantiam

McCain misrepresents Obama's stand on naming Revolutionary Guard as terrorists.

Lie # 4 "The Liberal Media is biased in favor of Obama"

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