Dean: McCain Speech Highlights Hypocritical, Flawed Agenda

[maddezmom]

Source: PRNewswire

Dean: McCain Speech Highlights Hypocritical, Flawed Agenda




WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During his remarks in
Ohio this morning, Senator John McCain outlined a fictional account of what
he expects the American people to believe he will do as president. In
reality, on each of the issues he addresses, Senator McCain has either
failed to outline any plans or has actually promised outdated ideas that
would make the problem worse. Senator McCain's health care plan would do
nothing to reduce the ranks of the uninsured, leave people with
pre-existing medical conditions uninsured, and gut employer-based health
benefits while raising taxes on families. His reckless tax cuts for the
wealthy and his special interest friends would take President Bush's budget
deficits to dangerous new extremes. His willingness to keep our troops in
Iraq for 100 years would continue to drain resources from our efforts to
confront terrorists in Afghanistan.

Now, Senator McCain expects people to believe he will bring greater
transparency to government, despite the fact that he never applied that
same standard to his own political career. Before this year, Senator McCain
never released a single year of tax returns during his 25 years in
Congress. Now that he is running for President, he released just two years
of tax returns--far less than any party nominee since Ronald Reagan in
1980--and is refusing to release Cindy McCain's tax returns despite
well-documented links between Senator McCain's political career and the
McCain family's business and financial interests.



Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following
statement in response to Senator McCain's speech:

"The reality behind Senator McCain's new rhetoric is that his plans
either ignore the problems he identifies or actually makes them worse.
Whether he is taking President Bush's fiscal policies to new extremes,
continuing a stay-the-course strategy in Iraq that has distracted from the
real war on terror, or pretending he would bring transparency to government
after refusing to even release his own tax records, Senator McCain found
yet another way to show he's the wrong choice for America's future."

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[ToughLuck]

1. McCain is going to have a hell of a time with his platform.

On one hand, he is not the favorite of Republicans, they don't like the maverick side at all, which is what attracted Independents and some Dems. He has to pretty much give up that side of him..I was amazed for instance the Republican platform for Pro-Life. McCain wants to reform it to allow rape, incest. and the life of the mother..these stanch Pro-Lifers are telling him, don't go there with any reform. This is astonishing to me, I can see the campaign ads now, a mother who is pregnant, married, has 4 other children at home, her life is at risk and these Pro-Lifers believe making the other children motherless is the moral answer? There are a host of other problems for him, but this one I can't see as helping him..who the hell wants a president that would nominate a SCOTUS who thinks like that? Reasonable people can be against abortion, but against the life of the mother...unbelievable.

[Jefferson23]

2. McCain will lead a campaign of fear in foreign policy, same as Bush.

His entire platform reeks of Bush, he has bullshit envirnomental policy too.