"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:01:46 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>> "Pan" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:25:55 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Paul that is Dem rhetoric. With out unanimous votes, ect, he agrees
>>>>> with Bush about 45% of the time. Or the same amount of time as Obama
>>>>> if you count the number of time he voted within the unanimous vote.
>>>>
>>>>No it was in one of his own commercials. It is not rhetoric at all it is
>>>>his
>>>>voting record. You're quoting a falsehood, not me.
>>>>
>>>>Paul
>>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>> give me a url please.
>>
>> Plemty out ther to Google. Here is a quote from a cite referring to
>> Congressional Quarterly
>>
>> ""It's not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95
>> percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year," says Barack
>> Obama.
>>
>> The claim is true. According to Congressional Quarterly's Voting Studies,
>> in
>> 2007 McCain voted in line with the president's position 95 percent of the
>> time - the highest percentage rate for McCain since Bush took office -
>> and
>> voted in line with his party 90 percent of the time. However, McCain's
>> support of President Bush's position has been as low as 77 percent (in
>> 2005), and his support for his party's position has been as low as 67
>> percent (2001)."
>>
>> 95% of the time in 07 he voted with Bush
>> 90% with the GOP in 06 - as if the GOP ever really was anything but a
>> rubber
>> stamp for Bush
>>
>> That's your maverick for you.
>>
>> Paul
>
> but the other five percent of the time he made funny faces and stuck his
> tongue out at bush. maverickin' we can believe in!

He's so maverick he has abstained from critical votes this year. He's
afraid to be nailed down on anything. Critical troop funding bills and he
abstained? He's a piece of work.