Obama Slams McCain on Social Security
‘Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain’s approach to Social Security on Saturday, saying it would undermine the government program aimed mainly at retirees,’ the Associated Press reported.
‘Obama said McCain’s campaign has suggested trimming Social Security benefits and raising the eligibility age, according to prepared remarks of his speech to a gathering of the AARP.’
Interestingly enough, McCain has not done any such thing. He has only said that “everything is on the table” with regards to Social Security reform. Of course that opens him to such louzy Democratic attacks, but the very fact that Obama lies about what McCain has said or ’suggested’ is telling; it once again goes to show that the Democrats’ leader’s rhetoric about honest elections, without demonizing the other side, are just words.
Having said that, the national security debate could benefit from a specific debate. What kinds of reforms are, according to McCain, needed? If he does not want to do what Obama says he might, McCain should give specifics.
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