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October 07, 2008 5:01 PM

ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: The Republican National Committee is launching a new ad Wednesday that blasts Sen. Barack Obama’s new spending proposals as “crazy,” ramping up GOP attacks in five battleground states -- and continuing to position the RNC in opposition to the Wall Street bailout package.

The ad, which features the sound of a typewriter and letters on a screen but no other visuals, claims that Obama “would spend $1 TRILLION on top of our current national budget. . . . “On top of the $700 billion plan Congress just passed to cover failure on Wall Street . . .”

“Barack Obama’s plan: One trillion MORE. Sound crazy? It is.”

Brad Todd, who heads up the RNC’s “independent expenditure” arm, said in a statement that the ad is “unlike any other in this presidential campaign. Its only audible words are the legally required disclaimer and the ad includes no pictures or elaborate graphics. Senator Obama’s plans are so dramatically out of step with our country’s financial situation that no sales techniques are required to make the case.”

The ad will run in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, Todd said. He said the committee will spend $5.5 million over the next eight days on this and a previously released anti-Obama ad, which is airing in North Carolina, Florida, and Maine, and that also takes aim at Obama’s spending plans.

The $1 trillion figure refers to high-end estimates of the cost of Obama’s spending proposals over the entirety of a four-year term. The numbers has been disputed by some independent fact-checkers, who note that Obama has proposed spending cuts of a roughly similar level.

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Quick RNC - smear Obama to hide the massive Medicare cuts McCain announced! Did you see your poll numbers slipping in the over 70 crowd now?

Posted by: Paige | Oct 7, 2008 5:08:45 PM

The $1 trillion figure refers to high-end estimates of the cost of Obama’s spending proposals OVER THE ENTIRETY OF A FOUR YEAR TERM.
The numbers has been disputed by some independent fact-checkers, who note that Obama has proposed SPENDING CUTS OF A ROUGHLY SIMILAR LEVEL.

AND WHY DON'T THEY MENTION THAT THE FEW ACTUAL PLANS THAT MCCAIN DOES HAVE CREATES MORE OF A DEFICIT!

Posted by: Truth Matters | Oct 7, 2008 5:14:51 PM

same team
same tactics
same massive lies

9th year

throw these bums out.

Posted by: dl | Oct 7, 2008 5:17:34 PM

HERE IS WHY I WOULD VOTE FOR PALIN:

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-palling-around-wit.html

I don't see how a patroitic ALASKAN can afford to vote for anyone but Palin after seeing this Vedeo

Posted by: PatrioticAlaskan | Oct 7, 2008 5:25:57 PM

Rich Lowry on the clueless McCain camapign
"McCain has to meet a higher standard. Not having a compelling economic message before the financial crisis hit was malpractice; now it’s madness. McCain’s pet causes of bipartisanship and earmark reform don’t qualify as such a message. Bipartisanship is an empty concept; the parties can unite just as easily to pass foolhardy laws as necessary ones. Meanwhile, only John McCain would — as he did in the first debate —steer a discussion about a complex global credit crunch onto earmarked federal spending for bear DNA research.

McCain has suffered from his own manifest lack of interest in economic issues. He was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee for four years, but you’d never know it. He repeatedly misstates his only real tax proposal for the middle class, an increase in the dependent exemption. Often, he calls it a credit. In the first debate, he called it a dividend. He might as well lurch into Tina Fey territory and call it that “hoozie-what’s-it.” Most voters probably didn’t even know that McCain had a (creative) health-care plan until Obama began lambasting it."

Posted by: becky | Oct 7, 2008 5:32:00 PM

CRASH! There Goes McCain's Second Glass House Crashing Down!
Keating 5= 1st Glass House
Council for World Freedom= 2nd Glass House
Supporting Domestic Terrorists who Bombed Women's Clinics and Killed hundreds of people=3rd Glass House

Keep going McCain, by the end of the week you will be sleeping in a homeless shelter!

you have been on a US Govt health plan your entire life....but nobody else should have that benefit.

Palin accused Obama of exploiting the health care and Social Security issues to win votes among seniors in Florida.

“Our health-care plan will give millions of middle class Americans access to better health-care coverage without costing you a dime,” she said, saying middle class families would receive a $5,000 tax credit to buy coverage.

How can she say that with a straight face?  Has she not read McCain's health care plan.  It is paid for by taxing employer provided health care plans and cutting funding for Medicare and Medicaid.  And McCain wanted to privatize social security. Thank God that did not happen we would all be in an even bigger world of hurt now that the market is tanking.

Posted by: becky | Oct 7, 2008 5:34:38 PM

BILL CLINTON, IN ALL HIS SMARTNESS AND EFFICIENCY, COULD NOT DELIVER UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE..WHAT MAKES YOU THINK OBAMAM WILL?
IF YOU ARE COUNTING ON SANTA CLAUS OBAMA TO BRING YOU HEALTHCARE. REMEMBRE HE HAS TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN OTHER HANDOUTS, WE CANT AFFORD
REASON? WE DONT HAVE THE MONEY AND ITS TOO MUCH GIVEAWAY FROM OBAMA.

Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | Oct 7, 2008 5:37:59 PM

WHY MCCAIN HAS NOT BEEN SEEN IN PUBLIC IN THE LAST 2 DAYS.

McCain apparently had a dizzy spell and almost collapsed, but was caught by one of his FBI Security details.

Investigations are on trying to force McCain to release his latest medical records.

