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At Veterans Conventions, GOP Candidate Criticizes Democrat's Opposition To The Surge
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- John McCain lies about taxes
According to analysis of the McCain tax plan in comparison with the Obama tax plan by the Tax Policy Center, recent McCain commercials that insist Obama wants to raise "your" taxes are lies.
Unless the ads are targeted for the very tiny group of the richest Americans. But that doesn''''t seem likely does it?
According to the analysis Obama''''s plan would cut taxes for everyone making $227,000 or less.
That is me and most every person and working family.
In fact, Obama''''s tax cuts for people who make less than $112,000 would be higher than those proposed by McCain.
The overwhelming majority of people in the country would see tax cuts under an Obama administration of around $600, for the lowest income tax payers to $2800 for people earning under $227,000. I think the Obama campaign pegs the average at about $1,000 per person.
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What is the difference between the two plans? Obama would raise taxes on the very wealthiest people. People with incomes between $227,000 and $603,000 would pay $12 more. That''''s three cheeseburgers. And the biggest increases would be imposed on the very richest, most successful people.
McCain, on the other hand, would give tax breaks to the very richest people equal to or greater than than the median income of working Americans. Up to $269,000 in tax breaks per individual. The average worker has to work about 5 years for the same amount.
The difference is in priorities. McCain would simply continue Bush''''s tax relief for the people who need it the least while starving the federal budget and cutting back on public services. All while waging a $10 billion per month war in Iraq for more oil and more profits for McCain''''s other constituency: Big Oil. - Reply to this comment
- Potential McCain VP Bobby Jindal Can%u2019t Think of Any McCain Ideas
from Think Progress:
Sunday on NBC%u2019s Meet the Press, host David Gregory asserted that the Republican Party %u2018used to be the party of big ideas.%u2019 Gregory then asked his guest Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), %u2018What%u2019s the big idea Senator McCain is campaigning on?%u2019 Jindal responded, %u2018I think there%u2019s several,%u2019 but couldn%u2019t provide an answer. Gregory asked again, %u2018Where are the new big ideas of the Republican Party that John McCain is championing?%u2019 And again Jindal couldn%u2019t provide an answer.
It is what we have been saying all along, take away the slander and smear of Obama and there is no actual McCain campaign. There is no nothing there.
Still don''t beleive me, go to the RNC.org website. Here is a sampling of what they have under *News*:
Saturday, August 16, 2008:
They Said It Flashback! Alec Baldwin On Obama''s Lack Of Experience
Friday, August 15, 2008:
In Case You Missed It: Barack Obama Blinks In Hillary Face-Off
Thursday, August 14, 2008:
Bankrupt on Credibility
Thursday, August 14, 2008:
In Case You Missed It: Obama''s War On Women
Wednesday, August 13, 2008:
Obama''s Social Insecurity
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008:
Obama: Weak on Bipartisanship
Monday, August 11, 2008:
They Said It! Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) On Obama
Monday, August 11, 2008:
Friend Updates Added To BarackBook
Saturday, August 09, 2008:
Obama Vs. Obama on Yucca Mountain
Friday, August 08, 2008:
Obama''''s Energy Wipeout
Friday, August 08, 2008:
In Case You Missed It: George Clooney To Sell Face Time To Boost Barack Obama''''s Coffers
Thursday, August 07, 2008:
Clinton vs. Obama: The Healing Process Was Far From Over
Thursday, August 07, 2008:
Barack Obama: My Pop-Culture Favorites
Tuesday, August 05, 2008:
Dr. NObama
Monday, August 04, 2008:
Obama Vs. Obama on Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Monday, August 04, 2008:
Rookie Confusion on Energy
Monday, August 04, 2008:
Happy Birthday, Barack Obama!
Monday, August 04, 2008:
Audacity Watch: O-Force One
Classic Karl Rove playbook - when you have no record to run on start making baseless accusations of your opponent. - Reply to this comment
- McCain Helped Break It, So He Owns It
Who has the better judgement, the man who advocated a Surge that had a minor role in saving Iraq from being an even bigger disaster or the man who said we shouldn%u2019t embark on that disastrous war to start with?
Matt Duss writes: %u201CThe good news is we have Al Qaeda on the ropes in Iraq. The bad news is we allowed Iraq to become a sanctuary (and recruiting poster and training ground and sectarian killing field) to start with, by invading Iraq.%u201D
McCain helped create the war in Iraq and, like many another war-booster, predicted it would be a cakewalk. He wants us to ignore his terrible judgement of 2001-2003 and is careful to only talk about 2007 onwards as if the rest happened in a different dimension. Now that better COIN tactics and a lotof help from folks who used to shoot at US troops have reduced violence but done nothing to usher in a new era of Iraqi reconciliation, he wants us to ignore all that and credit a small increase in troop numbers which he happened to support for %u201Cvictory%u201D.
The mainstream media seem willing to do just that, but that%u2019s no reason why he and they should get a free ride.
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Exxon John''s many positions on Iraq:
%u201CBut I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators.%u201D [NBC, 3/20/03]
%u201CIt%u2019s clear that the end is very much in sight.%u201D [ABC, 4/9/03]
%u201CThere%u2019s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shiahs. So I think they can probably get along.%u201D [MSNBC, 4/23/03]
%u201CThis is a mission accomplished." [This Week, ABC, 12/14/03]
%u201CI%u2019m confident we%u2019re on the right course.%u201D [ABC News, 3/7/04]
%u201CI think the initial phases of it were so spectacularly successful that it took us all by surprise.%u201D [CBS, 10/31/04]
But wait...
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"We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that''s the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war," he told a crowd of more than 800 at the community near Hilton Head Island. "The price is very, very heavy, and I regret it enormously." (2/07)
Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years %u2014 (cut off by McCain)
McCAIN: Make it a hundred. (1/08)
%u201CFrom the early days of this war, I feared the administration was pursuing a mistaken strategy, and I said so.%u201D (7/08) - Reply to this comment
- "Obama Tried To Legislate Iraq Loss"
Lying John goes over the top on this one. He''s not a "straight talker", he''s a untalented politician who shoots off his mouth so much, they spun it into a label, "straight talk". He''s jumped on the rove/gingrich bus down the low-road, doing that forced grin the whole way.
Even in his own strategy, he wants us to forget the 4 years of his BAD JUDGEMENTS in Iraq. He must be losing more marbles... - Reply to this comment
- John McCain knows all about winning wars - he served 5 years in a Vietnamese POW camp where HE did whatever the Vietnamese asked of him within 4 days after capture including making radio announcements for the Viet Cong - 30 of those messages by the way - he cooperated with the ENEMY.
Hmmmm, Our current president went AWOL during Vietnam and a current presidential candidate cooperated with the ENEMY During Vietnam.
Both Traitors to America!
Oh, George Bush in any other country that has elections would not be president! Every other country that supports voting - every vote counts - NOT in America - you votes did not elect Bush - an outdated Electoral Board elected Bush.
Soo - the last 8 years have been a LIE. - Reply to this comment
- Mission accomplished was the one true thing that has been said about Iraq. In spite of being led by dunderheads, and not having enough boots on the ground, our military did accomplish what it set out to do. The FAILURE in Iraq was the failure of the peace--the lack of a necessary political and economic solution to fix the broken country after the war. McCain, by his own admission has no understanding or experience in this. But when all you have is a hammer as the saying goes...In time, I suspect, we will see that the surge turns out to be a tide: ebbing and flowing between Iraq and Afghanistan to the pull of a death count.
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