McCain misstatements from the last debate:
• Governor Palin a Bresh of freth air.
• Calling Obama ‘Senator Government’.
• Saying Obama voted for Supreme Court Justice Bryer even though he was confirmed 10 years ago, before Obama was in the Senate.
• Promise he would fight for a line-item veto, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1998.
• Hitching onto nuclear subs to show how safe nuclear power is despite this year’s nuclear leak aboard the USS Houston.
• Accusing Obama of breaking the pledge to participate in public campaign financing, knowing that the pledge was always conditional on working out an agreement for same with the Republican nominee.
• Putting the launch of Obama’s political career in Bill Ayers’ living room instead of where it was really launched, a Ramada Inn.
• Claiming Obama earmarked $3 million dollars for an overhead projector rather than a Planetarium projector, for projecting overhead in a planetarium.
• Colombia is not, as claimed by McCain, the number one importer of US agriculture – Canada is.
• In comparing his own mortgage plan, no, it is not the same as Hillary Clinton’s as he proclaimed.
• Botching the central element of Joe Biden’s Iraq plan, not three countries but three divisions of one country.
• On taxes – he said US small businesses pay half of all taxes and US companies pay some of the highest taxes in the world, ”both statements are wrong (from the Washington Post) – more than half of US Corporations paid zero taxes ’96-’00 and most taxes are paid by ordinary citizens.
• McCain claimed Obama, not he, would raise taxes, refuted HIMSELF 25 minutes later by McCain admitting his healthcare plan will tax benefits.
• On abortion – he said he would never impose a litmus test on any nominee to the Supreme Court. Just 2 minutes later – “I would consider anyone in their qualifications, I do not consider someone who has considered Roe v. Wade to be part of those qualifications.” (That sure seems like a litmus test).
- From MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann
