Posted on 09/21/2008 6:57:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The symmetry of sin is suddenly looking more equal. Last week, I flayed John McCain for dishonesty -- flagrant and repeated dishonesty -- about Barack Obama's proposals. Obama was by no means blameless, I argued, but his lapses were nowhere near as egregious as his opponent's. I stand by everything I wrote.
But a series of new Obama attacks requires a rebalancing of the scales: Obama has descended to similarly scurrilous tactics on the stump and on the air. On immigration, Obama is running a Spanish-language ad that unfairly lumps McCain together with Rush Limbaugh -- and quotes Limbaugh out of context. On health care, Obama misleadingly accuses McCain of wanting to impose a $3.6 trillion tax hike on employer-provided insurance.
Obama has been furthest out of line, however, on Social Security, stooping to the kind of scare tactics he once derided.
"If my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would have had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week," Obama said Saturday as he campaigned in that retiree-heavy state. "Millions of families would've been scrambling to figure out how to give their mothers and fathers, their grandmothers and grandfathers, the secure retirement that every American deserves."
This is simply false -- even leaving aside the incendiary language about "privatizing" Social Security. As the invaluable FactCheck.org noted, the private account plan suggested by President Bush and backed by McCain would not have applied to anyone born before 1950. It would not have changed benefits by a single penny for current retirees like the nice Florida folks that Obama was trying to rile up.
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Pigs are definitely flying by! This is amazing out of the Washington Post that said we are not to believe what they write.
Ruth Marcus is a little saner than the typical Compost hack.
Put some lipstick on that pig and it will be just right. lol
vaudine
Obamanation really stepped in it this week. Yet all the pundits were saying that McCain had a bad week last week.
Whatever! Governor Palin attracted over 70,000 people to her speech today in Florida. Let 'em spin that!
WAPO used to be a decent paper until sometime after the Iraq war when they became a partisan attack dog for the Democrats and started blitzing Republicans in sustained strategic attacks. As they did with Allen.
Every now and then I do think their conscience and sense of journalist ethics resurface and they’ll have a halfway good piece.
Unlike the NYT who are far beyond saving at this point without a complete cleansing from top to bottom.
Yes, amazing .. and she didn’t have to have a rock group proceed her speech nor did she have to play them with free booze .. like Obama did in Europe.
Great post, and yes Obama’s best day was was his acceptance speech, and that was pretty bad IMO.
I differ with you though in I dont put a lot of weight into it that the MSM will turn against Zerobama. Like you said they already jumped the shark on Palin and I doubt they will turn back now.
I consider the WaPo to be a fairly honorable center-left paper. They seem to have a conscience.
WAPO has been a leftist piece of crap since I began to read and comprehend it, circa 1971 (I was 9 at the time). The editorial board is little short of communist. It was crap long before 1991 (sorry if my date is off). The Washington Compost is all I’ve ever called it, and that is generous. But it will survive longer than the NYT. Things are pretty frickin left in DC.
Are there any pictures of that?
Obama has descended to similarly scurrilous tactics on the stump and on the air. On immigration, Obama is running a Spanish-language ad that unfairly lumps McCain together with Rush Limbaugh -- and quotes Limbaugh out of context. On health care, Obama misleadingly accuses McCain of wanting to impose a $3.6 trillion tax hike on employer-provided insurance....and the WashPo continues to slam John McCain as being the first to throw feces, when in fact he hasn't thrown any yet. But it's a distinction that will be lost, and may be the spoonful of sugar those dolts need to assimilate the facts in the op-ed. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Obama has been furthest out of line, however, on Social Security, stooping to the kind of scare tactics he once derided.
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