Obama Exposes McCain Tax Flip-Flop
Posted by Phoenix Woman on March 13, 2008
What, Mister Stray Talk Excess lie? Horrors!
Yet it’s so — and Obama’s nailing him on it:
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that Sen. John McCain reversed his position on President Bush’s deep tax cuts in order to win the Republican presidential nomination, one of his sharpest criticisms yet of the Arizona senator he hopes to face this fall.
Criticizing GOP efforts to extend major tax cuts from Bush’s first term and to eliminate the estate tax, Obama said: “These are all steps that John McCain rightly said were irresponsible when they first came up.”
“He made a decision to reverse himself on that,” Obama told reporters as he flew from Chicago to Washington for a series of Senate votes on budget issues.
“That was how, I guess, you got your ticket punched to be the Republican nominee,” he said of McCain. “But he was right then, and he’s wrong now.
More like this, please. (Of course, it would help if the press didn’t habitually bury things like this on Page C22 next to the want ads.)
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Michael said
The press only wants to talk about the primaries right now, and they want it as dirty as possible.
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