'Unethical?'

All this peripheral connection - every legislature helps award projects, most will turn out great, a few will not be well managed. All this whilele McCain was actually censured for his role in the Savings and Loans Keating 5 scandal where McCain actually did favors for a donor and cost taxpayers money.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/mccain/1205087,CST-NWS-fact07web.article


As for socialism or spreading the wealth as Obama is currently accused of wanting to do. This is what all presidents do since the twentieth century Reagan included. This is something McCain does often.
- The tax rebate in March - socialist (went to everyone who files returns even those who do not have a positive tax liability).

- The health tax credit proposed by McCain - socialist (also goes to everyone who file returns even those who pay no net taxes).

- The Paulson bailout plan (before democrats inserted an equity scheme) - socialism for the wealthy

- McCain???s blanket forgiveness and mortgage bailout plan - the biggest socialist plan of this election year.

Joe the Plumber argument works better with Obama tax plans because he will get to buy the business faster, there will be less deficit and deficit spending, and more of the tax cuts to the middle rather than going into foreign investments and luxuries goes back to the top in increased business - bottom up, opposite of trickle down economics.

All of us miss the big picture. What goals are the parties advancing for America? Where do they want to see America in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Out of all the ideals each party espouses, where have they shown the discipline to pursue them? As it stands, it's all about talk. Leadership is about getting things done. There is no leadership in politics from the top down and as a result America and its citizens suffer. Neither party has earned a single vote IMHO. Wedge issues, outmoded philosopies, mischaracterizations, lies, greed, and corruption dominate. Citizens are treated like sheep only dumber. Real change will only come when citizens realize this system is no way to run a country and keep turning these poor excuses for leaders over until we get some that can perform. They need to earn our votes with performance or be made to leave. It's our fault as citizens for putting up with it and not seeing the bigger picture.

Dear pot; kettle calling. McCain and Palin both have been censured for their proven unethical conduct (Keating Five and Troopergate matters). Add to those their consistent lack of compunction over false accusations like these, like those pertaining to Bill Ayers (also debunked by FactCheck.Org), like the recent, false claim that Obama already had his inaugural speech written (actually it was a Clinton staffer who'd written and published something along those lines many months ago). They tell these lies, then retell them or simply move to the next lie without looking back. The good news is that people don't seem to be buying them.

loriw
And Annenburg is a McCain contributor...what's your point?

.....and, like someone said earlier, he ran a campaign of fear into a illegitimate war...does that sound familiar? You can't call bush a complete socialist...but a "Good Ol' Boy Socialist" would fit fine....sorry but I think the rich are rich enough.

if it comes from the government then its paid for by taxes. this includes welfare, social security and disability benefits. that's just a partial list but probably the most common. I'm not sure how this forum got on this track but it is a valid point if we want it it will be paid for by tax, if we don't vote for it we wont get it. Its a simple fact, someone has to pay and that someone is us.

yea ssounds like MCCAINand the republicans. How do think they get rich.. Through their hard work, no through the giveaways they've taken while in office 28 out of the last 40 years.

ZEIGEIST .....................WATCH ZEIGEIST PEOPLE!!!!! Learn just how corrupt our government is!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAEE1_IUycs

Check this out. What will it be?

Anybody that worries about Gays has Gay tendendacies and wants to eliminate any temptations. I have 5 kids and they can do what they want with who they want. Doesn't make me love them any less. e just afraid of some "boogieman" from your youth. Grow up!

And all of you women out there....you really want a woman in office that is actually going to take you a stop backwards...Look we already know the two major topics to avoid at the dinner table are religion and politics....They have NO business coinsiding together...Truth is, woman should always have the right to choose, and men and women should always have the right to love and marry who they want....with all thats going on in our world, amazing how we pick the BS to fight over....Palin has no business in the white house.....Hiliary Clinton was a different story...

What is difficult to understand? MCCain wants to continue taking taxes from the middle class and keep giving it to himself and his best "Bush".

He also wants to reduce his taxes even further by reducing his capital gains. It doesn't take a genius to understand that most people that will benefit from this is mcCain and Bush, through their stock transsactions. Companies will not add jobs because they don't get any money out of this only the stockholders.

As for the health plan... show me a health plan that costs $5000 a year. Most of the people that need a health plan are the unemployed or underemployed. They won't be eligible for any deductions. You see Republicans use "deductions" as a code word. They'remeant as tax break for the rich that can afford deductions' We can't even afford the service for the deduction. What does Bush believe? The same!

McCain keeps talking about that leaving Iraq is tantamount to surrender. When are we Americans going to fface the facts. These people have been fighting for thousands of years. Yes I said thousands opf years. They fight against the ewish, against the christians, and mostly agianst themselves. Why should we allow our young brave men keep dying for a cause that is neither apparent nor just. What do we care if they have a democracy there or not. We have a democracy here and look at the internal strife , class versus class, race versus race, rich versus poor, even young versus old (SS). Let's get our #$%* together first and then we can try to convince others we have the perfect system. The oil there will only keep the Rich keep getting richer. What coicindent that our american oil companies have bought leases in Iraq. Was this war about terrorists from abroad or internal economic terroists like cheney , Bush, McCain. Isn't also scoicindental that with less than 6 months left to go we had to give our childrens future away because we were lied to again by Bush. And who was the chief engine driving this giveaway...MCCain.

When are we going to learn that anything a republican says is a half truth at best and usually an out and out lie. But they do have good looking blondes! By the way Palin is not attractive. She's a plain jane.