How could MSNBC say McCain won on TAX POLICY?

[Alhena]

That was Obama's strongest blow- the only real vote changer I saw. McCain ADMITTED that his tax cuts favor rich business owners. Is MSNBC under the impression that there are more rich businessmen than working class voters?

You know some working class McCain supporters saw that debate and thought "wait a minute, why I am supporting the guy who wants the rich to get more tax cuts instead of the guy who wants the bottom 95% to get cuts"?

[valerief]

1. Rich people commenting on McCain and tax policy? Hey, they'll all

benefit from McCain, so according to them, he won it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. McCain did not win on tax policy. Obama put our policy forward really well

[sakabatou]

3. MSNBC also buckled under O'Reilly too

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/msnbc_refusing_to_run_ad_by_in.php

[ConservativeDemocrat]

4. Because Obama accepted McCain's framing...

What happened -

McCain: My friends, the problem is earmarks. 17 billion dollars of earmarks. Obama wants to spend spend spend!!
Obama: Blah, blah, blah, blah... 300 billion tax cuts on the rich.
McCain: That's not a bad thing.


What SHOULD have happened.

McCain: My friends, the problems is earmarks. 17 billion dollars of earmarks. Obama wants to spend spend spend!!
Obama: 17 billion? Pish. We're spending 10 billion dollars a MONTH in IRAQ. And borrowing money from
China to give some temporary tax giveaway to the rich will only make things worse.


Mind you, Obama "won" this debate overall. It was weird. He really found his voice on foreign policy.
But in terms of explaining Democratic economic policy to independents? Sorry, Obama had a hand full of
high cards and he could barely play them at all. He let McCain's lies go unanswered time and time again,
and time and time again he couldn't come up with the simple explanation why borrow and spend doesn't work.
Most of the time, he didn't even try.


The only reason he's going to "win" is because people have decided on their own that the GOP policies are bad.
Obama is a piss poor debater.

[Patsy Stone]

5. Republicans only want to hear cut taxes and cut spending.

McCain said it a lot, therefore he won with some people who only wanted to hear that. :shrug:

[Johonny]

6. I agree Obama basically mock him for focusing on fixing

a tiny part of the government. Like ending Earmarks could ever balance the budget.