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an Abrams puts a stop to John McCain's media free-ride, taking the senator to task for gaffes on the campaign trail. correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks April Ryan.

1. McCain unambiguously called Social Security "an absolute disgrace." This is not a quote taken out of context. John McCain called one of the most successful and popular government programs, which uses the tax revenues of current workers to support retirement benefits for the elderly "an absolute disgrace." This is shocking - and if uttered from Obama's mouth would dominate the news coverage and the Sunday shows, as pundits would speculate about the massive damage the statement would cause him among retirees in Florida.

2. McCain's top economic policy adviser calls Americans a bunch of "whiners" for being worried about the slumping economy. Words cannot fully explain how devastating this statement should be from Phil Gramm. You would think it would be enough to sink McCain's campaign. Of course McCain only thinks that the economic problems are psychological.

3. Iraqi leaders call for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal, McCain gets caught in a bizarre denial and flip flop. The Iraqis now want us to begin planning our withdrawal - McCain however wants to stay foooorrreeevvveerrrr. So what does McCain say - First, he refuses to accept Maliki's statement as being true. Then he concedes that it was an accurate statement, but was probably just a political ploy to curry favor with his own people and WOULD NOT influence his determination to keep US troops in Iraq indefinitely. Yet, McCain in 2004 at the Council on Foreign Relations said that if the Iraqis asked us to leave, we would have to go. No matter what. But that was apparently a younger and less experienced John McCain.

But let's just look at his comment that Maliki's statement is "just politics." If that is true, then it must also be true that the American military presence in Iraq is so unpopular with Iraqis that the government is forced to push for a timetable in order to survive at the ballot box. That's a reason to stay for 100 years.

4. McCain's economic plan to cut the deficit has no details and is simply not believable. There are so many things here. McCain pledges he would eliminate the deficit by the end of his first term (the campaign latter flip flop flipped about whether it was four years or eight years), but does not provide any details about how he would do it. Economists on both sides of the political aisle said that this was simply not believable, especially given McCain's other proposals to a) cut individual and corporate taxes even further, b) extend the Bush tax cuts and c) massively increase defense spending on manpower (200,000 more troops) and d) maintain a long-term sizable military presence in Iraq.

5. McCain's deficit plan includes bringing the troops home represents a major Iraq flip-flop. Speaking of the long-term military presence - a story that has gotten absolutely no attention is that McCain now believes the war will be over soon. The economic forecasts made by his crack team of economists predict that there will be significant savings during McCain's first term because we will have achieved "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan. The savings from victory (ie the savings from not having our troops there) will then be used to pay down the deficit. The only way this could have any impact on the deficit in McCain's first time is if troop withdrawals start very soon. So McCain believes victory is in our grasps and we can begin withdraw troops from Iraq pretty much right away -- doesn't sound that different from Obama's plan does it. Someone should at least ask McCain HOW HE DEFINES VICTORY - and why he thinks we will achieve it in the next couple of years.

6. McCain campaign misled about economists support. In the major press release the McCain campaign issued to tout its Jobs for America economic plan that would balance the budget in 4 years, it included the signatures of more than 300 economists who the campaign claimed to support the plan. Only problem is that the economists were actually asked to sign up to SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Um, hello?

7. McCain makes a joke about killing Iranians. Haha... that's just McCain being McCain. I am sure that is exactly how it is being reported in Tehran. This guy is running for President not to become a talk radio pundit. Yet according to the AP this was just a humanizing moment between candidate and spouse - I am not sure when joking about the deaths of civilians became humanizing.

8. McCain denies, flatly, that he ever said that he is not an expert in economics.
Yet watching and reading the mainstream press you would think McCain was having a pretty decent political week, I mean at least Jesse Jackson didn't say anything about him.

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[testchimp23]

I think it's suggesting he's not Presidential material. Just like Bush.

[worldoperator]

seriously, it hurts my brain to dumb down to magoo's level of intelligence. i can't even hear the guy.. i see a mouth moving on a white monkey ..but all i hear is a pill bottle full of viagra(i'm certain) shaking in his pocket as he flops around. this guy is going to make it so easy for most sheep to vote for obama ..i can't stand either of these CFR puppets. if people picked presidents, ron paul would be the next u.s. president.

[AnDaTeSa]

McCain must work out with sandles cause all i hear is flip flop.

[fiestamort]

thats one senile man. at least obama lives in this century and on this planet. mccain already looks like a puppet, if you look closely you can see a hand up his hmm ... base or control center.

[FlickBooger]

what a fucking nimrod!

[krazytea]

He's too old for god's sake!!

[dragenzX]

Will the REAL elitist please stand up?

Meet John and Cindy McCain, ordinary American citizens. Beer heiress, Cindy McCain is an executive whose worth may exceed $100 million. She spends up to 500K a month on AMEX cards, pays upwards of 300K for staff in all of the McCain's grandiose residences, has a private jet at her service (the only way to get around AZ is by private jet, after all), and purchases clothing from couture boutiques where suits start at $3500.00.

[dragenzX]

Obama is a realist, unlike McCain. We can not afford to continue invading two different foreign country's, Afghanistan and Iraq. Let alone a 3rd Iran.Our country is not invincible and sooner or later the burden will be to much.Obama can end the war in Iraq and will focus on Afghanistan. Saving money for rebuilding our Health Care and Education Systems and many other programs that could save our country from private interest groups like the Oil and pharmaceutical companies.

[pntbllndude]

The media really does love Barack Hussein Obama, dont they? What about Sen. Obamas flip-flopping? He says that the oil drilled out of Alaska wouldn't make a difference on the price of gas, yet he wants to sell the US oil reserves.. This is what Obama says... "We should sell 70 million barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve for less expensive crude, which in the past has lowered gas prices within two weeks." Talk about a flip-flopper....

[bigmon311]

this guy has lost his mind,, songbird mccain..traitor

[FightForChangeNow]

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