McCain has either developed prostate cancer or his skin cancer is back.

If any of this is true McCain has less than 3 years to live. And don't talk to me about his mother because she does not have cancer.

At what ages did McCain's father and grandfather die?

Just think about it for a moment my friends.

McCain will die in office if elected and Sarah Humpty Dumpty Palin will be President.

God Save America.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | Oct 7, 2008 5:40:18 PM

what's crazy is the skeezer and the geezer still don't have an economic plan...short of kill some moose while flying Cindy's plane

Posted by: NatFrankie | Oct 7, 2008 5:43:30 PM


YOU mean barack will actually will take money and fix education ,healthacre , infrastructure , energy .. things that create JOBS , what a NOVEL IDEA.

Instead of more going to companies and more WARS I would hope so.

Obama /biden

Posted by: sally | Oct 7, 2008 5:45:25 PM

$1 trillion dollars for health care and education for the American people

$0 trillion dollars for war for somebody else

works for me!

Posted by: NatFrankie | Oct 7, 2008 5:45:33 PM

It's not a smear campaign if it's the truth.

Posted by: Howdy Do! | Oct 7, 2008 5:56:26 PM

dream on GOP voters.....ALL YA LEADER'S WILL BE REPORTING TO OBAMA/BIDEN AFTER THE ELECTION. SO BE PREPARE FOR YOUR NEW ASSIGNMENT MOPPING OBAMA NEW WHITE HOUSE FLOOR.....HAHAHAHAHHA

Posted by: John | Oct 7, 2008 5:57:44 PM

Soooo,Obama's plan is crazy. Compared toooooo? The current one?

Posted by: hannah | Oct 7, 2008 6:03:48 PM

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.

Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," Miller said.

Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid at 9:30 a.m. local time, and "took a bunch of stuff."

Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for ACORN, released a statement saying the group has for months been turning over any suspicious registration information to elections officials. She said those officials routinely ignored their tips, and called the raid a "stunt."

“When we have identified suspicious applications, we have separated them out and flagged them for election officials. We have zero tolerance for fraudulent registrations. We immediately dismiss employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations," she said. "Today's raid by the secretary of state’s office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls.�

Neither the group, which hires canvassers to register voters, nor any employees have been charged or arrested for fraud or other crimes, said Miller, a Democrat.

But it's not the first time ACORN's been under investigation for registration irregularities. The raid is the latest of at least nine investigations into possible fraudulent voter registration forms submitted by ACORN -- the probes have involved ACORN workers in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Indiana and other states.

In 2006, ACORN also committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's history.

In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.

More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January to July 2008 "went into limbo because they were incomplete, inaccurate, or fraudulent," said James Terry, chief public advocate at the Consumers Rights League.

Posted by: HP Boston | Oct 7, 2008 6:04:45 PM

Voters conveniently forget that Reagan ran up huge deficits to finance Star Wars. Clinton left office with the economy in excellent shape heading toward surpluses not debt. Bush has run up the biggest debt in US history by cutting taxes for the wealthiest 1% (the failed trickle down policies of Reagan again) and financing a disastrous and unnecessary war in Iraq against the best interests of this country. Under Bush interest rates were kept absurdly low and deregulation with no oversight gave Wall St. the chance they needed to relive the Savings and Loan Scandal of the late 80's (Reagan & Bush I) but with even more dire consequences. Bush has mortgaged the future of this country to offshore interests including the Chinese and the Russians. McCain economic policies are identical to Bush's. We are near the greatest calamity since the Great Depression and McCain, who said two weeks ago that the economy was fundamentally sound wants to rewrite history and blame our misfortunes on the Democrats. What is this man smoking?


Posted by: jefflz | Oct 7, 2008 6:05:31 PM

People have to get out of the mindset that McCain's economic plan is just like Bush's - the only thing similar is extending tax cuts for businesses and that's something we don't want to end now anyway, when we're in the middle of an economic meltdown - that would be suicide. McCain's plan is about strengthening businesses (not taxing them more) and giving significant breaks to all families (tax breaks for health care, tuition vouchers, etc.) as well as providing necessary oversight and regulation for institutions to prevent another Fannie/Freddie debacle.

Posted by: Great Big Sigh ... | Oct 7, 2008 6:12:32 PM

jefflz - you forgot to mention that Bush warned Congress many times to get a better handle on Fannie/Freddie and McCain introduced legislation aimed at providing oversight (Biden opposed it) yet democrat after democrat argued that Fannie/Freddie were fine - no oversight needed. The Fannie/Freddie meltdown got the ball rolling and set the tone for Wall Street lending - the new low standards ultimately led to the high foreclosure rate in the housing market. You can't pin this economy on Bush. There's enough blame to go around.

Posted by: Cut and Paste | Oct 7, 2008 6:18:17 PM

Bush/McCain. No More Years.

Posted by: thebob.bob | Oct 7, 2008 6:18:37 PM

"YOU mean barack will actually will take money and fix education ,healthacre , infrastructure , energy .. things that create JOBS , what a NOVEL IDEA."

Yes, just look at all the good that he and Ayers did with the Annenburg Challenge and the $49.2 Million dollars....oh wait, it was a big waste of money with no results. You can expect 4 years of the same from an Obama administration, only the money won't be coming from a foundation, it will be coming directly out of our pockets.

Posted by: Mack | Oct 7, 2008 6:20:56 PM

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