Even McSame thinks the republicans have screwed things up

[FishaHallic]

McCain targets GOP and Bush along with Obama
By TERENCE HUNT – 1 hour ago

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Barack Obama isn't John McCain's only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he's running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.

The GOP is guilty of indulging in a spending spree of taxpayers' money, McCain laments. They haven't solved huge problems such as the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare, passing on huge IOUs and perplexing issues to future generations instead of fixing them as they had promised. He doesn't name Bush but the implication is clear: It happened on his watch and he signed bills that made the deficit soar.

"We began to value power over principle," McCain said in Colorado Springs, Colo. Some lawmakers turned corrupt and wound up in jail, he told a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.

"Change is coming, change is coming," McCain promised, projecting an image of independence and political populism.

One of his challenges is to separate himself from the unpopular incumbent in the White House and fight against Obama's charge that a McCain presidency would amount to a third term for Bush.

"On the core issues, the economy and the war, he has been joined to Bush at the hip," said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman. "On the other hand, Bush is a lead weight dragging him down. He has to rely on rhetoric to separate (himself) but he can't separate himself on policies important to the American people."

Eager to keep control of the White House, Republicans are keeping their mouths shut about McCain's barbs.

McCain's criticism rankles White House officials who are eager to build up Bush's legacy. They are quick to strike hard at anything they perceive as criticism from almost any quarter, particularly the media. But Bush aides are giving McCain a free pass even as they quietly grumble about how pointed his attacks have become.

Railing against Washington's political establishment is an old tradition in presidential campaigns, but McCain overlooks the fact that he is an elder in the club. He is Arizona's senior senator, having served 22 years after four years in the House.

He doesn't talk about how long he's been in Washington, focusing instead on the fact that he has been at odds with many Republicans on a range of issues such as campaign finance reform, imposing limits on harsh treatment of terrorist suspects, tax cuts (he opposed them before he supported them) and federally financed embryonic stem cell research.

"Obviously, I was very unpopular in some parts of my own party, whether it be on the issue of climate change or against (former Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's strategy and the president's strategy in Iraq, or whether it be on campaign finance reform or a number of other issues that I fought against the `special interests,'" McCain said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

The clear message is that there are no sacred cows. Bush and Congress are very unpopular, so they're an easy target.

"I don't work for a party. I don't work for a special interest. I don't work for myself. I work for you," McCain said in a televised address Saturday to the AARP, the nation's largest group of older Americans.

Even at the GOP convention, McCain was not shy about telling Republicans they had lost their way.

"We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us," McCain said. "We lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption."

Instead of being offended, the delegates loved it. McCain's camp calculates he can get away with it because he has strong support within the GOP.

Campaigning after the convention, McCain has not offered specific solutions to problems, saying instead he will reach out to Democrats to find answers. He said he would have more than one Democrat in his Cabinet.

"As bad as things are and as bad as gridlock is, I am an optimist," McCain told the AARP. "I think we have hit rock bottom.


If your republican hopefull admits the republicans have screwed up royally and yet they think we should vote a republican in again. I don't think so.

[StockOption]

You do realize that this article completely contradicts the cute little name you've given McCain

So much for your Bush == McCain argument. Well played

Also, it's pretty sad and pathetic the junior senator/community organizer doesn't have enough saavy and experience to speak similar words about the worst congress ever. He'd prefer to maintain the status quo with that I'm sure.

[Jeff C.]

Also, it's pretty sad and pathetic the junior senator/community organizer doesn't have enough saavy and experience to speak similar words about the worst congress ever. He'd prefer to maintain the status quo with that I'm sure.

Worst congress ever? As a whole the last 7.5 years WILL go down as the worst congress that was also associated with the worst presidential administration in history. Uh, lets see, that's 6 years of the congress being in Republican rule and 1.5 years of a Demcratic congress.

Or maybe we should ask the American people whom they blame for the worst congress ever.

Hey Stockoption, care to make a wager about which side gains the most seats in the upcoming election?

I thought not.

[StockOption]

Wrong.

The congressional approval ratings (done by Gallup) during most of Bush's term (when it was republican controlled) was far, far higher than 18% which is what this status quo, liberal congress we now have has garned in 2007 and again in 2008.

Can you imagine putting Obama, the least experienced president ever, together with the worst congress ever? Shudder........

As long as McCain wins the Whitehouse this crucial check and balance will be back in place, which is good for everyone. (It's never good for the country when one party controls both branches of our government.)

Came home from fishing today to hear some polls now have McCain up by 10 pts Not sure if that is accurate or true but if so, damn maybe this election won't be so close.

As an aside did you all hear about the "liberal hero" shopowner from Tiburon that refused to sell a $1200 bowl to a customer because said customer had a Palin button on her purse? What a complete maroon....LOL

[Ringer]

The mortgage deregulation debacle was the democrats and the culprits were the largest contributors to both Obama and Biden. Those facts make it hard to focus economic blame totally on republicans. I do blame Phil Graham and republicans for deregulating commodities driving oil up so they both suck. This election is over. Obama has no record and Biden has a dismal record for appealing to middle America. Voters want a divided executive and legislative government. McCain is attractive now because he will obviously serve only one term.

[StockOption]

Interesting read on the mortgage bail-outs announced today:

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13841

"How can Obama go out with a straight face and say it was Republicans who made this mess, when it is his key advisers who ran the agencies that made the big mess what it is?" says a Democrat House member who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "It's his people who are responsible for what may well be the single largest government bailout in history. And every single one of them made millions off the collapse that are lining Obama's campaign coffers. If the McCain campaign lets this one go, they deserve to lose."

Seems to be in sync with what was posted by Ringer.

[Greg_Cornish]

If the McCain campaign lets this one go, they deserve to lose."

Or they are up to their ears in it and don't want to stir the sleeping lion.

[FishaHallic]

You do realize that this article completely contradicts the cute little name you've given McCain

So much for your Bush == McCain argument. Well played

Also, it's pretty sad and pathetic the junior senator/community organizer doesn't have enough saavy and experience to speak similar words about the worst congress ever. He'd prefer to maintain the status quo with that I'm sure.

The point is that McSame even though he bad mouths the current administration and his own party he by his own admittance followed the presidents lead 90% of the time. He also said that he would keep troops in Iraq for 100 yrs, keep the Bush tax cuts which are major Bush policies.

So, to me it sounds like he is saying how bad the republicans have screwed things up the last 7+ years but yet he will still follow the path of republican destruction.

[Marty]

*The point is that McSame even though he bad mouths the current administration and his own party he by his own admittance followed the presidents lead 90% of the time.

You point this out like it is terrible, just so happens that the rest of congress had to follow president’s lead or all of the bills would not have passed.

* He also said that he would keep troops in Iraq for 100 yrs,

It must be something on how you liberals hear things – “McCainâ€