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Obama on the Differences Between McCain and Bush (Hint: Very Little)

ROANOKE, VA - Just two nights ago, John McCain told Barack Obama at the final presidential debate that he is not, in fact, George Bush.

At his town hall today in Virginia, Obama recalled that moment and had some fun with Senator McCain (perhaps he’s still in Al Smith mode).

“Now in fairness, Senator McCain doesn’t look like President Bush – he doesn’t have that Texas accent, like President Bush. And I don’t blame Senator McCain for all of President Bush’s mistakes. After all, he’s only voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time,” he said.

Getting serious, Obama said, “So I know I’m not running against President Bush, but I am running against President Bush’s policies; the policies John McCain has supported; the policies John McCain would continue. And that’s something we cannot afford four more years of – more George Bush economics.”

63 Responses to “Obama on the Differences Between McCain and Bush (Hint: Very Little)”

Comment by therealnews

When will Obama stop believing his own lies? When will he speak the truth? McCain was right last night, Obama is funny…everything he says is a joke.

 
Comment by rich

McCain is not Gerorge Bush, but his policies and manners are indistinguishable from Bush’s.

 
Comment by Dave

McCain had a great debate and outshined Obama on all the key points showing he is more prepared to be the president. Obama is not prepared, is a flip flopper on many issues and is just another politician in an empty suit.

 
Comment by Palin 2012

Of course he is not Bush.. McCain is older and comes with even older ideas on how to fail America…
He wants his own wars, so he can beat Bushes legacy… He is worse…

 
Comment by Don

Newsflash - McCain is not Bush. Thanks for clearing that up for us Barry. You’ve been saying he pretty much is Bush got months and now retract that…great, thanks.

 
Comment by L Bettes

Give it a rest - - - McCain is not Bush…At this point Obama is looking like Bush socialist, nationalized business etc…he should be able to handle it!

 
Comment by accurate statement

When will Fox stop slanting so hard for McCain?

 
Comment by len

The title of the blog is misleading

 
Comment by Marquis Todd from Bowling Green, Ky

When will John McCain/Sarah Palin stop believing their own lies? When will they speak the truth? Obama has been right all along, John McCain will continue the same failed policies of George W.

 
Comment by barbara

I couldn’t say it any better, therealnews. You’re right on target. This is the best Obama has been able to come up with as a platform against McCain, and it’s not worth 2 cents.

Obama, Biden, and the press now villifying “Joe the Plumber” will turn many, many voters away from Obama in these last days. We all relate to “Joe” much better than we relate to Obama.

 
Comment by Puffin

Note to therealnews @3:16 pm

Give me one instance when Obama lied. I can give you many when McCain/Palin did and they are still skewing the facts. Perhaps Palin feels too comfortable ‘abusing her power’? Do you really want that woman in the White House?

 
Comment by ShawnW

FOX come on. I know you want to give us new things to read, but this?! Really?!

 
Comment by PA Voter

Wow

The only thing that Obama concedes is that McCain is like Bush, 90% of the time.
A great attemt by FOX to influence those that only read the headlines…and those too slow to follow Obama’s punch line.
“Brilliant!”

 
Comment by tiredofallthis

See here Obama goes again. That we had to go thru 8 years of Bush’s policies and that if McCain is elected then we will have more Bush’s policy. With Obama being a Senator he should know that there is a check-n-balance system, those policies have to go thru Congress & the Senate, to be approved by both house before going to the President for his approval or veto… SO WHO HAS CONTROL OF CONGRESS AND THE SENATE? for the last 8 years…. Oh Yeah.. THE DEMOCRATES.. So Obama needs to quiet using that trump card over and over again. So McCain voted 90% down his party lines and Obama voted 94% done his party lines.. GET OVER IT…

 
Comment by jb

Obama didn’t concede anything. Your remarks are as misleading as McCains. Here is what Obama said: So let’s talk about the issues that matter. In the debate this week, Senator McCain felt the need to inform me that he’s not President Bush.

And in fairness, I don’t blame Senator McCain for all of President Bush’s mistakes. After all, he’s only voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time.

But it is fair to say that over the course of three debates and twenty months, Senator McCain still hasn’t offered a single thing that he would do differently from George W. Bush when it comes to the most important economic issues we face today. Not one.

