It would be different if it WAS NOT THE TRUTH. If the Aide got 2 million over 5 years, then it's fair game to talk about it. If it was Obama's 10 feet of extra yard space he got, It's GROUNDBREAKING.

McCain is a joke.

you have to still realize the newspapers have their alliances, hence the reasons for the endorsements from newspapers..

in my home town The Tribune has backed on candidate and the Sun Times backed the other...

its a fact of life John, get over it..

How many times can this campaign whine about the press. I didn't hear them skewer the press when Palin's face was plastered over every magazine.

I'm sorry but it's no contest. McCAin can't keep the facts straight on the economy at the worst economic crisis since since the Great Depression. His entire career he has been for DEregulation, now he's the cheerleader of regulation. Criticizes Obama on taking campaign contributions from Freddie and Fannie, meanwhile he's got the skeleton of the Keating scandal falling out of his closet.

In interviews he and his VP have talked of getting us embroiled in wars on four different fronts–I mean, c'mon, the world is not our playground to run like some schoolyard bully. Judgement lacks intelligence.

His campaign slogan is Country First but he chooses someone who is unfit to run the country as his no. 2.

Goes too far in his attack ads that he would tie his opponent, a father, of being some type of pervert that wants to teach kids sex.

I mean at this point NOT criticizing these BAD decisions would be favoritism for McCain, which I'm sure he would have no problem with.

Come on CNN everyone who has seen her knows that this picture is an outrage. Are you really so into the McCain camp that you would stoop this low.

Get over it, grow up, and stop whining, McCain/Palin. If you can't take the heat [or live with your own misleading ads] then get out of the kitchen.

Pround old white woman for Obama.

By the way, the idea of John McCain criticizing another candidate for running a campaign of intimidation makes me laugh.

THE NEW YORK TIME MUST REALLY BE WORRIED

ABOUT A PACK OF SLUGS TAKING A RUSH AT THEM.

Maybe they should just go to Fox if they want news coverage that sympathizes with their position, because the rest of the media is on the side of truth. Why else would they call it mainstream?

The shocking thing (and the reason why I am not supporting John McCain now like I did in 2000) is that John McCain hired Steve Schmidt and has him on his campaign payroll in a senior capacity this year. How can John McCain sell out his own daughter by hiring and paying the guy who basically called her illegitimate in the national spotlight and dragged the McCain family through the mud? What message does John McCain hiring and paying that guy send to his own daughter?

We know John McCain will hang his wife out to dry (as he did his 1st wife by playing around and then filing for a marriage license with Cindy while he was still married to his 1st wife) but I never thought he'd sell out his own daughter....If John McCain will sell out his own daughter, who won't he sell out?

Steve Schmidt-talk about a campaign of intimidation of critics! You Republicans are all over it, overtly, covertly, insidiously, or in-your-face. As Lee Atwater taught you all well, and as he taught Karl Rove who begat the current crop of senior advisers (plus the nearly two-dozen "former" lobbyists for Big Oil, Fannie Mae, etc.), just put the lies out there. Make up another one before there is even any time to consider or respond to the first one.

Republicans, you are a gang of whiners, only worse. You actively seek to deny the truth to the American people.

In short, you are in the tank for the dark side; we can see it in Palin-McCain campaigners' eyes more clearly every day.

Eat it.

The person who is responsible for complete lawbreaking, verifiable lies, and has insulted anyone with an IQ over 80 by picking Palin, is complaining that people are actually calling him and his party out on

Spare me the bull outrage you cynical lying looser. See you again in 4 yrs.

Peace.

Bad Press-Sorry McCain but remember:
You can try to put lipstick on a pig but.....

Wait, isn't this exactly what the McCain campaign is doing by holding this conversation?

Obama/Biden 08 NO MORE WHINING!! NO MORE REPUBLICANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

Sen. McCain is running a failed campaign with no real definition or substance. They avoid the real issues. They continued "distraction" and "blame" the other guy, the other party, or the media... anything other than realizing the truth.

To be a Republican is Shameful...

What would be almost hysterically funny, if it weren't so frightening, is his accusation the there is "no vetting" performed by the NY Times when it comes to its coverage of Sen. Obama. No vetting? Why does that phrase sound so familiar? Oh yes, of course! It's because it was the virtual absence of vetting by McCain's people that insulted the nation's intelligence by giving us, potentially a heartbeat from the Presidency, a person whose qualifications are absurdly non-existent.

There is indeed "symmetry" in coverage of the candidates. Unfortunately, the McCain-Palin are so convinced of their own misrepresentations and falsifications that they are unable to recognize the truth when they are confronted with it. It just so happens that virtually every objective observer of the two campaigns' claims has concluded that there is no symmetry whatsoever regarding the source of the distortions and – yes – the lies..

Mr. Schmidt, you can't keep lying and expect not to be called on it.. Again and again and again and again and again. As long as it takes. Until the lies stop.

Mr. McCain's claims to fame are his three-plus decades old experience in Vietnam, and his alleged integrity. The first has long since become irrelevant (if it ever was), and the latter has ceased to exist (if it ever did).

Where is the sense of humor you're always telling Barack to have?
Nice to see your translator Lieberman is back on the scene. Now your mis-statements can be correct the same day.

The "straight-talk express" has become a manure spreader. McCain even denies that Palin, as mayor, made rape victims pay for their own rape-kits .. and there is ample written data from 2000 to prove it!

McCain/Palin and all his ilk can not stand the light of day or anyone who tells the truth ... too low to step on and too slimy to kick ..

When Cheney's pal is running your ads – you know your ads will be packs of lies ... 'fess up, Mr. McCain!!!

Foaming at the mouth, ranting and raving does not look very Presidential.

Yes, unfortunately this election will also be remembered as the year the media finally stopped reporting the news.

Fortunately there are still those of us smarter than a doorstop who see the media's obvious slant and won't be fooled by it.

Matt Damon said that a Palin presidency would be like a Disney movie. Well, an Obama presidency would be like another movie...Jacka–

God Bless America!!

Thank God for John McCain!!!

They become dictators precisely because no one dares to challenge, question or criticize them.

Obama banned criticism at the start.

THAT is what is scary.

OPOMPOUS can’t win. If you look at the AOL straw poll (where McCain is winning every state) and match it against the electoral map and you give Obama every state where he got more than 39 percent of the vote, even then he still looses by a landslide.

The Dems picked the wrong candidate.

(1) make "country first" your campaign slogan and then put politics (i.e., securing the Republican base) first by choosing a grossly underqualified running mate

(2) call yourself an agent of change after voting with George W. 90% of the time

(3) promise a campaign of ideas and straight talk, and then smear Obama with blatent lies in your ads (even Karl Rove said so)

When you have nothing in your own record or platform to defend, go on the offensive. Blame the media "elites", and do everything you can to make the electorate afraid of the other guy. Won't work this time.

Obama/Biden '08

People- be careful what you wish for. The Dictator may come as the prince of peace.

The media needs to start some unbiased coverage of these campaigns. They did the same thing to HRC until Obama was able to steal the nomination from her.