Obama's profound level of deception:
"In the final days of the campaign, Barack Obama continues to land the same sucker punch on taxes he used in the debates -- and John McCain continues to take it on the chin."In the last debate, Sen. Obama said, "We both want to cut taxes, the difference is who we want to cut taxes for. . . . The centerpiece of [McCain's] economic proposal is to provide $200 billion in additional tax breaks to some of the wealthiest corporations in America. Exxon Mobil, and other oil companies, for example, would get an additional $4 billion in tax breaks."
"That $200 billion figure is false. Yet FactCheck.org and most reporters never bothered to ask Mr. Obama where he came up with it. FactCheck.org did discover that Mr. Obama's claim about "$4 billion in tax breaks for energy companies" came from a two-page memo from the Center for American Progress Action Fund -- a political lobby headed by John Podesta, former chief of staff to Bill Clinton, with tax issues handled by two lawyers, Robert Gordon and James Kvaal, former policy directors for the John Kerry and John Edwards campaigns. Those lawyers confused average tax rates (after credits and deductions) with the 35% statutory rate on the next dollar of earnings, so that cutting the latter rate from 35% to 25% would supposedly cut big oil's $13.4 billion tax bill by 28.5%, or $3.8 billion. That is not economics; it is not even competent bookkeeping.
"The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, by contrast, correctly notes that, "Senator McCain has called for the repeal and reform of a number of tax preferences for oil companies," which would raise the oil companies' taxes by $5 billion in 2013."
HT: the above was submitted by commenter Tim, here, and is again from a truth-filled article by Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute. You remember Mr. Reynolds.
Yet the sheep run bleating, eagerly, headlong to the slaughter.
I think it's sad when one votes for religion. We should vote for the man/woman who can do the job honestly, and with integrity. I do not see these values in McCain. Go OBAMA!
If by religion you refer to a set of meaningless traditions then I agree with you. However, when we speak on the topic we refer to a set of fundamental beliefs about God and oneself. Integrity assumes a set of principles/values one lives their life according to. If these are not built upon a person's fundamental beliefs what is the basis for these values?
Betty, I think it's sad when one votes for a man who says he's a Christian and then mocks his own Christianity. THAT was the point. Interesting how it doesn't cause you to question the man's integrity in.the.least.
We should vote for the man/woman who can do the job honestly, and with integrity.
As we've shown you already here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, AND
here...
Obama is neither honest nor endowed with a lot of integrity.