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McCain: Breaking away

 
The Washington Post notes how McCain is amping up his anti-Bush rhetoric. "At virtually every campaign stop, McCain is reprising a line he used last Wednesday in his final debate with Sen. Barack Obama: ‘I am not George Bush.’ And in a television ad introduced last week, McCain looks into the camera and says, ‘The last eight years haven't worked very well, have they?’” “As he struggles to pull his campaign out from beneath the shadow of a president whose approval ratings have reached historic lows,...( read more ) (link)

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