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McCain: Obama Will 'Say Anything to Get Elected'
October 22, 2008 9:53 PM
ABC News' Bret Hovell reports: John McCain told a crowd in Cincinnati Wednesday night that his rival Barack Obama will “say anything to get elected.”
“This week we learned Senator Obama is concerned that his tax plan is seen as welfare,” McCain said, talking about Obama’s plan to provide tax credits that are refundable to people who may not have any income tax liability. “So he added a work requirement. Thirteen days to go to the election and he changed his tax plan because the American people had learned the truth about it, and they didn’t like it.
“That’s another example, my friends, he’ll say anything to get elected,” McCain told the crowd.
McCain’s criticism of Obama’s tax plan has become a crucial component of his closing argument on the stump. He dedicates a lot of his stump speech now to criticizing Obama for comments he made last week when he said he was in favor of “spreading” wealth around.
But he had not, until Wednesday, said that Obama would do anything to get elected.
October 22, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (425)
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You call this an objective headline? I thought you were a news organization, not an arm of the McCain Communications Office.
Posted by: Alan | Oct 22, 2008 10:28:42 PM
This is funny!!! I think is the other way around. As a republican I must admit that McCain is desparate at this point and saying anything to get elected. Letss think a little about this!! The reason he choose Sarah Palin was to try to get those Hillary female supporters..Well It did not work. Now McCain is trying to say anything to get elected. Shame.
Posted by: Mike-Pa | Oct 22, 2008 10:28:56 PM
Shame on OBAMA and other who are supporting him just blindly.. this shows the real nature and cunningness of OBAMA Hussain.
Posted by: rosie jordan | Oct 22, 2008 10:29:12 PM
The subject hits home. Obama cannot be trusted.
Posted by: Danny | Oct 22, 2008 10:29:27 PM
This coming from the guy who said he knows how to find Osama Bin Laden and will do it when he's elected. Damn he's got nerve.
Posted by: Brent | Oct 22, 2008 10:29:40 PM
All of the mainstream media only focus on one thing and that's Obama, but they only focus on what they want to see, none of you air the things the people want to know... how about demanding an explanation of his background or his affiliations... how about some tough questions for once, like what exactly does he mean when he says spread the wealth, or how come you never questioned Bill Ayers on his actions... every one of you let this man walk around like he walks on water, but no one dares question him and when someone does, Joe the Plumber, they become vilified for it... no one has dared question Obama they way they did poor Joe over in Ohio, and even when the media is called out for it, they just ignore the question too... its pitiful and disgusting...
Posted by: Rachel | Oct 22, 2008 10:30:03 PM
I am ready for some patriotic bipartisanship from folks who post comments on web sites. It is now clear who the better candidate is this year and that's just fine. I'm sure everything will work out at least as well as it did over the past eight years and it will likely be a much better eight years for each of us, for our country, and for the wold. Let's do it.
Posted by: Thoren | Oct 22, 2008 10:30:52 PM
Not to worry! Change is coming!
At the end of American President Palin's 1st term in 2012,
Christian American traditional values will no longer be whispered in secret at the White House and in Washington, D.C. (They will be shouted "Loud & Proud" from rooftops all across our Christian American Nation!)
There will no longer be any room for any forms of democracy, pluralism, or tolerance, of people who differ from us, in our country.
The religious and political liberty of the enemies of God in this country will finally be denied.
Restoration of our Christian nation and traditional American values will be complete. (Just 4 more years!)
America, along with the rest of the world, will be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law.
Convicted criminals will be outsourced to foreign countries for incarceration. (Just like American jobs!)
And that's not all!
The American portion of The Protocols of the Elders will finally be completed in ourcountry, by our American Evangelical Church/Republican National Party alliance and.....
Then The Prince will arrive, and he will make all political / religious parties, and elections both unnecessary and irrelevant!
And I can't wait!
(this) "Country First!" (the rest later!)
"Support our troops, keep America free, VOTE McCAIN-PALIN!"
"Drill, Baby Drill!"
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
- Beloved American Founding Father, Freemason, Nephilim - Illuminati, & 3rd President Thomas Jefferson
“In politics, nothing happens ‘by accident.’ If it happened, you can bet it was ‘planned’ that way.”
