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Chicago Tribune's Zuckman repeated McCain's suggestion that Obama had no bipartisan record -- but McCain has previously thanked Obama for bipartisanship
Summary: In a blog post, the Chicago Tribune's Jill Zuckman wrote: "Asked by one of his supporters to provide a few examples where [Sen. Barack] Obama has reached across the aisle, [Sen. John] McCain -- not surprisingly -- was unable to come up with anything." But Zuckman did not note that McCain has previously thanked Obama for his bipartisan work on a bill with several Republicans, including McCain, and McCain's Senate office reportedly contacted Obama's office to cosponsor an update of that bill.
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Posted by christopher howard
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 4:58:11 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by historygeek001
No, no, no, that didn't count. Obama clearly isn't REALLY bipartisan, or he would do whatever Bush and McCain told him to do.
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 5:03:37 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by snoopy
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 5:14:31 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wesley
Zuckman also said this:
-- McCain challenged Obama to hold 10 joint town hall meetings with him in the weeks leading up to the conventions, but Obama has said he would be happy to attend far fewer. --
LOL...yep one vs. ten is sure as hell "far fewer".
This entire article written by Zuckman is a waste of time.
A stupid premise...a stupid question...a stupid writer.
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 5:20:31 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by open_mind in reply to wesley
You did not address the main argument at all. Mr. Stupid poster - as long as we are acting like little kids here.
: )
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 5:39:05 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wesley in reply to open_mind
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 5:51:40 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by open_mind in reply to wesley
I think the Global Warming threads kind of put you in a bitter mood or something. Cheer up, sport. Remember God loves you!
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 6:19:36 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter in reply to wesley
A stupid premise...a stupid question...a stupid writer.
Takes one to know one, Wesley...... :-)
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 5:39:47 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by shaggles
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 5:31:43 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by steeve
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 6:05:04 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by tommy in reply to steeve
If you're naive enough to think that one party rule for 12 years in a row cleans anything up, you are mistaken. Once a party gets drunk on power and controls two of the three branches of government, that is what takes years to clean up, the corruption and cronyism that one party rule creates.
No thanks, I like divided government, keeps them in check.
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 6:13:14 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by steeve in reply to tommy
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 6:15:55 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by open_mind in reply to steeve
I think only the worst legislation is rammed through by one side over the other. I hope if Obama is elected, he has to deal with at least one branch of government that is controlled by the opposition - if not just to keep him honest. I would say the same for McCain as well.
We know that absolute power corrupts. No need to delude ourselves that this time it will be different.
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 7:06:20 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by richard m. mathews
Sen. Obama frequently reaches across the aisle. Media Matters lists a few major pieces of legislation, but there are many more examples. The following only covers the current session of Congress.
Sen. Obama was a cosponsor on each of the following bills for which a Republic was the lead sponsor:
S.38 (Domenici)
S.65 (Inhofe)
S.154 (Bunning)
S.155 (Bunning)
S.185 (Specter)
S.218 (Snowe)
S.254 (Enzi)
S.305 (Grassley)
S.358 (Snowe)
S.400 (Sununu)
S.430 (Bond)
S.459 (Snowe)
S.515 (Grassley)
S.558 (Domenici)
S.612 (Snowe)
S.667 (Bond)
S.746 (Allard)
S.773 (Warner)
S.793 (Hatch)
S.796 (Bunning)
S.821 (Smith)
S.860 (Smith)
S.970 (Smith)
S.1070 (Hatch)
S.1267 (Lugar)
S.1556 (Smith)
S.1587 (Snowe)
S.1617 (Hatch)
S.1672 (Hagel)
S.1838 (Cornyn)
S.1841 (Collins)
S.2035 (Specter)
S.2123 (Gregg)
S.2963 (Bond)
S.3008 (Bond)
S.Res.90 (Collins)
S.Res.95 (Specter)
S.Res.117 (Hagel)
S.Res.122 (Hagel)
S.Res.149 (Warner)
S.Res.152 (Bunning)
S.Res.158 (Murkowski)
S.Res.171 (Collins)
S.Res.205 (Murkowski)
S.Res.211 (Lugar)
S.Res.220 (McConnell)
S.Res.291 (Graham)
S.Res.306 (Thune)
S.Res.346 (Coleman)
S.Res.378 (Murkowski)
S.Res.409 (McConnell)
S.Res.439 (Lugar)
S.Res.476 (Specter)
S.Res.519 (Brownback)
S.Res.528 (Murkowski)
S.J.Res 16 (McConnell)
Sen. Obama sponsored the following bills for which he was able to recruit at least one Republican cosponsor.
S.117 (Snowe)
In all in the lists above, Sen. Obama has shared sponsorship on bills with at least 37 different Republicans during this session (I did not check for cases in which he and a Republican each cosponsored a bill that had another Democrat as the main sponsor).S.133 (Lugar)
S.453 (Coburn)
S.713 (Bond,Murkowski,Snowe)
S.767 (Coleman,Lugar,Smith,Specter)
S.768 (Coleman,Lugar,Smith,Specter)
S.823 (Smith,Snowe)
S.906 (Murkowski)
S.976 (Burr)
S.1389 (Snowe)
S.1430 (Brownback,Coburn,Coleman,Collins, Dole,Lott,Martinez,Roberts, Smith,Snowe,Thune,Vitter)
S.1713 (Alexander,Coburn,Coleman,Lugar,Voinovich)
S.1817 (Bond)
S.1977 (Hagel)
S.2347 (Collins,Snowe,Tester)
S.2428 (Coleman,Collins)
S.2433 (Collins,Hagel,Lugar,Smith,Snowe)
S.3047 (Lugar)
S.3077 (Coburn,McCain)
S.Res.133 (Alexander,Corker)
S.Res.268 (Bunning,Isakson)
S.Res.383 (Voinovich)
S.Con.Res.5 (Lugar)
S.Con.Res.25 (Hagel)
S.Con.Res.44 (Alexander,Voinovich)
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 6:13:46 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by open_mind in reply to richard m. mathews
FYI: you listed Tester as a co-sponsor on S.2347. If that is Jon Tester - as I suspect, then he is a Democrat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Tester
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008 7:12:04 PM EDT / Flag this comment