Politics: McCain takes on Bush, GOP
The Associated Press
Monday, September 8, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Barack Obama isn’t John McCain’s only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he’s running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.
The GOP is guilty of indulging in a spending spree of taxpayers’ money, McCain laments. They haven’t solved huge problems such as the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare, passing on huge IOUs and perplexing issues to future generations instead of fixing them as they had promised. He doesn’t name Bush but the implication is clear: It happened on his watch and he signed bills that made the deficit soar.
“We began to value power over principle,” McCain said in Colorado Springs, Colo. Some lawmakers turned corrupt and wound up in jail, he told a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.
“Change is coming, change is coming,” McCain promised, projecting an image of independence and political populism.
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