The main supporters of McCain in the media are:
1- Rupert Murdoch through his Fox TV channels.
2- The comedian Rush Limbaugh
3- The rag paper The Washington Times owned by Sun Myung Moon, of the
moonies infame.
An astonishing interview appears today in the Washington Times. McCain blames all the problems on Bush and the Republicans in Congress. He
has been there for 26 years but remained a virgin, the only blameless.
EXCLUSIVE: McCain lambastes Bush years
'We just let things get completely out of hand'
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Joseph Curl and Stephen Dinan
NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW:
ABOARD THE STRAIGHT TALK AIR — Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations,
failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of an administration whose
unpopularity may be dragging the Republican Party to the brink of a massive electoral defeat. "We just let things get completely out of
hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years. In an interview with The Washington Times, Mr. McCain lashed out at a litany
of Bush policies and issues that he said he would have handled differently as president, days after a poll showed that he began
making up ground on Sen. Barack Obama since he emphatically sought to
distance himself from Mr. Bush in the final debate. "Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for
years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of
America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were
designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure
to address the issue of climate change seriously," Mr. McCain said in an interview with The Washington Times aboard his campaign plane en
route from New Hampshire to Ohio. "Those are just some of them," he said with a laugh, chomping into a peanut butter sandwich as a few
campaign aides in his midair office joined in the laughter. In the interview, Mr. McCain rejected the notion that he could win on the
strength of voters who won't vote for a black president. "I reject categorically the concept that people would, any number of people
would vote on the basis of race," he said.
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But on Wednesday, Mr.
McCain went further in distancing himself from the man who beat him for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. In addition to the
long list of failures he attributed to Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain blamed the president for supporting the Medicare prescription-drug bill, saying,
"They didn't pay for it." "They put a trillion-dollar debt on future generations of Americans, then allowed the liberals to expand it so
they're paying my — they're paying for my prescription drugs. Why should the taxpayers pay for my prescription drugs?" he said with
exasperation. He rejected Mr. Bush's use of issuing "signing statements" when he signs bills into law, in which the president has
suggested that he would ignore elements of the bills, labeling them potentially unconstitutional. "I would veto the bills or say, 'Look, I
don't like it but I'll obey the law that's passed by Congress and signed by the president.' I think the signing statements was not a
correct implementation of the power of the executive. I think it was overstepping," he said. And Mr. McCain emphatically rejected Mr.
Bush's claims of executive privilege, often used to shield the White House from scrutiny
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"I don't agree with that either. I don't agree with [Vice President] Dick Cheney's allegation
that he's part of both the legislative and the executive branch," he said.
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The Republican also targeted his own party, saying they got drunk with power and lacked the resolve of President Reagan. "I think, frankly,
the problem was, with a Republican Congress, that the president was told by the speaker and majority leaders and others, 'Don't veto these
bills, we need this pork, we need this excess spending, we need to grow these bureaucracies.' They all sponsor certain ones. And he
didn't do what Ronald Reagan used to and say, 'No'; say, 'No. We're not going to do this.'" When contacted about Mr. McCain's criticism of
Mr. Bush, White House spokesman Anthony E. Warren said the administration would have no comment.
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