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"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president." |
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"John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops." |
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"John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem." |
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Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class." |
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John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now." |
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"When George Bush said we shouldn’t investigate why the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him." |
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John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families." |
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McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. |
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McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase. |
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Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded." |
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(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq." |
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Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush." |
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Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time." |
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John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq. |
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"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices." |
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"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)." |
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"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it." |
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Rudy Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency." |
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"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that." |
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"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it." |
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"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year." |
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"First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn’t." |
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