McQueeg opens mouth and inserts foot and lie disease

McQueeg, quoted on CNN:

“Of course, now he wants to increase it,” McCain told an audience in Lee’s Summit, Missouri Monday. “But during the primary he told a liberal advocacy group that he’d cut defense spending by tens of billions of dollars. He promised them he would, quote, ‘slow our development of future combat systems.’”

Note: "Future Combat Systems" is a specific weapons program; not all such systems. McQueeg didn't note that to his audience. What Obama really said:

“I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending,” Obama said in the video. “I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of Future Combat Systems.”

McQueeg's senior economic advisor provided a plan to the WaPo on July 14, 2008 to balance the budget. Amongst his proposals:

Balance the budget requires slowing outlay growth to 2.4 percent. The roughly $470 billion dollars (by 2013) in slower spending growth come from reduced deployments abroad ($150 billion; consistent with success in Iraq/Afghanistan that permits deployments to be cut by half -- hopefully more), slower discretionary spending in non-defense and Pentagon procurements ($160 billion; there are lots of procurements -- airborne laser, Globemaster, Future Combat System -- that should be ended and the entire Pentagon budget should be scrubbed) and reductions in mandatory spending ($160 billion) from a mix of excessive agricultural and ethanol subsidies, slower health care cost growth, Medicaid savings from the expansion of private insurance, and other reforms.

He was against it before he was for it, I guess. Either that or he can't control his message. Or McQueeg doesn't know what his message is. Or, he's a fucking liar that will say anything to get elected, much like his VP choice. Take your pick.