(CNN) - Cindy McCain lashed out at Barack Obama Tuesday, telling a Tennessee newspaper the Illinois senator has waged the "dirtiest campaign in American history."
The comments came hours before her husband, Republican nominee John McCain, was slated to square off with the Illinois senator at the second presidential debate, and are among her harshest to date of her husband's rival for the White House.
Speaking to the Tennessean, Cindy McCain also said her husband would use Tuesday night's town hall forum as an opportunity to correct what she suggested were misleading statements from the Obama campaign.
“What I have found is that it’s necessary to make sure the American people understand what we have to say, what we stand for as a husband and wife, and what we will do for the American people if we’re lucky enough to be elected,” Mrs. McCain also told the paper.
Both presidential campaigns have stepped up the intensity of their attacks, with only four weeks remaining until Election Day. The McCain campaign raised Obama's past relationship to 1960's radical William Ayers over the weekend, prompting the Democratic nominee’s campaign to unleash a 13-minute documentary Web video Monday detailing the Arizona senator’s involvement in the Keating Five scandal.
In an admitted effort to turn the dominating narrative away from the nation's ailing economy, McCain’s campaign also launched a new offensive against Barack Obama's trustworthiness Monday, releasing a new campaign ad that asks "Who is Barack Obama?", and tells voters the Illinois senator is 'lying' about his record.
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HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Now that's funny!!!
Cindy – be quite and do your botox – your hubby started it ..if u think the Dems are gonna just ignor crap like Kerry did – LADY U HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING
YOUR HUSBAND IS THE ONE RUNNING THE DIRTIEST CAMPAIGN EVER GRANDMA BARBIE!!!
This coming from the lady that said Palin had foreign experience cause Alaska was the closest American state to Russia?
Really?
here comes Millionaire Barbie to her husbands rescue!
HA! ....has she not met her own husband's campaign?....Cindy McCain never says a thing and I'm not surprised her and Palin, two good looking women, are talking about how the scary black man is trying to be President. PATHETIC
OBAMA-BIDEN 2008
This is just laughable. It is obvious we
Cindy McCain For Dummies!
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would vote for OBAMA!!!
Good laugh
Give me a break !!!!!!!!!!
McCain started it with all the negative ads. Did he think that Obama wouldn't defend himself?
Look at all the lies Palin came out with.
Cry some more Cindy. Just give your credit cards another workout.
This is so pathetic. Expected, but still pathetic.
Cindy!!! Where have you been? Your hubby and VP select are the ones who are behind this? They better watch out..going to backfire!
its apparent who is actually running the dirty campaign...calling the other guy a terrorist sympathizer...thats low
like obama said "lets all agree that we ALL put our country first"
look whos talking now
Is Cindy Mccain serious? This is just laughable. It is obvious we are not watching or listening to the same thing
OMG! I can't believe this woman! Obama is running a dirty campaign?!?
I get it – the only thing left for the Repubs to do is accuse their opponents of their own horrendous behavior – further insulting the intelligence of all Americans. Like we can't see THEY are the ones who've been acting in the most despicable, untrustworthy, dishonorable way!
Shame on you!!
She is the biggest hypocrite I have ever seen. I mean: haven't you looked at your husband! I thought McCain was the lowest, then came Palin and I'm starting to think that Cindy might be the worst.
. . . Palin started it.
Democrats 08.
And Cindy's opinion matters because?
Realy Cindy? Realy? That's funny, I thought it was the other way around.
I knew this would happen. Cindy McCain is scared that hubby won't win and she won't be first lady. They are so materialistic and the office of the presidency is just another notch in their belts. They don't care about the little people in this country, they just care about themselves.
Seriously? You should turn on your tv sometime, Cindy. He's not even running the dirtiest campaign of this campaign. Also, any other candidate would have brought up McCain's shameful involvement in the Keating scandal months ago.
hey cindy, we've got news for you , you are not in the running for president. oh and guess you started the smear tactics
Out of touch, ...out of ideas, ...and running out of time.
