Comments on: McCain falsely claims his surrogate Meg Whitman was the ‘founder’ of EBay.

By: ohplease

ohplease — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:52:02 +0000

A couple more facts about ebay are that Meg Whitman exercised around $160 million in her stock options, then retired from active service there, leaving the site to John Donahoe, who has systematically destroyed the site. Their stock share price is down around 50% or more in the last year. They have lost literally thousands upon thousands of sellers, by one estimate 100K in 6 months. Ebay is shucking the rank and file ‘common folk’ who built & depend on the site to supplement income for such things as medicine and clothes for their children (Because ebay was something “stay at home”, elderly and disabled people could do) in favor of large, corporate sellers, and the site has been under various levels of boycott since Feb 08. They have raised fees for the sellers, while calling them fee decreases. The new rules and changes to the site are nothing less than insane.
Clearly they are leaving a great deal of bad news out of the picture when they mention Meg Whitman and ebay. It has earned nicknames now such as “greedbay”

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:29:21 +0000

Dumb Questions:

Has McCain ever sold anything on EBay?
Has McCain ever bought anythihng on Ebay ?
What about Palin (and don’t try to pass off that airplane that didn’t sell on ebay) ?

What is the median income of Ebay Sellers from EBay ?

By: southrnbelle

southrnbelle — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:05:37 +0000

“there was five employees” ???

It’s “there were five employees” you idiot!

By: the Lone Voice of Reason

the Lone Voice of Reason — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:38:53 +0000

Up next on the Winky and Blinky campaign– photoshopped video of Obama roasting puppies and babies!! Gonna go put on my hip-waders because the GOP bull is getting pretty damn deep

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:24:33 +0000

McCain knows some people will believe his lies and never question it. It worked for Bush/Cheney so why not McCain/Palin.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:53:37 +0000

No reserve, free shipping!

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:45:29 +0000

Let’s sell Sairhead on E-Bay!

I’ll start the bidding here with my 2 cent bid…

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:41:39 +0000

Is it too much to ask that the McCain campaign do a little fact checking before they add something to his stump speeches?
Oh wait – they did fact check — they used the same screening that they used on Sarah Palin.

By: Buckie Boy

Buckie Boy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:36:06 +0000

When has a Republican ever let facts get in the way of lies?

Never.

Republicans love their liars.

By: AngryOne

AngryOne — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:35:13 +0000

“McCain’s Answer for Poverty? eBay!”

During, McCain told an audience in Inez, Kentucky in April, “You have a right to expect us to show as much concern for helping you create more and better choices to make for yourselves as we show any other community in America.” And one of those better choices, according to John McCain, is to become a seller on the auction site, eBay:

“Today, for example, 1.3 million people in the world make a living off eBay, most of those are in the United State of America.”

Ebay’s Whitman couldn’t have put it better herself. In fact, she put it almost exactly the same on way on CBS 60 Minutes in March. As she told Lesley Stahl:

“We have about – around the world, about 1.3 million people make most, if not all, of their living selling on eBay.”

By: APEC not OPEC

APEC not OPEC — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:27:26 +0000

Yea, and Carly Fioina did great things for Hewlett Packard. And Phil Gramm did great thing for de-regulation. And Palin knows more about energy than anyone in the world. And there are no lobbyist running his campaign. By the way, where is Charlie Black? Oh, I forgot, he is a maverick and a POW dontcha know.

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:19:34 +0000

What would be really newsworthy would be if McCain got something right for once.

By: pbg

pbg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:17:11 +0000

Ha! He’s not as old as the Old Ones! Why, his outer skin isn’t even fully calcified!
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/cindy_mccain_claims_she_s_just

By: freeman

freeman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:14:38 +0000

Just tell us the earth is really flat , the heavens revolve around our little axis mundi ,and global warming and evolution are a hoax …. and we’ll let Galileo out of his house.

By: freeman

freeman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:09:58 +0000

Uncle Fester Lurks Says

Details, details, details. I’m still waiting for McCain to announce that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are close personal friends of his.

His supporters are of the right mind frame to believe the fairy tales as well , ever try having an honest discussion with people who believe in the rapture or are against evolution because all you will ever need to know has been written in the bible by semetic nomads thousands of years ago and must ALL be ABSOLUTELY and literally true.
The fact that Jesus spoke mostly in parables is lost on the evangelical community as are the many contradictions between the gospels and the rest of the Bible.Reason has no place in this world view only blind faith no matter how absurd the doctrine !

By: ralph the wonder llama

ralph the wonder llama — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:07:08 +0000

Bob Says:
Yeah, and the VP is in charge of the Senate. So what?

Sorry for taking this off-topic, but Bob’s comment tripped a thought for me:

if the Vice-President is “in charge” of the Senate, then Republicans can’t complain about the “Democrat” Senate, right? I mean, Dick Cheney’s in charge of it, so any legislative failures are on him.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:07:01 +0000

Meg Whitman can help McCain list his life and career on E-Bay week after next.

While she’s at it, she can put Failin’ Palin’s “borrowed” wardrobe on EBay, too. It’ll bring in lots of money as an historical artifact.

And lots of dirty old republican men will pay a fortune for a pair of panties and a bra — especially it they are unwashed.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:01:46 +0000

Meg Whitman can help McCain list his life and career on E-Bay week after next.
Anyone got a Sarah Moosehunter beanie baby for my collection?

By: upside99

upside99 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:00:50 +0000

suziq Says:
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So why doesn’t anyone in the msm ever call him on these statements?

Could it be that the msm aren’t well informed enough to challenge him?

Or maybe they don’t want to get thrown off the “Straight Talk Express”.

By: lukeness

lukeness — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:00:45 +0000

This is not the only false statement… he also claims falsely that “1.3 million people around the globe” are “makin’ a living off of ebay.” Making a living? Don’t think so… maybe making a sale now and then. Besides, who compares the number of employees one year to the number of customers 12 years later?