Harwood on McCain: MSNBC 10/28/08

John Harwood on John McCain
"Morning Joe"7:05am
Panel

TOPIC: McCain calling Obama Socialist

TRANSCRIPT: WILLIE GEIST: Now (the Redistribution of wealth issue) just fell into his lap, because of something Barack Obama said, why haven't they been seizing on this earlier? [..]

JOE SCARBOROUGH: [...]They really should have seized on it earlier, [...]the second Obama talked about spreading the wealth, they should have been a lot more aggressive, you've got- what is your theme? And you go with one theme and you hammer it home, especially when you have all of this- the clutter out there, and they haven't done that...

JOHN HARWOOD: It may be though guys,[...]because they knew about this ahead of time but an earlier point in the campaign, when they weren't as needy as they are now, thought it was ridiculous, because it is ridiculous.

SCARBOROUGH: What's ridiculous?

HARWOOD: This whole redistributive change stuff.

SCARBOROUGH: That's ridiculous to you?

HARWOOD: John McCain favors redistribution, okay? He favors a progressive tax system, he favors refundable healthcare tax credits to people who don't pay taxes, which is what he's attacking Barack Obama for, his solution for social security is to take money that's scheduled to go in benefits for rich people and give it to people who make less money...

SCARBOROUGH: Okay, you're talking about John McCain and [...]

HARWOOD: I'm talking about John McCain and what I'm saying is the exact charge that he's making against Barack Obama- that he favors policies that take more from people at the top and give to people at the bottom- he also favors.

SCARBOROUGH: Okay, if you want to go down that path, you can say that John McCain also is one of the only two republicans that voted against this tax, the Bush tax cuts, which he's now championing [...]

HARWOOD: Yes, yes! Which is part of the incoherence problem that you mentioned earlier, saying he was against it and now he's for it.

SCARBOROUGH: But if this is the tack they've decided to take they should have weighed in, and I agree with you completely[...]

HARWOORD: You're right

SCARBOROUGH: But I will tell you, I am personally concerned by any politician that talks about the redistribution of wealth- that the Warren court was not radical enough, I'm concerned when somebody tells a guy that wants to start a small business that he should be for spreading the wealth- these are things that cause concerns, not just conservative- fiscal conservatives [...]

HARWOOD: It's a matter of degree

SCARBOROUGH: [...]McCain, in the end, is just not the man to fight back against this message is he?[...] There would be better fiscal conservatives to carry this message forward, right?

MARK HALPERIN: There's no question. [...] But isn't it the case, that if one of these guys is president for eight years, after eight years, if Barack Obama's president, the government would be substantially bigger, than if John McCain were president for eight years [...]

HARWOOD: I would say bigger, I don't know how substantially bigger. [...]When the candidate who's accusing him of wanting to redistribute, is also proposing the same thing, it sort of sounds like just words.
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LABEL: JM JM MSNBC 10-28-08 7.05 (LAD#63)U

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• McCain
• Obama
• Socialism
• Morning Joe

[mmm413]

Why is Mika even on this show? B/c of who her father is? Joe (the dead intern in his office) keeps going back to Reagan. That was 28 yrs ago, and is reaching. Taxes we should be talking about are payroll taxes (which is what Obama talks about). I want election to be soo over. W/Obama the winner!

[mmm413]

McCain has sold his soul & he will pay for it. And for McCain to talk about wealth w/his wife (of Bud wealth) is a fucking joke.

[harwoodhomies]

MY LAST NAME IS HARWOOD!

[delysia5]

All McCain has done this entire campaign is talked about what Sen. Obama does or doesn't mean. What the hell is he going to do? NOTHING! He has no plans other than those he endorsed under Bush, that's why all he has done during this campaign is complain about the changes Obama has proposed. And, Joe is the biggest idiot on MSNBC. It is eating him alive that Sen. Obama is about to win this election. I can't wait to see him and McCain after Sen. Obama is elected president.

[filorps]

Always go with the guy who says "it's about degrees" over that asshat who presents a black and white false dichotomy.

[JLowry]

They are both liars. Obama and McCain will both take an oath to uphold the constitution. Neither will be a man of their word.

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[pissoffcake]

I am confused here:

do they consider themselves among the most productive americans?

[alexandriaheather]

AMEN!!!

[alexandriaheather]

'The most productive' people are the people working their asses off everyday, not the richest people who have so much money it grows while they SIT on their asses

[Katy7540]

McCain's own policy is redistribution of wealth and deregulation. The McCain campaign has consistently lied against Obama pushing the idea he is a socialist, will raise taxes and is a big spender. Obama will end tax cuts for the wealthy. He will end spending 10 billion per month on Iraq and bring our troops home. He will invest in environment and infrastructure to create jobs. Do we want another liar in the White House? Vote Obama/Biden for integrity, truth, and sound economic policy