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Originally Posted by Superman
With all due respect to the threads here started by posters who think McCain had scored a recent coup against Obama, from my perspective Obama has won pretty much every exchange. I just noticed a new one. Obama criticized McCain for a recent remark that seems to define "rich" as those whose annual earnings are at least $5M.
McCain is an idiot for allowing the perception that "middle class" might include folks making just under $5M per year. His political "party" is already tatoo'd with the reputation of being the party that favors rich people and is out of touch with the middle class, lower middle class and working poor. He clings to the policies of the current "president" who (predictably) has offered up tax cut after tax cut for already-wealthy people.
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If you actually watched the debate, it was quite obvious that McCain just threw the $5M comment out there offhandedly - in fact, he immediately said that the press would probably distort it. He was just making a joke that if you make $5M a year, that's rich. He wasn't trying to say that if you make $4.99M a year that you're middle class.
I liked McCain's answer - he said it doesn't matter how you define rich, because we shouldn't be raising taxes on anybody. I also liked his example of how "taxing the rich" tends to snag a lot of very hard working folks who own small businesses.
My uncle got an electrical engineering degree, then straight out of college went to work on an oil rig in Saudi Arabia. He got paid well, put all the money away, and when he came back, used all of that money (~$1M) to start a company with a few other folks. Through no fault of his own (the other fellas were cooking the books), he lost everything. He proceeded to save his money again, started a new company (on his own this time) and has spent nearly his entire life and mostly 80 hour work weeks on building up a business. He now makes around $300K a year. Obama's solution to all my uncle's hard work - he ought to be taxed more to support the lazy folks that can't get off their rears to find work. Guess what? I don't agree with that. I figure that for everything my uncle has gone through and the hard work literally his whole life to get to where he is, he deserves whatever he makes, and the government has no right to punish him for his success.
I agree with most of the other folks on the Board - McCain hit a home run the other night, and Obama, without his teleprompter, didn't do so well. By the way, a lot of people wonder how McCain seemed so prepared - he must have known the questions, right? I think it's a very easy answer - every time you see McCain at a campaign stop, he allows the audience to ask questions. Ergo, he's probably heard and formulated answers to most of the questions that were asked the other night. Obama, on the other hand, speaks with a teleprompter, rarely takes questions, and (quite obvious from his performance the other night), hates town hall-type meetings.