McCain, No Friend to the Middle Class

I don’t get it. John McCain spent 25 years in the Senate voting against government controls over business. That is part of the conservative definition; keep government out of private business. He, like other conservatives, believes that private business will do just fine on its own. He echoed those thoughts on Monday when he said that the economy was just fine.

Then the roof fell in. Lehman Bros. went bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was bought out, AIG was bailed out with money from the government (money our middle class taxes will have to pay back). Now, all of a sudden, on Wednesday McCain is for the little guy, now all of a sudden he wants the controls he so abhorred before.

How can any middle class worker fall for this? How can anyone believe a turncoat? How can any middle class person, whatever the color, gender, faith, possibly vote for him?

McCain, Women and Lies

Today, distressed by recent poll results, I went to the Obama office and volunteered. I don’t get it. I fail to see how adding a former beauty queen to the ticket has pummeled McCain up in the polls. I fail to see how women can support McCain, whose treatment of women has always been less than stellar. Check out these stories:

• http://www.womenforbarackobama.com/McCain.html#LOCATION2
• http://www.sptimes.com/2008/03/09/Opinion/Why_McCain_should_wor.shtml
• http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/john-mccains-trophy-bride.html

Don’t people research the truth before making electoral choices? Don’t they see the lies? For example, Palin claims to have stopped the “Bridge to Nowhere.” Yet, she originally supported it, then later opposed it. But, by the time she became governor, the government she criticizes so had stopped the bridge from being funded. She had nothing to do with it. Proof:

• http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN3125537020080901

McCain looks people in the eye and says that Obama’s tax increases will hurt all of us. Well, not me, honey. I am not in the top 1% of taxpayers. Only the top 1% will be hurt. Under Obama’s plan, the rest of us will get back about $1,000, whereas under McCain’s plan the rich dudes will get back lots of money and the rest of us will only get back $350. He lies eyeball to eyeball, and people believe it.

We all need to work harder to expose the McCain/Palin lies.