McCain Says Obama Insensitive to the Poor; Also, Pigs Fly.
- added April 28, 2008
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- mako2424
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The GOP nominee-in-waiting rapped his Democratic rival for opposing his idea to suspend the tax on fuel during the summer, a proposal that McCain believes will particularly help low-income people who usually have older cars that guzzle more gas.
"I noticed again today that Sen. Obama repeated his opposition to giving low-income Americans a tax break, a little bit of relief so they can travel a little further and a little longer, and maybe have a little bit of money left over to enjoy some other things in their lives," McCain said. "Obviously Sen. Obama does not understand that this would be a nice thing for Americans, and the special interests should not be dictating this policy."
The Arizona senator deflected questions about his record on the Bush administration's tax cuts — he initially opposed them but now supports extending them — by again criticizing Obama.
"Sen. Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax, which would have a direct effect on 100 million Americans," McCain said. "That means he has no understanding of the economy and that he is totally insensitive to the hopes and dreams and ambitions of 100 million Americans who will be affected by his almost doubling of the capital gains tax."
In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Obama said McCain "not only wants to continue some of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations, he actually wants to extend them, and he hasn't told us really how he's going to pay for them. It is irresponsible. And the irony is he said it was irresponsible."
Obama also said he would not raise the capital gains tax higher than it was under President Reagan and added, "I'm mindful that we've got to keep our capital gains tax to a point where we can actually get more revenue."
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John McCain, a Republican, is saying that Barack Obama, a Democrat, is insensitive to the plight of poor people. Hmmm...didn't see that one coming.
In a related story, Hillary Clinton protests saying "Hey! Stop ignoring me! I'm still here dammit!"
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I've responded to this posted by someone else, so I'm cutting and pasting it here - and I like the "pigs fly" comment:
Right McCain. See, this is how it would go: the government suspends tax on fuel for three reasons;
1) to make Ripusoffican's look good;
2) to keep the economy artificially propped up until after the elections so as not to COMPLETELY eliminate any chance of him (or any other Ripusoffican) elected come November for the tremendous damage THEY have inflicted on this country's economy;
3) because as always with such tax cuts, it is the oil companies who will benefit most because it will allow them to increase the price all the more putting the money in their pocket rather than in the US governments - don't thing that's how it will happen? That's exactly what will happen.
4) Who else stands to benefit from this? Surely not the little guy. Big companies of course! Those you consume thousands and millions of dollars of fuel per day / week / month.
That old McBain is obviously an elitist thinking that $50.00 less in fuel tax for the summer is going to make a difference in my life! What an (pardon my French) a$$hole.
I'll tell you what MCNochanceinhelltogetelected, I'll contribute my money to Obama.
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- VoyagerFilms
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Here is some straight talk from McCain: Our Military is broken, I'm going to fix it. We are going to up our recruitment numbers to fight the "War on Terror" by offering more benifits to those who enlist."
However he voted against more benifits to vetrens. Weirdo
