Posted on 10/17/2008 2:30:39 PM PDT by obamaisandrogynous
Dropping dramatically in the polls, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama today trotted out an old standby line for struggling left wing pols — the false accusation that, if elected, the Republicans will cut the federal health care program for the aged and poor, Medicare.
“Sen. McCain would pay for part of his plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare – $882 billion worth,” Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd in Roanoke, Virginia, today. “$882 billion in Medicare cuts to pay for an ill-conceived, badly thought through health care plan that won’t provide more health care to people, even though Medicare is already facing a looming shortfall.”
A spokesman for Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), called Obama’s charge about future spending cuts for Medicare an outright lie.
“Unlike Barack Obama’ risky plan, John McCain’s plans for health care do not punish struggling businesses with fines and taxes, and they certainly do not cut a single benefit for Medicare or Medicaid – Obama is simply lying,” said Tucker Bounds, the spokesman. “For Barack Obama to talk about the hope of America and then proceed into misleading and hypocritical accusations only underscores what voters already know: Barack Obama is not who you think he is.”
According to a poll published today by the Associated Press, Obama has sunk drastically in the polls during the last week, since word of his Marxist-style plan to “confiscate the wealth” of Americans was revealed during his encounter with an Ohio plumber, named, Joe, on the campaign trail. AP says Obama leads now by 44-42 over McCain, and, with the error rate for polling taken into account, the race is statistically tied.
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this reeeks of desperation....can’t wait to see what else obama and the msm and acorn come up with.
This is really typical liberal crap right out of the decades-old version of the lib playbook. I think this lying pinko maggot is scared.....more lies, more lies and more lies. I heard the clip today....they are so desperate to take over this country, they will DO ANYTHING, SAY ANYTHING to win. ANYTHING.
Obama just lost the elderly vote. They all need to see this.
They have actually started an advertisement to this effect.
This is a sign of a desperate campaign. The internals must be in a freefall for the Obama campaign. It is going to be a very interesting 2 1/2 weeks.
I said exactly the same thing when I heard this and early this week his wife was begging people to drag their neighbors to get registered and show them how to vote. Last weekend when the racism charges started hitting I figured his internals were going south. Now I am convinced with the old standby social security.
Ummm... wouldn't that be MEDICARE?
Maybe Joe The Plumber will go down in history as the turning point in this race!
He finally got Obama to say the words: “Share the wealth”
A shame it isn't true. From an ideal standpoint it is clearly illegal and unconstitutional, and from a practical standpoint it is inevitable that it and similar entitlement programs will lead to economic destruction (not to mention the fact that it has artificially inflated the cost of health care so much that some average workers can't afford it any more, while their tax dollars go to pay for it for other people).
I have heard for 25 years or more how Republicans will cut Social Security and Medicare from people. Yet yearly there are increases and Bush set up the prescription plan. Do people think this is some hidden way to steal benefits by giving more benefits?? Like Charlie Brown and the football, seniors fall for the lie every 4 years!
Millions could easily be saved through efficiency and stopping the Medicare fraud we hear about almost yearly! The savings alone would extend the life of the programs.
Praise the Lord for that. He does have a sense of humor, after all.
Nice! I heard it first on Savage...hope it catches on.
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