Americans Worry McCain Would Be Too Similar to Bush »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsA recent USA Today/Gallup poll finds about two in three Americans concerned that John McCain would pursue policies as president that are too similar to what George W. Bush has pursued. Nearly half -- 49% -- say they are "very concerned" about this.
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gamahuche1 year, 4 months ago
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Me too!
Except that its why he won't get elected, with Obama not getting sufficient scrutiny.
The frothing and raving of the rabid right cannot be parsed as any form of sane or rational argument which, paradoxically is why he is getting a virtual free pass.
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Lurch1 year, 4 months ago
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Its McCain`s pandering to anybody and everybody that really puts me off. He says anything to anybody, and flip-flops constantly!
He will talk immigration out one side of his mouth to the base, and the other side to the Latino population.
He will talk we can never repay the debt to our military out one side of his mouth, while voting against the military on funding for the VA five times and several times more against the military on other topics such as equal time at home to time in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The pandering to the oil companies also disgusts me.
McSame, "I am the Re-decider!"
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Spadecaller1 year, 4 months ago
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What also puzzles me is how McCain can expect a nation to support a war that was ill-conceived, promoted dishonestly, is admittedly about oil. His recent fearmongering tactics suggest that if we "lose" (whatever that stupid concept means) AlQueda will grow stronger in Iraq. How ridiculous! AlQueda was never in Iraq until well after we occupied the country.
In essence, McCain is telling Americans that we are there to fight AlQueda, to establish a democracy, and to protect Iraqi oil for our needs. McCain is trying to resell the war that should have never been waged. How will that fly when Americans go to the polls in November?
Unless Bush and McCain are planning to "allow" a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, I hope the Amerian people could not possibly be that stupid to extend the Bush administration's policies for another four years. It will destroy our nation from the inside as it is doing now.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 4 months ago
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Spadecaller:
I cannot see any rational person voting for the same thing. Bush has been and is destoying this nation. To allow McCain to come in would be to allow Bush to finish what he started.
Of course there are still the Bush backers out there. I don't know why? But they still back the president and his horrendous debacle of a presidency.
Some people just won't admit when they are wrong. Like McCain who won't admit that the Bush agenda is wrong for America. Might have been great for Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany . But it is wrong for a Democracy or Republic.
Of course just before WWII we had the German Bund party who was backing Hitler in America. They spread propaganda and held rallies. People turned out and supported them.
Makes you wonder doesn't it? Are we headed that direction again?
God I hope not.
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Goppy1 year, 4 months ago
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Sameness is what we Christian Conservatives demand of him.
I wish you libbies would understand. See, we have a very well defined set of Moral Codes that we live by. And it p-isses us off to no end that you libbies are forever trying to alter these ABSOLUTE Moral Codes.
And because we have Absolute Moral Codes ... we support McCain ... because his absolute moral codes NOW resemble those of GW..
Course, its taken him about 9 months to CHANGE all his previous moral codes to match up with our UNshakable moral codes.
But we shall ultimately prevail because our Christian Conservative moral codes are so clearly defined...
What are they, you ask?
- War ... war is one. We REALLY believe in war as a primary foreign relations tool.
- Lying to go to war.... We figure, there must be a good reason for a Born Again Christian to lie bout war ... liek ... maybe hes fightin Satan.
- Protectin Polluters ... we believe in exercisin our will to trash this planet.
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Goppy1 year, 4 months ago
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What other of our UNSHAKABLE Moral Codes can I edjamacate you libbies on?
- Christian Conservatives support GW in his effort to be unnaccountable for any mis-step in his tenure.
- We support GW for all them 'Signin Statements' that absolve him from being held to the Rules of Law enacted by Congress.
- We support GW for his energy policy - which DEMANDS that we use more oil ... and refusing to support alternate sources .... thereby contributing to increased prices for all ... and more profits for his Oil Buddies.
- We support GW when he worked to DENY kids gettin health-care.
- We support GW when he extended the tours of duty for moms and dads in Iraq .... and then offered them the LOWEST Cost of Livin increase in almost 2 decades.
- We support Republicans for cutting funding for Head Trauma centers that treat an ever increasing number of soldiers with Head Trauma.
