-McCain ditched every difference w/ his party to get nominated, from voting w/Bush 90% of last 8 yrs to 100% this yr1-Many of McCain's top campaign staff ran Bush's campaign; McCain's 'town halls' are staged just like Bush's were2
-The last time the GOP tried to package someone as a reformer during an election, it was George W. Bush
-McCain's supposed split with Bush on Rumsfeld and Cheney is fiction; he said on video he would have hired them himself3
-Obama bucked his own party during his primary, opposing health care mandates4 and advocating teacher merit pay5
-Obama is endorsed by many Republicans6 and conservatives7; not one elected D endorses McCain (CT Ds booted JL in 06)
-Obama went against his major donors to support the writers' strike8, and passed strict reforms against the will of many Dems
-Obama has the strongest reform record of any Presidential candidate in modern history
-Obama pushed through the strongest ethics reform bill at the state level in decades, The Gift Ban Act9
-Obama pushed through the strongest ethics reform bill at the federal level in decades, The Lobbying and Ethics Reform Act10
McCain's single ethics reform accomplishment in twentyfive years is the McCain-Feingold bill11-McCain says he never requested earmarks, but asked for and got a $10M earmark in 200612 and a $14.3M earmark in 200313
-Obama pushed through a bipartisan bill14 making every earmark, grant, loan, and contract public knowledge15
-Obama will cut taxes for 95% of Americans, w/ a middle class tax cut 3 - 8 times more than McCain (non-partisan TPC)16
-Obama's budget plan adds up better than "we've seen in a Presidential candidate in a very long time" 17
Obama's plan will leave 1.2 trillion dollars less debt than McCain's according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center18-McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns19 or what car he drives20, and spends $250,000 a year on house servants21
-In the last 7 years, Obama has advocated focusing on Al Qaeda in Afg/Pak while McCain/Bush focused on Iraq/Iran
-Obama correctly predicted invading Iraq would up terrorism22, his focus on Pakistan23 vindicated by the recent turmoil there-US Troops overseas donated 6 times more to Obama than McCain24 and prefer his Iraq plan by a 30 point margin25
The nonpartisan Disabled Veterans of America gives McCain a score of 20 out of 100 and Obama a score of 80 out of 10026-The Obama Presidential campaign is the first in living memory where average Americans own the biggest share
-Over 50% of donations to Obama have been $25 or less27, 80% have been $100 or less28, and 93% have been $200 or less29-"You would have to go back a century and a half to name an incoming president with so few debts to repay"30
-Obama and the DNC accept no federal lobbyist or political action committee donations; McCain and the RNC do31
-McCain has 133 lobbyists running his campaign and raising money32; his top campaign staff is comprised of DC lobbyists33
McCain got 10x more Top CEO $ than Obama for favoring corporate tax breaks34, his prodrilling flip rewarded w/big oil $35-Obama has 12 years experience at the federal and state level (4 years in the US Senate, 8 years in the Illinois Senate)
Obama sponsored 823 bills in IL36, cosponsored 570 in the US Senate, and co-sponsored 15 bills that became federal law37-Obama was a Constitutional Law Professor for over 10 years, and would be the first to become President
-As a community organizer, Obama spent three years as the executive in charge of a budget that went from $70K to $400K38
-Obama had 80 editors working under him during his tenure as President of the Harvard Law Review38
-Obama is now the executive of a campaign with a $4M budget and over 2000 employees, larger than the White House staff39
-Obama earned an International Relations specialty in college and served four years on the Sen Foreign Relations Committee
Obama's combined time either in public service, studying foreign policy, or directly pertaining to Constitutional Law adds up to twentyfive years, the same amount of time McCain has been serving in elected office-Obama's experience is more diverse and in touch with America than McCain's, as Obama understands how things work at the local, state, and federal level. McCain has zero local or state experience; all his elected experience has been in Washington
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