McCain's Insensitive to How Insensitive He Is!

Sunday, April 27, 2008. John McCain is campaigning in south Florida.

This "hero" of the Republican Party is promoting his candidacy in Coral Gables, Florida, one of the more posh enclaves in the Miami area. Not only so, but the multi-millionaire Republican candidate for president has been flitting about the country in a corporate jet owned by a company run by his multi-millionaire wife who just happens to be the heiress to a beer fortune.

John McCain, pretending to be "one of us," a "working man," had the unmitigated gall (I haven't used that term in a long time!) to claim that Barack Obama is "insensitive to poor people and out of touch on economic issues." He also said that Senator Obama's policies are dictated by "the special interests."

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

This from a guy who's got more money than he could spend in a dozen lifetimes, a man who hasn't a clue as to what it means to live from paycheck to paycheck. This from a guy who lives with the special interests (and pretends not to)!

McCain got even funnier. He was asked about his position on Bush's tax cuts for the rich, which at one time he furiously opposed but now thinks are wonderful and should be extended. McCain ignored the question and and went right to criticizing Obama for wanting to raise the capital gains tax...Obama, he said, "has no understanding of the economy and ... is totally insensitive to the hopes and dreams and ambitions of 100 million Americans who will be affected by his almost doubling of the capital gains tax."

Obama, speaking on "Fox News Sunday," noted that McCain wants to continue Bush's tax cuts for the very rich but hasn't any idea how to pay for them. That, said Obama, is irresponsible. "And the irony is he said it was irresponsible."

Old "flip-flopper" McCain.

Not only so, but Obama, sensitive to those folks who worry about capital gains taxes (which, by the way, is NOT a concern of most Americans -- especially those poor folks McCain pretends he's so worried about), said that he wouldn't raise the capital gains tax any higher than what it was during the reign of President Reagan. "I'm mindful," he said, "that we've got to keep our capital gains tax to a point where we can actually get more revenue."

Hah! Who's "insensitive" now, John?


I think the American people should write Mr. McCain a "Dear John" letter!