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Originally Posted by Willravel
Loq, if it were 2005 I'd agree with you. He's either shifted his policies becuase he thinks that the Bush way will help him win or he's been invaded by the same parasitic alien that took over Bush.
McCain's Senate votes are in line with Bush Admninistration policy 95% of the time. That doesn't seem silly to me.
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What does this mean? I posted that his background and temperament and pretty much everything about him is different from Bush, which means a different decisionmaking process and a different approach. He's about as different from Bush as can be, as a person. We don't elect a slate, we elect a person.
As for the 95% thing, you'd need to show me which issues you're talking about and how you got that number, because "the Bush Admin" does not have a vote in the Senate. Obviously the man is a Republican, so yes, he'll vote on the "right" side of issues more often than not. And as you know, this game can be played both ways. You can show that Obama voted some high percentage of time with some loony demagogue's positions, too, if you pick the right data to feed into the comparison.
I'm not an apologist for McCain at all, nor for Obama, I just think this partisan crap is silly and makes smart people behave like idiots, parrotting talking points for their "team." It's one of the reasons I hate election season.
I hate the racist crap some people spout about Obama, and I hate people who put up sites like this one: http://downspalin.blogspot.com. Politics can make people forget their humanity, and it depresses me to no end. (I have a special needs child, and I find crap like that pretty much unforgiveable.)
Sorry, Will, I'm not unloading on you, I'm just already fed up and it's only September.