John McCain says that Barack Obama is insensitive to poor people and out of touch on economic issues. That's a pretty audacious statement coming from a guy that voted against covering children yet strolled through the Miami Children’s Hospital with the following promise.

Hmmmm. Interesting. He seems to be  for children's coverage after he was against it. Let's not forget that this is the same John McCain that voted for the abolishment of a federal minimum wage  just last year([H.R. 2, Vote #23, 1/24/07; Vote #24, 1/24/07; Vote #25, 1/25/07; Vote #37, 1/31/07; Vote #39, 1/31/07; Vote #42, 1/31/07; S. 2766, Vote #179, 6/21/06; S. 256, Vote #26, 3/7/05)
McCain also called Connecting the Minimum Wage Debate to Senate Pay Raises ‘A Clever Ploy.
This guy that's "so connected" and "sensitive" to the poor, voted against protecting workers’ overtime pay from Bush administration rules that threaten the overtime rights of 6 million workers. [S. 1637, Vote #79, 5/4/04].
 McCain voted against tabling a proposal to allow building contractors to pay workers less than the Davis-Bacon Act’s prevailing wage rules. [S. 2019, Vote #118, 5/18/94; H.R. 5132, Vote #105, 5/21/92; H.R. 2916, Vote #181, 9/19/89].
How does voting to eliminate The Family Medical Leave Act  [S. Amdt. 16, S. 5, Vote #7, 2/4/93; H.R. 1, Vote #11, 2/4/93] possibly connect with the poor?



On April 15, McCain gave an interesting speech at Carnegie Mellon University proclaiming:

“I propose that the federal government suspend all taxes on gasoline now paid by the American people — from Memorial Day to Labor Day of this year. The effect will be an immediate economic stimulus…. Because the cost of gas affects the price of food, packaging, and just about everything else, these immediate steps will help to spread relief across the American economy.”

Just 2 days later, John has a new perspective on his gas tax break theory:

“I think psychologically, a lot of our problems today are psychological — confidence, trust, uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home. [A gas-tax holiday] might give ‘em a little psychological boost. Let’s have some straight talk: it’s not a huge amount of money…. A little psychological boost. That’s what I think [a gas-tax holiday] would help.”

So, Sen McCain, is it “an immediate economic stimulus,” or a slogan to rid us of our “psychological” problems? You seem to be saying that as long as you can trick us into thinking you're doing something substantial that we will benefit from, everything will be okay. Quite frankly Sen McCain, we've had 7 years of sloganomics and soundites and are quite tired, as well as broke from them. I'm hopping that the voters have caught on that appeasing the peasants no longer wins elections. I think you saw that in November of 06. I think you'll see it again in 08. The mess your party got us into, and that you promote, will take more than sugar pills to get us out of.

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