Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story  

I beleive she had to have some type of mental problem, because I don't understand why she would go as far as beating herself up and carving a B on her face just to make Obama and his supporters look bad. It doesn't make sense, and she did a poor job of it too... You could tell obviously from the start that she used a mirror to carve a B on her face...

I believe she is mentally ill and on the news I heard that she has a history of mental illness. I believe the reason she did this is to get attention. There are people who injure themselves and/or make themselves sick to get attention. In this case she managed to get national attention. If she were ONLY trying to make Obama supporters look bad, I don't think she would have confessed so quickly.

Let them do what they will with her. I can't say I have any sympathy for her. Her racism is very similar to that of Susan Smith who killed her own children and then said a black man abducted them. I don't think there was any real poltical connection here other than the fact that she was making a grab for attention and used a much publicized political race to that end. Truth is, psychopaths do tend to use current events to get attention. So, in addition to being an unhinged, racist nut, she has also added to the divisiveness of the current political scene...UGH!

This woman needs help. I thought when I heard this story it sounded fishy. She's a young girl who actually would cut herself is ill. I don't know where she got this crazy idea. This is just off the wall crazy. I don't believe she doesn't remember cutting herself, but she is mentally ill to plan such a thing.

I'm going to wait until after the mental evaluation before forming a final opinion on this woman and what should happen to her. If she has a mental illness serious enough to cause black outs, perhaps she shouldn't be punished as severely, however, just claiming to have mental problems does not necessarily mean that you lose control to the point that you are unaware of what happened and confused to the point that you make specific allegations towards another person. The fact that she did have a complete story of her *attack*, which included a motive, leads me to believe that she set this up but, again, I will wait. I'm just glad that no innocent people were hurt during the couple of days that this lie was promoted as truth.

Ithink whatever she gets she deserves...this is just another stunt to make black people especially black men look bad...I think it was thought out...and she knew what she was doing...she knew how people would react and she knew how people would try to associated obama with this black men doing. She knew that people would thinkk all black people are bad which they are not.Im glad they caught her, because this situation which she is lying about is actually happening to obama supporters.

i think this is so stupid. some people will go to such extremes over a election. i think that woman needs to go to jail. people are trying to make it seem like people are being so violent over a race issue. i think its stupid and pathetic i think people just need to lay off of obama and just chill out until the election is over.

I fear it is less "mental illness", and more like pure political zealotry. Many people working on a campaign will go to outrageous lengths to get noticed by those they support and/or affect the election in their candidates' favor. You certainly don't need to be "mentally ill" to be a 20-yr-old looking for attention. Of course, I could question the sanity of anyone campaigning for McCain/Palin.

This story still trips me out; what in the world was she thinkin? I already knew that was a lie!!! I highly doubt if anyone is that hard core over some campaigning, come on now! This aint the 50' and 60's anymore, get over yaself!!!

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Something is wrong with this girl. I truly hope her phschiatric evaluations can help get her treatment. I also feel sorry for the McCain campaign. This cannot be good news for them at this point.