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Thursday, October 23, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: McCain lambastes Bush years

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'We just let things get completely out of hand'

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GlobalEye

Now if only we could forget he supported Bush 90% of the time!
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GlobalEye

And chose Palin to take over if he dies on the job!
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GlobalEye

And at age 72 is 3 years shy of the average age of US life expectancy!
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MG

Now he's on this tirade . . . 13 days until the election - 8 years too late - what - did it just occur to him something was amiss ?
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BannedMonique

At least he's not a FLIP FLOPPER!!!!!!!!!! "There's one big difference between me and the others–I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy." [McCain campaign commercial, January More..2000] "I am disappointed that the Senate Finance Committee preferred instead to cut the top tax rate of 39.6% to 36%, thereby granting generous tax relief to the wealthiest individuals of our country at the expense of lower- and middle-income American taxpayers." [McCain Senate floor statement, May 21, 2001] "But when you look at the percentage of the tax cuts that–as the previous tax cuts–that go to the wealthiest Americans, you will find that the bulk of it, again, goes to wealthiest Americans." [NBC's "Today," Jan. 7, 2003] He's more like a FLOP FLIPPER!!!!!!!!!!!! Here he is speaking to Fox News Sunday,10/19/2008 This was in regards to calling Barack Obama a socialist WALLACE: But you did it indirectly, so let me ask you for some straight talk. Do you think that Senator Obama is a socialist? Do you think that his plans are socialism? MCCAIN: I think his plans are redistribution of the wealth. He said it himself, "We need to spread the wealth around." Now, that's one of... WALLACE: Is that socialism? MCCAIN: That's one of the tenets of socialism. But it's more the liberal left, which he's always been on. He's always been in the left lane of American politics. WALLACE: But, Senator, when we talk... MCCAIN: So is one of the tenets of socialism redistribution of the wealth? Not just socialism — a lot of other liberal and left wing philosophies — redistribution of the wealth? I don't believe in it. I believe in wealth creation by Joe the Plumber. WALLACE: But, Senator, you voted for the $700 billion bailout that's being used partially to nationalize American banks. Isn't that socialism? MCCAIN: That is reacting to a crisis that's due to greed and excess in Washington. Or maybe a FLOP FLIP FLOPPER...he confuses me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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jazzartkitty

Now McCain is showing the depth of his senility. He voted for all the millions in tax breaks for the upper 2%, simultaneous to the trillions on the war of choice. He needs to retire to one of his mansions with Cindy.
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jazzartkitty

check this out http://conservativesforchange.com/
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wvobiwan

kitty: You mean the upper 2% who pay 90% of all taxes, Obama's intended cash cow for his socialist policies? Yeah, let's get those rats! I say thank you, rich people and corporations, for paying more taxes than me. I wish I had a candidate to vote for who would ELIMINATE 'progressive' (what an irony to call it that) tax rates, or even ban income tax altogether. But I certainly won't vote for Obama who'll make things even worse. Anyway, the REAL issue here is an out of control congress spending like drunken sailors. John's pandering to left in this interview, taking cheap shots from the cheap seats, at a man who did what he had to do. Something John does all to often to call himself any kind of conservative. Taking the middle between two positions is often just as bad as the wrong position. W will always be a great president, if only for putting teeth back into American diplomacy. Not a perfect pres, but a man who loves America.
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McAlllisterBryant

