blogs.abcnews.com - 10/22/2008
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ABC News' Teddy Davis, Hope Ditto, Arnab Datta, and Ferdous Alfaruque Report: Facing criticism from John McCain that his tax plan constitutes "welfare," Barack Obama recently added a work requirement to one of his proposals. "They started saying this was...
blogs.tnr.com - 10/22/2008
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At our election discussion last week at the
Sixth and I Synagogue, Frank asked if anyone thought Obama...
could lose barring some catastrophic external event. I happen to think Obama's chances of winning are upward of 80 ...
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How Obama Could Still Lose
article.nationalreview.com - 10/23/2008
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A 110% Effort
Vodkapundit —
... on 22 Oct 2008 at 08:19 am Barack Obama has decided that in order to get an income tax break, maybe you ought to have an income . With that kind of requirement, maybe instead of only 95% of Americans paying less taxes he can get that number up in the 102-103% range. Tagged as: ...
Nailing jello to the wall
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator —
... ago. Just like Castro, they will say anything they need to say to ensure an Obama victory. If the public does not like the language of one of their policies, they simply pull out the thesaurus and use a different word. If the McCain campaign hammers away at a weakness in one of their proposals, they just change it to take the argument away from their opponent. They are not changing these things because they believe it is right to do so--they are changing it so that they can win. Here we have a major change in Obama's tax plan done for no other reason than to take the argument ...
Remainders: Closet space
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama tweaks his tax plan to avoid the "welfare" charge.
McCain sends out yet another robocall, again on crime.
Palin charged the state for her kids' travel.
Republicans aren't happy with the $150,000 wardrobe.
Josh Green writes about the Norm Coleman friend who wielded the credit card.
Al Qaeda chatrooms enjoy the crisis, mull whether they'd prefer McCain.
Sullivan manifestoes for blogging in the new Atlantic.
Charlie Cook says all the metrics point ...
Obama Adds Work Requirement To His “Tax Cut” Plan
Say Anything —
I still shudder a bit at calling Obama’s tax plans a “tax cut plan” as I don’t consider higher taxes for people who pay the most taxes and a check in the mail for people who pay nothing or next to nothing in taxes a “tax cut.” But after hearing some of McCain’s criticism about his plan essentially being welfare, Obama’s tweaked it a little bit.
Now, if you want to get that check from the government, you have to be working.
ABC News’ Teddy Davis, Hope Ditto, Arnab ...
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