Shootout at the no-tax corral
Barack Obama, saying he welcomed a debate with John McCain on taxes, issued a tongue-in-cheek challenge of his Republican rival to a shootout.
At a town hall meeting in Springfield, Mo., Obama joked that he was a distant cousin of local legend Wild Bill Hickok, according to media accounts.
Then, he added, "I want to cut taxes for middle-class families, ordinary folks who are working hard and playing by the rules. I'm ready to duel John McCain on taxes right here, quick draw."
McCain's campaign responded by noting that he had challenged Obama to a series of 10 town hall meetings, and the two campaigns could never agree on the details.
“If Barack Obama wants this so-called ‘duel’ than why did he and his entourage run for the hills when John McCain challenged him to ten town halls? The truth is Barack Obama’s bad judgment led him to vote in support of higher taxes 94 times in just three years in the Senate, and he can’t hide from that,” spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.
O Obama, please do debate with McCain. I have been waiting my eyes out to see this. Show me you are not a fake and you may stand a chance to get my vote! Mind you, McCain is not Hillary. He would not be kind and collegial to the junior senator, like Hillary was. Burn the midnight oil, and show us you know a few things. Otherwise, you are toast!
dear bao:
mccain's tax plan: maintain bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of americans. let middle class fend for themselves.
obama's tax plan: raise taxes on top 1% to clinton era levels and lower taxes for folks who make less than 250k.
you must make a lot of dough. congrats. if not, you seem primed to do what the majority of americans did in the last 2 elections: vote against your own interests. and for what? 8 years of pathetic, failed domestic and foreign policy platforms that have left our much country weaker than it was 8 years ago and hated around the world. you go bao!
Town hall meeting questions are not any good unless those asking the questions are genuinely non-partisan voters. Most questions I have heard a John McCain town halls sound like planted questions. That's what the totally unprepared G W Bush required.
Obama had much campaigning to do and to prepare for his overseas trip and his initiative on the economy. He had his own agenda to follow. Obama I think gave a counter offer for fewer encounters but more than the three that were already scheduled. Rather than taking Obama up on that or giving a counter offer McCain dropped the subject and started whining. McCain is the old kind of politics. Make an offer that suites him, do not negotiate and complain. Both Republicans and Democrats have been doing that for years. Obama gives a genuine response and when McCain ignores it he moves on to issues that are important to the American people and leaves the moaning about trivia to McCain and his supporters.
I would like to see a conversation type meeting between the two candidates with the choice of subjects made by Gwen Ifil from PBS. MSM seems to fail at that task.
BAO
I hope we get a debate soon too. But I want to see what McCain has to say about his constant flip-flops, as seen on you tube- very funny, and complete lack of direction, vision, and shoot- anything but this Obama this and Obama that half truths, outright lies and pathetic gimmicks!!
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