As I discussed before here
I think McCain says it all right here
During a rally in Hershey, Pa., McCain told supporters the gaffe revealed the Democrats’ true tax-and-spend intentions.
“It’s interesting how their definition of ‘rich’ has a way of creeping down,” McCain said.
“Senator Obama has made a lot of promises. First, he said people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan.
“Then, this weekend, he announced in an ad that if you’re a family making less than $200,000 you’ll benefit – but yesterday right here in Pennsylvania, Senator Biden said tax relief should only go to ‘middle-class people’ – people making under $150,000 a year.
“At this rate, it won’t be long before Senator Obama is right back to his vote that Americans making just $42,000 a year should get a tax increase.
Then there is the Wall Street Journal’s take on the situation…
Well, will families making less than $250,000 get a tax cut under President Obama, or not? Senator Obama has been saying this for months, but on Monday Joe Biden put the tax-cut income threshold at $150,000 in an interview with a TV station in his beloved Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Biden campaign later clarified — or at least tried to clarify — the matter by saying that anyone making between $150,000 and $250,000 wouldn’t get a tax cut but also wouldn’t pay higher taxes.
We suspect what’s going on here is more than Mr. Biden’s normal gift of gaffe. As with his admission that a President Obama would quickly be tested by our enemies, the Delaware rambler was stumbling into the truth. An Obama Administration couldn’t possibly pay for a tax cut for 95% of Americans by raising taxes on a mere 5%. Those 5% don’t make enough money, or at least they won’t after they find ways to shelter more of their income when their tax rates rise.
Just as Bill Clinton promised a “middle-class tax cut” in 1992 only to raise taxes on the middle class in 1993, Mr. Obama will quickly find that his tax-revenue math doesn’t add up. Add in the demands on Capitol Hill to spend more and to offset the Alternative Minimum Tax, and our bet is that even $150,000 would soon prove to be a moving tax target. Remember when the AMT was only supposed to hit 21 millionaires? Next year, without relief, it could hit 26 million taxpayers. Tax increases always hit the middle class because that’s where the money is.
Add this slip up to the reality of the tax plan explained here where the author explains 4 different ways that the Obama tax plan will result in higher taxes for everyone making $50,000 a year… and I am none too thrilled, not only with the tax plan but the continued lies and the pass on the lies the media gives him.
As McCain has said repeatedly… Obama is very eloquent, he will lull you into a sense of security with his beautiful words, but to get the real meaning, you have to listen to what he says very carefully.
Now, Bill Richardson has pegged the number at $120k…
For the second time in a week, a prominent Democrat has downgraded Barack Obama’s definition of the middle class — leading Republicans to question whether he’ll stick to his promise not to raise taxes on anyone making under $250,000.
The latest hiccup in the campaign message came Friday morning on KOA-AM, when New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson pegged the middle class as those making $120,000 and under.
Click here to listen to Richardson talk about Obama’s tax plan.
“What Obama wants to do is he is basically looking at $120,000 and under among those that are in the middle class, and there is a tax cut for those,” Richardson said in the interview, according to a clip posted on YouTube.
So which is it?
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Biden And His Scary Comments – International Crisis… Gird Your Loins… Trust Us???
UPDATE: Madeline Albright agrees with Biden… Click HERE
Ok, so Joe Biden made these scary comments during a stump speech…
ABC.
Why does this scare the absolute bejesus out of me? Simple.
First, Obama is young, inexperienced and naive… the world knows it and Biden just confirmed that he knows it too.
Not exactly the guy I want for President.
Second, because the world knows that he is young and naive, there are 5 scenarios that could explode in Obama’s face. Biden even names them and says that any one event, and indicates that more than one, will happen… and not because they would happen naturally, not because they were going to happen anyway, and as a corrollary would not happen with McCain as President… they would happen BECAUSE Obama is President.
Not WHEN… BECAUSE.
Simply electing Obama would incide one or more MAJOR international incidents? Well why the hell would I want that?
Third, the comparison that Biden makes is to the young Kennedy. While I greatly admire Kennedy and how he handled himself during the Cuban Missile Crisis and a few other scenarios, there were some grievous errors on his part that led us to near certain full scale nuclear war.
The Kruschev-Kennedy summit was an embarrassment. Kennedy was completely outclassed.
The Bay of Pigs incident was a total disaster. A trainwreck.
The escalation of the Vietnam War was not the best idea ever… and that nearly tore the country apart.
These incidents and the image of a young, naive, and weak President led to the closes the world has ever been to all out nuclear war. Kennedy’s initial fumbling nearly cost every single person on the earth their lives.
That said, Kennedy did some wonderful things domestically and Kennedy’s management of the Cuban Missile Crisis was superlative. It rewrote the books on international diplomacy…. I would just prefer not to get to that point again.
Fourth, I wanna know what the hell Biden is talking about when he says to basically just trust them because ”it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right”?????
What the hell is he talking about?!?!?! What the hell kind of decision is Obama going to make where the whole country is gonna do a “WTF?”
This mystery decision is the most ominous part of the whole thing. Damn that is scary.
What’s it gonna be? An invasion of Pakistan? Backing Hamas (who is endorsing the Obama/Biden ticket) and Palestine? Institution of a draft? A crazy jump in taxes? Mass nationalization of banks?
And we are supposed to suspend our own judgement and substitute it with that of Dear Leader Chairman MaObama? Are you kidding me?
Oh hell no… No Deal.
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