Biden: McCain is ex-reformer turned Rove disciple

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_el_pr/biden

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says the once independent-minded John McCain has adopted serve-the-rich policies of President Bush and the divisive tactics of ex-Bush strategist Karl Rove.

"The campaign a person runs says everything about the way they'll govern," Biden said in remarks prepared for delivery Monday in the Detroit suburb of St. Clair Shores. "John McCain has decided to bet the house on the politics perfected by Karl Rove."

Biden was referring to a series of attack ads from the McCain campaign as well as misstatements that the Republican presidential candidate and running mate Sarah Palin have continued to repeat after they were debunked. Barack Obama's campaign particularly bristled at an ad suggesting the Democratic nominee favored teaching kindergartners about sex before reading, based on a bill he supported that would teach age-appropriate sex education to those kids and help them ward off sexual predators.

McCain "is now launching a low blow a day," Biden said.

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Biden said he came to McCain's defense in 2000 when the Republican came under attack from Bush operatives and supporters who spread "scurrilous" rumors about him in the primary campaign. "And now, some of the very same people and the tactics he once deplored, his campaign now employs."


GO Biden!
:woohoo:

[dennis4868]

1. Welcome back....

to election 2008 Sen. Biden....nice to see you :-)

[Onlooker]

2. No! No! No!

McCain was not a reformer. He followed Reagan and Bush to the letter. He only compromised when in a position of weakness, i.e., when his guy was not in power. When Republicans are in power, McCain rarely crosses the aisles.