Obama = socialist?
(CNN) — Sen. John McCain stepped up his rhetoric against his Democratic rival on taxes in his weekly radio address Saturday, comparing his plan to “socialist” programs.
The remarks were part of a theme McCain has used since the final presidential debate, but his most recent comments were the first time he used the word to describe Sen. Barack Obama.
“You see, [Obama] believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that help us all make more of it. Joe, in his plainspoken way, said this sounded a lot like socialism,” McCain said Saturday.
In an interview with ABC last week, Wurzelbacher said Obama’s proposal to raise taxes by 3 percent on those making $250,000 and over is a “very socialist view.”
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McCain also said in his radio address, “At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are up front about their objectives. They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Sen. Obama. Raising taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it’s just another government giveaway.”
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I think I’m falling for McCain. At first, I thought that Obama was the better candidate. After watching O’Rielly’s interview with Obama, I had determined that Obama and McCain were terrible candidates… Perhaps there’s more to McCain than I thought.
There’s a book that I found in Borders that I might get - it’s called “the Obama Nation.” The gist of it is that Obama’s policies will not help America, which I can agree with, but I didn’t read any of it. Anyone else read it?
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