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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_el_pr/mccain
Excerpts:
McCain criticized Obama, his Democratic rival, repeatedly in excerpts of a speech planned for delivery Tuesday evening. He cited Obama's advocacy of a tax on excess oil industry profits as well as the Democrat's vote for President Bush's energy legislation in 2005.
McCain reserved his sharpest words for the windfall profits tax.
"If that plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Carter's big idea, too. ... I'm all for recycling, but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s," McCain said in the excerpts.
But on May 5, campaigning in North Carolina, McCain said he was willing to consider the same proposal.
"I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere. I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax, that's not what bothers me, but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people ? or industries or corporations ? that are distorting the markets," he said.
A spokeswoman said McCain had neither erred in his earlier comment nor changed his mind since. "He said he is willing to look at all ideas not simply Republican or Democratic ideas," said Jill Hazelbaker, McCain's communications director.
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Ok, so McCain is criticizing Obama for supporting a windfall tax proposal which McCain himself said didn't bother him just one month ago. At least he was honest enough to stop calling it the straight talk express.
Excerpts:
McCain criticized Obama, his Democratic rival, repeatedly in excerpts of a speech planned for delivery Tuesday evening. He cited Obama's advocacy of a tax on excess oil industry profits as well as the Democrat's vote for President Bush's energy legislation in 2005.
McCain reserved his sharpest words for the windfall profits tax.
"If that plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Carter's big idea, too. ... I'm all for recycling, but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s," McCain said in the excerpts.
But on May 5, campaigning in North Carolina, McCain said he was willing to consider the same proposal.
"I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere. I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax, that's not what bothers me, but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people ? or industries or corporations ? that are distorting the markets," he said.
A spokeswoman said McCain had neither erred in his earlier comment nor changed his mind since. "He said he is willing to look at all ideas not simply Republican or Democratic ideas," said Jill Hazelbaker, McCain's communications director.
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Ok, so McCain is criticizing Obama for supporting a windfall tax proposal which McCain himself said didn't bother him just one month ago. At least he was honest enough to stop calling it the straight talk express.
