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<strong>CNN)</strong> -- Sen. John McCain got one thing right Thursday when he said the Republicans had let Washington change them, Democrats said after his speech.
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<!--===========CAPTION==========-->On Thursday, Democrats called John McCain "a Bush partisan 90 percent of the time."<!--===========/CAPTION=========-->
</div> </div> <div class="cnnStoryPhotoBoxNavigation"> <div class="cnnStoryPhotoMoreLnk"><a href="CNN_changeMosaicTab('cnnPhotoCmpnt','photos.html');">more photos »</a></div> </div> <div class="cnnWireBoxFooter"><img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/base_skins/baseplate/corner_wire_BL.gif" alt="" width="4" height="4" /></div> </div> </div> <!--endclickprintexclude-->The proof was in his voting record when he supported President Bush's policies 90 percent of the time, they said.
That meant a McCain presidency would be four more years of Bush policies, said Barack Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
In his speech, McCain said that his party "was elected to change Washington" but that Republicans "let Washington change them."
"He admonished the 'old, do-nothing crowd' in Washington but ignored the fact that he's been part of that crowd for 26 years, opposing solutions on health care, energy and education, " Burton said.
"He talked about bipartisanship but didn't mention that he's been a Bush partisan 90 percent of the time, that he's run a Karl Rove campaign and that he wants to continue this president's disastrous economic and foreign policies for another four years," Burton said. "With John McCain, it's more of the same." <span class="cnnEmbeddedMosLnk"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif" border="0" alt="Video" width="16" height="14" /> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/04/rnc.democrats.reaction/#cnnSTCVideo">McCain: "We're going to win this election" »</a></span>
But with Obama, Americans can look forward to changes that will directly help them and fight special interests, Burton said.
"That's not the change Americans need. Barack Obama has taken on the special interests and the lobbyists in Illinois and in Washington, and he's won.," Burton said. "As president, he'll cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families, provide affordable health care to every American, end the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years |
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