Obama Should Air McCain's Straight Talk About Obama:"He's a Decent family Man, Citizen"

John McCain's ads still contain multiple false and misleading claims about Barack Obama and about Obama's tax proposals.

A TV spot claims Obama once voted for a tax increase "on people making just $42,000 a year." That's true for a single taxpayer, who would have seen a tax increase of $15 for the year – if the measure had been enacted. But the ad shows a woman with two children, and as a single mother, she would not have been affected unless she made more than $62,150. The increase that Obama once supported as part of a Democratic budget bill is not part of his current tax plan anyway.

McCain's moral epiphany of last Friday was short-lived. His high distortion ads still lie about Senator Obama's record and plans. Case in point: A Spanish-language radio ad claims the measure Obama supported would have raised taxes on "families" making $42,000, which is simply false. Even a single mother with one child would have been able to make $58,650 without being affected. A family of four with income up to $90,000 would not have been affected.

The TV ad claims in a graphic that Obama would "raise taxes on middle class." In fact, Obama's plan promises cuts for middle-income taxpayers and would increase rates only for persons with family incomes above $250,000 or with individual incomes above $200,000.

The radio ad claims Obama would increase taxes "on the sale of your home." In fact, home-sale profits of up to $500,000 per couple would continue to be exempt from capital gains taxes. Very few sales would see an increase under Obama's proposal to raise the capital gains rate. The McCain Republican machine is doing this on purpose. Do we want four more years of these people in charge? They apparently do not know how to speak the truth. Obama is not perfect, but I have not caught his campaign is such adroit deception. But such deception has become a Republican art.

Senator Joe Biden talked about the incessant, distorted McCain attacks yesterday, according to ABC News, Biden pointed out that Obama focuses on issues and plans to raise the economy, while "John McCain’s entire speech is gonna be attack, attack, attack, attack. Now look, by contrast, it seems it couldn't be clearer to me. It couldn’t be clearer to me what’s going on here. John McCain wants to attack Barack Obama and Barack Obama wants to attack the problems that face America today.”

“But here’s the bottom line: these attacks don’t hurt Barack Obama, these attacks don’t hurt me," he continued. "Every single false charge, every single baseless accusation that comes forward is an attempt to get you to focus on something other than what’s going on in your family, other than something’s going what’s in your neighborhood, in your state. Beyond the attacks, and I mean this literally, beyond the attacks, what is John McCain really offering?”

“There’s a need for the international community in this global economy to come up with a common approach how to deal with this economic crisis. It’s not just talk, it’s a reality. You see the markets are moving again today, they’re doing better, they’re bouncing back a little bit. Why? Because of international cooperation with the banks in England are doing and what we’re doing. So folks, look, you need international leadership and it can only come from one place. The president of the United States of America. And it can only come quite frankly, in my view, obviously from Barack Obama.”

iden warned that McCain might be "a great soldier", but that does not equip him to deal with the economic downturn.

“People assume because he had been a great soldier that he had certain hands, that John, in a moment of crisis, would know what to do,” Biden said. “Well, ladies and gentlemen, John's hands have been anything but certain in the last year. They've been uncertain. And the McCain administration would be uncertain, clinging to the past, lurching from one bad idea to another.”
Witness that just last Friday McCain lauded Obama and attacked him on the same day. McCain abruptly changed his tone on Friday and told voters at a town-hall-style meeting that Mr. Obama was “a decent person” and a “family man” and suggested that he would be an acceptable president should he win the White House.

But moments later, Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee, renewed his attacks on Mr. Obama for his association with the 1960s radical William Ayers and told the crowd, “Mr. Obama’s political career was launched in Mr. Ayers’ living room.”
If i were the Obama people I would run the laudatory McCain statements in an ad saying "Who is the real Barack Obama? And then show McCain say he is a good family man, as he said on Friday. That would be fair play after all the numerous personal destruction ads aimed at Obama that John McCain has approved.

I am John McCain and I approved this lie could be replaced with some real "straight talk from McCain, something he actually said on Friday: "he’s a decent family man, citizen who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues... I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments, I will respect him.”