FactCheck.org: "You've Got Mailers!"

[Abacus]

February 6, 2008
Forget television: Clinton attacks Obama via snail mail.
Summary
A direct-mail piece sent to voters by the Clinton campaign twists Obama’s words and gives a false picture of his proposals:

* It says he "wants to raise Social Security taxes by a trillion dollars," a big distortion. Obama has said a “good option” would be to apply Social Security payroll taxes to incomes over $97,500 a year, but that would only affect taxes paid by 6.5 percent of individuals and couples. And he hasn’t formally proposed such a move anyway.

* The Clinton mailer says Obama has "no plan" for a moratorium on foreclosures such as the one Clinton has proposed. That’s true, but Obama has his own plan for homeowner relief. The mailer leaves the impression that Obama has "no plan" at all, which is false.

* It says Obama "voted for Dick Cheney's energy bill that gives huge tax breaks to oil companies," another distortion. By the time Congress passed the 2005 energy bill, it raised taxes on the oil industry more than it decreased them and also contained billions for alternative fuels research and subsidies for energy-efficient buildings and vehicles.

More: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/youve_got_mailers.html

[ingac70]

1. he "wants to raise Social Security taxes by a trillion dollars"

Good gracious, she's using Republican lines.

[Kittycat]

2. Her entire campaign policy is right out of Rove's playbooks

This is nothing new.

I'm so f-ing sick of all this bs.

[TexasObserver]

3. How can anyone support these professional liars to represent us?

This gets so old. Always with the lying.

Do we still stand for anything, or we will let the party be abducted for personal gain and power?