He wants to keep giving tax cuts to corporations that ship your jobs overseas just like George Bush. I want to give tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in America.

He wants to give tax cuts to Exxon-Mobil and big corporations and their CEOs – cuts we just can’t afford – just like George Bush. I want to give a break to 95 percent of middle class Americans – folks who need it and deserve it. I want to give tax breaks to the small businesses that create more than two-thirds of our jobs. That’s how we’ll strengthen our country. That’s how we’ll grow our economy again.

I know I’m not running against President Bush. But I am running against his policies – the policies John McCain has supported. The policies John McCain would continue. Because that’s something we can’t afford.

And that is especially true when it comes to health care. Senator McCain and I have real differences on this issue.

 
Comment by proudrepub

It really drives me nuts to watch Obama talk about McCain. He takes on such an condescending attitude. I watched the Al Smith dinner speeches last night and Obama didn’t light up the room like everybody drools over him doing He was really out of his element. He’s going to have a hard time dealing with big business owners and the upper elite in this country. You can’t bite the hand that feeds you. He may think he can tax them and spread the wealth but their are some people in those tax brackets that he is going to need some day and they aren’t going to be inclined to help. McCain is not George Bush, he doesn’t have the same philosophy as George Bush and that’s what really scares the Democrats.

 
Comment by bluesea

Obama has to run against Bush. He can’t afford to have people’s attention on McCain, who has a vision for the future, and a plan for fixing the economy immediately. His “Change” is to change this country into a socialist country, which is backwards to repeat the failure of former socialist countries. He wants the power to tell people what to do, not to be a servant to the people and fight for them.

 
Comment by Dan Cleary

The jokes are funny because they’re true.

 
Comment by Palin 2012

He is Worse, what else is there to say ??

 
Comment by wolfster1

If you listen to what Obama said he is criticizing and categorizing president Bush’s accent and his looks. The connection is there this man is racist and judges a person by their accent and their looks. Which means he is cognizant of skin color. WAKE UP AMERICA!!

 
Comment by wolfster1

Here comes the race card with Obama

If you listen to what Obama said he is criticizing and categorizing president Bush’s accent and his looks. The connection is there this man is racist and judges a person by their accent and their looks. Which means he is cognizant of skin color. WAKE UP AMERICA!!

 
Comment by Ken Ghosh

Liar, liar … Foxes always lie, isn’t that well-known? So why prove it with the misleading headline. Obama precisely does not concede that “Mccain isn’t Exactly Like Bush.” Judgement day is going to come soon and one by one you pseudo-journos will fall. America will be free of this cancer called FOX NEWS! Yuk!

 
Comment by MELISSA

I AGREE WITH OBAMA WE CANT AFFORD WHAT IS HAPPENED TO US AND WHAT WILL CONTIUNE TO HAPPEN IF CHANGE DOSE NOT HAPPEN

 
Comment by kevin

The major failure of George Bush is that he spent federal money like a drunken liberal for 8 years. Which one of the candidates plan to increase speninding by $860 billion? Hmmmmm

 
Comment by Donna

how is it that Senator Obama is lying when Senator McCain is on tape admitting that he voted with George Bush 90% of the time?

 
Comment by irongrumma

mccain is a lier. he will raise tax. he will not help the poor he is for the ric. he don’t gave a dam about the poor only want your vote.

 
Comment by omichael

No— McCaint is no Geo Bush———He’s a defective clone of Bush

 
Comment by CARING FOR AMERICA -DO YOU?

That’s right Obama….just like you’re not “exactly like Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro”

 
Comment by gragar

No here’s what we can’t believe. We can’t believe Obama because of the people who have influenced him. Mc Cain is running against Ayers, Wright, Michelle and Rezko’s policies. They are the people Obama has supported the last 8 years.

 
Comment by gragar

And we can’t afford any years of Barak Obama economics!

 
Comment by Jen

What a misleading title. Not surprising….Fox like always plays to the GOP

 
Comment by TJune

Obama loves to say that McCain supported Bush the majority of the time. What he doesn’t say is that he did also…when he actually voted.

