John McCain and his campaign has waged a war against the media, crying sexism whenever someone questions his VP candidate Sarah Palin’s credentials, as if the American People will just say “OK, We’ll take your word for it John.”
Interestingly enough, however, is the fact that John McCain himself can easily be considered sexist for his stance on equal pay for women.
The new Barack Obama ad attacks this at it’s core. John McCain thinks equal pay for women would be too great of a burden on business. McCain goes on to say that women (in general) need more education & training. Wow. Now that sounds sexist to me.
How low will the McCain campaign go to try to win this election? It has become apparent that McCain and his advisers are going to do whatever possible to steer votes away from Barack Obama. The latest flat-out blatant lie is as vile as they come. His latest ad is accusing Obama of supporting legislation to, as he put it, “to offer comprehensive sex education to kindergartners.” The tone of the ad is “Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama, Wrong on education, Wrong for your family.”
Margaret Talev of McClatchy newspapers states, ” This is a deliberately misleading accusation. It came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain’s votes on public education. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12. But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach ‘age-appropriate’ sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.”
Wow! I guess McCain could care less about our young children knowing what is inappropriate in this age of increasing sexual predators. Worst off, he’s deliberately trying to fool Americans into thinking all this bill was about was teaching Sex Ed to 5 year olds. This is the same technique they are using for Sarah Palin and her “I said thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere, when in fact she supported it up to the time it started gaining negative publicity. It’s also the same tactic used by the GOP to make Americans think Obama will raise taxes for everyone, when in actuality, he is only planning on raising taxes for 10% of Americans.
According to Tax Policy Centers updated analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates’ tax plans, the truth is in the pudding.
The two candidates’ tax plans would have sharply different distributional effects. Senator McCain’s tax cuts would primarily benefit those with very high incomes, almost all of whom would receive large tax cuts that would, on average, raise their after-tax incomes by more than twice the average for all households. Many fewer households at the bottom of the income distribution would get tax cuts and those tax cuts would be small as a share of after-tax income. In marked contrast, Senator Obama offers much larger tax breaks to low- and middle-income taxpayers and would increase taxes on high-income taxpayers.
Will McCain and Palin ever tell the truth during this campaign? I guess the truth is subjective, and the GOP’s Objective is the White House, by any means necessary.
Although, the way people have been worshiping every word of Sarah Palin, I think owning one of these dolls would be tantamount to worshiping a false god, which is a sin. I’m sure that’s not the reason why people would buy one, or is it?
I have no problems with souvenirs or mementos from this election. Bumper stickers, yard signs, buttons, etc. has always been a part of elections. It’s a simple way to let people know where you stand, or at best, gives one a sense of belonging to a particular party or cause.
Well get ready to add action figure dolls to those mementos. Sorry, I’m not feeling the Obama figure. They’re calling it “Beach Blanket Obama.” Looks more like a street thug with his drawers showing. Put that man in a suit! WTF?
Sarah Palin Action Figure, John McCain Action Figure, Beach Blanket Obama. WTF?
The Bridge to Nowhere argument isn’t going much of anywhere.
Despite significant evidence to the contrary, the McCain campaign continues to assert that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the federal government “thanks but no thanks” to the now-famous bridge to an island in her home state.
The McCain campaign released a television advertisement Monday morning titled “Original Mavericks.” The narrator of the 30-second spot boasts about the pair: “He fights pork-barrel spending. She stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.”
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Gov. Palin, who John McCain named as his running mate less than two weeks ago, quickly adopted a stump line bragging about her opposition to the pork-barrel project Sen. McCain routinely decries.
But Gov. Palin’s claim comes with a serious caveat. She endorsed the multimillion dollar project during her gubernatorial race in 2006. And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere.
“We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge,” Gov. Palin said in August 2006, according to the local newspaper, “and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative.” The bridge would have linked Ketchikan to the airport on Gravina Island. Travelers from Ketchikan (pop. 7,500) now rely on ferries.
A year ago, the governor issued a press release that the money for the project was being “redirected.”
“Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport, but the $398 million bridge is not the answer,” she said. “Despite the work of our congressional delegation, we are about $329 million short of full funding for the bridge project, and it’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island. Much of the public’s attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects here. But we need to focus on what we can do, rather than fight over what has happened.”
On Monday in Missouri, Gov. Palin put it this way: “I told Congress thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere. If the state wanted to build a bridge we would built it ourselves.”
Senior adviser Mark Salter pointed to her role in killing the project while in office and allocating the money elsewhere. When pressed further that it was actually Congress that stopped the earmark, Mr. Salter said: “She stopped it, too. She did her part.” Mr. Salter added that he welcomed a fight over earmarks with the Obama campaign.
Democratic candidate Barack Obama used a town-hall style event in Flint, Mich., to attack Gov. Palin over the “Bridge to Nowhere” debate. He accused the vice presidential nominee of lobbying for the bridge and then hiding her initial position when she ran for governor and the project became unpopular.
“You can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just recreate yourself. The American people aren’t stupid,” he said. It’s like “being for it before you were against it,” Sen. Obama said, a reference to a damaging statement John Kerry made in 2004.
Why is this one issue such a big deal? Sen. McCain’s anti-earmarks stance has been paramount to his campaign. The Arizona senator has blamed everything from the Minneapolis bridge collapse to Hurricane Katrina on Congress’s willingness to stuff bills full of pork barrel spending.
As such, Gov. Palin’s image as a “reformer” is part of the storyline the McCain campaign needs to complement the top of its ticket. Her quip about passing on the bridge and “building it ourselves” has been a staple of her stump.
But she’s drawn considerable fire as result. Sen. Obama’s campaign released an advertisement pointing out her original support of the bridge. And on Monday, an Obama staffer emailed a photo of Gov. Palin holding up a T-shirt that was made shortly after the bridge caught national attention. It reads “NOWHERE ALASKA” and “99901,” the zip code of Ketchikan.
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The McCain campaign jumped back with spokesman Brian Rogers calling the attacks “hysterical.”
“The only people ‘lying’ about spending are the Obama campaign. The only explanation for their hysterical attacks is that they’re afraid that when John McCain and Sarah Palin are in the White House, Barack Obama’s nearly $1 billion in earmark spending will stop dead in its tracks,” Mr. Rogers said.
At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor — which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.
After watching the GOP Convention last night, I came away feeling all dirty. Listening to Rudy can make one feel that way. He of course is the biggest hypocrite of them all. I didn’t know much about Gov. Palin before last night. I really don’t know much about her today, since her words were nowhere to be found in her “groundbreaking’ speech. Of course it was written by the same speechwriters who penned most of George Bush’s speeches, once again, more of the same. It’s obvious to me, and many others, that McCain’s choice for VP is strictly about personality and not about the ability to lead. I find it interesting that McCain chose her after meeting her once. What was that about? Was McCain taken by her good looks, the fact that she’s a woman, or the fact that she has experience as Governor of Alaska, and Mayor of a small town. Could it be that he sees himself in her, a so-called Maverick who can bring about change? The Hypocrites of the GOP all came out in droves claiming how great a choice this is, staunchly defending her time as Mayor and Governor. To see exactly what I mean by this, check out comments from Karl Rove and others, as their slithery forked tongues talk in circles, contradicting themselves time and time again. And they say the Dems are flip-floppers..HA!
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