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Finally, it's no longer a one person race, where McCain just beats up on Obama and there is no response. Obama has at long last began to strike back:





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I'll be his Huckleberry. I accept the challenge!

Watch McCain's challenge in the video below and then listen to all of his flip-flops right after:




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Joy Behar of The View simply called out John McCain for the several lies told by his campaign. Look at John McCain's eyes bug out when Behar actually says the word "lies":




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McCain's answer here is a flat out lie, as I explain in the video below:




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The women of The View did a better job of pressing John McCain on the abortion issue than any other press I have ever seen. For women who still don't get it, he wants to take your right to choose away from you:




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The Young Turks were at the Republican National Convention all of last week and we had some interviews that were doozies, but none more entertaining than this. We interviewed Senators, Congressmen, Governors, black Republicans, gay Republicans, etc., etc. And then right at the end of the convention, this guy came up and started yelling about sodomy. He insists he is against it. You be the judge:




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This one can be called: When Republicans Attack.

We were having a perfectly civil debate until this man took exception to the idea that George Bush might have not responded to Hurricane Katrina well. He then got up and knocked down some of our equipment. Watch it here:




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Roland Martin of CNN took the fight to Sarah Palin in our interview with him at the RNC. As you can tell, he was not playing around:




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At the Republican National Convention we did a lot of interviews with people we disagreed with. Many of them were civil and interesting. Some of them were explosive. We will share a series of these interviews with you in the next several posts.

This one is a conversation with the head of a group who thinks it makes sense for gay Americans to be Republicans. As you'll see, I don't agree. It makes for an interesting conversation:




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The McCain campaign contention was that Gov. Palin's Wednesday night speech would be her major test. It would tell us whether she's ready for the position or not. This really, really ironic. Haven't they spent months criticizing Barack Obama for just giving speeches?

That's not a real test. She read from a prompter well. Since she's a former sports anchor that's not surprising. No one claims she wrote the speech (most politicians don't; in this case, the McCain campaign has already identified the person who wrote the speech in its entirety). So, she passed the readiness test by reading off a prompter well? That's ridiculous.

No, the real test is when she answers real and in depth questions from the press. She has been sequestered away from the press (as she sits in a town with 15,000 members of the press right now). They are trying to teach her foreign policy in a hurry. Come on, how absurd does that sound? Do you think the Obama team had to do a crash course in foreign policy for Joe Biden after they picked him? Of course, not. Because he was already ready.

Let's hear Sarah Palin answer questions on real policy matters and then we'll have a much better sense of whether she has a grasp of the issues she needs to know to be even remotely ready to be vice president, or God forbid, president.

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This lie by the McCains about Mother Teresa was so brazen, I couldn't quite believe it myself:





You can read the story for yourself here, including the part where the McCain campaign revises their story to admit Cindy McCain never met Mother Teresa on that trip. And this story has the timeline of when they started to lie about their daughter and Mother Teresa.

You have to confess that if Michelle Obama had lied about adopting a daughter from Mother Teresa or stolen drugs from her own charity because she's a drug addict, Obama would have had no chance of winning. Yet Cindy McCain gets a free pass on all this. The double standard applied to the candidate's wives are overwhelming. No logical person can deny the hypocrisy in how these stories are covered.

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John McCain recently got in some political trouble because he couldn't remember how many houses he has (that's when you know you're really rich). What was his excuse? He was a POW! If you're wondering what the connection is, you're not alone.

Rudy Giuliani couldn't stop talking about 9/11. Now, McCain is the equivalent for his POW record. As Joe Biden would say, every sentence has become "A noun, a verb and POW."

Listen to all the different times McCain has resorted to reminding people he is a POW to get out of a tough spot:




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That's a heavy charge. McCain's POW record is the one shining moment of great courage in his record. It's what put him in the national spotlight in the first place. And the ordeal he went through was so horrific that you can't question his valor. But now, he has gone and done something that was so unnecessary -- apparently embellishing a story during his stay at the POW camps.

There was absolutely no need for this. His perseverance through five and half years of the prison camp was plenty heroic. He didn't need to add anything to it. But it looks like he did:





Here is the original ad McCain ran about this story. Here is a post with more details on this story, where you can see the whole Solzhenitsyn quote (and the possible Chuck Colson quote where it actually originated from) and get all of the background on how McCain came up with this story in 1999 and in fact might have even changed it in 2000 from it happening to another soldier to it happening to him. This is beyond the pale. You want to talk about a character issue. This is about character.

I know some of you won't believe me, but I am actually disappointed in McCain. I didn't think he would do something like this. Remember I voted for him in the 2000 primaries when I was still a Republican. He was a guy I believed in. To see him make up things about something so important and personal, it makes you lose faith in all politicians to some degree. Is there anything they won't stoop to?

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Phil Collins needs to stop getting married. He just got ripped apart in yet another terrible divorce settlement:




There is no justice in a system like this. Yes, sometimes women get hosed, too, like Roseanne Barr did by Tom Arnold. But most of the time it's men who are losing so much money in a system that makes no sense. Are we being PC by not addressing this? In this day and age, why do you have to rely on what your husband made? Why can't you just get a job after the marriage?

I know it's not quite that simple. But at the same time, there is no reason why these women need to be paid multi-million dollar settlements for having done basically nothing in a short period of time. You know what you call people who get paid for nothing but sex?

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