 
Comment by IndependentGA

If that doesn’t hit the nail in McCain’s coffin, nothing will. Republicans can cry all they want. Instead of persecuting Obama and calling him names,Can anyone from the GOP tell Americans with a straight face, why we should vote McCain? It’s a no brainer. Republicans were in power in congress from 1994-2006 and had the white house since 2000. Are we to believe that our problems come from 2 years of a democratic control congresss? Or is it from the last 14 years? You won’t fool or scare me into voting for the GOP this time. It worked in 2004, but not this time.

 
Comment by Leslie

I agree, Obama is a joke and a real threat to this country.
and the people who vote for him are a joke and a real threat to this country.
and when they start crying because Obamas socialist government is telling them how much they can spend and when, if they get permission to spend or have anything to spend
or if there is anything to spend it on. I can say It’s your own fault!
They won’t have more in their pockets because there won’t be any jobs, just like in Cuba, why do these twits think the Cuban people risked their lives in wooden boats to come to America to escape socialism.

 
Comment by Patrick

I am a strong conservative and I AGREE 400%.

McCAIN is WORSE than Bush - Bush atleast thought what is right / wrong and BLINDLY followed it (even if it turned out to be wrong). Consistently WRONG (so to say)

Mccain is INCONSISTENT during a conversation within a few minutes ….. examples:

1) One hand he says there is too much government (Love that part) but immediately (on the fly) he comes back with this 300 Billion deal for the BAD LENDERS?
2) One hand he said I will elect Judges purely based on qualification but immediately he comments that a judge who might be extremely qualified (judicially) but if he shares Pro Abortion ideas then he is NOT qualified/eligible (by the way, I love this one)

but HOW the FU%$#%$ do you think I can believe you that if you are going to budge on #2 and more importantly that you are NOT going to screw all of us on things like #1 ?????? Do you even realize MOTH$#@$# that my retirement and savings almost vanished this month????

 
Comment by Travis

That is what I love about politics from both sides, nothing but the truth. I’m tired of all the negative campaigning from both sides. As an independent voter in Iowa, the McCain campaign continues to take negative too far. If you tell the people anything long enough the will believe it, doesn’t work for me. Give me some substance senator McCain, but you haven’t. My vote this year goes to Obama.

 
Comment by mind quiet

Well,

Obama looks very much like Jimmy Carter. Disaster for America, disaster for economy.

Obama is running for Jimmy Carter 2nd term.
Or maybe
Obama is running for Bill Ayers 1st term?

 
Comment by Palin 2012

He is far worse then Bush… still believing America is on the right track, even to he is going to make houses something the states own…

 
Comment by mind quiet

Well, Obama is more like Jimmy Carter than McCain like Bush.

So, Obama is running Jimmy Carter 2nd term?

Or maybe

Obama is running for Bill Ayers 1st term?

 
Comment by 90%

Sadly this is not a lie. i am a conservative and i distinctly remember McCain stating that he voted with bush 90% of the time. these were McCains words sadly not obamas

 
Comment by R.S.

Mr. Obama knows the majority of the Americans who are supporting him don’t care to think critically, so he chooses to “manipulate” those Americans into NOT thinking about what he is saying. It is too bad that this presidential candidate choses NOT to take the “high road” as he claims he is taking during this presidential race! He choses to manipulate the un-informed and un-educated folks into believing that he cares about them. No, he cares about his own political career, that’s it!

 
Comment by Person

How is that a joke? If you make a comment, provide examples? Provide specific details? Your outlandish accusation that he is “lieing” has zero substance. It means nothing.

 
Comment by J. Richter

What a concession!

 
Comment by Lisa

NO, THE QUESTION IS WHEN WILL MCCAIN/PALIN STOP LYING. MAYBE IF MCCCAIN PICK A VETTED HIS VP AND JOE THE PLUMBER, PEOPLE WOULD STOP QUESTIONING HIS JUDGEMENT. AS FAR AS OBAMA BEING A SOCIALIST, IT’S IRONIC, THAT THE REPUBLICANS DID NOT MIND SOCIALISM WHEN IT CAME TO THE WAR AND WALL STREET. CORPORATIONS WOULD NOT BE IN BUSINESS IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE WORKER, SO OBAMA IS LOOKING OUT FOR THE FACTORY WORKER AND NOT THE GREEDY EXECUTIVES.

