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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Rove: McCain Has Gone 'One Step Too Far' Well, maybe that goes a bit far, and its manner of introduction was not exactly one President Bush's top political strategist might have chosen for himself. Nonetheless, the campaign seized on Rove's comments on Fox News Sunday today to bolster its case that Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been lying about Obama's record in recent days. The Obama campaign has specifically decried two McCain ads: one that attempts to portray as an insult to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Obama's contention that McCain's calls for change are putting "lipstick on a pig," and another Obama says misleads viewers about the purpose of a sex eduction bill he supported. In response to a question, Rove said McCain "has similarly gone one step too far, attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100 percent truth test.'' The Obama campaign quickly put out a statement: "In case anyone was still wondering whether John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest campaign in history, today Karl Rove -- the man who held the previous record -- said McCain's ads have gone too far," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor. (Not much love for Rove, but you get the idea.) In all truthiness, Rove's comments were far from a clean hit for the Obama campaign. The Democrats failed to point out that Rove said he thought Obama's lipstick comments were a "direct slap'' at Palin, because of her recent lipstick-separates-hockey-moms-from-pit-bulls comment. And he said both camps were at fault. "Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far,'' Rove said. The Obama campaign has been in overdrive recently in an attempt to portray the McCain campaign as dishonest, this morning releasing a lengthy memo outlining media stories that have called into question some of McCain's comments on Palin. "Since naming Governor Palin as their Vice Presidential nominee, the McCain campaign has distorted, distracted, and outright lied to the American people about her record in a desperate attempt to hide the fact that a McCain/Palin Administration would be nothing more than a continuation of the failed Bush policies of the last eight years,'' the memo begins. McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds responded to Rove's comments, albeit indirectly: "If Barack Obama had the strength to change politics, he'd have joined John McCain's proposal for the candidates to campaign together across the country at ten joint town hall meetings and speak to voters directly -- but he didn't. Instead Barack Obama chose to intentionally and recklessly distort claims of '100 year' wars and McCain's comments about the struggling economy."
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