Obama Hits McCain For Tax Cut Flip-Flop

Says Arizona Senator Reversed His Position To Win The GOP Nomination

(AP)  Democratic Sen. Barack Obama
said Thursday that Sen. John McCain reversed his position on President Bush's deep tax cuts in order to win the Republican presidential nomination, one of his sharpest criticisms yet of the Arizona senator he hopes to face this fall.

Criticizing GOP efforts to extend major tax cuts from Bush's first term and to eliminate the estate tax, Obama said: "These are all steps that John McCain rightly said were irresponsible when they first came up."

"He made a decision to reverse himself on that," Obama told reporters as he flew from Chicago to Washington for a series of Senate votes on budget issues.

"That was how, I guess, you got your ticket punched to be the Republican nominee," he said of McCain. "But he was right then, and he's wrong now."

McCain has said he supports extending the tax cuts, which he initially voted against, because the economy is struggling and tax reductions offer some stimulus.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said in a statement that if Obama is nominated, "the American people will have a clear choice: John McCain will cut taxes while Senator Obama will raise them, hurting our economy and costing jobs for hardworking Americans."

Obama has proposed an array of subsidies for higher education, health care and other costs hitting middle-class families. He said he believes he can pay for such plans by closing tax loopholes, placing a new tax on carbon emissions, phasing out the Iraq war and ending the Bush tax cuts for the nation's highest earners.

"We have identified the cuts that we think are available, or the changes in our tax code that are available to pay for our middle-class tax cut as well as our proposals to fund higher education and so on," the Illinois senator said.

He said, however, "There will be a lot of special interests and lobbyists that will resist the kinds of changes that I've proposed."

Asked if he would scale back his agenda if some of his proposed tax increases fail, Obama said, "I am a strong believer in pay-go," a term for avoiding new deficits by paying as you go. "So adhering to pay-go means that if I couldn't find the revenues or reduce spending in other areas, then I couldn't pay for my proposals."

[pepperp1]

Like it or not Obamas got the right stuff. Obama will be the next President of the United States of America.


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Posted by david1737 at 02:15 PM : Mar 14, 2008


to you maybe but not to the rest of us, no thank you you can have the guy and his strange anti American entourage and questionable ethical behaviors relating to earmarks for his wife employers and his political patron now on trial for corruption. Not to mention his perceived anti American adviser and family.

I%u2019ll take the old guy McCain thank you as long as he picks the right VP a non loon.

[pepperp1]

ahh Mr. Hope people in glass houses should not throw bricks and attack and threaten 71 year old men and women
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One wonders how the news of Obama''s earmark for a hospital was shortly followed by his wife getting about a $200,000 raise from that hospital will change the election dynamic.

ahhh Haven%u2019t heard ONE Dem not ONE disavow this fraud with tax payers money, ....Mrs Obama no more lectures about who you are proud of please....Mrs Obama no more lectures about who you are proud of please....obviously our hard earned tax dollars being used for her interest was not enough %u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026%u2026..



Yeah new kind of politic, and buy the family home with a indicted felon, have a beloved Rev who believes rich white people and the KKK run GOD DAMMMNNN America

Obama has no creds here, certainly not to attack a true American hero like John McCain who has fought since his involvement in the Keating 5 bailout against excess and he is a war hero at least he has a record he can flop on and I take him at his word on why he changed his position.

Explain this one Dems go ahead tell us WHY, did you not review the small record your front runner has............move on leave John McCain alone

[david1737]

Like it or not Obamas got the right stuff. Obama will be the next President of the United States of America.

[xzonz]

jason_randon:
have my new middle name HUSSEIN inserted in my blog name. incase youve missed its
fashionable to have a HUSSEIN middle name in the blogs and its really catching up. you are free to check politico.com

[blkpresident]

Infidel_Us,

Let me speak real slow so you finally get it: O B A M A is running for president. N O T his pastor. Can you hear me now?! Face it, Hillary''s pipe-dream about a woman becoming president is over. OLD man McCain is way too old. So, Obama is the real choice here. Be smart--elect a man, a young man.

[getcentered]

"McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, Senator Obama will raise them(taxes), hurting our economy and costing jobs for hardworking Americans."

Wait? Whose policies are costing jobs? I mean after the wars began and the Department of Homeland Security was opened, what jobs are they saying Republican policies created? Maybe TSA?

Actually, how do the job creation numbers compare from last Presidents?

[infidel_us]

Ubama better start figuring out how he''s going to explain away 20 years at a ''church'' with a sensationally bigoted ''pastor''.

[rowdytexan2]

The King of flip flops attacks someone else on their stances. This is kinda humorous if you need a good laugh.

[blkpresident]

artanis2008,

Sounds like you, Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro have a lot in common--in spite of playing the race card, you guys are losing. After PA., just get lost and stop losing. Hillary, read my lips: America isn''t ready for a woman president. OLD man McCain, have you had your geritol today? Now be a good boy and get ready fo your nap OLD man. Obama is the only one still standing who is man enough and young enough to serve out a full term. So, rather than bickering back and forth, simply accept that Obama is the only real choice here.