 
Comment by shan

Liddy’s connections to John McCain
In 1998 Liddy hosted a fundraiser at his house for John McCain’s re-election campaign at which guests could have their pictures taken with McCain and Liddy.[6] Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator’s campaigns — including $1,000 in 2008.

 
Comment by CD

tiredofallthis, it is amazing you are starting to believe the non-sense. The Republicans were in power for the first 6 years…not the entire term of Bush.

Second, please tell me 3 things McCain is going to do differently as it relates to the economy that is different than Bush?

I will spot you the first one… 1. Cut spending…

ok…name the other 2 please…

waiting…

 
Comment by Jim

Blind change is a far greater risk than 4 years with some similar policies as President Bush. After all, most of what is wrong in America right now didn’t just happen because of President Bush. Much of it has been brewing for years, with both parties sharing in the blame. Let’s quit bashing the president and make this about two different individuals, parties, and worldviews, presenting voters with a refreshing change of tactic.

Obama is a complete unknown. To assume that he represents positive change is to put more emphasis on change than on the direction or substance of that change.

 

[...] MESILLA, NM — John McCain may have told his Democratic rival at Wednesday’s debate that he’s no George Bush, but Joe Biden isn’t buying [...]

 
Comment by Canada eh

Obama/Biden’08 - Change you can be deceived in!

Paid for by: ACORN, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko

LOOK AT THE RECORDS OF THE CANDIDATES AMERICANS!

Amazing how all of you south of us are BLINDED!

WAKEUP! LOOK AT THE FACTS!

Glad to be Living in the “Truth North Strong & Free”

 
Comment by Lisa

I love the smell of Republican desperation in the morning. It’s ripe all over this place.

 
Comment by Jim Olson

All John McCain has to says is ” George Bush is not a part of my campaign nor will he be part of my administration” and the Democarts should take a little of their advice and stop camparing him to Bush. (By the way those ads were on TV long before Ayres ads came on) As for Obama’s economic plan, let’s see if he’s willing to do a trail run. His campaign has worked very hard and raised alot more money than McCain’s, if we go with his “spread the wealth plan” Obama should should have no problem giving John McCain an equal share of his earnings so that McCain can buy equal time in the media before the election.

 
Comment by Richard Salomone

Obama is going to give a tax cut to 95% of Americans. Only 63% of Americans pay income tax. The remaining receive an earned income credit and pay their 7.5% FICA tax which includes the 1.5% Health Insurance tax. However, these folk get a benefit in return and how many people understand that Social Security is weighted to the lower middle income who receive a higher replacement of wages in retirement vs the higher paid. You should pay an income tax to get a tax cut and you should not confuse Social Security taxes with income taxes. In effect, Obama wants to give a wage tax credit when he should be cutting taxes for everyone in a recession. We need at least three years of a spending freeze and we need to encourage capital formation and business in this nation and Obama should resist the urge to lecture poorer nations on how that develop their economy. I am voting for John McCain because he has a reecord of accomplishment and he will not bring to the Presidency a left wing agenda to socialize our economy by getting more of us yoked to the government hand out. We need to encourage work and reward success and we need to do a better job of education with the money we are spending instead of more money poured into the same failed system. Finally, I do not trust Barak Obama to nominate people to the Supreme Court who have a respect for the Constitution. Liberals do not respect the Constitution; they only respect concepts of fairness and equity which belong to the legislative branch. I am biased and I admit it. Are many of you who read this confident that many people inclined to vote for Obama really understand the issues or are they simply caught up in the media hype of a man who when he is afraid of a decision, votes present. Hey folks! When your life is on the line, I for one do not want a man who votes present. I want John McCain answering that phone at 3:00am. The ACORN really does not fall far from the tree. Obama is an unknown as was Jimmy Carter. Both of these men were nuanced up to their eye brows. Neither of them could lead or make a serious decision because they consulted too much with fear. Obama has already written two books and as far as I can tell, he is still a closed book. Take the next two weeks to learn more about this man and his Hollywood scripted campaign. Then go and vote for character, integrity, experience and leadership. Vote for John McCain.

 
Comment by movie fan

McCain and Palin look, act and talk like amiable robots… both of them are the perfect combination to carry on the legacy of George W. Bush.

the fact that anyone is praising McCain for his performance in the third debate proves that he and Palin have lowered people’s expectations down to nothing (don’t forget, the VP debates were a tie!)

