McCain: "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?"
John McCain is expected to slam Barack Obama today during his remarks in Albuquerque, NM, for not being frank about his record:
"Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked. But let me reply in the plainest terms I know. I don’t need lessons about telling the truth to American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician."
Additional snippets available after the jump.
John McCain in Albuquerque, NM, today:
My opponent has invited serious questioning by announcing a few weeks ago that he would quote -- “take off the gloves.” Since then, whenever I have questioned his policies or his record, he has called me a liar.
Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked. But let me reply in the plainest terms I know. I don’t need lessons about telling the truth to American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician.
My opponent’s touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned. For a guy who’s already authored two memoirs, he’s not exactly an open book. It’s as if somehow the usual rules don’t apply, and where other candidates have to explain themselves and their records, Senator Obama seems to think he is above all that. Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there’s always a back story with Senator Obama. All people want to know is: What has this man ever actually accomplished in government? What does he plan for America? In short: Who is the real Barack Obama? But ask such questions and all you get in response is another barrage of angry insults.
Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. What was his actual record in the years before the great economic crisis of our lifetimes?
This crisis started in our housing market in the form of subprime loans that were pushed on people who could not afford them. Bad mortgages were being backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was only a matter of time before a contagion of unsustainable debt began to spread. This corruption was encouraged by Democrats in Congress, and abetted by Senator Obama.
Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place.
Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, “a good idea.” Well, Senator Obama, that “good idea” has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
To hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. He was surely familiar with the people who were creating this problem. The executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have advised him, and he has taken their money for his campaign. He has received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other senator in history, with the exception of the chairman of the committee overseeing them. Did he ever talk to the executives at Fannie and Freddie about these reckless loans? Did he ever discuss with them the stronger oversight I proposed? If Senator Obama is such a champion of financial regulation, why didn’t he support these regulations that could have prevented this crisis in the first place? He won’t tell you, but you deserve an answer.
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Who is the real Senator Obama? Is he the candidate who promises to cut middle class taxes, or the politician who voted to raise middle class taxes? Is he the candidate who talks about regulation or the politician who took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and turned a blind eye as they ran our economy into a ditch?
Is he the candidate who promises change, or is he the politician who has bought into everything that is wrong with Washington? We can’t change the system with someone who’s never fought the system.
Washington is on the wrong track and I’m going to set it right. The American people know my record. They know I am going to change Washington, because I’ve done it before. They know I’m going to reform our broken institutions in Washington and on Wall Street because I’ve done it before. They know I’m going to deliver relief to the middle class, because that’s what I’ve done.
Corporate-owned media falls in line with McCain’s smear assault
Interesting, isn’t it? On the very day that the McCain campaign is to begin its “Obama is a terrorist” swiftboat-style smear assault, the New York Times leads with a story outlining Obama’s non-relationship-relationship with 70s era radical William Ayers. The New York Times concluded, as have all the many reports relating to the subject; the New York Times’ piece concluded that Obama did not and does not have ties to Ayers. But, wait! Interesting, too, that ALL THREE CORPORATE-OWNED NETWORKS continued the discussion on Sunday—that is interesting, isn’t it?
This Ayres-Obama smear has been debunked ten times over. So, why is the corporate-owned media continuing to play it up? Why are they doing the McCain campaign’s dirty work even when they know it is all a lie?
That is simple! The corporate-owned media is doing what their corporate masters want them to do. Corporate America is terrified—scared out of their minds that the American people are going to make the Democratic candidate, Obama, their president and, too, give the Democrats filibuster proof majorities in both houses of congress. The corporations understand what that would mean for them—they know that the people are really pissed off for having to handover a trillion dollars to Wall Street and corporate greed-merchants. The corporations know that the American people are going to want changes to the system! The corporations know that the American people are going to demand an end to the greed-driven trickle down three card monte-like scheme that has been imposed upon them!
