"McCain ad asserts his hatred of war; Senator shifts tone to draw moderates" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | June 11, 2008
WASHINGTON - John McCain, who credits his defiant defense of the Iraq war for his comeback victory in the Republican primaries, is using his first major television ad of the general election to show his dovish side.
"Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war," McCain says over mournful strings against a bleak backdrop, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. "I hate war, and I know how terrible its costs are."
Exhibit A, John: The Bush Memoir You Didn't Hear About
Then WHY DID YOU VOTE FOR IT?!?!
It is a far different tone than McCain took during the primaries, when he launched a "No Surrender" tour to highlight his involvement in the Bush administration's "surge" strategy in Iraq. A high-profile ad then used McCain's credentials as a prisoner of war to vouch for him as he fierily exhorted a crowd to "Stand up. We're Americans. We're Americans and we'll never surrender; they will!"
But he's not a, a, a HYPOCRITE, is he?
Nope, nothing but "straight talk" according to the AmeriKam MSM!
Pffffftttt!!!!
In his latest ad, which is on the air in 10 states and is to start on national cable today, McCain does not mention Iraq or Iran, areas where he has tried to draw stark policy contrasts with Democrat Barack Obama, and says only that "I'm running for president to keep the country I love safe." McCain's background is used to introduce him not as a relentless combatant, but a reticent one.
"Because he's so well-known as a warrior, as a prisoner of war, as a hawk on foreign policy, somebody who does not know him well might think he would err on the side of using military force," said Charlie Black, a McCain adviser. "And nothing could be further from the truth."
The ad, in the view of some political analysts, is evidence of McCain's defensiveness about being portrayed by Obama as a warmonger - and also an example of the tremendous opportunities his unique biography affords him to assert distance from an unpopular administration's handling of Iraq.
"To me, the ad is much more playing off Bush than playing off Obama," said Jeremy Varon, a historian at Drew University in Madison, N.J., who has studied antiwar movements. "The point of this is for McCain to say: 'I'm very different from my predecessor even if I want to fight the same war.' "
That turn marks a move by McCain not only to distance himself from a fellow Republican as he moves into the general election, but to reach out to moderates, especially women who had backed Senator Hillary Clinton - a candidate who stood as an opponent of the Iraq war but emphasized security and her personal toughness in her losing bid for the Democratic nomination.
"This might appeal to women," said Black. "Anybody who's studying his positions about foreign policy and national security needs to know this part of his attitude and background."
McCain has already demonstrated success assembling an unlikely coalition on war issues.
Despite his unwavering prowar stance, McCain performed best in early primaries, including New Hampshire, with those voters who described themselves as strongly against the war in Iraq.
Yeah, WHAT SHIT served up by the MSM!!!
First of all, Ron Paul signs LITTERED the New Hampshire landscape this past January (I'm just over the state line, folks) and secondly, the vote was rigged.
Analysts at the time credited that success to McCain's ability to convey a seriousness about the subject and to separate himself from the administration's failures.
Yet since he secured the Republican nomination in March, Democrats have tried to paint McCain as reckless toward the subject of American losses in Iraq. They point most frequently to a remark McCain made during a January town hall that a 100-year presence in Iraq was "fine with me."
"I won't stand here and pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq, but what's not an option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years," Obama said last week.
Why not? That's what the plan calls for.
While McCain has taken a belligerent posture generally against Obama - particularly in suggesting that a willingness to negotiate with Iranian leaders is evidence of weakness - his new ad indicates that McCain is seeking a debate about war leadership waged over character as much as policy.
You gonna eat McCain shit, 'murka? 'Cause he's SERVING IT UP!
How does VOTING FOR this DEBACLE give you "character" and "good judgment?"
In the ad, McCain recounts, in simple but grave sentences delivered directly to the camera, the effects of war on three generations of his family. At each point, McCain speaks of war as an abstraction, not distinguishing the sacrifices made in World War II from Vietnam - and, by extension, Iraq.
"By not differentiating, he's saying all wars are morally equal," said Varon, who supports Obama.
The ad appears to be part of a consistent effort to soften McCain's aesthetic. The first website he launched was in black and white with a militaristic insignia as its unifying motif; McCain's latest is filled with bright colors.
"He can not afford to be perceived as a cowboy," said Ian Lang, a Republican consultant in Rhode Island. "To some extent, men will want somebody forceful and forthright. Women will be looking for someone strong, but they're not as impressed by the person who will throw down the gauntlet at any cost."
Actually, no. Women LUUUUVVV George W. Bush, or so I've been told (my emphasis):
"On MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Matthews said:
MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president."
That about covers it with the horse shit shills of the AmeriKan MSM, doesn't it?
Need more? Why not?
How about an economic pile of symmetrically-wound MSM steaming-stinkshit?
"McCain calls Obama tax plan a threat to all Americans; Says keeping taxes low is crucial for economic growth" by Scott Helman, Globe Staff | June 11, 2008
A day after Senator Barack Obama launched a broad assault on the economic plan of presidential rival John McCain, McCain hit back yesterday by asserting that Obama's tax proposals would ensnare millions of ordinary Americans and further weaken the economy.
