Nonsense. McCain's attacks weren't based on facts. He called Obama a socialist when Obama proposed rescinding the Bush tax cuts on the highest bracket and giving refundable tax credits to low income, knowing full well there was nothing radical, much less socialist about it. McCain himself had been against the Bush taxes cuts and proposed to fund his health care plan with refundable tax credits. If Obama is a socialist, so is McCain.
At the last debate, McCain challenged Obama to give a full accounting of his relationship with Ayers and Obama did, then McCain says - like his hearing aid had been off - that Obama has never given a full account of his relationship. McCain repeatedly said that Obama had voted for tax increases for person's earning as little as $42,000. He repeatedly said Obama would raise taxes on everyone, when Obama's proposal was to cut taxes for everyone earning under $200,000.
Anyone interested should look at Factcheck.org and see for themselves how false many of the McCain/Palin accusations were.
I respected McCain before the campaign and I may again, but the unmistakeable truth is he tried to win through lies and innuendo and the American people responded accordingly.
I agree that John McCain was a great man and a man qualified to be president. He DID NOT represent the change the people were looking for nor did he have the powerful delivery that Obama had. Mike Huckabee did. If McCain would have chosen Huck as his vp, he would have gotten the change, the charisma, the executive experience and the team that could have won this election (and excited the base with a QUALIFIED vp). He gambled on Palin and lost....
Many Democrats did indeed look forward to voting for John McCain, whom they had long admired. But once he got the nomination, he chose instead to appeal to the worst elements of his party. He no longer was the man who defied Bush on torture, who bravely worked to regularize life for immigrants, who opposed the Bush tax cuts. He pandered instead to the right, repudiated all he had stood for, and picked an idiot for a running mate. What a surprise that Democrats abandoned him!
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Bravo, I could not have said it better! An excellent post!
Nonsense. McCain's attacks weren't based on facts. He called Obama a socialist when Obama proposed rescinding the Bush tax cuts on the highest bracket and giving refundable tax credits to low income, knowing full well there was nothing radical, much less socialist about it. McCain himself had been against the Bush taxes cuts and proposed to fund his health care plan with refundable tax credits. If Obama is a socialist, so is McCain.
At the last debate, McCain challenged Obama to give a full accounting of his relationship with Ayers and Obama did, then McCain says - like his hearing aid had been off - that Obama has never given a full account of his relationship. McCain repeatedly said that Obama had voted for tax increases for person's earning as little as $42,000. He repeatedly said Obama would raise taxes on everyone, when Obama's proposal was to cut taxes for everyone earning under $200,000.
Anyone interested should look at Factcheck.org and see for themselves how false many of the McCain/Palin accusations were.
I respected McCain before the campaign and I may again, but the unmistakeable truth is he tried to win through lies and innuendo and the American people responded accordingly.
I agree that John McCain was a great man and a man qualified to be president. He DID NOT represent the change the people were looking for nor did he have the powerful delivery that Obama had. Mike Huckabee did. If McCain would have chosen Huck as his vp, he would have gotten the change, the charisma, the executive experience and the team that could have won this election (and excited the base with a QUALIFIED vp). He gambled on Palin and lost....
Many Democrats did indeed look forward to voting for John McCain, whom they had long admired. But once he got the nomination, he chose instead to appeal to the worst elements of his party. He no longer was the man who defied Bush on torture, who bravely worked to regularize life for immigrants, who opposed the Bush tax cuts. He pandered instead to the right, repudiated all he had stood for, and picked an idiot for a running mate. What a surprise that Democrats abandoned him!
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