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Originally Posted by Danzig
here's another example of how neither man will bring about change as far as bi-partisanship vs party line voting:
"Obama painted McCain as a Republican partisan who's supported the unpopular President Bush consistently:
Obama: And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need. But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time.
It's true that McCain's voting support for Bush policies has averaged slightly above 89 percent since Bush took office, according to Congressional Quarterly’s vote studies. But it has ebbed and flowed. It reached a low of 77 percent in 2005. Last year it was 95 percent. By comparison, Obama's own record of supporting Bush policies has averaged slightly under 41 percent since the senator took office. However, Obama's voting record is no less partisan than McCain's. He has voted in line with his party an average of nearly 97 percent of the time. The truth is that neither candidate can claim a strong record of "breaking with his party" if Senate votes are the measure."
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Factcheck is great isnt it? They all lie. I was in chat with sniper one evening and I was questioning Obama (basically, takiing a similar position as you have right now) and his tax policy and Sniper kept saying "go to fact check".
Anyways you could spend an evening laughing about all of the misreps and flip flops.
On another note, did you watch the excerpts from McCain on The View? They showed a clip of him coming back from Viet Nam. Wow- what a handsome man he was. Very nice looking. Anyway, its an interesting watch. Its a shame he has to sell out so much for the election.