Obama: McCain 'riding shotgun' with Bush

From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones CHESTER, Pa. -- A jean-clad Obama , speaking on a rainy, windy day outside Philadelphia, told the crowd McCain was “riding shotgun” with President Bush when it came to economic policies that have hurt working people. The roughly 27-minute remarks, delivered to an estimated crowd of 9,000 people on a college campus in Delaware County, who cheered as they huddled under umbrellas, was largely a repeat of the speeches the senator gave yesterday in Canton, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, part of what his campaign has called his “closing argument.” In it he continued to portray his rival as someone who is out of touch with middle class concerns and whose tax proposals would favor big companies and the wealthy. “John McCain’s ridden shotgun as George Bush has driven our economy toward a cliff, and now he wants to take the wheel and step on the gas,” he said. “When it comes to the issue of taxes, saying that John McCain is running for a third Bush term isn’t being fair to George ... (link)