I heard John McCain was a POW, but he doesn’t like to talk about it.

When did that happen, Jay?

The only fact at issue is whether the aide requested anonymity. After all, the false report that Palin had been to Iraq appeared a lot of places other than the Globe.

Since we have never heard that aide’s name, isn’t that pretty good evidence that the aide DID in fact request anonymity? Are you saying that the UNNAMED aide DIDN’T request anonymity? WHAT ARE YOU CLAIMING ISN’T TRUE?

JT, I love the smell of your desperation in the morning. Ahhhh, smells like…

Victory.

I’ve got to try to remember to stop feeding the trolls. What an idiot.

J.

A little closer reading of the Boston Globe article shows that even the “aides” refuse to go on the record about what they are telling us. Do you trust anyone who won’t sign their name to what they want the Amertican people to believe?

The aide, who demanded anonymity before answering the question, said Palin visited a “military outpost” on the Iraq side of the Kuwait/Iraq border.

Unless they mistakenly refer to Buchenwald as Auchwitz, or refer to the total of Democratic state primaries caucuses (57) as 57 states, because that is obviously a despicable lie, and prima facie evidence that Harvard Summa Cum Laude and Law Review president Obama doesn’t know how many stars there are on the flag.

I can see Russia from here.

I don’t go chasing down every single stupid rumor that someone tosses out, but I remembered the Obama misstatements EVIL STINKING VILE LYING LIES because those came straight from his own mouth, and there was video.

J.

Kerry, on the other hand, was trying to argue that he was right on both occasions. “I actually did vote for the 87 billion before I voted against it.” That’s not flip-flopping, that’s weaseling.

And I’m still curious why you’re so hysterical about a campaign staffer saying something wrong, and Obama’s habit of personally saying things that are demonstrably false are so unremarkable.

I’m inclined to give both the benefit of the doubt, as a general rule. I don’t need to get all hysterical and scream “LIAR LIAR LIAR!” when human beings occasionally act human.

Why do you get overwhelmed with that compunction?

J.

Care to address my previous question instead of moving the goalposts again? Is Sarah Palin a flip-flopper or not? If she’s not, then what was John Kerry re: changing his mind on military force authorization? Why has the GOP nominated a serial flip-flopper to be vice president? Why should America vote for a flip-flopper?

OK, I’m convinced. You’ve convinced me that Barack Obama is a filthy, dishonorable, scheming liar. I’d thought his earlier statements were just innocent slips of the tongue, but now I realize he was just pandering and trying to manipulate his audience and claim, vicariously, the glory and credit to which he is not due. His claim that his parents were inspired to marry by the Selma march was an attempt to hitch himself to the Civil Rights movement. His lie about his uncle at Auschwitz was a transparent move to shore up his support in the Jewish community. The fabrication of the Life Magazine article was to give him some credibility on racial issues and identity.

Good god, how can we possibly elect such a LIAR and FRAUD and MANUPULATOR to the presidency? The man should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail!

Is that the standard you wanna play by, people? ‘Cuz that is the ultimate playing out of the “eye for an eye” game. Either you recognize that both sides are human and make mistakes, or you end up destroying every candidate the very first time they — or, as you are using now, their staffers — make a single human error.

J.

So did John Kerry re: voting to authorize the POTUS to use force in Iraq. Remember what you called him, over and over, for doing that?

“Shorter Jaye Tea:
I only remember gaffes by Democrats. McCcain’s lies are honest mistakes at worst, and really should be considered just mulligans. Never mind the fact they are repeated the next day.”

Republicans love to think of themselves as intellectual He-men compared to namby-pamby flip-floppy Democrats. But really, they’re just hypocrites. Do as I say, not as I do, because it’s always IOKIYAR.

Jay: Please stop your flip-flopping. Why do you hate America and our freedoms so?

Where did you get this “explanation?” There is no evidence to support it, and no one has made any such claim. Oh, that’s right, YOU MADE IT UP! It is complete fiction, posed as an “argument.” You are just throwing it out there to see who is dumb enough to fall for it.

So you are saying that the “aides” who handle this stuff are too dumb to do actual research, or to ask an actual question, and then they WRITE DOWN wrong stuff, that the candidate, who actually DID this so-called travel, doesn’t seem to notice?

And you are comparing this written and researched material to freudian slips made while in the middle of a lengthy speech, and you are saying that Palin’s and McCain’s staffs are incompetent, and that the candidate herself doesn’t even pay attention to claims being made about her?

Okay, you have made your case. Palin’s staff and Palin herself are not malicious, just stupid, because they actually printed and distributed erroneous material that can’t be explained by a slip of the tongue, like substituting Auschwitz for Buchenwald. (A great uncle is STILL an uncle.)

Where do the stupidity and incompetence you have identified rank on your list of attributes for a VP candidate?

Obama’s state gets roughly $35/person. Alaska gets almost $300. Give me a freaking break. Spare me your BS indignation.