Posted on 10/18/2008 5:08:37 PM PDT by markomalley
Sen. John McCain stepped up his rhetoric against his Democratic rival on taxes in his weekly radio address Saturday, comparing his plan to "socialist" programs.
The remarks were part of a theme McCain has used since the final presidential debate, but his most recent comments were the first time he used the word to describe Sen. Barack Obama.
In the radio address, McCain didn't directly call Obama a socialist, but he let the now-famous Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher nearly do it for him.
"You see, [Obama] believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that help us all make more of it. Joe, in his plainspoken way, said this sounded a lot like socialism," McCain said Saturday.
In an interview with ABC last week, Wurzelbacher said Obama's proposal to raise taxes by 3 percent on those making $250,000 and over is a "very socialist view."
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has used the word in speeches the past two days as well.
McCain also said in his radio address, "At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are up front about their objectives. They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Sen. Obama. Raising taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it's just another government giveaway."
On the campaign trail Saturday in Concord, North Carolina, he added that Americans have seen sharing the wealth in other countries before. But he quoted Obama as saying he wants to "spread the wealth around."
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He is a Marxist
Hint: He isn’t a socialist - he’s a friggin MARXIST! AND I am not talking Groucho.
McCain needs to simply quote Karl Marx and quote Obama and ask the American people who said what. It will be real hard to tell the difference.
That’s like “hinting” that Liberace was gay.
McCain and Palin hint at Obama’s policies being socialist?
HINT?
That’s the trouble. They’re not fighing.
McCain’s anemic attempts to fight Obama back is losing this election.
Flood McCain out with emails. DEMAND he fight back HARD- name names!
Please go to
http://www.protestthemedia.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7
and pick up all the email addresses to the McCain camp and HUNDREDS of emails of MSM.
SEND A FREE FAX!! https://faxzero.com/
CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS?
that list is huge.
can you cherry pick the emails for the mccain camp folks.
im sick of their anemic attacks as well....we need more firepower.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.............
John McCain would do well to remember the last time he was in the tender mercies of Marxists, Socialists, and Communists and ratchet up his defense against them in this country.
Wish McCain would grow some onions and call it what it is.
I’d sent emails to ALL the McCain addresses.
I hit ‘em all every few days.
Forget the hinting. McCain needs to come out and call Obama’s “tax credit” exactly what it is - WELFARE. How does one get a tax credit when they don’t pay any taxes to begin with? McCain has to remind folks that 40% of the people in this country do not pay any taxes to begin with. I don’t think most people even understand this.
HINT?
what gave it away.
Jeeeezzeeee.
He’s a communist thug
HINT!?
They should be screaming it from the rooftops. He is a MARXIST, through and through.
No, Joe said that Obama's self-admitted plan to "spread the wealth around" sounded socialist. Of course it is because those funds are taken from top producers to pay for programs for non-producers that with almost no exception never solve the problem they are supposed to while making the problem even worse.
No, Joe said that Obama's self-admitted plan to "spread the wealth around" sounded socialist. Of course it is because those funds are taken from top producers to pay for programs for non-producers that with almost no exception never solve the problem they are supposed to while making the problem even worse.
You guys are shameless. McCain just came out with his own socialist policy in one of the last debates - having the government buy up peoples’ mortgages.
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