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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 03:57 PM
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There is no such thing as "swiftboating" McCain. McCain deserves scrutiny
People throw around the term "swiftboating" with McCain or whoever. It is a completely inaccurate statement and we should stop using the term with anyone else except John Kerry.

"Swiftboating" means lying. LYING! What the Swiftboat Veterans "For the Truth" did was LIE about John Kerry's military record.

You can't "swiftboat" Obama. You can't "swiftboat" McCain. Both never served on a swiftboat.

What term should be used to skewer McCain with his many discrepancies and denouncing of his country while POW? EXPOSED!

To invite using the term "swiftboat" is to LIE about someone like Kerry's military record. If McCain did serve on a swiftboat, I'm sure he would have crashed one of those too. But he can't be "swiftboated", since he was never on one.

As for the scrutiny being handed to McCain, I consider it a ticking time bomb about how he is not what he says he is. Let it happen.... and it will. John McCain can't hide.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:03 PM
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1. swiftboating was what George Bush did to McCain in 2000 in SC
Scrutinizing his record and statements doesn't even come close to what Republicans are willing to do to their own.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 04:04 PM
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2. Excellent point -- they're LYING!!! (a la Tess in "Working Girl")
NOT "swiftboating". And if you're telling the TRUTH, then that
ISN'T A LIFE (and certainly not sb'ing).

Why are we so afraid to call it what it is? KKKarla's protege has
learned well -- we need to call Bomb Bomb out on the tactics his
campaign is using, which is ... LYING.

(Sidebar: I'll bet JOE BIDEN would call it LYING if he were
the VP candidate.)
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