FactCheck.org: McCain calls Obama’s Refundable Tax Credits “Welfare,” But Calls His Own “Reform.”

October 17th 2008 in Lies

“The McCain campaign has taken to denigrating some of Obama’s tax proposals as ‘welfare’ rather than tax cuts. And it continues to mislead about who would see a tax increase. A new McCain-Palin Web ad characterizes Obama’s proposed refundable tax credits as ‘welfare.’ But McCain himself proposes refundable tax credits, too, as part of his health care plan, and calls them ‘reform.’ The ad also says ‘hard-working families’ and ’seniors’ would pay higher taxes. But - need we say this again? - that would be true only for the affluent few, not for the many.” [FactCheck.org, 10/17/08: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_welfare.html]

Five Ohio Papers: John McCain’s “Ambition” Ad Offers Little Straight Talk.

“RATING 2 on a scale from 0 (misleading) to 10 (truthful) … For a candidate who likes to brag about the ‘Straight Talk Express,’ it would have been more accurate for McCain to say that Obama worked with ‘ex-terrorist Bill Ayers’ since their time together was spent on education and charity projects, not blowing up [...]

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Politifact.com: McCain Claim That Obama Directed “An Arm of ACORN” Is False.

“Here, we’ll look at the allegation that in 1992, Obama directed Project Vote, ‘an arm of ACORN that also encouraged voter registration.’ This year, Project Vote and ACORN worked together on a nationwide voter registration drive aimed at low-income, minority and youth voters. They have worked together on other initiatives with left-leaning groups like the [...]

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