As the world economy falls apart (to be continued)
meh. sour grapes
you've got to be kidding me! Obama is doing what Kerry and Gore failed to do...immediately fight back...Repubs have no choice right now, they can't talk about the issues so the next best thing is to try and create smears! Wake up Cindy, you won't be in the White house come Jan!!
look who's talking
Seemingly voters don't share your view as far as dirty campaigns are concerned cause when they are asked through polls they think that McCain is the one who is running the sleaziest campaign
Obviously we're living in a democratic country therefore you have the right to have your own approach of things
Mirror, Mirror on the wall...the McCain campaign should take a look in the mirror and see the dirtiest campaign of them all.
Nice try Cindy, thankfully most Americans know your past and realize that you certainly have no credibility.
Gordon Liddy has said that, as a child, he grew up in a German-American community that included many admirers of Adolf Hitler, and that listening to Hitler's speeches "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before.
what a dumbo
WOW. Politicians will do anything to win.
Lie, Cheat, throw mud to cover up and skirt the issues.
No one has done anything out of the ordinary that the other has not done themselves, so shut your pie hole and talk about, well, lie and make promises that you cannot keep once you're in office, just like every other politician.
Dirtiest campaign ever? What castle in an all white neighborhood did she just finally get outside from?
She is AWFUL. Wow.
You call Obama a lair and a pal of terrorists, and HE'S running the dirty campaign?
Someone needs to test her mental faculties.
WOW...the audacity...how can someone so thick headed be so rich...oh right inheritance, and Mccain left his poor sick wife and picked up this broad...PATHETIC!!
Like I care what that Stepford Wife-wannabe Cindy McCain has to say about Barack Obama or the election. She is a vapid, self-absorbed 'Daisy Buchanan', married to a pathetic old troll who is becoming more unhinged every day. She needs to fade into the background and be the doting caregiver for the doddering old fool. NOW.
This woman is amazing! I don't whether I should be disgusted by or admiring of her audacity in saying such a thing. Really, I suppose it is alarming that she feels she can get away with such an outrageous twisting of the facts. If you want to see the dirtiest campaign in history, Mrs. McCain, take a long hard look at yourself.
that's right, cause Joe is out there calling McCain a terrorist. Lady, go back and get another face lift or something. I cannot wait for this to be over so you can go back to your mansions and leave us alone.
The internet must be broken. I typed in CNN but got The Onion.
Oh, November! Please hurry so we no longer have to listen to this utter nonsense put forth by the McCain campaign.
The repugs have become the party of bigots and ignorance. What is sad is that they claim to be christians with moral values. They now have supporters calling Barack terriorists and chanting "kill him" at rally. Even the sheriff that is policing the town where a rally was held is refering Obama as Barack Hussein Obama. When did the name Hussein become the symbol of terriorism or when did all people of muslim religion are identified as terriorist. If that is the case I guess all catholics are petifilers or all momons wed teenagers. Or better wet why not condemn everyone named George because of Bush. It is sad that the repugs are so terrified of a potential black president.
If anything happens to Obama, McCain and Palin are to be blamed!!!
Cindy, you must not be seeing what I am seeing then! Obama has run a very postive campaign and only hit back after McCain stated his negative attacks.
Nice try Cindy but we all know who is really running the negitive campaing, and it snot Obama.
Obama/Biden 08
Using Cindy McCain to cry poor us after their party launched a salvo of attacks over the weekend is par for them I suppose. The whole McCain campaign is shameful and pathetic.
Republicans always accuse the other side of what they themselves actually do. It's part of their playbook.
Wow! Spoken from someone whose husband is a evil little man.
BHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Thats pretty rich there bimbo McCain!! Obama was running an honourable campaign but you decided to get dirty. You threw the first punch and Obama is throwing the last. ! Suck it up princess.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. This woman is clueless. John McShame is surrounded by clueless women. I never thought I'd say this, but bring back Hillary–at least Barack had an opponent on his level.