-American President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Posted by: american_patriot | Oct 22, 2008 10:31:26 PM
ACORN = Distraction for those too ignorant to realize it.. looks like there are quite a few of them out there, just proving PT Barnum was correct well ahead of his time.
Posted by: willy | Oct 22, 2008 10:31:41 PM
well you have had 8 years of so called "small" government to give the USA the most massive public debt in its history - I suspect its time not just vote for a deomcrat president, but almost beg for one.Its a myth that republican governments tax and spend less. The public finances were run in surplus in the 90's.
Posted by: Mimp | Oct 22, 2008 10:32:50 PM
CNN and MSNBC is a disgrace to the profession of journalizm ... They twist the truth and lie to support their liberalism
They have turned off so many of their viewers. I am one of them. I used to watch CNN EVERY EVENING FOR 3 HOURS ...
NO MORE ... I AM WATCHING FOX NEWS INSTEAD every night. Thank God for Fox News. I even thank God now for the outrageous RushLimbaugh .. Imagine that
AND I WONDER WHO CNN THINK THEY ARE TALKING TO ... CAUSE AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED, WE HAVE NOT HEARD A WORD OF WHAT THEIR PUNDITS HAVE SAID FOR MONTHS NOW ...
MUST BE TERRIBLE TO BE RUNNING YOUR NONSENSICAL MOUTH FOR HOURS ON THE AIR AND NOONE IS LISTENING ...
Posted by: PatheticCNN_MSNBC | Oct 22, 2008 10:33:13 PM
ABC: Obama Alters Tax Plan to Rebut McCain
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/obama-alters-ta.html?cid=135954375
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Ahahaha! Another flip-flop by Barack Obama. This can certainly be classified as the "mother of all flip-flops"!!
Barack Obama is a closet Marxist!
America wake up.
Posted by: Natasha | Oct 22, 2008 10:33:50 PM
A REPUBLICAN HALLOWEEN TRADITION
THE OCTOBER SURPRISE
Race innuendos, terrorist stew
More Reverend Wright evil brew
No money left, do the sums
But something wicked this way comes
Palin opens her crooked mouth
To fan the hatred in the south
‘Kill him’ blurts from drunken gums
When something wicked this way comes
October surprise will tell the tale
Will Evil win or will it fail?
Karl Rove schemes with his vile chums
And something wicked this way comes
McCain has shown that there is nothing that he will not do,
nothing he will not say to get elected.
A man of Honor?
Corporations First, Country Last.
Posted by: seemstome | Oct 22, 2008 10:34:50 PM
NH voter,
Screaming in all caps reveals too much.
Look, I'd be upset of Mr. Obama was going to lose too, but every newswire in
the country is reporting the same thing on this one, the fact that $150,000 of your party's money was spent on clothing for the Palins, including baby clothes for their precious son, all the while they claim to be "pro American" and just average Joes. They are not. It's all right to own that fact and still support your candidate. There is no need to try to throw it back in the face of Mr. Obama. Oddly, you even mention the ridiculous lipstick on a pitbull issue your paty raised. That's the problem. Palin was the lipstick in that expression, and she's revealed that perhaps she's the...oh, I won't even say it. She got caught red-handed, and she will either have answers for your party on this one or she won't. It never works to throw it back at your opponent, but I'm sure you feel better doing so.
Obama/Biden '08/'12
Posted by: NH hysteric | Oct 22, 2008 10:34:53 PM
HA hA ---- McCain (the pot) criticizes Obama ( the kettle) Too funny - lol!
Posted by: Rev. Ike | Oct 22, 2008 10:35:29 PM
I can't wait until Obama loses and the media will have to spend the next six month "investigating" how the polls were so wrong.
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Posted by: wengdongqin | Oct 22, 2008 10:36:23 PM
I agree who in the hell is voting for McCain...No smart ones. Sarah Palin..What a joke.....My gosh I am a republican voting for the best team and that is not MCCAIN/PALIN. Folks McCain looks ill, angry and this women is just waiting to see if he dies to become the president., Can you imagine, Sarah Palin your president. Thats scary. I aske all of you republicans is Sarah Palin the best we can do???
Posted by: Harry Miller | Oct 22, 2008 10:36:36 PM
The right wing commentary will just get more and more ideological and indeed hysterical. It will continue to try to paint Obama what he is not. It will continue to try to destroy his character. That is their only hope. It is not going to work.
