Minuscule McCain Musings

(Photo - J. McCain, G. Bush having fun in Arizona during Hurricane Katrina)

John McCain attacked Barack Obama's economic policies. That was the headline in numerous MSM outlets yesterday. Nothing about the fact that Obama hit back. And isn't it funny that a man who represents years of failed economic policies is attacking the policies of a person who actually has some viable ideas?

The truth is simple: John McCain's economic plan is pretty much a carbon copy of George Bush's economic plan--which includes extending tax cuts for the ultra-rich. As Obama said, "We've got the most fiscally irresponsible administration in history, and now John McCain wants to give us another."

McCain claims Obama wants to "spend, spend, spend." Obama is a "tax and spend" liberal.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. That shoe fits the McCain/Bush foot. It isn't a matter of spending money; that's what governments do with the taxes they raise. It has to do with HOW that money is spent. The Democrats have this weird notion that tax money ought to be spent to help the people not fund corporate efforts to make obscene profits.

So under a Republican administration, we're not only showering the ultra-rich with tax dollars, we're tossing away $16 billion each frigging week in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Iraq operation alone costs us $12 billion each week in BORROWED MONEY!

It's a Republican administration that has taxed, borrowed and spent us into a gazillion dollar deficit!

The Republicans are the party of tax, borrow, and waste!

Obama claims that McCain's economic proposals would do nothing to help ease our current lending crisis, that his health plan would benefit primarily the "healthy and wealthy," and that his individual and corporate tax cuts "would add $5.7 trillion to the national debt." Given McCain's admitted lack of economic knowledge, Obama's probably right on target.

Here's an example as to how McCain doesn't know what he's talking about, economically. He wants a gas tax cut, which he claims would delete 18 1/2 cents per gallon. Big whoop! Actually, it wouldn't even do that! It's a shell game. If his plan went through, the producing companies would simply cut back supply to keep the prices where they want them.

McCain's plan would actually put more money into the oil companies' pockets! Now either he doesn't know that which means he's not very bright, or he knows it too well and that is actually his plan - to put more money into the coffers of the oil companies!


McCain is losing it. The Last Chance Democracy Cafe tells how McCain deployed this "most brilliant political maneuver" - he compared Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter. Who?

It was on Fox. Speaking to Carl Cameron, McCain mentioned the Carter connection and suggested Obama wanted to return "to the failed policies of the '60's and '70's."

Then on NBC with Brian Williams, McCain whined that "Senator Obama says that I'm running for a Bush's third term. Seems to me he's running for Jimmy Carter's second."

Wow! What a slam. Who's Jimmy Carter again? And what did he do? On, he's the guy out there working with Habitat for Humanity. And didn't he win a Nobel Prize?

After this scenario, I got to thinking...maybe McCain isn't running for a Bush third term after all. Maybe he sees himself following someone ... like ... ah, yes, Herbert Hoover!

(Or, perhaps McCain's campaign thought up the Carter line of attack, figuring that would hurt Obama with the Jews because of Carter's meddling in Middle Eastern affairs?)


McCain's got another problem. He's one of those old pol's who says one thing one day and another thing the next day and in previous lifetimes that wasn't a problem 'cause we didn't have all those video cameras recording every single second. Today, McCain can't get by with that even though he tries. Oh, how he tries. Youtube may be the contributing factor in his downfall.

This from The Huffington Post: "During his New Orleans speech, McCain promised to deliver 'hot water' to dehydrated infants." Reading from a prepared speech, he "actually inserted the word 'hot' on the fly." ... The Prepared version: "We should be able to deliver bottled water to dehydrated babies and rescue the infirm from a hospital with no electricity."

This was, of course, a bit of a slam at the Bush administration's failure to deal adequately with the Katrina crisis. He didn't mention that at the time Katrina was blowing New Orleans away, he and the prez, oblivious, were celebrating McCain's 69th birthday on the tarmac of Luke Air Force Base in Arizona!

Then, McCain seemed to start a "War on Beer." Or, as The Huffington Post put it: "Perhaps thinking of his wife's family fortune, McCain accidentally promised to veto all earmark-filled beers."

McCain didn't quit there. He tried to explain how to use "the Google." Speaking of his vice presidential vetting process, McCain said, "We're going through a process where you get a whole bunch of names, and ya ... Well, basically, it's a Google," you just, you know, what you can find out now on the Internet. It's remarkable, you know."

Jeez, really?


Finally, McCain looking more and more and more like a loser, chided "the press for their treatment of Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary: "The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of million of Americans."

An interesting comment, and one that makes McCain appear halfway decent, which he most certainly is not. And that was confirmed when a Newsweek reporter asked him about what he said and he "flatly denied making" it!

"I did not [say that] - that was in prepared remarks, and I did not [say it] -- I'm not in the business of commenting on the press and their coverage or not coverage."

Oops.

When the McCain camp was shown "the video [which showed] that the GOP nominee did in fact read the remarks as they were prepared, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said Newsweek's account of McCain's answer is 'paraphrased and unclear.'" Huh?

Yup. McCain said it, but we won't admit that. Uh...maybe he was alluding to something else?

Newsweek says they quoted McCain verbatim.


Uh...maybe he just forgot. Again. Or maybe he was thinking about the "hot" water he's in?