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videos.kansascity.com - 7/18/2008
Helling One on One with McCain
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Posted by: markg8 McCain said in 2001 Bush's tax **ts "offended his conscience". Now he not only wants to make them permanent he mindbloggling wants to give the richest 1% even bigger giveaways. In 1981 we had less than a trillion dollars in nat'l. debt. $990 billion to be exact. It took over 200 years to run up that tab. Two world wars, the Civil War, umpteen recessions and depressions, under ...

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McCain: Obama Socialist? "I Don't Know"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... the National Journal. "Extreme? you really think hes an extremist? I mean, he's clearly a liberal," interviewer Dave Helling asks. "That's his voting record," McCain responds. "All i said was his voting record, and that is more to the left than the announced Socialist in the United States Senate, Bernie Sanders of Vermont." "Do you think hes a socialist, Barack Obama?" Helling asks. McCain responds with a with a shrug, "I don't know." Watch the video.

McCain Hedges on Whether Obama Is a Socialist
Political Punch — Obama's Globetrotting | Main | Graham, er Gramm, Out From McCain Campaign McCain Hedges on Whether Obama Is a Socialist July 18, 2008 6:39 PM At a town hall meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said that rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, had the "most extreme" record in the Senate. Kansas City Star reporter Dave Helling later asked McCain about that comment."Extreme?" Helling asked. "You really think he's an extremist? I mean, he's clearly a liberal." "That's his voting record," responded McCain. "All I said was his voting record, and that is more to the left than the announced Socialist in the United States Senate, Bernie Sanders ...

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