Background - John McCain's Recent Support of the Bush Economic Record:
He should be judged very, very well as far as the economy is concerned. We’re in a long sustained period of economic growth. - March 2007
I think we are better off overall if you look at the entire eight-year period, when you look at the millions of jobs that have been created, the improvement in the economy, et cetera. - January 2008
I still believe the fundamentals of our economy are strong. - August 2008
Today - John McCain's Big Economic Speech:
We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change. The hour is late and our troubles are getting worse. We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now.
Whiplash, anyone?
But, wait, it gets worse.
Not content to simply flip-flop from supporting Bush economics to denouncing them in the course of a few months, McCain goes one better.
He alternated between denouncing Bush economics and supporting Bush economics in the body of his speech today.
Heck, he even did it in a single paragraph. The same paragraph denouncing the past eight years actually led with this pronouncement:
If I am elected president, I will help to create jobs for Americans in the most effective way a president can do this – with tax cuts
And who will benefit from those tax cuts?
Mr. McCain's latest proposals concentrate, as is his inclination, on cutting individual taxes, skewed to higher-bracket taxpayers
So, let me get this straight. We're going to turn the page on the past eight years by ... resorting to the same trickle-down, tax-cuts-for-the-rich policies that dominated our economic policy over the past eight years?
To quote Sen. McCain: That's not change you can believe in.
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Source for McCain Background Quotes: Yeah, Right pages 44, 72 & 73
Online Sources: March 2007; January 2008; August 2008