Barbara Boxer On McCain McSame

McCain loves to live in the past, fighting old wars and old problems the old way. Too bad McSame is not quite the fighter on important issues for Americans according to colleague Sen Barbara Boxer.

"In the 16 years that we have served together in the Senate, I have seen John McCain fight.

I have seen him fight against raising the federal minimum wage 14 times.

I have seen him fight against making sure that women earn equal pay for equal work.

I have seen him fight against a women’s right to choose so consistently that he received a zero percent vote rating from pro-choice organizations.

I have seen him fight against helping families gain access to birth control.

I have seen him fight against Social Security, even going so far as to call its current funding system “an absolute disgrace.”

And I saw him fight against the new GI Bill of Rights until it became politically untenable for him to do so.

John McCain voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time in 2007 and 100 percent of the time in 2008 — that’s no maverick.

We do have two real fighters for change in this election — their names are Barack Obama and Joe Biden."

Article here

"No Maverick" Ad

Grandpa McSame pretends he was the Maverick from 8 years ago. Palin is the Governor of the state with the largest per capita pork spending in the US. The Republican Party screwed up the country and these two are going to change it?

McCain Mythos Is Over

The McCain myth is over according to WaPo's Sebastian Mallaby:

"He opposed the Bush tax cuts before he supported them, saying that they would deepen inequality. But now he touts a tax reduction that is larger and more radical than even President Bush proposed, and he slams his opponent for holding the view that he himself held until recently."

"McCain used to be a real straight talker. On campaign finance, spending earmarks, Iraq and immigration, he has fought bravely for his principles; and that record might have been a trump against an opponent who has taken almost no such risks. But we are now witnessing what might be called McCain’s Palinization. McCain once criticized Christian conservatives as agents of intolerance, but he has caved in to their intolerance of a pro-choice running mate. McCain claims to be devoted to his country, yet he would saddle it with a vice president who is unprepared to serve as commander in chief. In the same sad way, McCain has caved in to his party’s anti-tax fanatics. The man of principle has become a panderer. The straight talker flip-flops."

More of this great op-ed here

Team Obama Smacks Down Exxon John

The Geriatric Maverick gets pwned. The old dog doing his old tricks. Not that this stuff matters, but it shows that Barack knows how to strike back.

McCain Is An Idiot

McCain is running his "I'm The White Guy" campaign in his usual way, into the ground. Obama comes out with and ad showing McSame voted the same as Bush 95% of the time. A logical assessment, likening a vote for McCain as a vote for Bush, and thus, bad government. The Maverick forgets that they keep records of his votes. Another Grandpa moment I guess.

So in response, quick-draw McSame fires back at Obama saying “In the Senate, Barack Obama has voted in lockstep with President George W. Bush nearly half the time.” What does "nearly" mean? So over half the time Barack voted against Bush. The majority of the time.

Now remember the McCain campaign also argues that Obama is the Senate’s biggest liberal. [That is the conservative catch-all phrase that frightens dim people. It's like saying someone is the biggest philosopher or humanitarian, the Right have demonized a good quality much like Ivy league schools which Bush is a graduate of x2, Yale and Harvard]

The McCain campaign argues that Obama has “voted in lockstep” with Bush and is the biggest liberal. Oddly enough, they’re making both arguments at the same time.

h/t to http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/

Barack's New Ad

John McSame, maybe 30 years ago, was a fresh idealist. Now he is a neo-con flunkie.



Barack Obama is bobbing and weaving Grandpa McCain's juvenile mudslinging. I think the country senses the same tired tricks used by McLame and just wants to move on.

McCain = Bush = McSame

According to CQ, Senator John McCain has voted with President Bush 100% of the time in 2008 and 95% of the time in 2007.



So even though McSame has broken from the Republicans on a few occasions, he is in lock step with Bush 100% of the time. Read More. Can you handle 4 more years of this?

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