I watch/read political attack ads, speeches and interview comments very, very carefully. They can contain useful information a candidate simply would prefer to keep hidden, after all. But when I see an attack by an Obamassiah campaign ad that features comments like the following, I look very, very carefully:
“”He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail, still doesn’t understand the economy, and favors two hundred billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class”
Hmmm, My dad’s 85 and is as computer literate as the average Windows user. What’s the story on McCain, I wondered. So, checking up, I found this (Thanks, Jonah Goldberg):
From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):
McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.
(Emphasis in the material as quoted by Goldberg)
So, McCain “doesn’t know how to send an email”? Sure, I guess he could have someone set him up with a voice command system, but tell me: how easy would it be for YOU to use a computer if you couldn’t use a keyboard?
For making a scurrilous personal attack the cornerstone of his attack:
Strke one for that ad.
As for “still doesn’t understand the economy”… I’d not be throwing rocks from your glass house, were I you, Mr. Obamassiah. The kinds of central planning and control you’ve advocated for everything from energy to health care have all been done before, and the Soviets didn’t have any success, even with totalitarian control over people’s lives.
Strike two.
Tax breaks for the rich? What is the Obamassiah Campaign smoking? ALL of Obama’s tax proposals are: soak the producers and give to the drones. The tax cuts proposed (to be kept or expanded) by the McCain ticket, while falling far, far short of the benefits that would accrue with The FairTax, would nevertheless benefit all Americans. Think about it: tax cuts for corporations=lower operating costs. Those lower costs go to
–the bottom line, benefitting shareholders, among whom are nearly every non-governmental retirement fund in America, millions of individual, hard-working Americans saving and planning for their children’s college educations, to start a small business, for their own future retirements, etc.
–more capital for expanding business and creating jobs here, instead of shipping them to a more favorable tax climate
–more money for wages
And much, much more. Heck, lowering business taxes and thus spurring growth has proven to actually raise tax “income” for the government in the past (facts are stubborn things).
Who, exactly, doesn’t understand the economy and taxation? *feh* What a maroon.
Strike three, this ad’s out!