Understand, the McCain campaign’s “Obama is a terrorist” swiftboat smear assault is being demanded by and propagated by corporate America. Corporate America knows that their only hope for maintaining power is to destroy Obama and to catapult their guy, their very old geezer, John McCain, into the Oval Office. So, it is interesting to see the corporate-owned press begin and to continue McCain’s “Obama is a terrorist” swiftboat smear assault, but it isn’t happening by accident—it is by design! This is corporate America’s way of ensuring that the Democrats won’t control all three levers of representative government. Interesting how it works, isn’t it?
(ProgressiveDailyBeacon.com)
Could someone please point out to me wqhen Senator Obama called Senator McCain a liar? This is like Gov. Palin saying that Senator Obama had attacked her family. I am getting so disgusted with McCain; I used to think he was a fine man, wrong on some issues, but a patriot. No more. He has gotten meaner and snarlier than Bob Dole.
Give us dirty laundry. They give it to us because we thrive on it. I say we only because of guilt by association by being an American. Don't take my word for it look at the trash written on these blogs.
The only reason Ayers isn't in jail is because the government proved his guilt through an improper wiretap.
Did Obama know of Ayer's past when he welcomed Ayers into his home for his first fundraiser? I want a Keating 5 level investigation of Obama's character.
HaHa mainstream media in the tank for McCain!? That's RICH! the Chicago Thug Team Obama has worked mightily to pay off, intimidate, kneecap, or just blow away anyone - ANYONE - who says anything negative about their little puppetboy. This Hussein Obama is hip deep in thug tactics (ACORN), anti Constitution (Joyce Fund), socialist education (Woods Fund) radical terrorist support (Raule Odinga), voter registration fraud (OH, FL, CT, MI, WI, 20 states now)foreign money contributions to his campaign (Gaza, Iran, etc), Radical Black Liberation Theology (Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger 20 yrs), and a student of Frank Davis - communist recruiter in hawaii and dedicated mentor to your boy. You'd better pay attention and you should be very afraid, at this moment. Educate yourself. The Axelrod Astroturfers are hard at work, loading up the blogs with MessiahCrap and shouting down dissenters. Get the facts for yourself. Don't be intimidated.
It's not Obama's judgment we need to question it is Ayers. After all, here is a guy who sets up a special pet project called the Chicago Annenburg Challeng with a $100,000,000 budget and hands it over to a guy who has never served on a charitable committee, has never chaired a committee of any sort and has no experience with education issues. Maybe he just thought they guy had one of those names that didn't sound like all the president's of the United States and figured that was a good enough reason to entrust him with $100,000,000. Oh, and then he decides to take that person with the cool sounding name and open up his home to him so that cool person can kick off his political career in his living room.
Yes, that Ayers guy, real dolt, isn't he?
Or maybe all the dolts out there are the ones who actually think that someone WOULD tun over $1MM and a pet project to a guy he doesn't even know and invite this guy he doesn't really know into his house.
Ayers is a radical of the left with a very clear agenda. It seems very out of character for someone like that to be so laid back on who he puts in charge of his projects and who he supports politically.
One thing I can say though. He and the guy with a cool sounding name have one thing going for them: they understand just how gullible the people in America can be.
Who is the real John McCain? Is it the one who voted for Bush's policies/Bills 95% of the time? Is it the one in favor of deregulation of the financial industry? or Is it the one who does not believe in tax breaks for middle income America. John McCain who are you?
who is the real barak hussian obama and i'm black and i don't believe in barak hussian obama he is just a smooth speaker and unexpereince for me and will raise my taxes those democrates has not done nothing for me and i'm buying into them this time we are in this mess because of everybody greed and we shouldn't have to give nothing free to the poor they need to work and quit making excuses for their life and take personal responsibilty for there own action barak hussian obama life a good life and he went to good colleges so he really don't us black he just using us like the rest of them did for position and do nothing when elected barak hussian obama is a fake and i don't trust him look out american be careful what you as for sheep in wolfs clothing