Fox: "Bush focuses SS message on those near retirement," pimps McCain

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Let me get this straight:

Those "in or near retirement" will...IN THEORY...get whatever they would have gotten if Junior hadn't proposed tampering with the system.

SO, having failed to persuade everyone else, he is "focusing his message" and sales pitch on the people who REALLY WON'T BE AFFECTED BY what he's proposing?

(The text in my thread topic comes from the Fox front page: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151110,00.html)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151058,00.html



WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday focused his message about strengthening Social Security (search) on the one generation of Americans he has exempted from his plan: those in or near retirement. But critics have raised fears among many of them that retirees will be affected by the president's proposed reforms, damage the president tried to undo during an appearance in Arizona with a former GOP nemesis.

"I say to our Democrat friends, come and sit down at the table and let us work together to save the safety net for future generations of Americans," said Arizona Sen. John McCain (search), who is known as the Democrats' favorite Republican for so-called "straight talk" as well as frequent disputes with Bush. "The door is open to the White House and to the Republican side of the aisle," McCain said.

The emphasis on future generations is key to pushing the call for personal savings accounts and the president reiterated during a visit to a senior center on Monday the Republican approach of explaining to seniors that Social Security reform and personal accounts will benefit their grandchildren.

To make the case, last week Bush tapped his mother's credibility. Senior administration officials say they hope McCain's credibility will provide similar appeal, particularly with independents and Democratic swing voters.

[Arkana]

1. McCain is Bush's poodle, and I wish everyone here

would stop defending him--he is a shill through and through, despite what Bush did to him in 2000.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. McCain is a whipped dog.

He has been broken. A whipped dog. That is his new name.

Senator Whipped Dog.

[AzDar]

2. Souuull for sale.....getcha hot , fresh, GOP soul right here!! n/t

[WyLoochka]

3. Many older people are

opposed to the BushCo kill Social Security "reform" largely because they have known so many people, over the course of their lifetimes, who through no fault of their own would have been in the streets or prematurely dead had it not been for Social Security.

They know through experience and family stories what life was like for many older and also disabled people before Social Security and they don't want their children and grand children to have to suffer as their parents and grandparents and great grandparents did through the long years of laissez un-fair during the days of the Robber Barons and the Gilded Age.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Heard on NPR that this 'visit' would be to the 'elderly', hand-picked

by WH staff!!