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McCain pushed back, saying Obama's bid to end the Bush administration's tax cuts for upper-income Americans would only worsen the already struggling economy. He is airing TV ads in key states on the Iraq war, which he sees as a better issue this fall. But he took questions on the economy from donors in Virginia on Monday, and planned a speech Tuesday to small business owners in Washington.

"Talk to somebody who owns a couple of trucks and makes a living with those trucks," McCain said. "Ask them whether they'd like to have some relief -- 18 1/2 cents per gallon for gasoline and 24 1/2 cents for diesel. They say it matters."

On June 10 2008 04:59 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Well it's all about the economy now. Maybe Obama can score some points with this seeing how McCain has said he knows very little about Economics.





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On June 10 2008 06:01 Jibba wrote:

Both candidates are partially right. You can't simply blame oil companies for inflated gas prices, because there's still a major chokehold on refineries and a significant portion of the inflation is simply due to investors. Eventually the oil market is going to crash, just as the stock and real estate markets did.

The gas tax holiday is worthless, but I don't think it's necessarily the right move to increase taxes on the oil companies.

In an online letter to the conservative National Review, a McCain aide said that the candidate applauds President Bush for wiretapping American citizens without warrants, despite the 1978 federal law that has long required such warrants. According to the letter, McCain believes that working closely with the telecoms on survelliance is "constitutional and appropriate...as authorized by Article II of the Constitution." That's a signal to conservatives that McCain supports the concept of an all-powerful "unitary executive," freed of the normal congressional checks and balances.

Yet that's not what McCain was saying last winter. In a questionnaire, the Boston Globe asked him whether he believed that a president could conduct warrantless domestic surveillance in defiance of federal law. In response, McCain said that such laws don't apply to surveillance conducted abroad, and then said: "I think that presidents have the obligation to obey and enforce laws that are passed by Congress and signed into law by the president, no matter what the situation is...I don't think the president has the right to disobey any law." (Emphases mine.)

On June 10 2008 06:31 Hawk wrote:


I'm not so sure that the oil market will crash. It's not like stock, it's integral to our daily lives. There's always gonna be a demand til we come up with something else.

And yeah, I agree with what you're saying about hiking the taxes on oil companies. Honestly, they will just pass it along to us, since there isn't a damn thing we can do.

On June 11 2008 09:21 Alethios wrote:
Obama hwaiting!

GO SON!

"We plan on having a large rally," said Paul spokesman Jesse Benton. "We want it to be a celebration of Republican values and what the Republican Party has traditionally stood for."

On June 11 2008 09:14 Jibba wrote:

The market will crash. At some point when oil prices get high enough, we'll find or negotiate a new supply. Once the futures investors start losing money (ie. price of oil is lower than the speculated value), they'll bail and the price will tumble down. Maybe not to sub-$100 levels with the war going on and all, but the price of gas will drop dramatically. The question is simply how long will it take.

A new poll out Wednesday suggests Barack Obama is picking up support among older female voters, a demographic that largely voted for Hillary Clinton in the prolonged Democratic primary race.

The findings could be a sign the Illinois senator is making significant strides among that bloc of voters, who had been fiercely loyal to Clinton and potentially ambivalent about supporting Obama in the general election.

The Arizona senator made the comments on NBC's Today Show where he was asked if he had an estimate of when a withdrawal process may be possible.

"No, but that's not too important," McCain replied. "What’s important is the casualties in Iraq, Americans are in South Korea, Americans are in Japan, American troops are in Germany. That’s all fine. American casualties and the ability to withdraw; we will be able to withdraw."

We have just updated 13 state matchup polls between Obama and McCain and of those 12 matched the previous state result... What flipped??? Michigan.

Michigan went from McCain's corner to Obama.. helping to extend Obama's electoral vote lead to over 100.

Here is what the presidential race would look like if it were to be held today, according to our estimations:

* Barack Obama - 320
* John McCain - 218

Michigan is a crucial state but so are so many other states... McCain could add Romney as a VP to help shore up Michigan but that would still put him about 70 EV behind.

On June 13 2008 09:00 BunkerPush wrote:
Two things id like to know from Obama:

1. What is he going to "change"? I keep hearing this "Change"..

2. And how is he going to do it?

=)