In the hours after President Obama’s not-the-state-of-the-union address, the Networks rounded up the usual suspects to give reply to the speech. CBS, for its part, found the always smiling John McCain asking for his reaction to Obama’s starry-eyed rhetoric and long list of promises.
The prosaic, yet perky, Katie Couric asked McCain if Obama “convinced him at all” with the rhetoric? McCain, after saying Obama’s was “a very effective speech,” seemed, though, to call the president a liar — though certainly in the nicest way possible.
Still, McCain said, “now I would like to know how we are going to implement it.”
“I don’t know where Social Security was,” McCain said. “I don’t know how you increase all of these programs and still cut spending to a point where you cut the deficit in half.”
McCain then addressed the earmarks issue:
“But when he says there are no earmarks – I just picked up a bill that we are going to take up tomorrow that has 9,247 earmarks in it,” a combative McCain continued. “What am I supposed to believe here?”
What are you supposed to believe, indeed, Senator? What are we all supposed to believe?
The Democrats would have us believe that Obama can with one stroke of a pen push the deficit to $1.5 trillion, then slash that same deficit in half in but a few short years. The Democrats would have us believe that suddenly Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare is no factor. The Democrats would also have us believe that there are no earmarks in this bill merely because instead of adding the pork spending as addons, they’ve written them straight into the thing (as if that makes any difference to the wild overspending).
McCain got as close as he might to calling Barack Obama an outright liar.
Let’s hope as the days move forward the drum beat of Obama lies gets louder. The American people need to be confronted with Obama’s obfuscation.
(Photo credit: thesun.co.uk)
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Obama's a douchebag magician.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Wednesday, February 25th at 6:13AM EST (link)Of course, Old Pal Mac knows it.
Old Pal Mac knows it.
HappyinAZ Wednesday, February 25th at 10:23AM EST (link)McCain is one of the best hopes we have to fight this scum-bag,
McCain is a Tool
Spartan4Life (Diary) Wednesday, February 25th at 10:35AM EST (link)He is in a position to fight but he doesn’t know how to do it. We have trillion dollar problems and he wants to talk about a bike path in Walla Walla.
He will continued to get played by Obama because he doesn’t even know he is in a war. We need new leadership.
Bash Bush and Lie
spinoneone Wednesday, February 25th at 6:33AM EST (link)I wouldn’t really expect McCain to call a former Senator a liar, but this is close enough. It is, of course, a lie. Someone has finally convinced o that he needs to be upbeat rather than bashing America, so he was. However, he continued to blame all his woes on Bush. I suspect that Bush bashing will loose effect rapidly. This is becoming o’s problem and it will remain so. Watch it morph into sky-rocketing inflation rates, lagging wage increases, and a stagflation spiral. Who knows, we could even see him be the first president impeached this century.
Bash Bush and Lie
HappyinAZ Wednesday, February 25th at 10:21AM EST (link)Impeached….I can’t wait!
This guy is worse than any of us dared to believe. He’s no more than a punk with power.
Math Class Needed
kmorrison (Diary) Wednesday, February 25th at 9:47AM EST (link)Senator McCain stated what most anyone whose taken a math class understands, President Obama’s math doesn’t add up. I know the media loves O, but hopefully Senator McCain can at some point get the media to at least ask him how it’s possible to cut the deficit and expand government at such an extrodinary rate.
Obama is Clintonesque...
azaeroprof (Diary) Wednesday, February 25th at 10:05AM EST (link)I never thought I’d see another politician who is so polished at looking America in the eye and lying to its face as Bill Clinton is. Not even Hillary is so good. These lies need to be countered in a forceful, organized way. I see this as Steele’s job. He was on TV last night, so maybe he’s going to be proactive.
I have some concern about Steele, though. I saw on at least 2 networks (and I’m sure MSNBC also, though I didn’t watch them), commentators talking about how poor a job Jindal did in his delivery. Steele should have had a small army of operatives blanketing the networks with praise for Jindal’s message. I didn’t see that.
Have a hard time praising McCain
TxCon (Diary) Wednesday, February 25th at 10:27AM EST (link)for doing this in February 2009. It should have been done from July-November 2008.
When is an earmark not an earmark?
skorrent1 (Diary) Wednesday, February 25th at 10:53AM EST (link)When it’s big enough, I guess. Eight billion dollars (one % of the whole d*** bill) for a designated special project connecting the Speaker’s state to the Majority Leader’s state, plunked in after the House passed the bill. But the One stares us straight in the teleprompter and says there’s no “earmark” in the porkulus bill. We believe! We believe!