If This Gets Out, McCain Will Lose What Remains of His Integrity In the Minds of His Supporters

By Daniel Miessler on October 27th, 2008: Tagged as Election 2008 | McCain | Obama

It’s become clear McCain’s final strand of hope over the last couple of weeks has been calling Obama a socialist. This tiny, tenuous foothold was given to him by Obama when he said the phrase, “spread the wealth” in response to an impromptu question about taxes.

That’s it. That’s what McCain has at this point–calling Obama a socialist based on his support for the rich “paying a little more”. McCain’s campaign knows they don’t have anything else, so they’re hoping to ride this all the way to the election.

Well, the video I’m about to show you, if effectively circulated, equates to the end of McCain’s campaign. Quite simply, McCain was asked at a town hall meeting in 2000 if it was fair for the rich to pay more in taxes. Here’s what he said:

When you reach a certain level of comfort, there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.

Zug zug? There’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more? Did John McCain just make Obama’s argument as he presented it to Joe the Plumber? Yes. Yes he did.

He follows it up by saying it shouldn’t be “totally out of proportion”, but that’s consistent with Obama’s plan as well (Obama’s talking about a very small percentage increase on the rich), so he gets absolutely no points there. The bottom line is that the woman in this video accused the concept of a progressive tax policy of being socialist, and John McCain openly refuted it–on video. He essentially made, while being recorded, the exact argument of the Obama campaign.

Please pass this along so we can expose McCain for the flip-flopping career politician he really is. He clearly doesn’t feel as strongly against Obama’s plan as he’s claiming, otherwise he wouldn’t have espoused the same exact view in 2000. And if enough people see this it will cut the final thread of deception-based hope their campaign has.

Dear Obama campaign, please do an official campaign video on this. “John McCain wants you to believe he’s against the rich paying a little more in taxes. Unfortunately he must not have realized he was being recorded in 2000 when he said this: (video quote). Can you trust someone who takes a hard stance against a policy that he himself was supporting just a short while ago? We’ve had enough of this type of politics in Washington.” I implore you to do something like this.

[ Edit: Re-posted (with edits) for Monday circulation. This message just has to get out. ]

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Marisol 2 months ago 1 point
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He mentioned this during his rally speech in Denver yesterday. I've posted it on my Facebook page...hopefully, it'll get circulated.

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citoyenlambda 2 months ago 1 point
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if I understand well, 2000 Mac Cain i making the case for 2008 Obama,
am I right ?

I wish Mac Cain had been the republican nominee in 2000 the world would have been not that bad off as it is now, as he would probably have been a better president than W.

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http://citoyenlambda.blog.lemonde.fr

Carl M 2 months ago 1 point
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The McCain claim that Obama is Socialist is not entirely about the progressive tax structure. It's the fact that those at the very bottom tier (some of those who pay ZERO taxes under the current plan) will actually get a tax REFUND. To be clear .. if you get a tax refund it's because you've paid too much throughout the year .. so you get the overpayment refunded (but your net tax payment for the year is certainly POSITIVE). The Obama Tax Plan has a Tax Credit which results in some people having a net tax payment that is NEGATIVE. That is, it's not that they pay zero taxes and have all their withholdings (if any) refunded. They get MORE than that amount refunded. So, the IRS takes some of its receipts from the wealthy and gives it to the poor. This is what the McCain campaign was equating to socialism: Refundable Tax Credits.

Unfortunately for McCain, his OWN plans include Refundable Tax Credits. In particular, his health care plan has just such a Tax Credit. The campaign was (dishonestly in my mind) trying to imply that this idea was new to Obama (Tax Credits are not new) and that McCain would never do such a thing.

But, to be fair to McCain .. the argument was NOT (only) about the progressive tax structure.

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