Intentional lying

Don’t you just hate when you’re minding your own business, just trying to get through the day, when suddenly you unintentionally initiate legal proceedings?

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's divorce was amicable enough that he and his ex-wife jointly brought a lawsuit 10 years later to recover damages for lost mementos, but it wasn't amicable enough to prevent McCain's mother from suing his ex-wife to get back some personal property.

Both lawsuits were settled out of court decades ago and before they went to trial, but records of them are kept in the archives of the city courthouse in Alexandria.

Curiously, although the records clearly list the plaintiffs, McCain's campaign says that the Arizona senator didn't know about or authorize the 1990 lawsuit with his ex-wife, Carol, and that his mother's 1980 lawsuit was filed "unintentionally." And McCain's 96-year-old mother, Roberta, says she never sued Carol.

How do you sue someone unintentionally? What was she trying to do when she inadvertently sued Carol McCain? (Carol is the wife John McCain divorced after she was in a horrible, disfiguring car accident, not the wealthy heiress wife he was fucking on the side and married while he was still married to Carol.)

This might be the first unintentional suing since Stig O'Hara sued himself accidentally during the breakup of the Rutles.

I don’t give a hot, steaming pile of rat shit about some age-old pissing contest over who owns what. I care that the rhetoric of an American presidential campaign has degenerated to the level of half-funny British satire. And I care that, in the not-arriving-soon-enough post-Bush era, a major-party nominee for the presidency of the United States and his surrogates A) still think that the American people are stupid enough to buy such a ridiculous explanation and B) have so little regard for the truth that they are willing to offer this shit for public consumption.

Remember when people used to take offense to being lied to? Apparently it doesn’t bother the people in the press stenographer pool.