McCain, speaking to small-business leaders in Washington, D.C., said Obama's plans to restore higher tax rates for upper-bracket taxpayers, increase the capital gains tax rate for the richest families, and possibly raise the cap on Social Security taxes would affect not just the wealthy, but also moderate-income voters and independent businesses.
"Under Senator Obama's tax plan, Americans of every background would see their taxes rise - seniors, parents, small-business owners, and just about everyone who has even a modest investment in the market," McCain said at a small-business summit sponsored by the National Federation of Independent Businesses and
In a general election that will turn largely on the economy, it's clear this will be one of the major fault lines. Obama and Democrats will advocate, in his words, "restoring fairness to our economy" by shifting more of the tax burden to the rich, while McCain and Republicans will argue that an Obama presidency would also saddle more middle-class families with higher taxes on stock dividends and other earnings.
"Will we go back to the policies of the '60s and '70s that failed or will we go forward?" McCain asked yesterday, seeking again to link Obama with Jimmy Carter, a Democrat whose presidential administration presided over a period of high inflation, rising gas prices, increasing unemployment, and growing budget and trade deficits.
What, Bill Clinton wasn't a Democrat, Johnny?
Or is he ignored because he was good for the Globalists?
Showing your age, old man, when you are going back 40 FUCKING YEARS to try and score political points.
Half the electorate doesn't even know what Carter's time was like.
Obama and the Democratic Party, seeking to capitalize on the public's economic insecurity, said that those are precisely the afflictions of the current economy after nearly eight years under President Bush and that McCain will merely continue - or in some cases worsen - that legacy.
But the Republicans nor Bush never tried to "capitalize" on the 9/11 "terror" attacks.
Truthfully, readers, I get tired of the Zionist bias filtering into the writing style of "news"paper "reporters."
It is ALL SKEWED SHIT for presented to the American public as "news."
In a wide-ranging interview that aired yesterday on CNBC, Obama also pointed to the growing disparity in incomes between the highest and lowest earners, saying, "We've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long."
And since the newspapers are part of the shit stink elite, that's why Obama is savaged on his proposals.
Not that I'm for any taxes anymore (the lefty days are gone); however, the tax code is nothing more than ripping off average Americans to subsidize the already wealthy.
"We know that over the last decade or so, that more than half of the economic growth has been captured by the top 1 percent of US citizens," Obama said. "That means the other 99 percent have seen their effective incomes go down. That is not a recipe for long-term economic growth."
I'll bet Obama drops in the polls soon.
While he contended in the interview that his specific prescriptions would depend on the economy he inherits, Obama also said he will institute a tax cut for 150 million middle-class workers - up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per family; eliminate income taxes on seniors making less than $50,000 a year; and provide a new mortgage-interest tax credit for low- and moderate-income homeowners.
McCain said yesterday that keeping taxes low - even on wealthy individuals and Fortune 500 corporations - is the key to generating economic growth. He said he would double the tax exemptions for children and give millions of middle-class families a tax cut by phasing out the alternative minimum tax, a decades-old mechanism designed to make sure that affluent families pay at least some income taxes, but now affecting more and more taxpayers.
Question: Why wouldn't wealthy and affluent individuals be paying taxes?
I have to, and I'm not affluent by any means.
He also vowed to slash the corporate tax rate, and the Republican National Committee said yesterday that even though Obama has slammed that idea, the Illinois senator's new economic policy director has advocated it.
The Arizona senator also told the small-business summit that he viewed the estate tax, paid on inheritances, as "one of the most unfair tax laws on the books." "After a lifetime building up a business, and paying taxes on every dollar that business earns, that asset should not be subjected to a confiscatory tax," he said.
But McCain has defended the estate tax in the past, arguing against its repeal in 2002 by saying that doing so "would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest and highest-income taxpayers in the country."
Hey, that was then, this is now, and AmeriKan shit-eaters will never know the difference.
Besides, look at how far down the Globe buried McCain's HYPOCRISY!!!!!
But they just report the "news," right?
Open wide, Globe! Pffffffftttt!!!
McCain's campaign said his position on what critics call the "death tax" has not changed. "He didn't indicate he supported a full repeal in this speech," his campaign said in a statement. Still, McCain's characterization of the estate tax yesterday is a marked departure.
Translation: McCain is a LYING HYPOCRITE!!!!
So, WHY so LATE with the expose, Globe?
If it was a Rev. Wright story I bet it would have led!!!
Democrats assailed McCain for asserting in yesterday's speech that Obama would "enact the largest single tax increase since the Second World War" in part by not extending the Bush tax cuts. FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan website run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, found last month that McCain's contention is inaccurate, saying that by the most accurate measure, it would be the fifth largest since 1943."
So McCain LIED, huh?
And as far as the FactCheck guys, WHAT GIVES with the HEADLINE then, Globe?
Yeah, toss out the charge even if it is a lie!!!
Readers, the MSM can't even cover bullshit without bullshitting you!
FactCheck look into the BUSH LIES, too, Globe?
I mean, after all, you don't!!!
