Saturday, August 16, 2008

Just the facts ma'am!

Both candidates have now released ads recently that attack eachother's record and omit glaring facts. In many of McCain's new ads he takes the standard Republican tone, trying to scare Americans into thinking that Obama will tax them all to hell.
Obama's ads recently, where he blames McCain for the possible loss of 8000 jobs in Wilmington, Ohio, while defending himself from the "celebrity" line the Republicans have been driving into the ground, are also a little misleading, and is maybe only half right.
Obama's tax plan has been proven that it will not raise taxes on any middle class families, and 90% of American families will actually see their taxes cut, Obama also wants a second stimulus package to go out giving families a $1000 "energy rebate" to cope with rising oil and gas prices. McCain has also attacked him saying that millions of small business owners will see their taxes raised, this has also been proven false, many of their taxes will stay the same.
Obama on the other hand, may have over-reached on the DHL ads he released recently in Ohio. It's true that DHL, a German company, and according to factcheck.org: ". . .announced a deal that could result in over 8000 jobs lost in Ohio and McCain did in fact oppose an amendment that would have kept DHL from buying Wilmington-based Airborne Express. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, was also a DHL lobbyist charged with easing the merger through the senate."
But McCain hardly "turned his back on Ohio workers" as the Obama supporting AFL-CIO charges. Again according to factcheck.org: "McCain said he opposed a version of the amendment because it was a special project inserted into an unrelated bill, not to help DHL. And the teamsters union praised the merger at the time, saying that it would lead to more jobs, and at first more jobs indeed followed."
McCain and Obama, who have both seen baseless smears and lies told about them by their past opponents, seem to have forgotten this, and while both of them have tried to set up rapid response teams within their campaign to fight these lies, seem to still be spending the majority of their time, and at least the majority of their airtime, spreading false information about one another.

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