Now the McCain camp knows full well by now that that sentence - spoken, not printed, in the ad - is an outright lie. Such a tax hike is not in Obama's platform. The basis on which the claim is even made is bogus, as even Fox News has conceded. But McCain pushes a bald lie to give a smidgen of substance to an otherwise entirely personal negative ad.
What do you call a Republican who is happy to lie directly to people's faces? John W. McCain.
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