 
Comment by PulSamsara

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

 
Comment by Dave

Fox: 1st: Your website is about on-par w/ a high school in West Virginia.
2nd: This is banter equal to a high-schooler with hormonal imbalance. It makes no sense and you defeat your own “argument”/headline w/the very facts you report. Is this supposed to sway me to think that A.) Joe the plumber is like me or that B.) Barack is admitting he doesn’t really think John McCain is like Dubya? The only this babble convinces me of is that you are paid sland the news in favor of “conservative” agendas. That, however, in NOT news. The most-watched you may be, however the only reason I watch you is because I want to learn and hear about all the trash one particular media outlet can throw at a viewpoint that most likely more closely reflects sound judgement, rational thought, objective realization, and ELITIST expectations. In short: you suck.

 
Comment by JJ

To read the title of this piece and the quote at the end of it is to be reminded of an old saw about the Soviet Union.

Runners from the USSR and The United States
were engaged in a two-man race.
The contestant from the US won.
The headline in the next day’s issue of Pravda read:

SOVIET RUNNER PLACES SECOND
U.S. Comes In Next To Last

 
Comment by John

To heck with all you Cretans! I LOVE PRESIDENT BUSH. I would take 10 President Bush’s in a row next to Obama and Biden. At least he is halfway from outside the beltway. The partisanship in Congress is principally to blame for all of our current woes. Washington 101 - Congress blames an inefficient Executive Branch, the Executive Branch blames Congress, the Judicial Branch stays out of it, the people suffer, and the lobbyists pay off. The only innovation in town is accomplished by outsiders without a Political background - for example 25 year old staffers working for Congressmen, people from the States who come and work in the Agencies for a “Tour of Duty, and the innovation in IT is so advanced nobody but an IT person can keep up with it (scary!). You want change? Joe the Plumber for President! He might not be squeaky clean, but I promise he’s cleaner than anybody else from inside the Beltway.

 
Comment by Average American

Re-distribution of the wealth! How can you get more socialist than that? And Obama wants to “only increase the tax on the upper 5%”? It’s not enough that business already pay the 2nd highest tax in the world, Obama wants them to pay even more. That is just a penalty for being successful! That very success needs to be encouraged to grow the economy, not stifled!

I guess this is why people are calling Obama a “post turtle”! You know what that is? When you travel down a country road and see a turtle balanced by his belly shell on top of a fence post where his legs are not touching, that’s a post turtle. You know he didn’t get up there by his self, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he is up there, and you wonder what kind of idiot put him up there to start with!

Obama is a Post Turtle.

 
Comment by John Warren

Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is the best future leader for this nation, not Senator Barak Obama. Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is also would be better at leading our nation in the future after a McCain Presidency than Senator Barak Obama would be in leading our nation in the future starting in January 2009. There are great reasons our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin would be a better future leader than Senator Barak Obama. The greatest reason for our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin’s is ideology. Our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is conservative in that she is pro life, marriage, guns, low taxes, low government spending, small government, unintrosive government, traditional and judeo Christian values, Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, and military spending. Senator Barak Obama is a liberal who is anti every thing that I have described that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is pro about or for. A second reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of experience. As a governor she has two years of executive administrative governing experience that Senator Barak Obama does not have. A final reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of political accomplishments. When our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin came to office she accomplished 3 major things which are as follows: she showed great leadership in the 3 following areas: government reform, the state budget and the economy, and wise use of natural resources. She reformed government by standing up to the big oil companies by breaking up the monopoly on power and resources. She insisted on competition and basic fairness which ended the control that the oil companies had on the state, and thereby returning control of the state back to the people. She also stood up to the special interest and lobbyist, and produced major ethics reform. She lead well in the state budget by generating a surplus which came about by vetoing a half billion dollars of wasteful spending, ending the abuses of earmark spending by congress, and by getting rid of the private jet, the chef, and the chuffer. Economically under her leadership she brought about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. She also suspended the state fuel tax, and when oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, she sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska . On natural resources she has shown great leadership by beginning a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. When the last section of the pipeline is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart. Senator Barak Obama has done nothing, so please vote John McCain for President and give to our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin the opportunity that she deserves leading the nation into the future after a John McCain presidency. When our soon to be Vice President does lead the nation as President after a John McCain presidency,she will be the greatest President that we have ever had. Finally she is smarter than Senator Barak Obama

