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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Anti-Obama ad hits Dayton radio waves
While Democrat Barack Obama is in Dayton on Friday, July 11, radio listeners will hear a 30-second political ad that paints him as a double-talking politician who wants to raise taxes on the little guy.
The Republican National Committee is trotting out an ad already used in Virginia that claims Obama voted to raise income taxes on people earning as little as $32,000 a year.
FactCheck.Org, a non-partisan public policy research center at the University of Pennsylvania, debunked the ad, saying it is wrong.
“The resolution Obama voted for would not have increased taxes on any single taxpayer making less than $41,500 per year in total income, or any couple making less than $83,000. The $32,000 figure is approximately the taxable income of a single person making $41,500 per year, after all deductions and exclusions,” FactCheck says. “Obama’s vote (for a non-binding budget bill) does not change the fact that his own tax plan would provide a tax cut of $502 for a non-married taxpayer earning $35,000.”
Republican John McCain said in Portsmouth on Wednesday, July 9, “If you believe you should pay more taxes, I am the wrong candidate for you. Sen. Obama is your man.”
McCain favors cutting corporate taxes and estate taxes and extending the Bush tax cuts.
But Obama favors tax cuts for low to moderate income families and extending the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year. The Democrat would raise the maximum rate on capital gains taxes.
The radio ad will run in the Dayton market only on Friday, Republican National Committee spokeswoman Blair Latoff said.
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TweetBoehner, Jordan going to Alaska to talk gas prices
It’s not quite the Rolling Stones “Steel Wheels” tour, but House Minority Leader John Boehner Thursday, July 10, announced that he and a handful of his House Republican colleagues are going on the “American Energy Tour.”
Specifically, the group, which will also include Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana and Bob Latta, R-Bowling Green, will go to Colorado and Alaska next week to “highlight meaningful solutions to help reduce gas prices and break America’s dependence on foreign sources of energy.” Ten House Republicans are on the tour.
First, they’ll check out the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado Friday, July 18, followed by a visit to Alaska’s remote North Slope on Sunday, July 20. Basically, the group will emphasize regions of the country where Republicans think additional drilling would help bring down the price of oil.
No word on the tour’s opening act.
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TweetEye on Ohio: “Love” ad for John McCain
By Martin Gottlieb
Dayton Daily News
The ad: “Love,” a 60-second television commercial.
Producer: John McCain campaign.
Where to see it: It started running Tuesday, July 8, in Ohio and other battleground states.
Script: (Male announcer) “It was a time of uncertainty, hope and change. The ‘Summer Of Love.’ Half a world away, another kind of love — of country. John McCain: Shot down. Bayoneted. Tortured. Offered early release, he said, ‘No.’ He’d sworn an oath. Home, he turned to public service. His philosophy: before party, polls and self … America. A maverick, John McCain tackled campaign reform, military reform, spending reform. He took on presidents, partisans and popular opinion. He believes our world is dangerous, our economy in shambles. John McCain doesn’t always tell us what we ‘hope’ to hear. Beautiful words cannot make our lives better. But a man who has always put his country and her people before self, before politics, can. Don’t ‘hope’ for a better life. Vote for one. McCain.” McCain: “I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
Video: Opens with scenes of San Francisco in the 1960s, then goes to a plane in flight, presumably in Vietnam, then pictures of young John McCain in uniform and gear and in a hospital bed, interspersed with other Vietnam images. Then come pictures of McCain’s political career, featuring the likes of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and even Ohio’s John Glenn. (And is that Cleveland-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich in the back?) McCain giving speeches, meeting voters, looking pensive. Saluting. Smiling.
Analysis: Even back in 2000, when McCain was running for the Republican presidential nomination, his supporters often said that, whatever problems he might have in Republican primaries, he would be a stronger candidate in November than George W. Bush. What they had in mind was the pitch made here: He has a heroic military record and an independent political record that is presumably attractive to independent voters.
During the Republican primaries of 2008, McCain went out of his way to downplay the whole “maverick” thing, promoting the contrary image of himself as a “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution,” a phrase he uttered again and again. Just how much he turned his back on his old ways is an issue in the general election. Barack Obama has said “the wheels have come off the ‘Straight-talk Express,’” the name of McCain’s 2000 campaign bus.
McCain certainly has taken an independent posture on campaign finance reform over the years, pushing for new regulations against all manner of Republican opposition. As for “spending reform,” that’s apparently a reference to his work against “earmarks” and “pork-barrel spending” (generally seen as amounting to about 1 percent of the federal budget). “Military reform” is a vague term sometimes associated with the effort to reduce the number of stateside military bases, which he has supported.
NIn declaring “our economy is in shambles,” McCain is trying to distance himself from the president. But he has recently embraced the core of the administration’s economic policies, the Bush tax cuts. His references to “hope” are swipes at Obama, who has associated himself with the word. McCain is also saying that just because Obama gives better speeches doesn’t mean he’d be a better president.
Martin Gottlieb is an editorial writer and columnist for the DDN. Phone: 225-2288; e-mail mgottlieb@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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