Gephardt is a hypocrite!

[Sean Reynolds]

I guess the Gephardt campaign is sending out fliers attacking Dean's past stance on Social Security. He's drudging up past remarks to smear Dean. FORGETTING *HIS* own past remarks on social security!

The FACTS about Gephardt and social security:

• Gephardt VOTED to limit Social Security benefits
  
  
• Gephardt argued for making benefits subject to individual need -positions he would later lambaste when Republicans proposed them.
  
  
• Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in 1979, he placed himself in the vanguard of moderate Democrats by asserting that Social Security, Medicare and other "safety net" programs "lack a needs test."
  
  
• Elderly St. Louisans accused him of trying to destroy Social Security.
  
  
• Gephardt persisted, and his willingness to adjust or delay payments in the name of protecting the future of Social Security also, on occasion, put him at odds with labor unions.
  
  
• Gephardt was one of 41 Democrats voting for a budget resolution that would have eliminated cost-of-living adjustments in Social Security checks.
  
  
• He took aim at the sacred cows of the Great Society programs, wading into one of the thorniest political debates of American politics - funding Social Security.
  

Gephardt either has a short memory, doesn't think his past matters, or is a hypocrite. My opinion of Gephardt is the latter.

[Skinner]

1. I'm locking this.

It's inflammatory.