So where was Maverick during those SIX years of runaway spending, Iraq war cries and failure to enforce the regulations that were suppose to protect Americans from the morons on Wall Street? This is nothing but empty campaign rhetoric from candidate who kissed up to Bush for eight years and just recently figured out that it is the Bush anchor that has helped dragged him down in this election At least he finally has most of the facts right. Good to hear them come from a Republican for once. Hope the Neocons don't beat him up too badly for that. He should have miles of tape of speeches from CSPAN and his last Senatorial Election where he was all over Bush for all this bad stuff. But I see that it just doesn't seem to exist. I would think that his copies from the Sunday morning interviews and newspaper articles where he was all Mavericky would have been plastered all over the airwaves [or cable rf feeds] over the past few months. As a SENIOR Senator he had every opportunity to SPEAK OUT on the big issues but he did not. As a Senior Senator he had every opportunity to submit bills to fight the Majority Republicans on Spending and Iraq, but he did not. Instead he went with the Majority, went with the President and took the easy route, finding out too late that the easy route was not what the PEOPLE want in 2008.
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BannedMonique

Wvobiwan said: "Anyway, the REAL issue here is an out of control congress spending like drunken sailors" That would be the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS FROM 2001-2007 THAT INCREASED FEDERAL DEBT FROM $5.727 TRILLION TO $8.677 TRILLION??? 51.51% Increase over 6 years....INCREDIBLE! Clinton over his ENTIRE 8 YEARS only saw the debt increase from $4.187 TO $5.727 TODAY, FEDERAL DEBT STANDS AT $10.467 TRILLION BLAME THE GUILTY BUSH/REPUBLICANS Source:http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
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flexfamily

Isn't it interesting people won't talk about black people voting for Obama just because he is a black man? Of course they will. Just like for years white people voted for their own kind. One can only hope people will get beyond the race thing and vote for the best qualified candidate. Vote for their values and record...not just for the color of their skin or the pursuasiveness of their words or what they promise to offer.
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chavez66

THE REPUBLICAN WHO SAYS HE'S NOT A REPUBLICAN = MAVERICK Saddam Hussein was an American trained puppet, a plant. Kings were always a cheaper source of gas as there was less infrastructure to pay for. WWII was a very profitable one that brought us out of the Great Depression. That was before Ray-gun-nomics and McCain's own elite class tax cuts. Todays wars are just a drain that adds to our National debt and increases inflation. This is because real people, real Americans don't see the money from the jobs. The republican tax system and intentional lack of regalatory system means only the richest get richer. Ray-gun-nomics. Meaning we'll have cool stuff as we enter bankruptcy. Clinton did a good job of repressing the republican created stereotype that Democrats were big spenders. What I've heard was there was no deficit spending and even some reduction of national debt during his administration. Racism: What can I say? We could have Reserve, Active Reserve, and National Guard serving as Border Patrol. It could be desert training while patroling for illegals willing to brave Death Valley. But do they need to go on and on about it? McCain's Mexican Wall or vote against the MLK holiday. He's more hard core than Bush. I wouldn't invite him to a Vietnamees resteraunt or a Korean, or a Cuban one for that matter. We all look kind of similar. Some of the same melatonin levels. The Press seems remiss while McCain seems perfectly happy with potential slander or liable, Keating or his divorcing of a cripple wife to marry a heiress of a Beer Distributor is never brought up. Left to your devices the populus might actually believe what is offered. Obama seems above it but, responding in kind would cause 75%+ white population to make the mistake: another in a long line of Capitalist Kings.
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GOMT

kinda hard to do when you voted for this epic failure of a bush administration 90% of the time...this debt ? mccain voted for 4 of the five budgets...hes and his fellow republicans are 100% resonsible for the "bush years"......the mccain ticket is collasping...just like the stock market
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chavez66

I get it now! McCain blasts Obama then he Blasts Bush. We don't know who he's blasting cause it all fades together. The medicare prescription thing that Bush backed sounds like something the democrats would do. So "Why should Obama pay for your McCain's prescription drugs when Bush bought it?" OBAMA IS A DEMOCRAT! McCAIN YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN! CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
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chavez66

'Republicans got drunk with power, and lacked the resolve of President Reagan.' Ray-gun-nomics means getting drunk with power. Vampires sucking the life blood of hard working Americans. McCain, McCain, McCain... Do you envy the Bush family relationship with Big Oil?
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