Posted by: markg8
McCain said in 2001 Bush's tax **ts "offended his conscience". Now he not only wants to make them permanent he mindbloggling wants to give the richest 1% even bigger giveaways. In 1981 we had less than a trillion dollars in nat'l. debt. $990 billion to be exact. It took over 200 years to run up that tab. Two world wars, the Civil War, umpteen recessions and depressions, under Republican, D***cratic, Whig and Federalist presidents. All the way back to George Washington and the guys in tricornered hats. Less than a trillion. Since 1981, in 27 short years of trickle down, supply side economics, we have ballooned that debt to $9.5 trillion, It'll be $10 trillion by the time Bush leaves office. And McCain incredibly wants to add anywhere from $4.1 to $5.6 trillion more on top of it depending on which special interest group he's talking to that day. We borrow hundreds of billions from the Red Chinese every year and essentially use it to buy oil from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. We are the biggest debtor nation in the world and he thinks he can balance the budget by doing away with earmarks which only amount to $22 billion a year. That would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. This guy is the best the Republican party can do? We can't afford John McCain as president.
on Jul 18, 2008 at 07:08 am

Posted by: stevespits
McCain is a Nixon style divider as evidenced by his inference that Obama is a socialist. What a 60s style smear. McCain is a relic of the past and he can't grasp the future problems we have due to his age.
on Jul 18, 2008 at 08:22 am

Posted by: sigmaliz86
first, you can't blame mccain for the trillions of dollars of national debt. if anyone is going to add to that, it is going to be good ol' barry obama who would nationalize healthcare and for all intents and purposes, make america a welfare state. if john mccain had actually called obama a socialist (which he didn't), it wouldn't be uncalled for. even george soros says of obama "A lot of his policies have the government taking care of people. Instead of giving people a leg up, he would rather give them a leg." and as much as i hate to agree with george soros, it's true.
on Jul 18, 2008 at 11:11 am

Posted by: wilder5121
More nonsense from McCain.Poor old George W McCain. Doesn't even know how to use a computer. My seventy-nine year old mother knows how to use a computer. Guess that's what you get with a guy who graduated 894th out of 899 in his college class...back in the first year the Ford Edsel came out.Just what America needs...another president just as dumb as Bush Junior.
on Jul 18, 2008 at 03:50 pm