I'll probably find myself writing more on this tomorrow; however, it was something that was on my mind. Right now, McCain's campaign is exhibiting the ineptness and incompetence that the current White House has shown over the past eight years.
Sincerely, W was handled from the minute Rove decided that he could turn HW's affable son into a President. Right now, we now have John McCain, playing the same game as Bush has for as long as we've known him. Sincerely, the way this campaign is going for Senator McCain has two possibilities: one, he has made some horrible managerial and strategic decisions, which has run his campaign into the ground; or two, he has submitted to his handlers, who with or without him have put him in this horrible position. Neither of which speak well for his possible presidency; we simply can't afford a third term of this level of incompetence.
In all of my discussions or disagreements with friends on McCain, I have yet to hear a policy position they take in opposition to Obama. Every discussion descends into a platitude about his professional career being in Chicago, his history as, among other things, a community organizer, or something correlated to his father being of foreign birth.
Please, someone reading this provide me a stated policy position McCain has in contrary to one of Obama's that demonstrates his appeal for being the next President. Consider this the gauntlet, because I have yet to see one policy-based argument that serves as a stunner.
If someone simply states "Chicago Machine Politics" or "Illinois Government Corruption," to that I will note the S&L scandal or "The Keating Five." In neither case were the two candidates convicted of anything, nor were they defeated by their primary opponents based on these items, respectively.
From a policy-perspective, please tell me how McCain is better on the Economy, Iraq, Iran, and Health Care or otherwise. I've not yet heard any delineation from McCain, respective to the status quo, while at the same time, it's tough to find us in worse shape fiscally or diplomatically.
The nice part of things at the moment is that the newness of McCain's Campaign's August distraction has worn off, and the desperation of the move and its poor implementation are being represented loud and clear. Do we want someone who manages their campaign this poorly running our country next year? I certainly hope not, and by the latest shift in polling, I suspect I'm not the only one.
RAGBRAI 2022
1 year ago
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Here's one: taxes.
Capital Gains will go thru the roof, tax cuts will expire, and he'd tax the hell out of dividends.
Shame on me for earning.
Taxes – the tax cuts will expire? Hmmm—yeah, they’ll expire if one makes more than $250,000 a year. Everyone else gets a larger tax cut. It’s funny; you say the same thing twice. Aren’t “Capital Gains will go thru the roof,” and “he’d tax the hell out of dividends” the same point?
Right now, with Wall Street bringing on all of this great trouble, I don’t think anyone will have Capital Gains to worry about for a while. As for those making plus-$250,000 a year, when their wealth has grown disproportionately over the past eight years, it seems to make sense that they are taxed commensurate to all of the benefits they receive.
Let’s take a step back for a moment, and think about something else… Paying taxes while being somewhat less fun than getting refund checks—with all the good that did us, does keep our budget in line for all of the money our government wants to spend on defense. What sort of imbecile decides to cut taxes and run a war under false pretenses? Oh yeah – that’s right, the current Republican President did. What does McCain want to do? Oh yeah – that’s right, perpetuate more of the same.
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