[blkpresident]

RowdyTexan2,

After PA., Hillary will simply have to accept this simple truth: America needs a man to govern out of the White House. She and the Geraldine wannebes can try again in 2016. When I say a man, let me also say a young and healthy one, not a OLD one like McCain. Word on the street is that the old geezer is ducking Obama and hiding behind Hillary''s apron. Scare yet OLD man? Better be...

[blkpresident]

jason-randon,

Obama doesn''t need YOU. Face it, Clinton is only a woman; OLD McCain is simply too old, so Obam is the only real choice here, regardless of his middle name. After PA., the only cabinet Hillary will be considering is the one above her kitchen stove. Bring on OLD McCain so he can be next in line to experience the Obama shuffle. Scared yet OLD man? Better be...

[thinkharder-]

Well, I was once a Barak HUSSEIN OBama supporter because Uh...he inspires me and......he speaks for Change and Hope.
Posted by jason_randon

I would be willing to bet every penny in my account that you ar being far from truthful here. You see, no one goes from being an Obama suporter to being a blatant bigot. You capitalization of his middle name, as if trying to drive home a point for all your fellow bigots to adhere to, is indication enough. Keep you childish, reverse psychological ploys in your head. That''s the only place they work.

[jason_randon]

Well, I was once a Barak HUSSEIN OBama supporter because Uh...he inspires me and......he speaks for Change and Hope.

Now I come to my senses after seeing what he is really about and regret I voted for him in VA Prime

I believe his speeches do not have any "Beef" in it.

If Ya need Hope you are already hopeless .....

Inspiring does not put food on the table and pays for your college tuition.


he places too much on race card

[jason_randon]

Well, I was once a Barak HUSSEIN OBama supporter because Uh...he inspires me and......he speaks for Change and Hope.

Now I come to my senses after seeing what he is really about and regret I voted for him in VA Prime

I believe his speeches do not have any "Beef" in it.

If Ya need %u201CHope%u201D you are already hopeless.....

Inspiring does not put food on the table and pays for your college tuition.


he places too much on race card

[jason_randon]

Well, I was once a Barak HUSSEIN OBama supporter because Uh...he inspires me and......he speaks for Change and Hope.

Now I come to my senses after seeing what he is really about and regret I voted for him in VA Prime

I believe his speeches do not have any "Beef" in it.

If Ya need %u201CHope%u201D you are already hopeless.....

Inspiring does not put food on the table and pays for your college tuition.

He plays too much on race cards

[popstom1]

Blk you got your draft card

[brianbwb-2009]

"McCain''''s pastor and personal friend has made racist comments and preached on how the America is responsible for 9/11" I wonder why the press isn''''t reporting this? Oh yes, it''''s because it''''s OBAMA''''s pastor and friend that made these comments. So it''''s not worth reporting." Posted by ritewingman

Regardless of who said it, Seeing as how Al Qaeda is a creation of the CIA, and claimed responsibility, how is the statement untrue?

[rowdytexan2]

accept responsibility for my own remarks and they shouldn''''t reflect on Obama in anyway. I''''m suggesting that Hillary should simply abandon her pipe-dream that a woman will ever be president--not Mr. Obama--so please judge him on his own statements and not mine. Face it, Hillary lost. Get over it already. Join her for a bake off or something. Bring on OLD man McCain, so he can have the Obama shuffle unleashed on his old ***.


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Posted by BLKPRESIDENT at 10:43 PM : Mar 13, 2008

Too bad, Hillary''s not going to and her supporters think she shouldn''t. I can see now how Mr. Obama got his votes, it''s no wonder at all, by the example you set.

[clifden6]

If a Three Trillion Dollar War is not a tax then what is it? NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Iraq war has contributed to the U.S. economic slowdown and is impeding an economic recovery, Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says.
"It used to be thought that wars are good for the economy. No economist really believes that anymore," Stiglitz said in an interview.
Stiglitz and co-author Linda Bilmes write in their book, "The Three Trillion Dollar War" (W.W. Norton),
To illustrate how the money could be spent elsewhere, Bilmes cited the annual U.S. budget for autism research -- $108 million -- which is spent every four hours in Iraq. A trillion dollars could have hired 15 million additional public school teachers for a year or provided 43 million students with four-year scholarships to public universities, the book says.

When McCain says he doesn''t understand economics, I believe him.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said in a statement that if Obama is nominated, "the American people will have a clear choice: John McCain will cut taxes while Senator Obama will raise them, hurting our economy and costing jobs for hardworking Americans."

[artanis2008]

I read earlier today where someone has been giving FOX a hard time because they dont give equal air time to blacks. It has just been released that FOX is going to air 3 hours of COPS every night to remedy that.