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Originally Posted by Grimmlok
Puke. McSame has a stockholm syndrome with Bush, sucking up to him even when Bush kicks him in the face. Fairly honest politician my fat ass. He just projects an image that nobody has really looked hard at. Can we say campaign finance reform/lobbyist lies?
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He's run for President before, his record is out there, and it's been looked at thoroughly. He has a 25 year record in the Senate to back up that he's not Bush 2......
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Originally Posted by Grimmlok
He voted no on the federal ban, but wholly supports individual states banning it so fuck that.
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Yes, thats how our system of government works. Any rights not specifically laid out in the Constitution are given over to the States. It's quite a big deal here in America. Maybe you've heard of state's rights?
As far as the war goes, it was Bush's baby.....but Dems and Repubs voted together on it, and they have voted to fund it. The dems don't have the moral high ground on it. In fact, they ran in 2006 promising to end it....but did fuck all about it. So who's worse? A man who's honest about his support- or a man that claims he's opposed but votes for the funding every single time it comes up for a vote. McCain isn't the only one "projecting an image"
The League Of Conservation Voters endorsed McCain in 2004's Senate election along with Barack Obama.
McCain opposed Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill that included huge tax giveaways to oil companies with record revenues. Obama supported the bill.
Obama did not join McCain and 44 other Republican and Democratic Senators in urging the Environmental Protection Agency to draft stricter Mercury restrictions
Both Obama and McCain support a cap-and-trade system to phase out greenhouse gas emissions by factories.
McCain and Obama oppose oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. Both voted against it.
Both candidates support expansion of liquefied coal and ethanol energy technology.
Obama and McCain have supported expansion of nuclear power plants. Obama switched his position slightly between July 2007 and December 2007, explaining in December that until we can solve the storage and safety issues associated with nuclear power, we should not expand its use.
Both agree that the U.S. should have signed the Kyoto Treaty.
I dont really see radical differences here.....
McCain appeals to the middle......and that's the group that decides elections here in the States....
In bad times, people go back to the middle.......