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Will the Real Maverick please stand up? Obama vs. Mccain

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Bush is bad and has been very bad for them and the country. Boomers will recall the most famous "unindicted co-conspirator" in history, Richard A. Nixon, and that will re-ignite a yearning for another (and last) chance for them to create what an assassin's bullet robbed them of when Robert Kennedy was killed. (With RFK's murder, Nixon became president).

Moreover, as opposed to the relatively passive act of "voting 90% of the time" with Bush, a co-conspirator is an active participant, which is what McCain was. McCain did not just vote for the Iraq War, he actively promoted it. He did not just support "cutting and running" from Afghanistan, he championed it. He did not just support George Bush, he proclaimed "mission accomplished" apparently because a banner said so. He is not just endorsing the Bush economic policy, he wants to continue it. He does not just favor government over women in determining whether to carry a rapist's pregnancy to term, he will appoint Supreme Court Justices to ensure it.

That is, John McCain is a co-conspirator in George Bush's failed presidency that broke faith with the American people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/brand-mccain-as-bushs-co_b_126042.html
The truth is that, as the country begins a slow migration leftward, McCain now hews more closely to a rightward partisan line than at any point since his career began. In campaign style: McCain and his staff have developed the reflexive contempt for the national political press corps thats in the DNA of regular Republicans. In tone and policy: In 2002, McCain opposed a permanent repeal of the estate tax. Now he supports an almost complete repeal and calls it one of the most unfair tax laws on the books. His speeches are studded with conventional Republican policy talking points. There are remnants of apostasy, but not on the economy or Iraq, the two most important issues facing the country. Good luck finding an important McCain economic policy that could not have been devised and proposed by the Bush administration. McCains support for the surge, which was mavericky at the time, has transmogrified into support for an even longer war.

McCain has been witheringly critical, in private, about the Bush administrations domestic-security policy; on warrantless wiretapping, McCains beliefs are unclear, but his campaign is happy to let national-security conservatives think that he supports the Bush administrations legal position. On energy policy and climate change, on a federal marriage amendment, on embryonic stem-cell research, he simply disagrees with Bush.

The McCain campaign hopes that independents have long memories that cast the candidates rightward moves in a more favorable light.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/election-rethinking-2008/2

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  • If you want the Truth, listen to Dr. Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation." His radio program airs 5 days a week for 3 hours a day (in most of the 400 markets).

    Dr. Savage regards himself as a Conservative Independent and his mantras are: "Borders, language and culture" and "Liberalism is a mental disorder."

    Dr. Michael Savage has a Ph.D, two Master Degrees, a Bachelor Degree, and has written over 25 excellent books.

    Savage is smarter than Einstein was.

    Listen to Savage and GET INFORMED!!:-)

  • YOU LIE!

  • If there is a god, Obama makes it to the white house!

    BARACK OBAMA 4 PRESIDENT !!!!!!!!!!!!

    Make me proud america !

  • Homeschool your children ? Are you serious ? I wouldn't even ask you for the way! Please please please say that you are not planning to homeschool your kids... PLEASE !

  • yeah i have seen books and I know that NObama wants to take away our right to homeschool our children and our right to pick which school our kids go to...

    NObama is bad for our children

  • wow what a nice example of a stupid idiot of a redneck. Hey man I don't ask you to educate yourself or something.. I think every new braincell would burn in your skull like hell. But - have you ever even seen a book ? Guess what - it doesn't matter :D Obama wins HAHAHAHHAAHA

  • ur right NObama wants to take away your right to own a gun and protect your family.

    NObama is just bad for America

  • lol... absolute pathetic xD Please, has someone a friend for kamajiboy who he can agree with.. ?

    Obama 4 president !!!!

  • i agree with you metafa84 - NObama is a liar and a fraud

    America will be better off without NObama

  • Shut your dirt-whole idiot... you could not convince a dog with these socialism-arguments. Watched CNN today ? A high ranked republican supporting McCain said the socialism-shit is useless! Espacially does it not help the McCain-Palin ticket to win the election. Poor loser..

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