obama has taken great pains to link mcain to bush's attempt to privatize social security even though it is a matter of public record that mccain did not support the legislation (he voted against it!).

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) created a stir today when he said in a published interview with the Wall Street Journal that he favored personal savings accounts in the Social Security System like those supported by President Bush.

This was a departure from the stand he takes on the issue on his Web site, which favors personal savings accounts as a “supplement” to the existing Social Security System. By contrast, the Bush plan called for using a portion of Social Security taxes to set up these private accounts for workers. It went down the tubes.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/
mccain_hugs_bushs_dead_social.html

mcain did not even support the bush tax cuts.

In the tax section of his platform, he commits to making the Bush income and investment tax cuts permanent.

mcain has not had ONE ear mark in 30 years of being in the senate, while obama has had somewhere around 200 billion.

On the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) makes a big show of claiming that he is the “worst nightmare” of Congressional spending and that if elected, he “will veto every bill with earmarks.” At the same time, McCain’s campaign has said it will “cut some $160 billion in discretionary spending” out of the budget, including $95 billion that “began life as an earmark.”

But in an interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel yesterday, McCain bent his earmark elimination pledge, indicating that he would consider making an exception for projects like the Gee’s Bend ferry that he recently visited in Alabama:

SIEGEL: Why should voters, particularly in those places, believe that you’d do any better by them than other politicians, especially when you might even take away the earmarks that might bring them a new construction project or something like that?

SEN. MCCAIN: I can assure them that the earmarks that they have received, which have been few and far between because they are not represented by powerful lobbyists and special interests in Washington, that we will judge any expenditure of the American people’s tax dollars on the basis of need. Someone pointed out several earmarks that have been fortunately gifted to some of the neediest people in comparison to the earmarks that have gone, first of all. For an example, at Gee’s Bend they put in a ferry a couple years ago, and that was an earmark.

Just as with his false claim that he is “the only one the special interests don’t give any money to,” McCain has a credibility gap whenever he makes a sweeping statement that he will eliminate all earmarks.

As Think Progress has noted, in order to fulfill his pledge, McCain would need to cut U.S. aid for Israel and military housing. Faced with this reality earlier this week, McCain told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos that he would make an exception for such programs.

Thus far, McCain refuses to “name programs he’ll cut” and when challenged on particular programs, he seems to always make an exception.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/24/mccain-earmark-bend/

Obama reveals earmark requests

On June 21 2007, Senator Obama released a list of earmark requests he submitted over the year. He had requested roughly 100 proposed earmarks from the Appropriations Committee, and the requests were for largely benign items, ranging from funding for AIDS programs to Army Corps of Engineers projects in the Chicagoland area.

Except for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), all of the other presidential hopefuls currently serving in Congress have also made requests for earmarks during the annual appropriations process, but only Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), along with Senator Obama, revealed their earmark requests.

A man like Obama can also break the Bush-Clinton-Bush cycle.

Let's just say that Hilliary goes back to the senate

I wish a buck was still Silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis
Before the Vietnam war came along

Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for H -e -ll
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell

I wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last 10 years like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Stop rolling downhill
Like a snowball headed for H - e - ll
Stand up for the Flag
And let's all ring the Liberty Bell

Am I wrong to fear this ????

FDR, the greatest president ever to live

We need a real leader regardless of his ethnicity.

Liberal Agenda will be the demise of our Individual Rights