Thank You

John Warren

 
Comment by John Warren

Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is also would be better at leading our nation in the future after a McCain Presidency than Senator Barak Obama would be in leading our nation in the future starting in January 2009 because of three areas which are as follows: ideology , experience, and accomplisments. Ideologically she is a conservative. Experientially she has two years of executive administrative governing experience . When it comes to accomplishments she accomplished 3 major things which are as follows: government reform, the state budget and the economy, and wise use of natural resources. She reformed government by standing up to the big oil companies by breaking up the monopoly on power and resources. She insisted on competition and basic fairness which ended the control that the oil companies had on the state, and thereby returning control of the state back to the people. She lead well in the state budget by generating a surplus which came about by vetoing a half billion dollars of wasteful spending. Economically under her leadership she brought about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. She also suspended the state fuel tax, and when oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, she sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska . On natural resources she has shown great leadership by beginning a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence, so please vote for John McCain

 
Comment by Winston Smith

As mayor, Sarah Palin left Wasilla with $25 million in debt… She began her tenure with a budget surplus. Just like Bush!

Her home was built by the same developer who landed the sweetheart deal of building the “Wasilla Sports Palace” - a glorified hockey rink - for 5 MILLION DOLLARS. Her home was built by this company FOR FREE. Highly improper and totally illegal. Please feel free to research.

Sarah Palin was charged and convicted of “Abuse of Power” and Violating the Alaska Executive Ethics Act, BREAKING THE LAW, though she (and FoxNews) claimed she was “vindicated”

Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, apparently had access to Alaska government employees records and used them to intimidate lawmakers into doing his personal bidding. Troopergate is just the tip of the Palins proverbial iceberg.

Sarah Palin was chosen to be the “heartbeat away” from the presidency by none other than Karl Rove, one of the neo-cons responsible for the firings of US Attorneys in several states, among dozens of other things. Politicizing the Department of Justice is treason if you ask me. He’ll be spending time in jail when his luck runs out. McCain didn’t even get to choose his own vice-president. Hmmm. Who will be pulling the strings?

Sarah Palin is only on the republican ticket this year to sling smears and filth and hope something sticks. The RNC should be ashamed for jeopardizing this country by even hinting that this woman should be anywhere near our White House or the awesome power it holds.

 
Comment by ELIZABETH

According to Project Vote Smart, an independent congressional watchdog that reports on congressional voting, Sen. Obama supported legislation signed by President Bush more often than Sen. McCain had!
Of the 50 major legislative bills sent to President Bush since January 2005, Sen. Obama supported legislation signed by President Bush 19 times, casting six votes against.
During the same period, Sen. McCain supported legislation signed by President Bush 17 times, casting five votes against.
(The other bills signed into law did so without a vote by either senator.) Surprised?
So the next time you hear someone trying to tie our senator to President Bush in this way, set him straight.
Facts are difficult things!

 
Comment by emerson vail

The American people are fortunate in that they have the opportunity to watch recordings of the presentations given by both Senator John McCain and Junior Senator Barack Obama at the Al Smith Memorial Dinner.

Senator John McCain’s relationship with George W. Bush is similar to that of all of the Commanders-in-Chief McCain has served. One should hardly be surprised, as John McCain quite literally inherited a respect for protocol.

In looking at the official website for the dinner, I took especial notice of the names of the two guest speakers for the year 1947. I was born more than two decades after that particular dinner, but own my ability to recognize more similarities of fundamental significance between Senator McCain and the guests of 1947 than either of the ones of 2000.

I also viewed video snippets provided on the site of the two Dinner speakers of 2000; particularly notable is the unabashed quote from one of the speakers referring to the elite guests before him as his “base.” I own my ability to know that this quote only horrified said base because it is true, and because their protege wasn’t supposed to say so; they were/are his base, and now they have a new protege: Junior Senator Obama.

I am fully aware that the public questioning of narrative I do here invites my own denouncement as “erratic,” if, indeed, not worse. I don’t mind owning my ability to see that either; I would find myself in good company.
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