All About McCain

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Originally Posted by JWBear

They mention it because it's true. If you really think McCain is a maverick who will be different than Bush, then you are delusional.

Eight years of Bush policies in the White house, six of them with the cooperation of a Republican Congress.... Pray, tell us what else it could be?

Name calling, name calling. Tsk, tsk. I didn't think we were going to do that anymore. Thankfully I have a signature line. I'll just leave it at it's really sad that you have bought the entire democrat party line and are such a echo chamber for them.

I have an idea. Let's look at where the economy was prior to the dem takeover of congress in 2006. Dow above 14K, gas just over $2 gallon, enployment at 4.5%.....Reid and Pelosi have done such a stellar job! They have such incredibly high approval numbers as well. Obama will simply empower them to do more of the same.

Let's also look at how many times Obama hasn't voted the dem party line, and how many times McCain hasn't voted his. Let's look at how many times Obama has sponsored legislation with someone from the other side of the aisle vs. how many times McCain has, if Obama has sponsored anything at all....don't really think he has. Yet Obama is supposedly the one who will work with the other side of the aisle and bring about and end to partisanship. For Obama and the dems, an end to partisanship means do it the dem way without debate. Kind of like Pelosi shutting down debate on gas prices. Why talk about it if it isn't politically expedient?

Delusional? I don't think I am.

And how fortuitous that I have come across this anaylsis of voting records...yes, I'm sure that a Bush clone would have primary cosponsors of his legislation be membors off the dem party over half the time.

With calls for change in Washington dominating the campaign, both Mr. Obama, the Democrats' presidential nominee, and Mr. McCain, his Republican opponent, have claimed the mantle of bipartisanship.

But since 2005, Mr. McCain has led as chief sponsor of 82 bills, on which he had 120 Democratic co-sponsors out of 220 total, for an average of 55 percent. He worked with Democrats on 50 of his bills, and of those, 37 times Democrats outnumber Republicans as co-sponsors.

Mr. Obama, meanwhile, sponsored 120 bills, of which Republicans co-sponsored just 26, and on only five bills did Republicans outnumber Democrats. Mr. Obama gained 522 total Democratic co-sponsors but only 75 Republicans, for an average of 13 percent of his co-sponsors.

An Obama campaign spokesman declined to comment on The Times analysis.

The Obama camp didn't want to comment? I find that amazing. Being that he is the candidate who is willing to work with the other side of the aisle to find compromises for the American people, surely, there must be some mistake.