Obama/Biden 08
Hypocrite!!! McCoward and Pansy have done nothing but sling mud, and then yell for all to see that Obama has gotten dirty. To think, I supported this mentally receding hypocrite 8 years ago.
This woman scares me!
Say what?!! These folks have become the laughing stock of the nation.
I guess they are still used to the Bush admin. getting away with saying anything, but this is laughable. I always thought Cindy was a bimbo, but until she opened her mouth, I didn't have the confirmation!
YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME! What planet are these people living on? Do they think people aren't keeping up at all? McShame and Palin have done nothing but lie and throw mud all week. Where has she been? Maybe too pilled up to notice? I think I would be, if I were married to a bumbling old fool who had revealed that he has no honor or character at all. P. S. Who cares what Cindy McShame says anyway? I will be so glad when this is over with and I don't have to hear McShame whine around or hear Palin do her "Aw, Shucks" act.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08
That is hilarious..the McCain campaign is insighting hate against Obama..Palin is the most evil mouthpiece ever.. get a grip Cindy.. you have had one too many facelifts you along with John have lost your berings!
HA! That's funny!
This from the same campaign that said "we can't talk about the economy or we will lose". Another distraction.
Why don't you try talking about the issues McCain?
Funny, no mention of the raid on the L.V. ACORN office...typical for CNN and all you dembots
Cindy McCain: You have turned a blind eye, and deaf ears to your husband and his dirty campaigning, lying about Barack Obama on the trail, and now you are suppose to be the voice of reason? You are honestly defending your husband when the entire world has been observing, listening to your husband spew his anger and bitterness and lies. Please. Give us a break Mrs. McCain. You personally know that John McCain is a very contentious person. You know. You really do.
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I am a conservative woman who is DISGUSTED by Sara Palens dirty politics. I thought John McCain was going to be better than the nastyness of polotics as usual. Unfortunatly, I think Obama is running a cleaner campaign.
Cindy would have made a great extra in "THE STEPFORD WIVES".
(The original 70's version).
The Secret Service is following up on media reports today that someone in the crowd at a McCain/Palin event suggested killing Barack Obama, according to Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley. The shout of "kill him" followed a Sarah Palin rant on Obama's relationship with radical Chicagoan Bill Ayers.
This after Palin got the crowd worked up with her Hate Mongering.
This kind of leadership we can live without forever.
If Cindy McCain wants to defend this behavior then she can, but she looks like a fool for doing it.
Have you ever seen a bigger bunch of lying, scheming hypocrites as this current crop of Republicans? They have no soul.
....and can she cite specific examples??
This is surely a joke. Obama's campaign is not even the dirtiest in this election. Regardless, Cindy McCain seriously must be clueless if she really believes that this is the dirtiest election in history. There have been Republicans (George W. Bush) who have been dirtier to McCain than Obama has been so far.
Really, Cindy? Even dirtier than the Rove machine sending out flyiers in the 2000 Republican Primary in NC alleging that your husband had an iligitimate Black baby? Even dirtier than Bush using you drug theft and addiction to impeach your husbands character? Oh wait....your husband now employs Karl Rove to launch the same filthy tactics on Barack Obama. Barack Obama has only responded to the lies and attacks your husband perpetuates.
What planet have you been living on in the past week Mrs McPlastic?
Your old grumpy husband and his airhead pageant queen have been throwing every Karl Rovian sleezy thing from the kitchen sink at Obama since McLosers failed campaign has sunk even lower in the polls.
America is smarter...they want answers not bull.
OBAMA/BIDEN '08/12!
Cindy McCain you're so full of it...you better recognize that Obama will be our next president
Go back and lead cheers for USC. What a hack.
Really? That is the funniest thing I have ever heard from a bimbo.
All I could think of when I read Mrs. McCain's comment was that she might be hitting the medicine cabinet again!
HEY CINDY COULD YOU give ME 100 MILLION DOLLARS.Also,
could you give me a car and a home..I just had 3 boys finish college
and I'm broke..Just thought that I would ask ?
