Daily Show Video: Playing the Race Card

I’m a little behind on the Daily Show and Colbert, but this bit back from last week on the race card is phenomenal.  I always like how the Daily Show can address serious issues with the right kind of humor to share information and make strong arguments, and Larry Wilmore’s magic is creative, effective, and entertaining.  Nice to see these clips get some more air time because I’m still in shock Glenn Beck that called our president a racist and that Rush Limbaugh believes white kids aren’t safe in “Obama’s America.”

We need a great national dialogue on the issues of our time, from health care to stimulus spending to Afghanistan, to climate change.  We don’t need overpaid pompous media hacks segregating the American people with these outlandish statements.  Barack Obama doesn’t “hate” white people, and your kids are as safe on the bus as they ever were (especially in “Bush’s America” where we ignored our roads and bridges), if not more.

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We need it he freeze it.

McCain’s spending freeze isn’t breaking news, but it’s one of his scariest proposals.  He’s right about one thing:  drastically increases taxes will further damage our economy.  Fortunately, no one is proposing across the board tax increases.  In fact, Obama–the usual target of McCain’s “tax and spend” lies–is proposing a tax cut for 95% of American workers.  And that would be on top of household savings from health care costs, better health, and higher wages from a stimulated economy.

McCain is wrong about another fundamental part of the economy; government spending.  His blunt force government spending freeze would eliminate jobs and drive the economy into a complete recession, if we’re not there already.  It’s a dangerous proposal, and foresight into McCain’s governing style of zero attention to detail, no fact-based solutions, and policies that politically sound good, but fail to deliver.

In addition, this overzealous measure is confusing when stacked next to McCain’s plans to spend billions in Iraq and in new programs.  In Governor Palin’s first “major policy address” (the week before the election) she promised to fully fund research into Autism, among other diseases.  Would that fall under McCain’s own spending freeze?  Who knows.  These policies are only based on politics.  We need strong politics for four more days to pick a winner in this race.  Then, we need strong policies for four more years.  If the last twenty months are any indication of what’s to come, Obama is the only candidate in this race with the ability to lead.

Take Back the Flag’s Take on the Second Presidential Debate: The Robotic Republican

From the debate:

Obama: So we’re going to have to make some investments, but we’ve also got to make spending cuts. And what I’ve proposed, you’ll hear Sen. McCain say, well, he’s proposing a whole bunch of new spending, but actually I’m cutting more than I’m spending so that it will be a net spending cut. […]

McCain: Do you know that Sen. Obama has voted for — is proposing $860 billion of new spending now? New spending.

That’s right, Senator Obama and Democrats are now used to the Republican rhetoric enough to accurately predict the upcoming lies and offer the Republican a chance to say something else–or at least phrase it in a different way.  Yet McCain proved once again in this statement that he’s all systematic rhetoric programmed at the Republican National Committee headquarters.  How is this even considered civil discourse or productive debate in choosing a president?

McCain’s best argument for the presidency is that Obama is proposing new spending, an untruthful and boring Republican standard.  Of course he’s proposing new spending.  McCain is too!  Every candidate for every office promises new programs, new tax cuts, or maybe even both.  All involve new spending.

Obama specifically said yes to new spending, including investments in infrastructure and energy jobs across the country.  Then he stated in unequivocal terms that his plans involve more cuts then spending, leading to, wait for it, a “net spending cut.”

Senator McCain’s programmed statements are an insult to the American voter.  Please, Senator McCain, have some respect; don’t spew Republican rhetoric at us, when we all know its absolutely false.  You’re better than that, but you haven’t shown in in a long, long time.

Take Back the Flag’s Take on the second presidential debate is based on direct language from the CNN transcript.