I often type in John McCain or Barack Obama's names into Google just to see what the top results are. I figure that this is a popular way that an average person gets daily information about the candidates, and I want to see what they see. Usually, its nothing out of the ordinary but today I was pleasantly surprised to see this story John McCain, flip-flopper by Michael Tomasky of The Guardian at the top of Google in news results for John McCain.
Its an excellent article in which he calls out the mainstream media for pouncing on all of Obama's so called "flip-flops" while ignoring those of media darling McCain. He notes
We've been talking a lot about flip-flops in the past week, some of them real, most of them imaginary. But I've been astonished at how few people have mentioned the obvious mother of all flip-flops in this campaign so far – John McCain's embrace of the Bush administration tax cuts.
He goes on to describe ..
a flip flop that most of us at this site are already familiar with.
This week, McCain will travel the country explaining why these tax cuts – which so disproportionately are doing exactly what the 2001 McCain said they would, benefiting the very wealthiest Americans to the tune of nearly a half-trillion dollars - have to be made permanent. This is not a nip or a tuck or a refinement. This is a blatant and complete reneging on past principle.
Nothing in the article is really news to us. I was just glad to see something addressing this issue getting play in a place where more than just progressives may read it.
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