Is she into the medicine cabinet again? Apparently she is not aware of her own husbands campaign! How sad.
To Cecil (7:45)
Cindy McCain for Dummies you say?
...more like: Cindy McCain "First Lady!"
From what I see so far, it has been McSame who is playing dirtiest campaign in American history.
attacked after attacked, until Obama has to strike back and now Cindy is crying fool.
Wow. Have they been keeping her locked in a closet???
I am speechless.
Was there a typo? Did Cindy mean McCain was running the dirtiest campaign? I think trying to suggest that Obama is a terrorist is about as low as a candidate can go.
Obama is running the 'dirtiest campaign' ever?
Okay, can we all agree who is out of touch now?
Gee maybe she should leave the spa at the country club and find the nearest television. Then look at a news program {cnn} about her hubby and Palin telling lies about Obama. Cindy, just because your husband and Palin sink to new levels, do you have to sink with them?
No that's the most hypocritical statement so far. Sad how they whine when they are losing.
What is cindy talking about?
Obama is going to tax you big time.
It is easy to make that statement when you don't have to back it up with facts or answer questions about your own husbands campaign that his own party is saying is taking the low road.
Obama is running a dirty campaign? All politicians are running dirty campaign in my opinion. Did Sarah Palin just go around to criticize Obama's character? Is that dirty? We are in a major economy crisis, they just go around to talk about character? I strongly think that 8 years under Bush is more than enough. We need change. As a voter, I am not 100% sure if Obama/Biden ticket can turn around the economy, but knowing that senator Mc Cain is about the same as the current president, I think we should take a chance to go with Obama/Biden ticket.
Watching Sarah Palin going around criticizing Obana just make me want to turn off the TV. Senator Mc. Cain should regret for not selecting Mitt Romney as his VP.
It's official: the Republicans are truly living in a bizarro world.
I thought she was no longer a drug addict she must be haveing a flash back! Talk about denial...
I think more and more people are understanding. McCain/Palin deal in fear and hate. I did like John McCain but I guess it's the evil he brought on board that sealed his pact with the devil. I do pray that they do not get into the white house.
The nerve of Cindy McCain. Her husband is the one who started the smear campaign. Obama has every right to respond in kind. And I would like to know what office she is running for when saying "if we are lucky ..."? As far as I know, her name is not on the ballot.
She always stands behind McCain at his speeches like a statue...I guess she WAS just pretending to listen!!
omg! i cant believe she has the nerve! hows ur retirement doin ,cindy?
i'm pretty sure it's the other way around cindy. barack is talking about issues. your husband is talking about... well, i'm not sure if even he knows what he's talking about at this point.
The irony... the irony...
...what we [the McCains] will do for the American people if we’re [McCains] lucky enough to be elected...
The McCains are the gift that just keeps on giving. There is just no end to their chutzpah. I guess they borrowed theirs from Independent Sen. Lieberman. Say it ain't so, Joe.
Haha wow...
And now Im switching my vote from Obama to McCain because of Cyndi. She's so great...Thanks for knowing what the American people want.
This statement is ridiculous. Utterly without merit.
Obama has tried to keep this positive. Granted, he's had some ads that could be construed as "negative", but nothing to the extent of the vitriol, lies and misrepresentations coming from McCain and Palin.
I just saw a wonderful commercial of Obama's. He mentioned McCain twice in the commercial, both times in the context of comparing his economic policies to those of McCain's.
Now compare that with the 100% negative advertising that the McCain campaign has admitted they'll run for the rest of this election.
I want someone who believes in America and our future, who believes in hope over hate, and who wants our future to be positive.
I want Obama and Biden!!!!
What are you talking about cindy??
Have you heard Sarah palin talk lately?
Well I guess if he (McCain) can talk his VP to start waging a war of negative words, why can't he get his wife to do the same. It seems odd that she would make those comments, when her husbands campaign started the, "he's pals with domestic terrorists." Talk about calling the kettle black!!! ooooppps, I guess I shouldn't have said that huh?
