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McCain to try to claim mantle of change
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With voters sour on the status quo, Republican John McCain plans to spend the next five months arguing that he has a history of fighting to reform government and that Democrat Barack Obama talks of change with nothing to show for it.
“I have a record of doing that, not a rhetoric of doing that,” McCain told an audience last week, claiming he long has taken a bipartisan approach to fixing the country’s ills while suggesting that Obama simply offers empty promises of working across party lines.
The four-term Arizona senator was forecasting his overarching general election theme against the fresh-faced first-term Illinois senator.
McCain will start making his case in earnest Tuesday during a prime-time speech in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, La., a searing symbol of government inaction after Hurricane Katrina.
McCain and “a searing symbol of government inaction after Hurricane Katrina”… I think I’ve heard that one before… Ah, yes, I have:
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