“A Tax Increase On Anyone Earning More Than $42,000 A Year”

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.