McCain Distorts Tax and Health Care Issues

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McCain Distorts Tax and Health Care Issues

By Joel Wendland

A recent TV ad by the McCain campaign titled "Debra" appears to be suggesting that not only is John McCain a "maverick," but that he is also more like Hillary Clinton than George W. Bush. After Clinton narrowly failed to win the necessary votes in the Democratic primaries to clinch the nomination, the McCain campaign has begun direct appeals to her supporters in order to peel them away from supporting Barack Obama.

But Clinton backers are slapping back. Calling the ad a distortion of what Hillary Clinton is all about and a "cheap political stunt," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), a Clinton endorser, said, “This ad does not reflect the sentiment of the thousands of former Clinton supporters from my Congressional District who have embraced Barack Obama’s message of uniting Americans and getting the country back on track."

In a statement to the press this week responding directly to the ad, Wasserman Schultz further asserted that the ad demonstrates how much alike McCain is to the Bush administration, including the habit of using sleazy tactics conjured up by Karl Rove, who now advises McCain.

Wasserman Schultz also noted that the McCain ad's claims about taxes are simply false. "Hillary Clinton supporters are embracing Barack Obama and Joe Biden because they know they will bring a tax code that gives real relief to working families, a serious plan to tackle the energy crisis and help you cope with rising prices, and an end to the kind of political game too often on display at McCain headquarters."

Hillary Clinton, herself, reaffirmed her commitment this weekend to seeing the Obama-Biden ticket win this November in a message to supporters after the announcement that Biden had been chosen to run with Obama. Clinton has also repeatedly described a McCain presidency as a disaster for the country.

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