Thursday, July 31, 2008
McCain = Lies
What has become of John McCain’s “Straight Talk”? His campaign has not put out an honest ad about Barack Obama yet.
According to factcheck.org, John McCain’s advertisements have either misstated or misrepresented Barack Obama’s positions every time he has put out an ad.
The Republicans first said that “Obama "voted 94 times for higher taxes." But their count is inflated and misleading.”[1] In fact, Barack Obama has never voted to increase taxes on anyone making less than a million dollars per year. John McCain also put out an ad which said falsely claimed that Barack Obama voted to raise taxes on those making $32,000 a year. Factcheck.org said ‘That's wrong.”[2] And, he has said he will cut taxes for the middle class. In reality, Obama’s own plan “would provide a tax cut of $502 for a non-married taxpayer earning $35,000.”
John McCain put out an ad which said had so many incorrect statements about the Columbian Free Trade Agreement that “gets nearly all its facts wrong.”[3] In fact, some numbers are so inflated as “to flunk third-grade arithmetic.” Barack Obama supports the “use of trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world and stand firm against agreements like the Central American Free Trade Agreement that fail to live up to those important benchmarks.”[4] Protecting American jobs is Barack Obama’s policy.
The Republicans have said that Barack Obama has “no new solutions”[5] to the energy problem. Barack Obama “has proposed $150 billion in spending over 10 years for biofuels, plug-in hybrids, low-emission coal plants and the rapid commercialization of other new, clean energy technologies. The ad also recycles the misleading claim that Obama has said "no" to nuclear. Obama said he is open to nuclear if it is clean and safe.”
So, who’s really given the American people “straight talk”? It’s not John McCain, George Bush and the Republicans.
But the beginning of this has only now turned to the ugliest possible scenario. John McCain and his cohorts have started to not-so-subtly introduce race into this contest. So much for McCain’s claim he wanted a civil campaign.
First he forthrightly suggests that Obama’s patriotism would lose a war in his desire to win a political race. Then his campaign puts out an ad which is a complete LIE about Obama ignoring the troops…and his ad has been refuted by just about every news organization around. Finally, his campaign has an ad which tries to tie Obama to white women of not so pure repute, Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton.
To quote “Blazing Saddles”, “Where’s the white women?”
It would be silly if it wasn’t so sad, so racial, so biased and so sick.
How anyone can support John McCain now that he has turned his back on all he has purported to stand for all these years?
Today, his campaign chair said that it is Obama who is playing the race card. Now that’s a bad joke. It’s also a LIE. Notice if you will that McCain’s campaign loves to LIE!!! They do it well!
Barack Obama believes that the American people are smart enough to see through the lies. He believes America is up to the task to conquer the problems facing us.
[1] Factcheck.org, “Tax Tally Trickery”, 7/3/08
[2] Factcheck.org, “The $32,000 Question”, 7/8/08
[3] Factcheck.org, “Errors in Espanol”, 7/8/08
[4] Barackobama.com, Statement on Free Trade
[5] Factcheck.org, “A False Accusation about Energy”, 7/9/08
According to factcheck.org, John McCain’s advertisements have either misstated or misrepresented Barack Obama’s positions every time he has put out an ad.
The Republicans first said that “Obama "voted 94 times for higher taxes." But their count is inflated and misleading.”[1] In fact, Barack Obama has never voted to increase taxes on anyone making less than a million dollars per year. John McCain also put out an ad which said falsely claimed that Barack Obama voted to raise taxes on those making $32,000 a year. Factcheck.org said ‘That's wrong.”[2] And, he has said he will cut taxes for the middle class. In reality, Obama’s own plan “would provide a tax cut of $502 for a non-married taxpayer earning $35,000.”
John McCain put out an ad which said had so many incorrect statements about the Columbian Free Trade Agreement that “gets nearly all its facts wrong.”[3] In fact, some numbers are so inflated as “to flunk third-grade arithmetic.” Barack Obama supports the “use of trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world and stand firm against agreements like the Central American Free Trade Agreement that fail to live up to those important benchmarks.”[4] Protecting American jobs is Barack Obama’s policy.
The Republicans have said that Barack Obama has “no new solutions”[5] to the energy problem. Barack Obama “has proposed $150 billion in spending over 10 years for biofuels, plug-in hybrids, low-emission coal plants and the rapid commercialization of other new, clean energy technologies. The ad also recycles the misleading claim that Obama has said "no" to nuclear. Obama said he is open to nuclear if it is clean and safe.”
So, who’s really given the American people “straight talk”? It’s not John McCain, George Bush and the Republicans.
But the beginning of this has only now turned to the ugliest possible scenario. John McCain and his cohorts have started to not-so-subtly introduce race into this contest. So much for McCain’s claim he wanted a civil campaign.
First he forthrightly suggests that Obama’s patriotism would lose a war in his desire to win a political race. Then his campaign puts out an ad which is a complete LIE about Obama ignoring the troops…and his ad has been refuted by just about every news organization around. Finally, his campaign has an ad which tries to tie Obama to white women of not so pure repute, Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton.
To quote “Blazing Saddles”, “Where’s the white women?”
It would be silly if it wasn’t so sad, so racial, so biased and so sick.
How anyone can support John McCain now that he has turned his back on all he has purported to stand for all these years?
Today, his campaign chair said that it is Obama who is playing the race card. Now that’s a bad joke. It’s also a LIE. Notice if you will that McCain’s campaign loves to LIE!!! They do it well!
Barack Obama believes that the American people are smart enough to see through the lies. He believes America is up to the task to conquer the problems facing us.
[1] Factcheck.org, “Tax Tally Trickery”, 7/3/08
[2] Factcheck.org, “The $32,000 Question”, 7/8/08
[3] Factcheck.org, “Errors in Espanol”, 7/8/08
[4] Barackobama.com, Statement on Free Trade
[5] Factcheck.org, “A False Accusation about Energy”, 7/9/08
Friday, July 25, 2008
Lickings no more...
I interrupt my life as a almost, from time to time, political blogger to express sadness on a personal level.
Today, we had to let go of our of our cats. In many ways, she was my cat. Splotch had been very sick for a couple of days, and it became obvious that she needed to be put down today. My last moments with her were spent holding her in my arms. She just sweetly looked at me, even though she was having so much trouble breathing.
So the cat who slept with me almost every night, who licked my forehead so much that it often got to the point of pain, who would look at me working in my recliner and would do her best to walk across my keyboard has left me. For good.
And I am sad, and I will be for a few days. She was so wonderful, so sweet. I will miss my Splotchie. May she rest in peace.
Today, we had to let go of our of our cats. In many ways, she was my cat. Splotch had been very sick for a couple of days, and it became obvious that she needed to be put down today. My last moments with her were spent holding her in my arms. She just sweetly looked at me, even though she was having so much trouble breathing.
So the cat who slept with me almost every night, who licked my forehead so much that it often got to the point of pain, who would look at me working in my recliner and would do her best to walk across my keyboard has left me. For good.
And I am sad, and I will be for a few days. She was so wonderful, so sweet. I will miss my Splotchie. May she rest in peace.
