So Many Half-Truths, So Little Time...

Just because I want to keep track of this stuff, here are two more stories providing strong evidence of John McCain's growing problem with telling the truth. Both relate to Saturday's Saddleback Forum but are also anecdotes and excerpts he habitually brings up on the trail.

In the first question of the forum, he was asked to name three people he would "rely heavily on" for advice and counsel. One of the three he named was the great civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). McCain has no relationship with Lewis despite serving in Washington with him for 22 years.

Later, McCain told the story he often tells on the campaign trail, a little joke about how the federal government spent $3 million dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana. At the time, he never sought to remove the earmark appropriating money for the bear project, despite seeking to reduce funding for other projects in the same bill; and he voted for the final bill.

I think I need to start keeping a list.

...I suppose I could add the fact that he rejected calls for Pervez Musharraf's resignation in December 2007, while welcoming it today, but that's not an exaggeration or a lie. That's just piss-poor judgment, based on the biased notion that only a strongman can keep the brown people together. It's truly a colonial mindset for foreign policy where you install the dictator to keep the masses relatively stable. It's dumb thinking, and dangerous besides.