To those who spouting Socialist. Well, if Obama is a socialist, then McCain and Bush are bush-wacking Pirates, dressed in business suits. In league with those running some of the the large businesses these days with "golden parachutes", with special note of the oil companies, car companies and the investment banks. All of them crying "deregulation, deregulation", "self regulation, self regulation", "limits to liability", "limits to liability", etc....
The American people are starting to tune out the Republican Party. And rightly so. I think the reason is obvoius - America as a Nation trumps the Republican Party. Many are starting to see through the Republican facade. William Buckley Jr. gets it, Colin Powell really gets it, but the Party Leaders and demagogues do not - especially people like Rush, Bush, Bachmann and and de Rothschild. The Party is so imbued in its own Propaganda, in its own sense of Superiority and Self Righteousness, that it has indeed lost its way.
The Party has something of a Maoist sentiment of being the ruling Party and the Ruling Class. In spite of the dissent of most of the Nation. Real Republicans need to seize the levers of the Party, tear it down and rebuild from the grass roots up. Its ownership is too centered in selfish ideological hands and its philosophy has gone Piratical; way too right wing. I think it is way out of the mainstream. For so long it has been there, and held its ground by moving the mainstream and demonizing the left. No more.
I believe that Republicans do not have a lock on conservatism - indeed, Obama is a true pragmatist and he knows that you need to be fiscally conservative to be more socially liberal. Otherwise it does not add up. He is not really a liberal. Obama and the Democrats also understand you can't let the Foxes run the Hen Houses, and certainly not under self policing policies. And certainly not with limits on liability if they eat all the Hens and can't replace them when caught.
Republicans today do not understand the concept of collective. This is mostly because they are the ones that are benefiting from the Caveman's survival of the fittest ideas and the "ownership" society. They have the money and the power and they view and work politics to maintain it. They feel entitled and they pay lip service to social policies while generally demonizing them as being something unAmerican. When, indeed America needs to shift away from the extreme right wing to a more common sense approach.
Republican Party leaders and their rich backers want to keep giving the mainstream masses a wind up toy. A Bush, a Palin, a McCain or any Barbie or Ken will do. Just dress 'em up and get 'em talkin' just like ole "Joe Six Pack" and "Joe the Plumber" whoever that is. Its sure not you or me. Let them think their leaders are just like you. This has kept the masses happy, while Republicans and cronies eat the Hens.
Of course, when the Hens are noticed missing, it will be someone else' fault. Probably the Democrats somehow, it does not matter how, or someone in Iraq. No wait, it might be Putin, or possibly its Castro, no wait he's almost dead, okay then, Chavez ...... Or maybe that Muslim Arab Socialist African Malaysian Hawaiian and UnAmerican Obama...... And so the tomfoolery goes........
Liberals are not socialists. The latter is a word sullied by dictators and megalomaniacs. Theirs' is a false concept of socialism, used for selfish gain and to keep the masses poor and in chains. As McCain has said - strong backs, or the backbone of America is that American laborer. A back strong enough to carry the malarkey called Republican Conservatism or, I think, Piratical Conservative is more fitting.
There is no stronger Nation than one with a well run economic engine. One that is fairly and sensibly regulated. One that shares the wealth equitably. One that is built on morally sound incentive systems for its operators. One with a collective advancement and support system for all its members.
Republicans as much or more than any others will tell you that you don't send into battle men without protection and weapons. You don't send men that are unskilled and untrained in the use of weapons. You don't win battles by leaving your compatriots unprotected. And you don't leave the weak and wounded behind. Their rescue is the mark of heroes. If its heroic in the battlefields of war, why not so in the battlefields of life?
America is indeed headed for a brighter future with Obama than with McCain.
Posted by: PaulStewart9 | Oct 22, 2008 10:37:41 PM
Obama will say anything to get elected or doo anything to show he is a leader. Today for example he was on tv with a lineup of old dudes and flags to counter Biden's comments LOL
Also funny tonight to watch Campbell Brown on CNN tonight trying to get from the Gov. of California to answer if Obama was ready to be President. His answer? NOTHING!! lol
Posted by: Mary | Oct 22, 2008 10:38:10 PM
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