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But a series of new Obama attacks requires a rebalancing of the scales: Obama has descended to similarly scurrilous tactics on the stump and on the air. On immigration, Obama is running a Spanish-language ad that unfairly lumps McCain together with Rush Limbaugh -- and quotes Limbaugh out of context. On health care, Obama misleadingly accuses McCain of wanting to impose a $3.6 trillion tax hike on employer-provided insurance.
Obama has been furthest out of line, however, on Social Security, stooping to the kind of scare tactics he once derided.
"If my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would have had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week," Obama said Saturday as he campaigned in that retiree-heavy state. "Millions of families would've been scrambling to figure out how to give their mothers and fathers, their grandmothers and grandfathers, the secure retirement that every American deserves."
This is simply false -- even leaving aside the incendiary language about "privatizing" Social Security. As the invaluable FactCheck.org noted, the private account plan suggested by President Bush and backed by McCain would not have applied to anyone born before 1950. It would not have changed benefits by a single penny for current retirees like the nice Florida folks that Obama was trying to rile up. The sensible notion was that workers at or near retirement age should be able to rely on promised benefits and should not be subject to the vicissitudes of short-term market fluctuations.
LOL. So much for the "new" politics of Obama. Did we really believe that in the first place?
the limbaugh ad I don't like and we need to steer clear of. The social security ad however, is mostly correct. If it were 40 years from now, and McCain's social security plan had been in effect then there would have been nothing wrong with that statement. Only difference is that people currently recieving social security would continue to recieve it from the Feds. rather than using a private account. So you;d be passing on this nightmare to your children. What a nice thought.
You must be missing something. Obama has been caught lying to his own kids let alone lying his way out of every mistake he has made.
Obama wins the "ultimate liar" theme in this election.
Ayers is just a neighbor. Right! Very possible. I have no idea what my neighbors do, or even where they work. We say hi occastionally, and see each other in the neighborhood, but i don't know them all that well.
I was never in attendance during those sermons, ever. Right! I've gone to my church for 18 years, but I have no idea who my pastor is on a personal level. they could very well be racist.
I never took any money from Fannie or Freddie. Right! ( 95k is no money Jimmy?) Keating Five ring a bell?
The Senate Finanace bill I sponsored passed. Right! It did not pass and you were not even a part of that bill Jimmy.
beyond the fact that Obama rarely lies, although he does on occassion unfortunately. McCain takes the cake.
McCain:
Economy is fundamentally strong, right
Obama wanted to teach five year olds birth control. sure he did.
Obama didn't visit an army hospital becuase press wasn't allowed, rather than the fact that the pentagon told him not to, and press wasn't coming in the first place.
Obama will raise taxes. Right. The average american will save more money with Obama than McCain, and McCain will raise the national deficit higher than Obama.
Palin never asked for earmarks. right.... Bridge to nowhere ring a bell?
Here's some Social Security Truth and Reality (http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=847 - broken link).
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