My opponent's trying to distance himself from President Bush despite the fact that he's faithfully supported him 90 percent of the time. He supported four out of the five of the Bush budgets that have taken us from surplus under the Clinton years to the largest deficit in history.
Barack Obama highlights John McCain's close ties to George W. Bush's economic policies.
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While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.
At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.
People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.
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