McCain in ‘05: I’m ‘totally in agreement’ with Bush on ‘the most important issues of the day.’»

[babylonsister]

Someone needs to locate these precious soundbites and send them to Obama. :evilgrin:


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/11/mccain-in-05-im-totally-in-agreement-with-bush-on-the-most-important-issues-of-the-day/

McCain in ‘05: I’m ‘totally in agreement’ with Bush on ‘the most important issues of the day.’»


Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is working hard to dispel the notion that his presidency would effectively constitute a third Bush term, saying recently that he has “disagreed strongly with the Bush administration” on Iraq. But McCain took a very different stance in June 2005 when he told Tim Russert that he has “been totally in agreement and support of President Bush” on “the transcendent issues“:

RUSSERT: The fact is you are different than George Bush.

SEN. McCAIN: No. No. I–the fact is that I’m different but the fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.

McCain went on to list the issues where he had been “in agreement” with Bush: “the war on terror, the war in Iraq, national security, national defense, support of men and women in the military, fiscal discipline, a number of other issues.”