Mac the Knife: Cut the Needy to Feed the Greedy

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Mac the Knife: Cut the Needy to Feed the Greedy
By Joelle Fishman

Bush’s man, John McCain, represents the old, corporate-driven politics of division and fear. Born into an elite military family and married into an elite corporate family, McCain is a vehicle to uphold the racist Southern strategy and policies of world domination.

Obama offers a new politics of unity and inclusion. He draws upon his diverse family background and community-organizer experience. His nomination is a blow against institutional racism. Obama’s 50-state campaign can end decades of Republican control in state after state.

McCain is the candidate of the military industrial complex. Although Obama does not reject the basic tenets of US foreign policy, he does embrace diplomacy while McCain supports the Bush first-strike policy. Obama favors bringing the troops home from Iraq on a short timeline and providing for their needs. McCain is ready to stay in Iraq for 100 years and voted against GI benefits.

The masses of people who oppose the war see this difference and are responding to Obama. African American voters and young voters are playing a special role in this election. Perhaps most important is the wave of people in motion across the length and breadth of our country.

McCain, like all congressional Republicans, tries to distance himself from Bush. He even tries to hijack the mantle of “change” from Obama.

Claiming to represent the “right change going forward,” McCain charges Obama with representing the “wrong change going backward.”

McCain portrays his program of privatization, individual solutions, corporate handouts and never-ending war as going forward. He depicts Obama’s program, to uphold the role of government and New Deal programs, and guarantee the health and well-being of the people, as going backward.

The media has helped McCain hide his far-right wing identity and ties. It is up to union members to alert their sisters and brothers that he opposes workers’ right to organize and would not sign the Employee Free Choice Act into law. It is up to women’s rights advocates to let their neighbors know that McCain has a zero-percent rating on issues of women’s health and would urge the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7161/

[curious one]

1. Hey you little people, you must support my wife and friends to get richer.

[classysassy]

2. Greed

is in the process of destroying this country.