Do The Facts Support John McCain? (An Email To Share)

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NOTE: The election is fast approaching, yet an astounding number of people aren't aware of some critically important facts. Hopefully this email can change some of that, if we share it with enough people. I ask that you don't assume that just because you may know these facts that most potential voters do. And send and post this everywhere you can.

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-If you make less than $112,000 a year as an individual (not household income, individual income) you will pay a lot less in income taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan than under McCain's. You make up part of the 80% of Americans in this category.

If you make between $112,000-$227,000 a year as an individual you will still pay less taxes under Obama's plan than you do right now.

If you make between $227,000-$603,000 a year as an individual you will pay $12 (twelve dollars) more per year than you do right now.

2)-If you get your health insurance through your employer John McCain wants to treat your benefit as taxable income. That will push many Americans into a higher income bracket meaning you could pay thousands per year more in taxes.

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-If you think corporations don't pay enough taxes you aren't alone. According to the non-partisan GAO about 2/3 of US Corporations paid no taxes at some point between 1998-2005. Despite this John McCain wants to cut the corporate tax rate by a whopping 10% in addition to increased first year write-offs which will ultimately cost us about 1.3 trillion dollars.

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-If you think oil companies aren't paying their fair share, you aren't alone. Exxon Mobil just recorded the highest profit for any corporation in history (again). Despite this fact John McCain wants to slash their taxes by 10% and not take back the 14 billion dollars in tax payer subsidies that the Republicans in Congress fought to give oil companies.

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-If you think Republicans are not fiscally responsible you aren't alone. Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican Presidents. Republican Ronald Reagan borrowed more money than all presidents before him, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter, combined. Now George Bush may borrow even more more than Reagan. Democratic president Bill Clinton is the only president in the last 30 years to finish with a budget surplus.

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-If you think borrowing trillions of dollars from foreign countries to put on a Giant National Credit Card is a bad idea, you're not alone. We pay hundreds of billions of dollars in interest only payments on our debt each year, meaning our tax dollars are flushed down the toilet for things that no longer benefit us, assuming they ever did. Higher debt means our money is worth less which makes gas, food and just about everything else more expensive. A conservative estimate is that the US dollar has lost over 27% of its value since the year 2000.

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-If you think middle class families do better financially with a Democrat as president, you aren't alone. According to research out of Princeton, real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president.

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-If you think focusing on which (current and former) candidates wear a flag pin is a waste of time that distracts us from real issues, you're not alone. After all, why should it bother you that Hillary Clinton and John McCain don't wear a flag pin?

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-Some people say you can judge someone based on the company they keep. That's interesting, because John McCain went out of his way to get the endorsement of Reverend Hagee. Most people have never heard of Hagee, possibly because according to a non-partisan study, while the media has in fact spent more talking about Obama (than McCain) most of that time has been spent saying negative things about him.

How else could you explain that fact that so few people know that McCain's Reverend Hagee referred to the Catholic Church as "the great whore" or that he believes and is on tape having said that "Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will For Israel"? And that's in addition to the inflammatory comments he's made regarding many other groups including women.

Also, McCain aids, advisers and fundraisers have made about $1 BILLION DOLLARS from corporate sponsors. I guess that explains why McCain's policies mostly benefit the richest and most powerful among us?

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-Finally, many people believe you can judge a man by how he treats his family, and adultery is incredibly serious to people (and of course it's the topic of The 7th Commandment).

Some people are aware that John McCain cheated on his first wife Carol with his current wife Cindy (who was 18 years younger and quite wealthy), but they aren't aware that John's wife Carol was in a horrible, disfiguring car accident before the affair began.

In light of all of this information you have to ask yourself: If the facts don't support John McCain, why should you?

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Keep 'em coming bias.

by Spencer on 08/29/2008 02:24:32 PM EST


I really want this information to go viral. It's blowing up at DU which is a start.

It'd be awesome if a week from now someone forwarded me my own email not knowing it was created by me.

