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akuma587 on 17 October 2008
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Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
Some FOX news bits:

Hey at least they aren't directly saying he's john Kerry... like uh... the current Democratic assaults on McCain.

It's the exact same thing on both sides.

 

Come on, voting records and political ideologies are completely fair game.  I agree that McCain will run his administration much differently than Bush, but I, someone who does like McCain, have been shocked at how many Bush policies McCain has adopted and is willing to maintain, especially the Bush tax cuts.  What happened to fiscal responsibility?

Fearmongering is completely different than attacking someone on issues.  Obama is pretty liberal, and I think it is fair game to talk about that, but the video makes it clear that many of these attacks are just from the Old Republican Bag O' Tricks that tap into America's distaste for "elitists" and "foreigners."

 

Isn't that exactly what fox news was doing?  Agrees with his party 97% of the time.  Changed his Iraq War policy etc.

 

Those are fine.  But watch the whole video, there are plenty of things completely unassociated with Obama's political stance.  When Anne Coulter shows up it gets really bad.

And by that logic McCain has flip-flopped on fiscal responsibility and his attitude towards the Bush tax cuts:

"I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief."--John McCain, May 2001

"He voted against tax cuts in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, and this year he's for the tax cuts in the reconciliation bill. It looks like he did it for political reasons."
--Grover Norquist

And what happened to the whole balanced budget talk?  That is the McCain I want to see.  McCain can talk about pork barrel spending all he wants, but the only way we can get ourselves out of the fiscal whole we are in is raising taxes and cutting spending.  You can't just cut your way out of EVERYTHING.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson