On biggest issues, McCain said he's been 'totally in agreement' with Bush
By Steve Benen Thursday Jun 12, 2008 7:30amIn 2008, John McCain works hard to convince people he’s not just like George W. Bush. In 2005, John McCain worked hard to convince people of the exact opposite.
Looking over the transcript from the June 19, 2005, episode of “Meet the Press,” the context of the video is actually slightly worse for McCain. Tim Russert read off a list of issues on which McCain and Bush appear to disagree and told the senator, “The fact is you are different than George Bush.” McCain responded, “No. No.”
One could argue, I suppose, that this was in 2005, and McCain has reinvented himself since then, but then again, looking at his Senate voting record, McCain voted with Bush’s position 95% of the time in 2007 and 100% of the time in 2008.
McCain gets pretty annoyed when his critics talk about a “third Bush term,” but it’s hard to deny that McCain has already made the argument for us. He not only shares Bush’s agenda and platform, but McCain spent years telling national audiences that no one agrees with Bush more than he does.
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Notice how he separates the War on Terror from the War on Iraq. That's some straight talking there for you.
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The closer we get to November--the more McCain will accelerate the debate he will be having with himself on any number of issues--the least of which is Iraq. Eventually, his position will have to move closer to that of 71% of Americans--and that is to end the Iraq mess Bush and the neocons have visited on the world.
I think thats called Flip Flopping. Nah na na nah na. Thank god for YouTube. McCain said it himself; he is a bush clone. Imagine 8 MORE years of bush. TweedleMcSame; and TweedleMcDummer.......joined at the hip.
McChode
He doesn't need to debate Senator Obama, he can have a one man debate with himself. His just like bush self can debate his not like bush self.
Keep pushing the 3rd Bush term, I want him to destroy himself further by showing his complete lack of self-control.
Here's the new ad for the DNC. (Just imagine if Bush had been impeached!)
Neither likes simon cowell?
5 Kevin Says: McChode
mcchunks.
The Repugs will get their asses kicked this year and in 2010 they will claim that all of the problems that they created from 2000 to 2010 were created by the Dems........those tax and spend liberals that helped develop the largest Industrial expansion in our nations history.
1945-1980........when Ronald Reagan took over.
McCain: For Bush Before He Was Against Him
in 2005 George Bush announced his plan to privatize social security.
McCain is in total agreement.
Here's a thought:
Is it possible for McCain to pretend to run up to the convention, and then pull a ridiculous, self-destructive attack on Obama, taking both of them down, with the Reps expecting this and more ready than the Dems to react to a brand new race?
Or even have a "heart attack", new candidate, and sympathy vote/conspiricy theorists joining them...
Hmm...
Remember Karl Rove's motto: "Up is down. Black is white. Evil is good." If you realize this reality has been established in Washington for the last seven years, you'll have a pretty good idea of how McSame plans to shape his reality too. Solution? Flush all the bastards out of office in November. Simple really.
Let the hits keep coming McBush, you political tennis playing confused old fuck.
For once we are in agreement, McSame. You are indeed a clone of bush, except a bit dimmer. Oh and he's not a wife abuser.
Asiren @ 15:
The whole 'heart attack' concept isn't totally impossible, however, it's more likely that Bush will start a new war and try to declare martial law.
Translation: Cheney will tell his pet Chimp to go to war, and the Chimp will try to set himself up as a dictator. Big Dick Cheney will be pulling the strings behind the scenes.
That's what I think might happen.
Asiren Says: Here’s a thought:
Is it possible for McCain to pretend to run up to the convention, and then pull a ridiculous, self-destructive attack on Obama, taking both of them down, with the Reps expecting this and more ready than the Dems to react to a brand new race?
Or even have a “heart attack”, new candidate, and sympathy vote/conspiricy theorists joining them…
Hmm…
Well if you can think it is possible then there is a possibility that it could occur, no matter how small the probability. I recognize that there is always the possibility that George W. Bush is a man of such high moral standards that before he leaves office he will come before the American people to confess his sins and illegal actions but I also recognize that my odds of winning the lottery are better than the odds of GWB ever confessing he sinned or acted illegally.
Asiren @ 15:
Its entirely possible McCain is not the one debating Obama in the fall. Similar situation happened during Obama's Senate race.
And the whole 'martial law' thing is BS. The police will be on our side because republicans want to take away the police's pension.
It's waaaay past cocktail time for me and it seems there is nothing going on here, so .......
be back when I'm garbled and confused like johnny mcgrampa.
I think it is in any Americans interest to stop watching MSM. Thier pro McCain bias is blatant. The right is getting extremely paranoid. The attacks on Michelle Obama are just begining. Remember what happened to Kerry? To this day, I can't believe he lost. Are Americans stupid or what?
There is a lot of support for mcBombardier It's really crazy the kind of love he gets.
It's amazing the transformation McCain has gone through since South Carolina in 2000. Even in 2005 he was still trying to sound like he was different in some ways. I think in 2008 he does the same thing every now and then -- at least in some kind of general statement like "I not like Bush", but when you get down to specifics he ends up on the same side with Bush on the important issues. He must have taken in some campaign workers who had worked on Bush's campaigns. During the primaries he had to sound more and more like Bush in order to get the Republican nomination and bring his party together in support of his candidacy. He must be meeting with leaders from all of the factions. Soon he'll have to kowtow to the religious right.
Plan 9 @ 13:
McCain: For Bush Before He Was Against Him and For Bush After He Was Against Him. Fixed!!
Is mccain's constant refrain of, "My friends..." indicative of his stance on future government letters prefaced by, "Dear friend..."?
I hope boosh goes back to Connecticut with holy joe
Texas don't want him, and he's not a real Texan anyway.
If you want more of the same vote for McCain.
mcsame is doing for the flip-flop what the neocons did for the lie -- make it ubiquitous in an attempt to render it meaningless.
Why is he acting like Bush. Read his BIO. He finished 894 out of 899 at the Naval Academy. Would not have been a pilot had his last name not been McCain. wrecked 4 aircraft prior to getting shot down and got 28 commendations, all with about 20 hours of actual combat time. Any of this sound familiar?
The first 13 seconds of this video, plus the last 7 seconds, simply HAS to be used in an Obama ad. I mean, from the horse's own mouth, you hear him say he's been in lockstep with Bush.
We need a few ads that just show McCain speaking, letting him drive the nails in his own coffin. Excerpts like this one, plus a series of flip-flops on key issues, etc. clearly show Senator Flip-Flop McSame in the best light, from the Dems' perspective.
McCain is far more eloquent on why he shouldn't be elected than anyone else could possibly be.
Do you think at the convention the RePubs will actually nominate someone else?
Something is wrong, very wrong with this guy.
Bush /McClone
Pawn @ 7:
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no need to run a negative campaign...just play that clip over and over and over again
fiscal discipline? what fiscal discipline?
And THAT Mr. McCain.. is one reason among many why you are 'totally' UNFIT to lead this nation............................JD
McCain is a perenial flip-flopper with no moral compass.
I can't understand why we can't name McCain a flip-flopper, but we can name Kerry a flip-flopper ?!
He is the ultimate corrupt politician. He will do anything, and say anything as long as he gets his facetime and vote.
And why is McCain's marital background off limits? But Obama isn't?
You will find more infidelities with McCain than with Obama.
It’s good to know that John McCain supports physical discipline. Now if we could just get him to support fiscal discipline we’d all be better off.
I'm a first-time poster from the Netherlands. Been following US-politics for many years now.
Won't start 'bout Dubya ;-) Nearly all of my friends in the US were very convincing when they told me Dubya wouldn't get a 2nd term...
Despite all the stunts McSame is pulling I somehow got the feeling that I should not be surprised when he is elected come November.
Greetings from the Netherlands!
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