Hmmm... you know ... the more I look at this list ... I wonder why we demanded that McCain continue GW policies.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 4 months ago
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Sen. Obama says that HE is the candidate who offers "change" and "hope." Sen. McCain, surrounded by the same advisers who have led the current president so far away from sane and productive paths of government, offers "continuity" and "security."
My name is not Linus, and I never needed a security blanket. I will vote for the candidate who offers "change" from the current mismanagement and ill-conceived policies and I will "hope" for the best for my country.
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jordan111 year, 4 months ago
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What makes you think clearer minds will prevail this time?>>>>
In the case of some it won't be 'clearer minds' but selfish one's. Now that gas prices are out of control, some have turned away from the CONS. As long as what the CONS did wasn't affecting them personally, where they could FEEL it, they didn't give a damn. Now they do.
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automan9091 year, 4 months ago
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I am not worried at all that McCain will be like Bush.
I am VERY worried that Obama will be just like Karl Marx.
He is a Marxist and his plans are to make us a Marxist nation.
There is no doubt about that.
Wake up you left wing idiots. Stop being so racist and vote on the issues instead of falling for Obama's Marxist trash.
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lum-chate1 year, 4 months ago
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McCain should prevail in November but it's evident that
Comrade Obama has these leftwingers in the palm of his hand even though he seems to be ashamed of his roots and beginnings, first his white grandma under the bus and now Muslim women wearing radical headscarfs. lol
But I guess I would ignore those Muslim women too if you had two Muslim names, and a fake American birth certificate.
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Lurch1 year, 4 months ago
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McMarx or McMussolinni, take yer pick.
As a member of the Illinois State Senate, Sen. Obama was cosponsor of a bill which ultimately passed, creating the largest tax cut in state history. Since the start of his presidential campaign, he has consistently favored a broad-based middle class tax cut. By contrast, Sen. McCain "voted against tax cuts before he voted for them", and has no real credibility on this issue.
Sen. Obama uttered the words "We dont need Big Government". Whether you agree with that or not, remind your Republican friends that Pres. Bill Clinton's National Performance Review reduced the federal civilian workforce by 250,000 positions (ones they will consider, rightly or wrongly, to be useless tax-sucking bureaucrats). This makes the last Democratic administration the only presidency since Eisenhower's to leave office with a smaller federal workforce that he started with - again, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Ford, and Nixon notwithstanding.
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kedirian1 year, 4 months ago
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"Americans Worry McCain Would Be Too Similar to Bush"
No way - McCain doesn't have as many nervous ticks as Dubya - although he winks just as obsessively as the Little Bantam Rooster when addressing a crowd!
Also, despite his affluent wife, McCain does not (yet) have a 1500-acre spread...
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Arizgal1 year, 4 months ago
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check this out. nuff said
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10249...
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AcademyGraduate1 year, 4 months ago
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Open letter to Senator Obama: Now is not the time to raise taxes. Also, see for yourself in the daily news. What has government done right? Very little. Not required to be competent when only push paper. Kiss but and who you know.
What has government actually done right? Close to zero.
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Lurch1 year, 4 months ago
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Medicare is much more efficient than any health insurance company with lower overhead and better reimbursement rates to the docs doing the actual medical care giving.
That does not even start to count the overhead explosion on the provider side due to insurance companies who change their policies on the fly, deny medical care based on their greed, and then rip-off the docs on reimbursement. It costs billions for providers to fight the insurers on behalf of the patients and in order to get the money they are owed.
SS, one of the most popular programs in our nation, and Bush/McCain want to attack it.
Nobody has raised your taxes more than George Bush, only he`s shirking the bill onto future generations of the middle class like the little coward he is. McCain wants to continue this agenda of wealth transfer from middle class to rich.
Obama wants to give the middle class a break and to give us what we are already paying for.
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Arizgal1 year, 4 months ago
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10249...
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rikywong5551 year, 4 months ago
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McCain faces a challenge in trying to convince voters to allow him to follow an unpopular president of the same party. Democratic candidate Barack Obama has attempted to link McCain to Bush by saying that electing McCain would effectively lead to a "third Bush term." Although McCain remains competitive in head-to-head matchups with Obama, the poll suggests that McCain may have more work to do to distance himself from Bush.
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