Posted on 10/29/2008 8:17:20 AM PDT by SmithL
Let me now defend white males. We can't possibly be as dumb as the polls showing we are McCain's most reliable voting base would indicate. Do we white men believe for an instant that a vote for John McCain would not represent more of President Bush's failed economic policies at home and costly military adventures abroad, and if so, why are a majority of us expected to vote against the positive change that Barack Obama so clearly represents?
Most of us know how to read, and can even Google, so why would we think that GOP candidate McCain, who has supported Bush on every one of his economic initiatives, is now the anti-Bush? What exactly did McCain mean when he said, referring to his Democratic opponent during a campaign speech in Ohio on Monday, "We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy?"
Is McCain unaware that he consistently voted for the red ink run up by the Bush administration, or was he having a senior moment when he said that same day, "We cannot spend the next four years as we spent much of the last eight: Spending ourselves into a ditch, and hoping that the consequences don't come?"
The only time McCain took issue with Bush's economic policy was in his short-lived criticism of the tax cut for the rich - a strategy he now defends. But if McCain doesn't increase taxes for someone, just how does he plan to pay for the trillions in debt racked up by the war in Iraq, which are now vastly compounded by the banking bailout? On Monday McCain gave his answer: "I will freeze government spending on all but the most important programs, like defense, veterans' care, Social Security and health care, until we scrub every single government program...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
“As someone here said, “Cuba got ‘CHANGE’ in 1959.”
Yes, that’s a great line.
No!!! I live in a blue state.
Gilligan, at least, was AMERICAN...
THIS Scheer Piece of sh*t is something else.
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