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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:11 PM
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Another gem by "McGaffe" : Windfalls Profit Tax
McCain reserved his sharpest words for the windfall profits tax.

''If that plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Carter's big idea, too. ...I'm all for recycling, but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s,'' McCain said in the excerpts.

But on May 5, campaigning in North Carolina, McCain appeared to say he was willing to consider the same proposal.

''I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere. I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax, that's not what bothers me, but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people -- or industries or corporations -- that are distorting the markets.''

McCain's campaign did not immediately respond to an e-mail request to explain his earlier remarks. Nor did his aides respond to a request for specific provisions that he found objectionable in the 2005 energy bill he opposed.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain.html

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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deadmessengers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:53 PM
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1. Break out the waffle iron!
That's what they did with Kerry, right? A flipflopper? Waffles?

Good grief, McLame really is making this easy for us, isn't he?
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:54 PM
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2. How many voters don't remember Carter?
How many of Obama's youth supporters were even alive during the Carter administration?
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:58 PM
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3. I learned how to shit on a toilet
while Carter was President :rofl:



GOBAMA!
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:59 PM
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4. And the ones who do compare him to * and...
it looks pretty good!

If McSame wants to play "If I'm like *, then he's like Carter", he's even more senile than I thought
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