The rolling ball needs to be stopped! Not continue to roll into Iran or bounce around Iraq for 100 yrs. The only thing McCain has shown it that he CAN NOT seperate himself from the last 8yrs, he CAN NOT find himself from 2000 and he CAN NOT let go of the campaign by FEAR mentality that has been the republican way since 9/11. The problem for McCain is that it is only he and the SMALL heard of Bush sheeple who are afraid of the "brown boogeymen". The other 85% of America have more realistic concerns and some fears, but those are for our country, our children, our economy, healthcare, enviroment, our general well being as a country. Not "Freddy Alibaba Cruger" or "Micheal the Sheik Meyers", real fears, real concerns. War is your answer for everything and it solves NOTHING, not these wars, not "WARS FOR OIL".
McCain’s ‘Change’ Speech
As Barack Obama secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination, John McCain wasted no time painting him as an inexperienced partisan.
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With the Democratic race effectively over, John McCain was in New Orleans Tuesday night, delivering a prime-time speech aimed not only at attracting some crucial TV airtime for his campaign but framing the issues he'll use to fight Barack Obama heading into the fall. Standing before a banner that said A LEADER WE CAN BELIEVE IN, McCain repeated the argument he's been making for months about Obama: that while the Illinois senator delivers eloquent speeches promising change and bipartisanship, McCain actually has a record of being a change agent in Washington willing to work with members of the opposing party.
"Both Senator Obama and I promise we will end Washington's stagnant, unproductive partisanship. But one of us has a record of working to do that and one of us doesn't," McCain said. "Americans have seen me put aside partisan and personal interests to move this country forward. They haven't seen Senator Obama do the same. For all his fine words and all his promise, he has never taken the hard but right course of risking his own interests for yours; of standing against the partisan rancor on his side to stand up for our country. He is an impressive man, who makes a great first impression. But he hasn't been willing to make the tough calls; to challenge his party; to risk criticism from his supporters to bring real change to Washington. I have."
Just as Obama has in recent days, McCain offered some pretty glowing words about Hillary Clinton and her bid for the presidency—a sign of just how much the campaigns are working to woo the millions of voters who backed the former first lady. It's not all talk: McCain seems genuinely fond of Clinton, with whom he's traveled and worked with in the Senate, and he's said plenty of nice things about her in the past.
But McCain was especially respectful Tuesday night, citing Clinton's "tenacity and courage" and suggesting she didn't get a fair shake from the press. "The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions of Americans, and she deserves a lot more appreciation than she sometimes received," McCain said. "As the father of three daughters, I owe her a debt for inspiring millions of women to believe there is no opportunity in this great country beyond their reach. I am proud to call her my friend."
McCain also did just about everything he could to distance himself from George W. Bush, a man suffering some of the lowest public-approval numbers of any recent president but who remains deeply popular with the Republican base and, perhaps most importantly, big-dollar GOP donors. McCain, who appeared last week with Bush at a fund-raiser in Arizona, highlighted his differences with the president, citing his disagreement with the administration on climate change and on spending. The presumptive GOP nominee, as he has in the past, talked up how much he disagreed with the administration's "mismanagement" of the war in Iraq. A vote for him, McCain insisted, will not be a vote for a third Bush term.
"You will hear from my opponent's campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release, that I'm running for President Bush's third term. You will hear every policy of the president described as the Bush-McCain policy," McCain said. "Why does Senator Obama believe it's so important to repeat that idea over and over again? Because he knows it's very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country. But the American people didn't get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama. They know I have a long record of bipartisan problem solving. They've seen me put our country before any president, before any party, before any special interest—before my own interest. They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am. But I am her servant first, last and always."
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