While John McCain has not taken the GOP nomination yet, his rivals in the Democratic Party have increased their attacks and criticism towards him. In Maine, Obama would call McCain one of President George W. Bush’s “friends in Congress.”
“Rather than ease the squeeze on middle class families, President Bush and his friends in Congress have given billions in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans who don’t need them and weren’t even asking for them. One of the friends George Bush has come to count on in this presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain,” Obama explained at Nicky’s Crusin’ Diner at a roundtable discussion.
“It wasn’t always this way. The first two rounds of voting, John McCain stood up to George Bush and opposed these tax cuts. He said it went against his conscience to support tax cuts for the rich in a time of war and that it was an act of statesmanship to oppose them and a lot of us respected those words. But I think he has rushed to embrace the worst aspects of the Bush legacy and so the wheels came off the Straight Talk Express because now he supports making those tax cuts permanent,” Obama had continued in his attacks towards McCain.
Obama would finish off his attack by saying: “I great respect Senator McCain’s half century of service to this nation but what American needs right now isn’t a leader who embraces the failed policies of the past, what America needs is a new generation of leadership that will push back on the special interests and bring Democrats and Republicans together to strengthen the middle class.”
While Obama calls himself the candidate more able to go up against McCain, Clinton insisted that she is the more able candidate due to her experience.