Although I would have to say last Friday nights episode of the Daily Show was right on.....McCain and "his" supporters truly are beginning to "act" like the "black" candidate.
Does she live in Fantasyland? The McCain camp came out and said they intended to run a mudslinging campaign. That's dirty in my book.
HAS SHE WATCHED THE HIT PIECES HER HUSBAND IS RUNNING???? SHE MAY BE CONFUSED- JOHN MCCAIN IS RUNNING A DIRTY CAMPAIGN AND FOR THAT REASON, I WILL
NOT VOTE FOR HIM-
25 YEARS AS PART OF THE PROBLEM AND NOW HE HAS NEW IDEAS???
I can't believe she'd say something as bold as this considering who started this mess. Maybe mcSame should use the debate time to tell us what he really stands for regarding the American People.
Cindy had better keep an eye on sneaky Sara and wandering eye Johnny.
you have got to be kidding... your husband invented "dirty campaigns"... go sit down and comb your hair... call McCain's ex-wife and beg for her forgiveness for helping to distroy her life..
Is she saying it with a straight face!! Talk about calling the kettle black.
who is cindy kidding? Well, at least that will make good material for snl
Palin: Obama is paling around with a bad guy form chicago
Mccain: Obama is a liar
Palin: Obama hates America
Crowd: "terrrorist", "kill him"
Cindy: We are running the cleanest campaign in US history.
What a joke of a website – full of ignorant, clueless, mindless Obama sujpporters. I just wish I had the opportunity to debate each and every one of you off the stage.
must be off the wagon. wink wink.
what the heck???
She's so out of touch!
This hoe has no idea of what's going on. This is really desperating and outrageous and laughable!!!
Obama/Biden in a landslide!
Interesting that she keeps saying "we". "What we have to say", "what we stand for", "if we're lucky enought to be elected". And I wouldn't say that either present candidate is running the "dirtiest campaign in American history". I believe that honor goes to our current Commander In Thief"!
Lady, give us a break! Do you think that we are that gullible and stupid? Your husband started this crap and now you are mad because Obama is striking back? You GOP folk are used to dishing it out and not used to getting it back. It may have worked with Kerry but there is a new sheriff in Dodge now, so stop letting your mouths write checks that your butt can't cash or get out of Dodge! Palin may be the pittbull with lipstick (not to mention an insult to all intelligent women) but Obama and Biden are the dog catchers that will shut her down. Stop LYING and attacking Obama and talk about the issues Mrs. Keating Five!
Obama/ Biden 08
Go back and continue to count all your millions Cindy, we don't care what you think. Us common folks will continue to try and scratch out a living under the crushing hand that your party has dealt us.
OBAMA-BIDEN-'08
Madam, you are not good enough to tie Obamas shoes.
Wow.......she talks too!
Who's got the forum insinuating the other candidate's the Anti-Christ?
Oh yeah. McCain.
Game over. There's literally nothing Obama can possibly do to stoop to the level of filthy mudslinging that John Sidney McCain's has resorted to. Stop lying, Cindy. Unlike Palin, you actually probably KNOW what you're saying.
Your husband's running the dirtiest campaign since John Quincy Adams claimed that Andrew Jackson was literally going to hang Americans if he was elected, and spread such vicious rumors about Jackson's wife that she died from the stress. That's the only candidate who's stooped lower than McCain.
Cindy McCain should tell her husband to be faithful to the American people and not to twist the facts for gains. McCain is the one started the mudsling. McCain and his running mate even don't have proper education to understand the Americans. Americans understand the value of education and honesty – both are missing in McCain and Sarah Palin.
Cheers.
S
Cindy is correct. Read the comments from the Obamite thugs on these blogs and you realize the mentality that might elect that dirty Chicago politician. ACORN is already using Chicago tactics to register dead and imaginary voters. One of their offices was raided today.
This shows her intelligence (NONE)!
is she living on this earth
Cindy McCain – its hard for you guys to worry about the economy when you're loaded with millions and out of touch! Get a clue....its the economy stupid, and that's no lie!