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"And 100 percent, John, of your ads . . . 100 percent of them have been negative."
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"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth." |
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"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work." |
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McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year. |
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McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'" |
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"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots." |
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Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you." |
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John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts." |
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McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers. |
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John McCain's health care plan "leaves you on your own to pay McCain’s health insurance tax." |
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"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world." |
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John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran." |
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McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us." |
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John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks. |
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"I introduced a bill that would’ve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea." |
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Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore." |
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McCain "has opposed stem cell research." |
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"Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000. |
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John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance." |
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"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week." |
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Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration. |
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McCain "voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education." |
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McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street." |
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John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis. |
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"He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail." |
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"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time." |
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McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars." |
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"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office." |
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John McCain has seven houses. |
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McCain, “voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... " |
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"Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)." |
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McCain's attacks on Obama are 'not true,' 'false,' 'baloney,' according to media outlets. |
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"John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government." |
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John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada. |
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"McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' " |
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John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours." |
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John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil." |
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"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions." |
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"Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families." |
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McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan. |
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"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote." |
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"McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil." |
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"When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position." |
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John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork." |
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"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice." |
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John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay." |
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"John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year)." |
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John McCain "has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate." |
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McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign." |
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When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won’t care about this.' " |
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"Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It’s a bad idea today. Sen. McCain’s campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age." |
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John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous." |
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"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place." |
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Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance." |
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"Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs." |
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"Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists." |
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"He’s promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..." |
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Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government. |
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"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years." |
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Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war. |
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A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it." |
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"Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy." |
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Clinton said "great things about NAFTA until she started running for president." |
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"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV." |
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Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her." |
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Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq." |
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Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran." |
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Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions." |
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Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like." |
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"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy." |
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"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." |
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"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy." |
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"John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president. |
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Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush "a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue." |
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