[kj] oliver / fox election spin

[Karen Weil]

Excellent anaylsis, Oliver. McCain could have won this if he:

A.) Condemn Bush loudly and often, and distance himself from the toxis pres 
years ago
B.) Picked a DECENT vice presidential candidate
C.) Didn't allow the same Rove scumbags to run his campaign.

k.w.
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> So what exactly is up with your healthcare system, why do you pay so much

> over there and still get so little for your dollar?

>

>> McCain aides themselves are the first who started blaming Palin, before

>> the election had been cast.

>>

>> The McCain aides responsible for saying things to the press like, "Sarah

>> Palin is a diva," etc., were ex-aides of the Romney campaign, mostly.

>> They did not want, post-election, Palin to be the new leader of the

>> party; they wanted Mitt Romney to be at that helm.

>>

>> Speaking of policies, they were actually discussed, like McCain's

>> ridiculous $5,000 tax credit to individuals so they could privately buy

>> health care on the private market.  That $5,000 credit would be treated

>> as taxable income by the government and would give incentive for

>> employers to drop employees' coverage, since now the govt was giving

>> them a tax credit to go of and buy their own. It is one of the stupidest

>> policy proposals I have ever seen, and McCain deserved to lose on that

>> one, too.

>>

>> -Oliver

>>

>>

>> fluw wrote:

>>> Palin was no doubt ill equipped for the position, but note this report

>>> you

>>> linked came from Fox News who..

>>>

>>> are attempting to spin the story of the election, by giving people on

>>> the

>>> "right" a scapegoat -

>>>

>>>

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