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 02:29:13 PM EST

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I know some people might not like the end where I bring up Hagee and adultery.

No big deal, just leave those parts out when you copy and paste it into an email. It seems obvious but you never know.

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 02:30:18 PM EST

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NOW is the time!!  We must present a united front with no questioning or weakness.  KenTX is the best example here ;)

by desertpear on 08/29/2008 02:48:58 PM EST

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I just know that some people won't send the email because they'll disagree with mentioning Hagree/adultery.

PS---BTW, I really liked the direct link between McCain and breaking the 7th Commandment. I think I might have to create a thread at some point on that topic alone. It's one thing for people to say "McCain cheated on his wife" and another to get people saying and think "McCain broke the 7th Commandment" (I'm a non-theist but most people in the US are Christians so...)

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 05:31:47 PM EST

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Doing the hard work for us.  Someone is going to have their own blog someday!!!

by desertpear on 08/29/2008 02:49:54 PM EST


I appreciate it. It's too bad this is flying off the homepage here too. Again, I shoulda saved this for Tuesday...I managed to forget that it's Labor Day Weekend (and McCain picked his surprising VP).

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 05:32:48 PM EST

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We already know why McCain is not acceptable - Tell me why Obama is acceptable!

Thats your battle - its much easier to tell people that Obama is not acceptable as leader, not McCain...

Preaching to the choir here...Tell me why Obama is better...

:)

by bobo1 on 08/29/2008 03:33:38 PM EST


You were going to vote for him at one time, weren't you?  You didn't know why? 

We don't need to waste our time telling you why Obama is better because the answer is so fucking obvious and we've been telling you for the last 6 months.  If you can't tell by now, it is hopeless. 

It's time for democrats to go on the offense.  Time to attack Grandpa Death and Fishbreath. 

by desertpear on 08/29/2008 03:47:22 PM EST

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When's the last time you heard Ken say anything good about McCain that didn't involve his military service?  Why is it acceptable for Reps to only run AGAINST us and never FOR their own candidates?  But we can't even do a fraction of the same.

And even with that, we've all given thousands of reasons that people should vote for Obama.  Here's an example.  And he laid out a lot of plans last night (if you watched the speech and not just the highlights).

by Spencer on 08/29/2008 03:51:22 PM EST

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We talk about why Obama is the right choice ALL THE TIME.

That's only half the battle, and it's the ones that Dems always fight. The OTHER half of the battle is explaining (with facts) why John McCain is unacceptable.

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 05:33:54 PM EST

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"So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President.
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Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.

Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.

I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.

And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office.

 If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

For while Senator McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract us from the real threats we face. When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after we learned that Iraq has a $79 billion surplus while we're wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.

That's not the judgment we need. That won't keep America safe. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need.

We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans -"

by Lib on 08/29/2008 05:35:13 PM EST

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Lib, I didn't realize you were such a brilliant writer! You really nailed it here!

:)


;)

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 05:36:15 PM EST

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Notice the QUOTATION MARKS  Notice in the topic I posted let OBAMA tell you why.

 

by Lib on 08/29/2008 07:31:45 PM EST

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:)

I was joking obviously. You posted an excellent excerpt from Obama's speech, and it was a great response to Bobo.

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 07:51:34 PM EST

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Thank you. The conservatives on blogs repeat what they hear in the conservative echo chamber almost verbatim . Until there is honest debate, I cut and copy the reply. It's my way of dealing with them and making a statement.  

by Lib on 08/29/2008 07:57:05 PM EST

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This is the post I've been thinking about for days now - although my title was something like "Why the Hell would anyone vote for John McCain?"  Nevertheless, I am suing you for invading my private thoughts and writing them down before I could - although much more eloquently...and using lots of good links...and less spelling mistake/typos.

:-)

"Like lipstick on a pig"

by TJD on 08/29/2008 04:08:52 PM EST


I made one minor factual mistake and two grammatical errors when I posted it at DU. I corrected those here.

:)

by ihavenobias on 08/29/2008 05:35:28 PM EST

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