McCain: Change Democrats Used to Believe In

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John McCain has always been an independents favorite man. Up until just recently John has also always been the Democrats favorite man also. John McCain is kind of like the Joe Lieberman for Democrats. You’ve seen the videos circulating of Biden and Hillary praising McCain. In reality it’s nothing new. It’s quite funny that since McCain is now the enemy they are trying to paint him as another President Bush. They revile George Bush but they used to adore McCain. I guess the love fest is over.

Hillary Clinton

“I think you’ll be able to imagine many things Senator McCain will be able to say,” she said. “He’s never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002.”

Her husband things highly of him as well.

“He paid as high a price as you can pay to serve this country without getting killed, and we have to honor that,” Clinton said. “[And] he has some redeeming qualities for a Republican: he doesn’t believe in torture, he supported campaign finance reform, and he doesn’t think global warming is a myth… So it is not gonna be all that easy to beat him.”

“She and John McCain are very close,” Clinton said. “They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they’re afraid they’d put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other.”

“…John McCain has the best record of any Republican running for president on the energy issue and on climate change.”

Joe Biden

“The only guy on the other side who’s qualified is John McCain.”

“John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who won”

“I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.”

“To his credit, John repudiates some of the Bush administration’s approach to the world,” Biden said. “He recognizes that the power of our example is as important as the example of our power … that allies we respect, not disdain, can advance our interests. He is especially eloquent about his abhorrence for war — as John is uniquely placed to be.”

Biden said on CBS’s, “Face The Nation,” that he’d “feel a lot better” if he knew Bush “was going to start to listen to John McCain instead of the secretary of defense, because they have totally different — no, I shouldn’t say totally — many — have very different views of how to proceed.”

“I consider him my friend,” Biden said. “I believe if neither he nor I were senators and I picked up a phone and called him and said, ‘I need you to show up at such-and-such a place, I can’t tell you why,’ he would be there.”

In a 2005 appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” Biden in an answer that was excerpted in the recent McCain ad, said that he “would be honored to run with, or against, John McCain, because I think the country would be better off — be well off no matter who …” Stewart interrupted him, saying “Did I hear with?” When Biden began to offer a noncommittal answer, Stewart pressed him. “Don’t become cottage cheese, my friend. Say it.” And Biden responded, “The answer is yes.”

John Kerry

“I have enormous respect for him. He is a courageous, patriotic American - who stands up for what he believes”

Howard Dean

I admire Senator McCain greatly, he’s one of the people we modeled our campaign over because he is very direct, very blunt, and nobody has to guess at what he’s thinking.

Tom Daschle
“He can work with Democrats on key issues…he has worked with us.”

Sen. Russ Feingold
“I love John McCain. I think he is a great guy”

They act like they hate him now but that wasn’t always the case. It’s not exactly a good thing to have the praise of Biden and Clinton company but it is an interesting note. It definitely speaks to John McCain’s independant streak. Just like always the Democrats can rn but the can’t hide from their own words.

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