Obama's False Medicare Claim

What a load this "story" is. McCain's plan calls for mysteriously large amounts of money to be spent, he himself does not specify how he will pay for it. When asked, his campaign staffer readilly replied, with media present, that cuts in Medicaid were wher the savings would come from. McCain can deny this all he wants, but how about instead of calling Obama a liar here - YOU at Newsweek do some actual research and find out if maybe John McCain is the one lying here. Of course, billions cut from Medicaid would be very, very, very unpopular with the older voters who are McCain's base by now, so he'll do anything to try to get out of the mess.

But this bogus "factcheck" story, based on future events which haven't happened yet and can't be "checked", is pure crap-ola. McCain's campaign SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO THIS! What is even contestable about that? Just the fact that they deny it now? Is that alone the basis for this article?

Truly pathetic.

Obama is quoting The Wall Street Journal as a reliable source.

If it is wrong, The Wall Street Journal wrong.

Unlike the McCain campaign which actually fabricates lies about Obamas character, Obama at least has a real source he is quoting.

Big difference.

After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 TRILLION of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

I just know this article is not saying GOD has made a mistake. Obama can do no wrong and he can fix the world with his economic views. Vote for Obama and watch the world flurish in revenue. Obama is the worse choice for President we have had in yrs and the people just dont give a dam, so I say when the S....T hits the fan many of you will suffer and I will clap to that........

Sorry, that's $1.3 trillion, not "billion". John McCain keeps promising to balance the budget with figures that simply don't add up. When the campaign is asked to provide the specifics, it goes silent, because they know that Jackson, factcheck.org and their ilk will accept silence at face value and blame the opposition for filling in the details. McCain has admitted not being good at all this economics stuff, but his aids are guilty of not being good at math.

Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Jackson claims that the Obama ad is based on a single unconfirmed newspaper report. This is complete bunk! McCain's own campaign aids stated that they planned to finance his health care proposal with $1.3 billion in cuts from Medicare and Medicaid. They did not even try to dispute the WSJ claim. And the McCain claim that $882 billion from Medicare will be saved by "cutting fraud, increased use of information technology in medicine and better handling of expensive chronic diseases" is about as plausible as his claim of being able to balance the budget in less than four years. It seems that factcheck.org is even more gullible than some voters.

After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, and put them in prison camps like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 trillion of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w