Obama Lies to Seniors - What else is new?

One can always tell when a Democrat is seeking office – there are few key issues for the party: abortion, Supreme Court judges (so that they can continue abortion unfettered), and little else. For the past few weeks, the nation has been given insight as to how critical abortion is for the party – the Obama Campaign, and their surrogates have gone above and beyond any previous lows, by attacking Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, Sarah Palin – simply because the Democrat Ideal of a true Feminist, is a woman whose sole criteria in life is to make sure that Abortion on demand is available. Palin, who is pro-life and against abortion, has been the target of every conceivable insult, invasion of privacy and sexist remark that one could envision. They aren’t convinced these lines of attack are working, so they’ve reached into their tired bag of tricks and pulled out the Social Security – When all else fails – scare the seniors.

New York Times”Senator Barack Obama delivered an ominous warning to Florida voters on Saturday, suggesting that Senator John McCain would “gamble with your life savings” by investing Social Security money in private accounts that could be affected by the roiling financial markets.”
Obama is technically lying through his teeth, so much so that even Newsweek entitled their article on this campaign spin: “Obama’s Social Security Whopper”


At issue, George W. Bush’s 2004 push to privatize some, not all, of social security in an attempt to shore up reserves. This plan allowed participants to opt into private self-investments, just like the Government currently offers to every single one of its retirees. It is an identical plan, with one exception: Those who do not wish to participate – don’t’ have to. That measure was killed by the House Democrats through filibuster after filibuster (in other words, House and Senate Democrats have done nothing constructive for the American people even before they gained control of both houses, fighting to make sure that no progress whatsoever was made – Democrats in action).

Obama, of course, did his part in the “scare a senior, retain power” plan and included a racist overtone. On March 11, 2005, the Chicago Tribune reported that “Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday called President Bush's suggestion that African-Americans could reap greater rewards from overhauling Social Security a "stunning" argument that ignored the true health issues facing blacks in this country.

As the president launched a two-day tour through the South to build support for his controversial plan to revamp Social Security, Democrats challenged a White House assertion that blacks would particularly gain from Bush's proposed private retirement accounts because they have fewer years to collect benefits considering they die younger. “(Full article available at: Chicago Tribune archives – fee based

What is the difference between the 2006 and 2008 races? Very little, and as the writing on the wall becomes increasingly clear, the Democrats go back into the same bag of tricks in the hope that someday it will work. Someday will not be 2008. Someone neglected to tell those who proudly wear the symbol of the Donkey that 70 is the new 30 – that seniors are more likely to be working at 72, and or beyond, and already understand that those who have government retirement plan (congress, every single government employee, civilian or otherwise), are not considered incapable of opting for self-directed retirement investments, that is clearly not a race issue, and that once again, someone is up for election.