Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio Works To Expose the Real McSame's Record
J. Sid McSame has gotten away with lies about his record long enough.
There have been many reasons for the weak, missing the target, lackluster, defensive campaign that Axelrod-Plouffe have been running, but among them is the institutional mind set of the exclusive senate club of 100. It is the "my friend, my colleague" atmosphere that surrounds the Democratic ticket vis a vis their colleague, Sid McCain.
Many of us have been saying "cut that out," a friend and colleague doesn't imply that Obama is a traitor, or spread other slimy lies both personally and in ads.
It fell on deaf ears until the polls showed that the Dems were not pulling ahead with their mistaken postpartisan collegial nonsense while the McSame campaign ratcheted up a negative, lying message that had sticking power.
While Obama and Biden have shaken off some of the torpor of their campaign and come out swinging more against McSame and his record, it takes a progressive like Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to take the gloves off.
Sam Stein at Huffington Post explains: " 'It is not so much his economic proposals but his economic record," Brown said of McCain. "His main adviser is Phil Gramm -- he was his mentor in the Senate -- and you just tie it all together. Of course John McCain supported the oil industry, he has oil lobbyists working for him. Of course John McCain supported these trade agreements, he has got Wall Street people working for him... It is all wrapped up together. John McCain is a creature of these interest groups in Washington. He is no maverick and, from the Keating Five on, his ethics have been questionable. He's not a maverick and Barack has got to just keep hammering on that.'
" 'Instead of sensible reform that rewarded success and freed the creative forces of the market, too often we've excused an ethic of greed, corner-cutting and inside dealing that threatens the long-term stability of our economic system," he said. "It happened in the 1980s, when we loosened restrictions on Savings and Loans and appointed regulators who ignored even these weaker rules. Too many S&Ls took advantage of the lax rules set by Washington to gamble that they could make big money in speculative real estate.'
" 'John McCain is talking a good game today and he sounded like the populist that you would like [Tuesday]," he said. "But you got to look at his record. He supported every step of the way this reckless deregulation that really is the culmination of Bush economic policies.'
" 'Just imagine if Bush and McCain had had their way and privatized Social Security," said Brown. "People would have seen their private social security accounts just disintegrate the last two days. And imagine what that would mean in rural America, urban America, suburban America and small town America?' "
Read the entire piece; it's brief and informative.
It's about time the Dems come out swinging about McSame's dishonest record with which he has hoodwinked the America people and media all these years.
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