McCain is starting to get smart, now he is starting his first step by differing from Bush environmental policies which is a good start!
I think McCain has some tough work cut out for him. Even though Bush's approval ratings are abysmal, I think McCain still needs the votes of the people who still support Bush. Of course he also needs the votes of a lot of people who don't like Bush. He has to play both sides carefully. I'm not sure how he does it.
McCain will have to cut hard left to have a shot. He'll have to hope that the GOP base will hold their noses and vote for him anyway (rather than staying home) and enough independents/moderate Dems fall for it. I don't think they will though. There are many folks who just won't even consider voting for a Republican (understandably so.) He's also not going to change his stance on Iraq - and that alone should put an end to any serious chance he has at winning the Presidency. The support for the war is drying up. It's barely above Bush's approval ratings at this point.
McCain has made it clear that he will do nothing different than Bush did, Therefore he is as "stupid." McCain has admitted to believing that Obama will win and has preemptively started to attack his campaign with propaganda to cause confusion. Obama has sworn to focus on policies and McCain just pretends to. Watch the speeches, Obama speaks from the heart and McCain reads his script word for word from his podium. Obama is a leader, McCain is just as selfish, deceitful and dangerous as Bush. McCain will accept campaign contributions from any company including tobacco, OIL, did I say OIL, pharmecueticals etc. Obama will accept moeny from no one except individual people which has a small limit. Proof to back financial claims go here: http://opensecrets.org/pres08/index.php
Here are some amounts that he took from different fields. This was months ago so the amount is much higher now. oil = $ 200,000 1 Lawyers/Law Firms $13,341,673 2 Misc Business $10,261,541 3 Retired $9,058,652 4 Securities & Investment $6,715,680 5 Education $5,069,186 6 Real Estate $3,429,506 7 Business Services $2,942,591 8 TV/Movies/Music $2,938,164 9 Misc Finance $2,241,483 10 Health Professionals $2,229,996 11 Computers/Internet $2,188,950 12 Civil Servants/Public Officials $1,819,978 13 Commercial Banks $1,366,708 14 Printing & Publishing $1,339,692 15 Non-Profit Institutions $782,689 16 Hospitals/Nursing Homes $732,557 17 Other $699,717 18 Insurance $695,587 19 Construction Services $607,996 20 Retail Sales $558,015
?????? This isn't proof you just typed this crap if this isn't from a 100% factual source more than one time from websites with different IPs that can be shown here with links (newspapers don't count) committed to unbiased factual information it is speculation and therefor invalid, get a life loser you don't have proof. http://www.Opensecrets.org is dedicated to researching this type of information to shut slanderous people like you up. Wow people will believe anything...