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McCain-Palin’s latest television ad: “Crisis”
As Wall Street melts down this morning (the Dow is off 300 points at opening) and Leman Brothers files for bankruptcy, Team McCain is up with a new ad focusing on economic reforms.
The Script:
ANNCR: Our economy in crisis. Only proven reformers John McCain and Sarah Palin can fix it.
Tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings.
No special interest giveaways.
Lower taxes to create new jobs.
Offshore drilling to reduce gas prices.
McCain – Palin.
Leadership, experience, for the change we need.
JOHN MCCAIN: I’m John McCain and I approved this message.
Some ad facts:
- John McCain: “And Under My Reforms, All Aspects Of A CEO’s Pay, Including Any Severance Arrangements, Must Be Approved By Shareholders.” “In times of hardship and distress, we should be more vigilant than ever in holding corporate abuses to account, as in the case of the housing market. Americans are right to be offended when the extravagant salaries and severance deals of CEO’s — in some cases, the very same CEO’s who helped to bring on these market troubles — bear no relation to the success of the company or the wishes of shareholders. Something is seriously wrong when the American people are left to bear the consequences of reckless corporate conduct, while the offenders themselves are packed off with another forty – or fifty million for the road. If I am elected president, I intend to see that wrongdoing of this kind is called to account by federal prosecutors. And under my reforms, all aspects of a CEO’s pay, including any sever ance arrangements, must be approved by shareholders.” (John McCain, Remarks, Washington, D.C., 6/10/08)
- John McCain And Governor Palin Will Reform Our Mortgage And Financial Markets. “Fixing Fannie and Freddie, and reforming our mortgage and financial markets, is critical to getting the housing market and the entire economy moving again. A great deal of the savings and wealth of American families is wrapped up in the value of their homes. A house has traditionally been the wealth-building course to retirement. The housing industry employs millions of Americans. One of us, John McCain, said over two years ago, ‘If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose.’” (John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin, Op-Ed, “We’ll Protect Taxpayers From More Bailouts,” The Wall Street Journal, 9/9/08)
- John McCain And Governor Palin Will Cut Taxes For Middle Class Families. John McCain will phase out and eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) – a tax that will be paid nearly exclusively by 25 million middle class families. Repealing this onerous tax will save middle class families nearly $60 billion in a single year. Under John McCain’s plan, a middle class family with children set to pay the AMT will save an average of over $2,700 – a real tax cut for working families. (McCain-Palin 2008, “John McCain’s Jobs For America Economic Plain,” Press Release, 7/7/08)
- John McCain And Governor Palin Will Double The Personal Exemption For Dependents. John McCain believes the tax code should be less of a burden on those, whether they are mothers and fathers or single parents, who are trying to raise a family. He proposes to raise the personal exemption for each dependent from $3,500 to $7,000. (McCain-Palin 2008, “John McCain’s Jobs For America Economic Plain,” Press Release, 7/7/08)
- John McCain And Governor Palin Will Ban Internet Taxes. John McCain has been a leader in keeping the Internet free of taxes. As President, he will seek a permanent ban on taxes that threaten this engine of economic growth and prosperity. (McCain-Palin 2008, “John McCain’s Jobs For America Economic Plain,” Press Release, 7/7/08)
The ad will be cycled into tomorrow’s national television rotation.
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The revenge of the Atlantic against John McCain. How dare McCain-Palin beat “The One.”
Photo from American Digest
And, what about Andrew Sullivan?
In an aside, Michelle also notes that “[t]his is the same magazine that pays the salary of that cretin demanding Trig Palin’s birth records.” The cretin whom Michelle leaves unnamed is of course Andrew Sullivan, who demanded Trig Palin’s birth records in this post. Consider Goldberg’s comment on Greenberg:
Greenberg is quite obviously an indecent person who should not be working in magazine journalism. Every so often, journalists become deranged at the sight of certain candidates, and lose their bearings. Why, this has even happened in the case of John McCain once or twice.
Substitute the word “hysterical” for the word “indecent” and Goldberg’s comment applies in spades to Andrew Sullivan, who has become the Atlantic’s marquee writer online. When I recently asked one of Sullivan’s colleagues at the Atlantic why it abides Sullivan’s disgrace of the magazine, he simply referred to the traffic Sullivan generates for the Atlantic online.
Sullivan is such a crude and hysterical polemicist on politics that he long ago became a worthless if not virtually unreadable commentator. He is also utterly careless with basic facts. The case of Jill Greenberg simply adds an exclamation point to Sullivan’s disgrace of the Atlantic.
The Atlantic has become a disgraceful rag playing to the LEFT and the Obama campaign. It is Part of the MEME – McCain is a LIAR AND DISHONORABLE.
Update:
Andrew Sullivan calls Jill Greenberg “er, eccentric in an unpleasant way. But, it is a free country and she can post whatever she wants on her own blog…..”
In the meantime, Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg has just appeared on Fox News Channel saying that the Atlantic had NOT paid Jill Greenberg and they were looking into possible legal action, if that remedy exists.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
The MSM is desperate to help the Democrats and Barack Obama regain their edge in the polls. Since the Republican Convention and the nomination of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate Obama has sunk in the polls with less than 60 days remaining prior to the Presidential election.
Late last week, Team Obama has declared the gloves are off and have recently MOCKED McCain because he cannot send an e-mail or use a computer – actually due to Vietnam War injuries. This morning Obama is running an ad calling Mccain a LIAR and DISHONORABLE.
Watch the MSM reinforce this MEME throughout the week – McCain is a dishonest LIAR.
Desperate and shameful are the controlling words here……
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Joe Biden will deliver a high-profile address intended as the first attack in a sustained anti-McCain offensive in a speech called "Bush 44" he'll deliver Monday in the key battleground state of Michigan.
While the lines of attack have long been drawn, Biden will assert — as the title indicates — that a McCain presidency would amount to a third Bush term and will focus, in a detailed, comprehensive and aggressive way, on John McCain's domestic policies and harsh campaign tactics, a campaign aide told Politico.
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Minnesota has become a battleground in a presidential campaign that has dramatically tightened nationwide.
A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows that the race is now a dead heat between Barack Obama and John McCain, each supported by 45 percent of likely voters in the state.
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On This Week this morning, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a surrogate for the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., raised the age and health of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., when discussing the qualifications, or lack thereof, of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
McCaskill said she stood by her remarks that she's "uncomfortable with anyone, regardless of gender, that is going to be vice president to one of the oldest presidents we've ever had that has never met a world leader."
When Stephanopoulos asked her it was fair to raise McCain's age, McCaskill doubled-down and mentioned his past skin cancer, saying, "I think what we're talking about is a reality. Other people talk about his melanoma. We're talking about a reality here that we have to face. This is someone who's going to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. All of us know it. I just think that it's the facts, George, and that's something that we need to start focusing on, are the facts, instead of distortions and lies."
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But, Obama cannot change who he is despite what his supporters perceive. Jeremiah Wright and Bittergate are aspects of his character voters will not ignore. Look at this comment/quote:
“I just do not trust the American people,†said Eleanor Shavell, 58, a computer programmer, who, along with several others, joked she would move to Canada if Mr Obama loses. “I cannot believe that 80 per cent of this country thinks we’re headed in the wrong direction yet 50 per cent are supporting McCain and Palin. I guess it’s like at school, there’s always got to be a bottom 50 per cent.â€
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows John McCain reaching the 50% level of support for the first time since Barack Obama wrapped up the Democratic Presidential Nomination. McCain retains a three-point advantage for the third straight day, 50% to 47% (see recent daily results).
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