Obama’s no maverick
By Shawn Zeller
December 3, 2008 "Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue."
"Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue."
Obama "changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing."
"Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."
Henry Kissinger "said that we should meet with Iran — guess what — without precondition."
House Republicans "weren't part of the negotiations" on the Wall Street bailout plan.
"Last week Senator Obama's running mate said, get this, 'Raising taxes is patriotic.' "
McCain "voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education."
"Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress."
"I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona."
"For four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words 'Islamic terrorism.'"
"John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government."
Barack Obama "is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate."