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Everything about Obama makes me cringe?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/14/cam...wrap/index.html

CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama told voters in Wayne, Pennsylvania, on Saturday that he'll cut taxes for the middle class, raise taxes for the wealthy and pour more money into what he calls green energy.

How is he going to "cut taxes for the middle class" when he wants to repeal the tax cuts that are already in place for them? Is he saying he want to cut them further then pass the burden along to the $250k mark, what?

And who is he to decide who "wealthy" is?

According to his campaign, Obama wants to invest $150 billion over the next 10 years to establish a green energy sector; create a national low-carbon fuel standard to ensure that the fuel is more efficient, and invest in clean energies like solar, wind and biodiesel.

This is the kind of thing that I actually agree with Bill Clinton about: The national news media does everything they can to make this guy look like a saint. They say he wants to do all this crap with no understanding of what this really means or is, and the public buys it hook line and sinker.

I mean really, what do you mean "low-carbon" fuel standard, and please, by all means, somone explain to me EXACTLY what he means by "more effecient" fuel. He uses terms like this that people THINK they understand but they really can't grasp it. It really IS more complicated than these "hot topic terms" and 15 second sound bytes.

Oh wait, %75 of the public is scientifically illiterate. That's why shit like this goes unchecked

But, it sounds great in a 15-second sound byte

He isn't offering any solutions to help Americans pay for high gas prices. Instead, he's proposing a gas tax holiday that's nothing more than a Washington stunt," Obama said. "I was for the idea back then, but I've learned from my mistake, because I don't think it's right to say you're offering families relief when you're just boosting oil company profits."

Believe it or not, I agree! McCain isn't doing shit to help Americans pay for high gas prices because he's having to jump on the bandwagon of idiocy that the Democrats have purveyed about the "evil oil companies" and other various forms of political horse shit for the last 40 years! He's having to make a gamble that if he doesn't throw what weight he can behind this horse shit green energy propaghanda machine he will have no chance of getting elected. And yes, the "gas tax holiday" is a Washington stunt. It takes a stuntman to know one Obama! Ha haaaaa!

And, please explain to me how McCain is "boosting oil companies profits" ....? God I am sick of this bullshit rhetoric from them ....

Obama says McCain's gas tax plan would "actually do real harm" and take "$3 billion a month out of the highway trust fund and hand it over to the oil companies."

Ahhhhh, I see! So we have this "gas tax holiday" ... so ... people pay less for gas, and that money doesn't go to the government so it automatically goes to the oil companies? You mean people might not buy groceries, video games, a new couch, with the money they might save? I said I agree the gas tax was a political stunt, but theres another political stunt about a political stunt ... he's making the generalization that since gas will be all of a whopping $0.30 lower per gallon that the oil companies will be having boosted profits. Right ....

Here's some more pure bullshit:

Obama's plan for relief includes putting a windfall profits tax on oil companies, using the proceeds to help Pennsylvania families pay their heating and cooling bills. He also wants to increase transparency in the way prices are set, "so we can make sure that energy companies aren't bending the rules," according to his campaign.

Oh I see! Now everyone in the rockies, texas, gulf coast, etc, is going to get fucked over so people in Pensylvania can make-believe these so-called windfall profits taxes are doing them good! Why, I'm so happy the rest of us can sacrifice our quality of life so Obama can drum up votes in Pensylvania! YAY!

Remember when they tried this in the 70's and what a disaster it was? It'll be ten times that bad now.

I mean literally, every time I read an article from this guy it's trying to paint him as a saint. The guy is literally one of the most (and typically) ass-backwards politicians in Washington, but because he's "new" people seem to think he's the hot ticket.

What's more, McCain isn't much better

We're screwed