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10/06/2008

How can this be?

God, give me a sign....on my lawn....and let it say Obama,
 
I'm not sure how much of it airs nationally, but I've been hearing a lot of Pennsylvanians interviewed since we've become a key election state. Typically, the interviewees from rural Pennsylvania say, McCain represents how I feel about (pick an issue) more than Obama does, or, as one woman interviewed for NPR said, Obama will be a Muslim until he's kilt (sic).
 
Do these people know that if they have any form of employee health insurance, under McCain's health plan, it's going to be taxed and under McCain's plan while minimum family health insurance typically costs $12680.00 per year, If their coverage is dropped by their employer, as more and more employers are sqeezed into doing, they will be given a $5000.00 tax credit for families, or a $2,500 tax credit for individuals to purchase health insurance on their own. That leaves families holding the bag for over $7000.00. That's almost $600.00 per month for minimal coverage.
 
I'm not necessarily in favor of getting something for nothing but is THIS the right time to further burden the already strapped middle class? If we're going to fix health care, let's fix it and not dick around shifting the burden to those least able to afford it. Why wan't there any money to expand the Children's Health Insurance Progam but there's 700 billion for the banking industry? Why is there always money to kill but not to heal?
 
Also, do these fine Pennsylvanians know that McCain's positions, his latest populist opinions, are in many cases diametrically opposed to his former positions, meaning, he has chosen what is politically expedient over principle. From McCain’s flourishing flip-flop list - The Carpetbagger Report:
 
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance” in 2002, but has since decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans “deserved” the 9/11 attacks. (Indeed, McCain has now hired Falwell’s debate coach.)

* McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.

* In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending “dirty money” to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.

* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June, he abandoned his own legislation.

* McCain used to think that Grover Norquist was a crook and a corrupt shill for dictators. Then McCain got serious about running for president and began to reconcile with Norquist.

* McCain took a firm line in opposition to torture, and then caved to White House demands.

* McCain gave up on his signature policy issue, campaign-finance reform, and won’t back the same provision he sponsored just a couple of years ago.

* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.

* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.

* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.

* And now he’s both for and against overturning Roe v. Wade.

Pennsylvania, if you believe in military expansion at any and all costs, gambling away your Social security on Wall Street, Domestic Spying, operating  from a locus of fear rather than rationality and electing a man that considers himself morally superior but has violated his own principles and beliefs over and over, John McCain is your man. Vote for him.

P.S. for you middle American, middle Pennsylvanian Christians: Obama's certainly not perfect but on balance he's more toward the Jesus end of the scale than the Judas.



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