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Tax record catches up with McCain

By Stephen Dinan on June 12, 2008 into Dinan

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Yet again this campaign, John McCain is finding out that what goes around comes around for a man with a 25-year voting record.

This time it's on taxes — a touchy issue for Republicans' presumed nominee, who was one of only two Republican senators to oppose President Bush's 2001 tax cuts and one of only three to oppose the 2003 cuts package. McCain now calls for most of those cuts to be made permanent, but in 2001 he said on the Senate floor he was voting against the bill because it was too generous to the wealthy.

Now comes a new analysis from the Tax Policy Center that compares McCain's current proposals versus Barack Obama's tax cut proposals. The verdict is McCain's tax cuts are skewed far more to high-income Americans than Obama, who would actually impose a tax increase on upper-income earners.

In 2001, these were McCain's words:

"I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief."



That sort of rhetoric, coupled with his current embrace of nearly all the Bush tax cuts, will give Obama plenty to talk about if the two men ever do face off in the series of town halls McCain has called for.

 

— Stephen Dinan, political and national reporter, The Washington Times

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gneubeck

Use caution in relying on ANY Obama pronouncement, taxes or otherwise. A disturbing insight into Barack Obama’s psychological makeup is revealed in three of Obama’s recent comments: (1) Speaking to the student body at Dartmouth - “A light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.”; (2) Speaking after a primary victory - “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” ; and, (3) Responding in an interview as to the definition of sin, he responded -”Being out of alignment with MY values.” ASTOUNDING. Obama’s commentary clearly identifies him as possessing a dangerously narcissistic personality. He unquestionably has a mental disorder characterized by an extreme sense of his own importance, which readily explains the context of his San Francisco comments where he belittled those living in “small town” America who he clearly perceived as inferior to his self- constructed status of superiority. Obama’s admitted heavy marijuana and cocaine use in high school and college may well have played a decisive role in the development of Obama’s inflated sense of his own importance; and, his pretentious demeanor. Heavy drug use can lead to hallucinations concerning ones status of grandiosity. Another clue is Obama’s frequent confused and unintelligible babblings whenever he is subjected to a public forum where he is devoid of a prepared text by his handlers to read from. Unequivocally, this man should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. Greg Neubeck
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