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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 11:55 AM
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John McCain says he is the "real" candidate for change.
Even though he voted with George W Bush 95% of the time last year, John McCain is pushing the idea that he is the real candidate for change and that he is not George W Bush. Never mind that he agrees with him on the big issues of the Iraq War, making the Bush taxcuts permanent, and privatizing Social Security. He says that he would do things different if we had another Katrina disaster. He fails to mention that one of the reasons that George W Bush was not in New Orleans was because he was helping John McCain cut his birthday cake and was playing air guitar out in California. Also, to listen to John McCain, one might think he was against the Iraq invasion in the beginning? To the contrary, he was one of its biggest cheerleaders. Not only would John McCain be the third term of George W Bush, he would also be the second coming of Herbert Hoover.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:02 PM
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1. He's gotten away with this for years and years
He gets himself in the various media saying one thing but then he's voted the other way. So far it's worked out for him. Not this time.

I believe that this will prove to be one of his Achilles heel. We've just had a president who has lied too often. We don't need another who has made lying the way he does business.
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:04 PM
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2. His message is so pathetic and nobody is buying it. I feel sorry for him.
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MarjorieG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:28 PM
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7. With polls even, or manipulated to appear even, this will be tough.
That is a very strong maverick image-lovingly furthered by the press.
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tulsakatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:17 PM
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3. so if he is the candidate of change (and I'm not saying I believe that)....
...but if he is, and he voted for Bush policies 95% of the time, what exactly would he change?

Notice, no one was talking about change before Obama started winning. Now that they see how well it's working for him, everyone wants to be candidate change!
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:43 PM
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8. But he did change his website to mirror Obama's site...
And he stayed at a Holiday Inn one time.
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tulsakatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 04:55 PM
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16. haha.........
yeah, he's good at copying someone else's idea....
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Hansel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 07:16 PM
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18. He would stop voting for Bush policies.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a McSame campaign commercial that says, "in the 1st year of my presidency, I will not vote with George W Bush ever! Now, my friends, that's change you can believe in."
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tulsakatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 04:02 PM
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23. yeah, right!
it's easy to say you won't vote for him or his policies if that option is not even available.....
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:22 PM
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4. Change! With him continuing Bush's policies...
change will be the only money I will have!

Mark.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:23 PM
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5. Yes he will change the U.S. from a Democratic Republic to a fascist totalitarian militaristic state
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:24 PM
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6. He'll get the angry, white, geriatric vote for sure.
But other than that demographic all bets are off.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:45 PM
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9. He has to change his Depends three or four times a day...
What more do you people want?!
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 12:49 PM
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10. He's using that in his new signage.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 01:18 PM
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11. *Snort* If he's all about "change" he'd better change from being
a thief, just like those in the current sorry-ass misadministration, and come up with his own damn ideas and themes and slogans, instead of stealing Senator Obama's.
What a pathetic loser.
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Robbins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 02:03 PM
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12. Change
Someone should tell him change means different from the present policys of the White House.
He has flipped to a Bush Republican and now says he Is change from Bush? Let's hope The Media
can't convince people of this.
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Frumious B Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 02:14 PM
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13. Nickels and dimes are all anyone who isn't super rich will have left if McCain wins.
In that sense and that sense alone he is definitely the "change" candidate.
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 03:34 PM
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14. Change what? His Depends?
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nuncvendetta Donating Member (131 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 03:39 PM
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15. Or like how he changed wives when his first one fell ill?
n/t
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 06:26 PM
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17. Whats the matter, they can not come up with their own slogans...
so they have to STEAL some one Else's?! McGramps is old school politics, the same bullshit that the repigs have been serving for over 2 decades.

Fuck you McClone! OBAMA is gonna kick your ass! I hope your ready, because here comes the pain!!
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 07:38 PM
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19. He's a maverick, don't ya know?
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 07:44 PM
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20. How can you look at him as old as he is and see change? I see a senile old man.
Nothing change about that. It's old, not new.
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aaronbees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:20 AM
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21. He'll cheerlead us right into 100 years of war .... no change there
:kick:
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 08:03 AM
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22. 90% voting record WITH Bush over his ENTIRE Presidency, yeh, that's change...
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