Showing posts with label McCain is Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McCain is Bush. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Pigs And Lipstick

Here is the entire quote by Barack Obama:
John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”

With a laugh, he added: “You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still going to stink after eight years.
So the McSame camp turns around and says Barack is talking about Sarah Palin, calling her a pig? Right Wing papers like the NY Post put her picture next to the quote to help spread this fallacy. This is not a question of interpretation. McSame is willing to outright lie in public. This is your Republican Party. Out of ideas, living in the past, 8 years of failure, using lies to cover up their inept divide-and-conquer culture war approach to politics.

Andrew Sullivan
notes: "This claim is absurd on its face, like the Palin nomination to begin with. Absurd. And you can now tell who on the right has even a scintilla of intellectual honesty. That's all this episode is about: another tail-spin in the death throes of the Republican party."

Entire NYT article here.

Monday, September 08, 2008

8 Years of Clinton vs 8 Years of Bush: Job Growth

Which 8 years do you prefer? Consider McSame wants to continue Bush's economic plans.



The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its monthly employment data, and the picture is bleak: the American economy lost 84,000 jobs in August, and the employment rate jumped to 6.1%, the highest in five years.

While productivity is up 4.3% since last year (people are working harder with better, more efficient technology), real wages have sagged, dropping .4%.

More here