McCaskill Vs. Fiorina on Meet the Press


July 13th, 2008

I just watched a half an hour of campaign surrogates Carly Fiorina and Senator Claire McCaskill debating their candidates plans on Meet the Press. After a half an hour the final conclusions I came to were these:

1) Neither candidate is willing to come out on a firm position on almost anything.
2) Neither candidate has an economic plan that adds up to solving our problems.
3) This election looks and sounds almost exactly like every other one for the past few cycles.

Call me a curmudgeon but for over a year I have been skeptical about this tidal wave of “change” and “reform” that has been touted by both of these candidates but especially Obama. Through the sheer for of their wills is how we are told they will change the system. Yet here we are in what is obviously the general election campaign, forget waiting until the conventions, and I see two candidates and their surrogates who look, sound and feel just like any other.

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    Carly Fiorina continued with several false statements that she and the McCain campaign have previously made.

    She stated that Obama will raise taxes on small businesses and made it sound like it would be all small businesses.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11611...

    "According to the Tax Policy Center, only 1.4 percent of people defined by the Treasury as small-business owners are in the top two tax brackets and could be subject to Obama’s tax proposal."

    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/tax_tal...

    Republicans claim Obama "voted 94 times for higher taxes." But their count is inflated and misleading.

    Carly Fiorina continued with the pandering about a gas tax holiday, which McCain knows Congress will not pass because it is a bad idea.

    Why hasn't anyone ever asked McCain when he is going to propose the bill. Summer is half over.

    She continued the bull about McCain balancing the budget without any facts, except using the money saved from stopping the wars without any plan for when the wars stop.

    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opi...

    McCain's budget figures don't add up

    Neither candidate can balance the budget without major cuts or raising taxes. Tom Brokaw asked McCaskill if Obama did not care about balancing the budget. Once again because Obama is not making false statements to make voters happy, he is accused of not taking action. McCain's false statements are ignored.

    Fiorina also did not explain that one of McCain's plans for reducing the budget is cutting Social Security and Medicare. McCaskill noted that McCain did not show up for the Medicare vote held last week.

    No Child Left Behind : Ms. Fiorina stated that John McCain believes that every parent should have a "choice" in how their children are educated.

    Sen. McCaskill made sure that the audience knew she was talking about vouchers. She said that we should protect our public education system and not have a system where the cream of the crop will go to private schools and the public schools are left flailing.

    Brokaw exaggerated Obama flip-flops, but did not give McCaskill an opportunity to response. McCain has made way more flip-flops.

    Brokaw and Fiorina have houses on the same street in Nantucket
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    OBAMA MOVES UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT — IT’S THE “HUSTLE”! --- HE WILL DO OR SAY ANYTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS. He was sworn into office January 4, 2005. He has spent most of his time in the Senate running for President! If he can’t do his Senate job— he surely can’t lead our nation. Obama has lost credibility with all his lies and his ties to anti-Americans, Marxists and terrorists. READ HIS BOOKS - he hates what this country stands for and will try to desecrate everything to appease his radical “racist” followers. From Obama’s book: “Audacity of Hope”: “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.” You can’t change a tiger’s stripes. He was “selected” by the DNC — not “elected” by the people. Hillary should be in this race.

    McCAIN stands behind what he says. He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982. John McCain’s reform agenda to reduce federal spending and lower taxes quickly elevated him to statewide office and he was elected to the United States Senate in 1986, after serving two terms in the U.S. House. He will do the best he can for the people of the United States of America. He is ethical, honest, trustworthy and has the ‘experience’ and ‘judgment’ required to lead our country. I admire his willingness to reach across the aisle to get things done. He has proven he loves this country enough to die for her. He has two sons fighting for us now.

    I'm voting for John McCain in November.
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    Thanks for the rundown Jim. I honestly was not impressed with either of them. I have to disagree, I think Brokaw did a good job of keeping both balanced and several times he hit Fiorina over some of her statements.
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