Oh Michele, not AGAIN! SHAME ON YOU FOR TELLING LIES! McCain is not only going to make the Bush tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy permanent, he wants to give them even more money! The top .1 percent (that’s .1, not 1 percent) will get $500,000 in additional tax cuts! That is outrageous! First McCain (Chairman of the Commerce Committee for seven years) and his pal Phil Gramm (Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee) dismantled all the protections put into place during the Great Depression so their fat cat friends could “turn Wall Street into a casino” and now the taxpayers are forced to bail them out (Heads we win, tails you lose). If McCain has his way, he’ll funnel every last dime their way.
Anybody who buys this Republican B.S. please contact me. I’ve got a Bridge to Nowhere I’d like to sell you.
Go to http://www.factcheck.org to compare Obama’s tax plan with McCain’s. Or Google the keywords “Obama McCain tax policy” and look at the article at the Washington Post website with the handy little side-by-side graph. It says it all.
And here’s a good article from http://www.commondreams.org about the Republican Debt Death Spiral written back in 2004 by Robert Freeman. He foresaw precisely what is happening today and the reasons for it:
“Lenders talk about a “debtor’s death spiral.” It occurs when borrowers get so far in over their heads they begin borrowing money just to cover the interest payments on past borrowings. The borrowers have to do this to keep the lending flowing but they can no longer plausibly pay down the principal. As new debt compounds on old, bankruptcy becomes imminent. Further lending is foolhardy. Foreclosure is only a matter of time.
“The U.S. is starting to look like it is entering just such a death spiral. It is foretold not simply by the large and growing deficits, nor by the fact that their carrying costs will rise quickly as interest rates rise. Rather, it is the fact that these trends are becoming irreversible, a structural part of the U.S. economy.
“When the ultimate collapse will occur, whether it comes with a bang or a whimper, how it will be triggered, and how severe it will be are as yet unknown. But as Herbert Stein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon was fond of saying, “Things that can’t go on forever, don’t.”
“Freeman goes on to point out that our exploding budget deficits began under Reagan, were reversed under Clinton (who left us with a 10-year projected surplus of $5.6 TRILLION, “the last black ink America would see for decades, perhaps forever.” BUSH BLEW THROUGH CLINTON’S SURPLUS IN HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE:
“George W. Bush immediately reversed Clinton’s policy in order to revive Reagan’s, once again showering an embarrassment of riches on the already most embarrassingly rich, his `base’ as he calls them. He ladled out some $630 billion in tax cuts to the top 1% of income earners. In true Republican fashion, they returned the favor by investing over $200 million to ensure Bush’s re-election. Do the math. A $630 billion return on a $200 million investment: $3,160 for $1. I’ll give you $3,160. All I ask is that you give me $1 back so I can keep the goodness flowing. Do we have a deal? Republicans know return on investment.”
Read the whole article, it’s VERY enlightening.

In the words of the now, late great Motown composer…
“WAR – Huh! Good God! What is it good for? absolutely nothing”
Uh, if we were to actually include the costs of the Iraq Expeditionary Forces in our budgetary process (“Oops, forgot that one”) the Warring Hefelumps (those aren’t tusks, they are our automatic weapons! – asystem devised by a bored 7th grader) might have to answer for their “no-taxes but spend like drunken packyderms” scheme. No income but lots of out-go in far worse than some attempt at an honest money in / money out plan. Why is it the Hefelumps manage to drive the nation into greater and greater debt, where the Donkeys manage to bring things closer to balance?
This is such a cheesy accusation that I am amazed the Boss Hefelump dares to bring it up.

Boss Heffalump is losing his marbles, that’s why. Apparently he was confused the other day about whether Spain was a country in Latin America and an enemy we might need to stand up to.
I guess he should have chosen Lieberman as veep so he could keep whispering in his ear.

Speaking of McCain’s marbles:
“Evil must be defeated!” — John McCain 8/16/08
“Enough is enough! We’re going to put an end to greed!” — John McCain 9/17/08
“It’s inspiring to know that John McCain has a plan to end greed. I just hope it doesn’t distract him from his mission to defeat evil…
John McCain will not only take on special interests and Washington insiders, he’ll fundamentally alter human nature. And without raising taxes, either. He’ll lead us to a sort of martial nirvana where all other emotions are replaced with patriotism, and turn the United States into a shining, selfless, bipartisan cross between heaven and Sparta.
“Or maybe he’s just a desperate shell of a man, babbling glorp . . .
“You might think `I’ll end greed’ would be the most mortifying thing John McCain could say at one sitting. You’d be wrong. At Wednesday’s town hall — his first with Sarah Palin — he topped himself with this explanation of her credentials:
`She has been commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard. Fact. On September 11 a contingent of the Guard deployed to Iraq and her son happened to be one of them so I think she understands national security challenges.’
“Which is fine except:
“The governor of Alaska doesn’t command the National Guard in combat overseas.
“Sarah Palin didn’t deploy anyone anywhere on September 11th. She was a guest speaker at an Army deployment ceremony.
“Track Palin isn’t in the National Guard; he’s in the Army.
“Sometimes it seems like it’s more than John McCain can handle, just keeping all the lies about Sarah Palin straight in his head. Tomorrow he’ll say she’s in the Air Force herself, on a plane she bought on eBay, bombing the bridges at Toko-Ri.
“It’s all Shiites and Sunnis to John McCain. So what’s your problem? We’re told that Lord Raglan fought the entire Crimean War believing the Russians were the French. And that worked out okay because, uh, everyone under his command died.”
“I know how to win wars! I know how to win wars!” — John McCain 7/15/08
“I know this is a sort of threadbare exercise — the old switcheroo — but imagine what would happen if Barack Obama got the Army and the National Guard mixed up.”
Chris Kelly, “The Delicate Subject of McCain’s Marbles,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com

“doing some neat things with graphics in their ads” elections decided by graphics? Elections decided by McCain’s nonstop lies about Obama’s tax plan, which has been debunked by many sources?
“That cute sleeping baby” and other babies are inheriting a life that is already mortgaged for many generations. The financial crisis is real and people have just begun to feel the affects.
The continuing crisis:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/09/the-continuing-crisis.html

So why are you saying its a factual add???
I have 2 things:
1) its a half truth at best. Its deliberatly misleading. Both candidates do it, however I feel only Obama is called on it when it happens. you give McCain a free pass.
2) McCain has not voted against, or stood up to any of the unneccessary expendatures in the last 8 years, so how is he on solid footing here. Its like the pot calling the kettle black.
Both are spenders. There aren’t any Reagans anymore.

” . . . Don’t get me wrong. The people I meet in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks, they don’t expect government to solve all their problems. They know they have to work hard to get ahead and they want to. Go into the white collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don’t want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency or the Pentagon. Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can’t teach kids to learn. They know that parents have to parent, that children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. No, people don’t expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better. And they want that choice . . . .
“Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
“In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
” . . . In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation; the belief in things not seen; the belief that there are better days ahead. I believe we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. I believe that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. America!”
Obama made this speech in 2004 at the DNC and he has stood by them every step of the way since. Look at his proposals, compare them with McCain’s, check the facts. It’s not that hard to figure out who’s really on your side, folks.

mcspain’s ad is as desperate and confused as he is.

What is Obama’s PLAN to cut spending?