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Here's a man who voted against
the Bush tax cuts. Now he wants
to make them permanent.
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Here's a man who called Phil
Gramm a trusted economic
adviser, now he
disowns him. |
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Here's a man who said, "This
economy is in pretty good
shape." |
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Here's a man who said, "The
economy is not my strong suit." |
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Here's a man who said, "The
economy will take care of itself."
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Here's a man who said, "We'll
work our way through the economy
at this time." |
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Here's a man who said he could
balance the federal budget
within four years, and then he
said no, it'll take eight years.
Now he's back to four years
again. If anyone would say, "I'm
going to cut taxes. I'm going to
continue to have wars in two
countries. We have a housing
crisis that we're probably going
to have to bail out. We have a
$410 billion deficit. We have
entitlement costs that now
represent 53 percent of our
federal budget that are going up
every year. But I can balance
the budget," you'd be laughed
off the campaign. |
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Here's a man who used to be very
positive about George Bush's
leadership in Iraq. |
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Here's a man who told a crowd of
roughly two hundred people that
it would be fine with him
if the U.S. military stayed in
Iraq for a hundred years. |
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Here's a man who has spent a
majority of his presidential
campaign trying to convince
voters he is the most qualified
to tackle foreign policy issues
yet McCain conflates Shiite Iran
and Sunni Al Qaeda and had to be
corrected by Lieberman. |
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Here's a man that has a Bush
problem. Many McCain supporters
worry the Arizona Senator has
not done enough to distance
himself from Senator Bush, or to
refute Senator Obama's
persistent charge he is running
for "Bush's third term. |
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Here's a man who said,
"Hispanic Americans are Gods
Children. In his latest bid to
win over the Hispanic key voting
bloc after turning his back on
the Dream Act and Comprehensive
Immigration Reform. He has also sent mixed
messages to conservatives on
immigration reform. During the
Republican primary campaign,
Senator McCain vowed to "secure
the border first." |
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Here's a man Republicans and
conservatives in particular
that supporters never know which John
McCain will show up on a given
day. Will it be the self-styled
maverick who woos independent
voters or the Ronald Reagan
torchbearer of the GOP
primaries? |
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Here's a man seeking solutions
to a mounting U.S. energy
crisis. Senator McCain last
month delighted conservatives by
declaring his support for
offshore oil drilling to
increase domestic supply. At the
same time, he has confounded
them by refusing to endorse oil
exploration in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge in
Alaska. |
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Here's a man who has found
himself outflanked by Senator
Obama in pursuit of support
among evangelicals, a key GOP
base. While Senator Obama this
week endorsed President Bush's
faith-based initiatives, Senator
McCain has yet to showcase faith
issues in his campaign. |
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Here's a man who said he really
wasn't up to speed on the issue
of whether birth control should
be covered by insurance
policies; in fact, he voted
against it. |
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Here's a man compounding all
this have been problems crafting
Senator McCain's image. Too
often, his campaign has staged
events before older,
unenthusiastic crowds that
strike a poor contrast with the
energy at Senator Obama's
events. |
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Here's a man who was was widely
panned in early June for
appearing before an awful green
backdrop dubbed the Lime Green
Monster on the same night
Senator Obama clinched the
Democratic nomination before an
enthusiastic crowd of 20,000. |
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Here's a man with policy and
communication problems aside,
Senator McCain has
organizational problems that
place him at an early
disadvantage to Senator Obama. |
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Here's a man Senator Obama's
campaign has announced plans to
have campaign staff in every
state, and with early visits to
such places as North Dakota and
Montana the Illinois Senator is
trying to force Senator McCain
to spend precious campaign
resources in typically
Republican areas. |
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Here's a man whose campaign is
"roughly 300-strong compared
with Senator Obama's
1,000-person plus operation. |
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Here's a man with criticism
mounting, Senator McCain
overhauled his staff last week,
installing Steve Schmidt a
Karl Rove protιgι from the Bush
administration to bring a new
message discipline and focus to
the campaign. |
McCain
drafting polices for the mega wealthy
Senator
Claire McCaskill of Missouri speaking
for Senator Obama said, "We've got to
quit doing this divide between the mega
wealthy. We got to quit drafting
economic policies that are all about the
mega wealthy and instead get back to
making college more affordable, no more
taxes for seniors that make less than
$50,000. If anybody believes John
McCain can balance the budget on his
plan right now, I've got a meeting they
need to have with the tooth fairy. There
is no way. Because McCain is counting the
money from not fighting the war in Iraq,
but yet he's saying we're going to stay
in Iraq."
