At a speech at Lebanon, Virginia on Tuesday, future President Barack Obama said: "John McCain says he's about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, 'Watch out George Bush- except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics- we're really going to shake things up in Washington."That's not change. That's just calling something the same thing something different. You know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. You know you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough of the same old thing."Within minutes, the McCain campaign announced a conference call to discuss the remark. This despite the fact that last October McCain drew...
The superb act of larceny performed by the Republicans in misappropriating Obama’s ‘Change’ mantra for themselves would be enough to make Ronnie Biggs proud. It may be true that John McCain isn’t your common-or-garden Senator, but then he isn’t exactly your average Chuck/ Buzz/ Chip either. Here we have a man who doesn’t know how many houses he owns and who has voted with George W Bush 90% of the time. Obama spokesman Bill Burton said: "The idea that John McCain represents change in Washington is as laughable as his claim that he'll take on the special interests when some of the biggest corporate lobbyists in America are running his campaign." Indeed, the fact that seven of McCain’s advisors were Washington lobbyists hardly does him any favours when it comes to creating an...
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John McCain surprised many when he announced Sarah Palin as his running mate for November. "What?!" cried many non-Alaskans. "Who?" cried many more. However, a few days on it is very unlikely that many still have no idea about the woman who could only be a heartbeat (God forbid) away from the Presidency.To evangelical Christians the choice was music (presumably of the choral or devotional sort) to their ears; a Jesus-loving, gun-toting, moose-shooting pro-lifer was bound to be popular for that constituency. To the Hillaryites, to whom the choice was also cynically aimed, the choice of a woman probably smacks of condescension on McCain's part, especially as this woman is certainly no liberal like their hero claims to be. To everyone else the choice may seem baffling. Palin is a candidate...
And so it is that Barack Obama has been selected as Democratic candidate for the White House. One-time presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called a halt to the vote tallying at the Democratic convention in Denver and moved for support to be put solely behind Obama.When all the fanfare dies down, the task of making sure that this historical story gets the ending it deserves commences.Here's to President...