From ABC News Blogs Is there nothing Obama Can’t Do?
Obama Claus
October 30, 2008 11:00 PM
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–>Once you get past the soaring oratory, to experience a speech by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is to be hit with an astoundingly lengthy list of promises.
“I don’t know how any reasonable person” could think he’d really be able to accomplish everything he’s pledging to do, said the mother-in-law of a colleague, a Missouri woman who intends to vote for Obama.
Just today in Sarasota, Fla., the Democratic presidential nominee said that he’d:
- “give a tax break to 95 percent of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paycheck every week”;
- “eliminate income taxes on Social Security for seniors making under $50,000″;
- “give homeowners and working parents additional tax breaks”;
- not increase taxes on anyone if they “make under $250,000; you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime –- not your income taxes, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax”;
- “end those breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas”;
- “give tax breaks to companies that invest right here in the United States”;
- “eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-up companies that are the engine of job creation in this country”;
- “create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools — by laying broadband lines to reach every corner of the country”;
- “invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade”;
- “reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines”;
- build “a new electricity grid”;
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