(Video update below)
If a Republican candidate makes a campaign-ending statement in a forest and only the traditional media is there, does anyone hear about it?
Pioneer10 has diaried this but the topic needs to be recommended or front paged, because the traditional media ain't gonna do it.
At a town hall meeting on Monday, McCain said:
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace, and it's got to be fixed.
In other words, the way social security has worked since the thirties is a disgrace.
Steven Benen at Carpetbagger has an excellent post on this, calling it "breathtaking."
But Benen notes that even though the town meeting was attended by a "phalanx" of reporters, not one reported on it.
In fact, McCain is attacking not just social security, but any insurance or even other economic programs. As commenter JC put it on the Carpetbagger post:
So McSame, is the fact that the money you pay for insurance that is used to pay other people’s covered expenses a disgrace? Is the fact that you pay taxes that are used to pay for infrastructure work in places that you will never visit a disgrace? Is the fact that you put money into a savings account that is then used to give loans to other people a disgrace? Because in my mind, Social Security is acting the same way as these things (in particular the last one). Maybe there are other examples that are better or make more sense than these. I’d love to here them and have them ready for the next moron that spouts the kind of nonsense that McSame is spouting.
This is a "Whaaaaaaaaa?" moment. Obama campaign -- immediately make an ad and show it non-stop in FL and elsewhere.
Here's the video: