{"id":3321,"date":"2008-09-21T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2008-09-21T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:47:08","slug":"the-politics-of-change-change-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3321","title":{"rendered":"The politics of “Change” change back"},"content":{"rendered":"

After telling us for 19 months that he’s for changing national politics, Obama has decided you’ll let him get away with the old politics of fear that have worked so well for Democrats in past elections. In Florida yesterday, he told seniors that Republicans were plotting to get their social security money according to Wall Street Journal<\/a>‘s Washington Wire;<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would\u2019ve had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week,\u201d Obama told 2,500 supporters at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. He also told voters that half of elderly women would be living in poverty without Social Security. The Democratic nominee said that McCain would gamble with their life savings. \u201cMillions would\u2019ve watched as the market tumbled and their nest egg disappeared before their eyes. Millions of families would\u2019ve been scrambling,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not really. Not even close. Under President Bush’s proposal, current Social Security recipients would have been able to opt out of the new plan…and the new program would have only invested a miniscule portion of Social Security accounts in the stock market. Besides, I’m sure Obama wouldn’t want you to know that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 40% in the last five years as of Friday while your social security money earned about 12% over the same time period.<\/p>\n

Every time the stock market takes a hit, the Democrats drag out this fantasy…but I noticed no one mentioned the 30% rise in stock indexes in 2003 or the 19% in 2005. But those “Change” signs have just become background decorations rather than anything substantial in recent months. The Democrats are just going back the same old vacant strategies of the Clintons, Gores and Kerrys.But the McCain campaign didn’t let the vacuous charges go unanswered;<\/p>\n

The McCain campaign said that Obama\u2019s attacks were \u201cdesperate\u201d and unfairly scared voters. \u201cThis is a desperate attempt to gain political advantage using scare tactics and deceit,\u201d said Tucker Bounds, a campaign spokesman. He also pointed to Obama\u2019s book, \u201cThe Audacity of Hope,\u201d where the Democratic nominee said that a parallel pension system was needed to complement Social Security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s next for the Obama campaign? Threatening that Black churches will burn if McCain is elected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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