Democrats Looking Desperate, Out of Touch, Dishonest

I guess truth will out. True to their nature, Democrats are turning to distortion and lies in effort to bolster Obama's faltering campaign.

Today Obama, as Senator McCain predicted in Saturday Nights Forum, attacked McCain's humorous comment that "$5 Million seems about right" when asked where you draw the line between rich and middle class.

Obama rips McCain for $5 million "rich" definition

Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:36pm EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - How much money makes a person rich? That's the latest question dividing Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. presidential race.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ripped Republican rival John McCain on Monday for joking during a televised discussion on values that $5 million fit the definition for being monetarily rich.

"I guess if you're making $3 million a year, you're middle class," Obama told a campaign event in New Mexico.

"That's reflected in ... his policies," Obama said, adding McCain would give a $500,000 tax credit to people making more than $2.5 million.

I guess when you are polling far worse than you had expected, in a year that is supposed to be a Democrat Party year, you have to resort to distortion and lying to bolster your poll numbers.

Even worse for Obama, his answer and his response to McCain's answer proves just how debased his sense of morality and justice is. Obama is "all in" when it comes to the redistribution of wealth, or as I like to call it, Communism.

Whereas Obama's answer was predictably shallow and focused on generating discontent and class envy, by defining anyone who makes over $250 Thousand as "rich" and worthy of higher taxes, McCain's answer focused on what is really important, i.e. home and hearth.

The question asked of both candidates was:

"Define rich." Everybody talks about taxing the rich, give me a number.

Obama's answer was standard Liberal Democrat boiler plate, class envy stuff:

"Look, here's how I think and this is reflected in my tax plan. If you are making $150 Thousand a year or less as a family, then you are middle class, or you may be poor. But 150 down, you are basically middle class. Obviously it depends on region, where you are living...I would argue that if you are making more than $250 Thousand, then you are in the top 3, 4 percent of this country. You are doing well.

Now these things are relative and I'm not suggesting that everybody that is making over $250 Thousand is living on easy street, but the question that I think we have to ask ourselves is, if we believe in good schools, if we believe in good roads, if we want to make sure that kids can go to college, if we don't want to leave a mountain of debt for the next generation, then we've got to pay for these things...

What I'm saying is, under the approach that I'm taking, if you make $150 Thousand or less you will see a tax cut. If you are making $250 Thousand or more, you will see a moderate increase. What I'm trying to do is create a sense of balance and fairness in our tax code..."[I'm leaving out all of the side political talking points here]

McCain's answer to the same question invokes what most Americans intuitively know, money doesn't equal happiness and that wealth in America is not a "zero sum game." One person being wealthy does not necessarily mean that others must be poor. So his answer to the same question:

"Some of the richest people I've ever known in my life are the most unhappy. I think that rich is - should be defined by a home, a good job and education and the ability to hand to our children a more prosperous and safer world than the one that we inherited.

I don't want to take money from the rich; I want everybody to get rich. I don't believe in class warfare or redistribution of the wealth, but I can tell you, for example, there are small businessmen and women who are working 16 hours a day, seven days a week that some people would classify as "rich," my friends, who want to raise their taxes and raise their payroll taxes.

Let's have - keep taxes low...So, I think if you're just talking about income, how about $5 Million?...The point is, that I'm trying to make here seriously - and I'm sure that comment will be distorted - but the point is that if we want to keep people's taxes low and increase revenues, and my friend, it was not taxes in America in the last several years, it was spending..." [Again, leaving out some of the dross]

True to McCain's prediction and Obama's character, that $5 Million comment has become one of the main talking points among the Left-wing moonbats...including, as can be seen above, Obama.

Obama is losing and Democrats are getting desperate. Further witness to this fact is the sudden and growing claim that McCain "cheated" by somehow getting access to the questions before hand, and that Pastor Rick Warren was in on the "cheat."

How very Liberal of them. Their man loses...badly...in this back to back conversation forum and, rather than sucking it up over the loss and learning the lesson from their bad showing, they choose rather to impugn the reputation of their host and their opponent.

Even sadder than all of this dishonesty and personal attack, is the fact that the questions asked of each candidate are not questions that lend themselves to last minute preparations. They are questions that any mature adult should be capable of answering without preparation...They are "life questions."

As McCain, with his extensive experience and knowledge, predictably shone in this forum, Obama, with his lack of substance and experience, predictably stumbled and failed.

This result is not due to "cheating" it is due to life experiences. It was, or should have been as predictable as the sun rising.

Obama's lack of character, which manifested itself Saturday night in his inept handling of the questions asked by Rick Warren, is further amplified by his attempt to distort what was obviously a joke by McCain into a policy statement.

Obama's star continues to sink, as his opponent begins to outshine him.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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