Senator
McCaskill added, "I don't know how John
McCain would have voted on fixing
Medicare, because he didn't come to
vote. Barack Obama did. And the
statement he gave kind of took both
sides. Well, there was part of it he
liked and part of it he didn't like. The
part that he didn't like was a modest
hit on private insurance companies that
made $15 billion last year on the backs
of taxpayers. I mean, if you cannot
stand up for a modest hit they made 15
billion last year, taxpayer subsidized
and John McCain's tax cuts include 1.2
billion for ExxonMobil. We've lost
almost a half a million jobs since
January; 428,000 jobs since January. And
in January, John McCain was
saying nice things about the economy. "
Immigration the other edge of the
double edged sword
A new
McCain ad "Hispanic immigrants are
'God's children" aims at Hispanic voters
in key battleground states in McCain's
latest bid to win Hispanics over, a key
voting bloc.
The ad
comes amid a major push on that front by
the presumptive Republican nominee,
including private meetings with
community leaders, Spanish-language
radio ads, the launch of regular
campaign conference calls with Hispanic
pastors, and speeches at high-profile
gatherings like last weeks address at
the League of Latin American Citizens
and today's speech at National Council
La Raza two of the trifecta of major
Hispanic conferences McCain will make an
appearance at this cycle.
The new
ad which will air in Nevada, Colorado
and New Mexico, all neighbors of
McCains home state of Arizona which are
all heavily-contested states this cycle
features comments from a summer 2007
debate in which the senator praises the
service of Hispanic veterans.
I want
you the next time you're down in
Washington, D.C., to go to the Vietnam
War Memorial and look at the names
engraved in black granite. You'll find a
whole lot of Hispanic names, McCain
said in remarks included in the
30-second spot.
He
praised the service of members of the
military serving in Iraq and
Afghanistan, including some of the few
thousand that are still green card
holders who are not even citizens of
this country, who love this country so
much that they're willing to risk their
lives in its service in order to
accelerate their path to citizenship and
enjoy the bountiful, blessed nation.
McCain
newest ad praises the contributions of
Hispanic American soldiers dying for
America yet these soldiers died knowing
their children could not attend college
back home because McCain did not support
the Dream Act. When the vote was about to
take place on the floor of the U.S.
Senate, McCain left through a back
door avoiding a "Yes" vote that would
have upset conservative Republicans
opposed to immigration reform.
McCain
turned his back on immigration reform
and now wants Hispanic support. Giving
service to America, American Hispanics
are true to their convictions and are
steadfast in protecting the rights of
all living in the United States. Not so
McCain who changes his convictions
depending on the audience.
By
emphasizing patriotism in a
pro-immigrant message, McCain is making
a direct appeal to Hispanic and Hispanic
voters without highlighting his past
support for overhauling immigration
laws. After all, immigration is one of
those issues that gets McCain in trouble
with conservative voters. Last year,
Comprehensive Immigration Reform failed,
freighted by criticism that its
provisions for undocumented workers
amounted to "amnesty."
After the
immigration bill's defeat last year,
McCain began to stress the need for
border security. He has argued the
public would not accept overall changes
in immigration law without Congress
first enacting laws to stanch the flow
of undocumented immigrants.
McCain
Democratic rival, Barack Obama, has
criticized McCain for backing away from
his commitment to the legislation
McCain and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
helped draft. McCain and his allies, in
turn, criticize Obama for supporting
labor-backed amendments to the
legislation that would have undermined
its chance for Senate approval.
Then
there is Hessy Fernandez, a McCain
campaign spokesman, who conceded the
Republican brand "has suffered a lot of
damage" among Hispanics because of the
immigration debate, but added,
"Hispanics do vote for the candidate,
not for the political party."
Fernandez
added, "McCain hopes Hispanics will
remember and reward the years he spent
fighting for comprehensive immigration
reform."
Hessy
must be living in a cave if she really
believes Hispanics do not vote for a
political party. Ask any Hispanic if it
was Democrats or Republicans that killed
immigration reform? All will answer
Republicans. Hessy belittles all
Hispanics by stating Hispanics have no
knowledge of what happens in Washington
D.C.
And when
John McCain began his political campaign
to become President of the United
States, McCain passed the sponsorship of
immigration reform to Senator Jon Kyl of
Arizona who proceeded to gut immigration
reform by proposing to deport all undocumented.
The
biggest issue with immigration reform
according to Kyl was amnesty and Jon Kyl was re-elected
to the U.S. Senate in 2006 by opposing
amnesty. Kyl rounded up all the county
sheriffs in Arizona to endorse him
opposing amnesty.
