The New Red Scare (McCain's last political stunt)

John McCain's last ditch effort to divert American attention away from the real issues that face our nation in these troubling times in this:

Obama is a socialist. He wants to turn the IRS into a welfare program.


This is John McCain's desperate attempt to incite fear that Obama wants to raise taxes and turn the IRS into a treasury. There are only a few facts that create a problem with this notion. More importantly, the people who buy into this pander that Obama's tax plan is socialist do NOT know the following things at all.

1. Recent polls show that the American people are not buying this, and that more people believe that John McCain will actually raise their taxes, not Barack Obama. SEE: POLL here Editors note: Read the entire poll, you might find out that Americans are NOT as stupid as you think.


2. Ending a tax break or a tax cut IS NOT raising taxes. Tax cuts were never made to be permanent. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both knew this. George Bush proposed the tax cuts so that the economy would be more stimulated with more investment and more spending. We can now see where that got us. Instead it just pushed middle class and poor families down.

3. Giving a tax break to the wealthy in the first place IS WEALTH RE-DISTRIBUTION. The fact that a very small percentage (5% and up, with the largest and most significant breaks going towards the top 1%) get a tax break while more than 95% do not, is socialism. It's more than socialism, its cronyism, it is communism benefiting the top (ever heard of China, Cuba, Vietnam, Russia and North Korea? (cough, bullshit, cough).

4. John McCain vehemently opposed George Bush's tax cuts to the wealthy. He was 100% against them. John McCain in fact is calling his old Maverick self a socialist.

5. The tax payer bailout of greedy and risk taking banks is socialism. If Senator McCain was so against the idea of socialism, he would have voted against the masses bailing out the few with their tax dollars. Thanks Mav.

6. John McCain's socialist remarks ignore the entire foundation of tax-and-spending policies that have been established in the federal income tax since '13. (And I don't mean 1913). They also neglect to mention that the payroll tax is a completely socialist idea, since both the rich and poor benefit from Social Security.

7. John McCain's socialist pleas to "Joe the non-certified, non-unionized plumber" neglect the fact that over the last eight years, middle-class wages have stayed nearly stagnant, while corporate profits and high-income earners wages have soared.

8. Shifting the tax breaks to people who need them, is not socialism. It's democracy.

9. John McCain also doesn't admit that his own health care plan is far more socialistic than Barack Obama's tax plan. His plan calls for new taxes (for the first time in history) on people's insurance benefits. Their benefits would now be counted as income, which would probably move most middle class people with employee provided health insurance into the next bracket. The tax from these employer provided health plans would go back into a 5,000 dollar tax refund for every american, and more or less straight back to the insurance companies. He forgets to mention that there are more than 40 million people who don't have insurance. His health plan is bad, because it is a tax increase on working familes (unionized workers with health plans) and a $5,000 dollar tax break even though the average health plan costs well over $12,000 a year.

10. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says that Obamas tax plan would make the system more progressive overall. It would not even be a radical shift (unlike McCain's health care plan). The Tax Policy Center also says that favoring higher tax plans for the wealthy than the less fortunate, isn't socialism. If it is, than the United States has been a socialist country for more than a century.



This is just another stunt by John McCain to instill fear in the minds of voters. Socialism is a bad word in American society, yet the very foundations of some of our most successful programs in American culture are socialist ideas.

The theory, is that John McCain is trying to scare up as many rural, white, middle class votes as he can. Ronald Reagan did the same thing by waging his war against "welfare queens". He is waging the ultimate class warfare and is blaming it on Barack Obama.

John McCain is running out of time, and I feel sorry for the people who fall for his campaign stunts. Ending a tax cut for the wealthy and shifting it to middle class workers is not socialism. It's common sense.





Out of time, out of ideas, out of touch.

The Fear at the McCain-Palin Rallies, is actually the McCain-Palin Campaign

I'm sure by now you have heard the almost (almost) unbelievable rants by McCain-Palin supporters at their rallies. All you would have to do is youtube for a mere three seconds and you would find dozens of video interviews and shots of McCain-Palin supporters both shouting and saying some extreme things. Some call Obama a terrorist, other call him a commie or an Arab. Some bring toy monkeys with Obama stickers on them. Others say that he wants to ruin the country and that he is Muslim. Others even say that he should be killed or hanged. Some pretty crazy allegations. John McCain tried to make it look like he condemned these acts, by telling some crazy supporters that they should not be afraid of an Obama presidency, and one crazy now famous woman that he is not an Arab. The crowds reaction was to boo him. The extremism and hate that show up in these crowds both during the rallies and while they are standing in line, is almost unbelievable.

You wonder; how can these people seriously believe these things? How can they seriously believe every email that they get that claims that Senator Barack Obama attended a radical Muslim school? That he voted to condemn infants that survived botched abortions? That he voted to teach kindergartners sexual education? Have these people never opened a newspaper? Have they only watched FOX news and nothing else? It's astonishing.


But then you sit back, and look at how John McCain and Sarah Palin have been running their campaign as their last days fade away into desperation. Instead of talking about the issues, they instead decide to send out millions of misleading mailers that call Obama unpatriotic. They release several robocalls that say Barack Obama is friends with terrorists. They create ads that saying that he has ties to domestic terrorists and voted against our troops. On the campaign stump Sarah Palin says that Obama "pals around with terrorists" and that he sees our country differently. All of these ads, robocalls, mailers, speeches and especially the TV interviews by McCain, Palin and their fellow republican surrogates, are simply to instill fear in the American people. It's their last act of desperation, instead of talking about the issues, they want to paint Senator Barack Obama as an outsider, as too dangerous of a choice, as a terrorist.


The McCain-Palin campaign is the machine behind these hate full and ignorant rants and reactions at their rallies. They are inciting them. John McCain condemns the robocalls that smeared him in his bid in South Carolina, yet hires the same company to do the same to Barack Obama. They are running nearly 100% negative ads, and continuing misleading and already disproved statements at their rallies and interviews.

The reason that you see this ridiculousness in the McCain-Palin supporters, is because the McCain-Palin campaign are running one of the dirtiest and most dishonest campaigns in recent history. Don't be shocked with the McCain-Palin supporters, be disgusted with the McCain-Palin campaign.