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Sen. Barack Obama is opening a new line of attack against Sen. John McCain, his Republican rival, arguing that a vote for McCain could endanger Social Security as we know it. That’s technically true, but highly unlikely.
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9 months ago
Nonetheless, that McCain does favor such a scheme is significant. McCain's position reflects his attitudes and his priorities. The underlying message from Obama seems to be that McCain is not committed to helping the average person. That matters. McCain favors something that not even a Republican-dominated Congress would enact (heck, they never even really introduced enabling legislation, they were so unenamored of the idea.) If McCain is a "maverick" here he's a "maverick" completely in sync with George W. Bush and the interests who back Bush and who want to destroy Social Security for reasons that are utterly remote from any desire to provide retirement security to Americans.
Or does the independent think that Social Security is so inconsequential that the label "improbable" can be hung on Obama?