Democrats hit McCain on Social Security

Democrats are trying to use John McCain's comments on Social Security in New Hampshire today as the latest evidence of a two-faced candidate.

The presumptive Republican nominee said at a town hall in Nashua, "I am not for privatizing Social Security. I never have been. I never will be."

The Democratic National Committee, however, dug up a quote and video from a 2004 appearance in which he says, “Without privatization, I don't see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits."

“John McCain’s deliberate distortions are not the straight talk he promised the voters," DNC spokesman Damien LaVera said in a statement. "No matter how many baseless attacks he launches or how many times he contradicts his own record, John McCain can’t change the fact he is promising four more years of the same failed policies that have left working families paying more for everything from gas to groceries. America’s working families are demanding change, but all McCain has to offer is more of President Bush’s failed and flawed policies.”

Social Security is a hazardous issue for politicians. McCain and Republicans have been trying to use Barack Obama's openness to levying further payroll taxes on people earning more than $200,000 or $250,000 a year as part of labeling him as a tax-and-spend liberal.