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With the final week of campaigning ahead, Senator Barack Obama redoubled his efforts to tie Senator John McCain to the Bush administration by seizing on Mr. McCain’s remark Sunday that he shared a “common philosophy” with the president. 

“I guess that was John McCain finally giving us a little straight talk, and owning up to the fact that he and George Bush actually have a whole lot in common,” Mr. Obama said at a rally here. “Here’s the thing, we know what the Bush-McCain philosophy looks like. It’s a philosophy that says we should give more and more to millionaires and billionaires and hope that it trickles down on everyone else.” 

As Mr. Obama returned to the city where he accepted the Democratic nomination two months ago, he drew tens of thousands of people to an outdoor plaza as he sought to solidify his support in a critical western battleground. He is set to present a new closing argument to voters on Monday in Ohio. 

In Iowa, Mr. McCain acknowledged on Sunday that he was “a few points down,” but said the race was tightening and sought to remind voters that he, too, would bring change to Washington. 

“Do we share a common philosophy of the Republican Party? Of course,” Mr. McCain told NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” which was taped in Waterloo, Iowa. “But I’ve stood up against my party — not just President Bush, but others — and I’ve got the scars to prove it.” 

Obama Ties McCain To Republican Philosophy

breakages in this store are to be paid for...

The GOP's Road Back

By Peter Wehner

The massive collapse in confidence in our financial, political, educational and intelligence institutions is among the most important developments of our time; positioning conservatives as the advocates for modern, accountable and responsive institutions would produce a governing blueprint that meets the challenges of this era and begins to win back public confidence.

The wilderness years are never pleasant, but if Republicans find themselves there after Nov. 4, they have an opportunity to revive the GOP. If Republicans become champions of an ambitious conservative reform agenda, they will begin the road back to political dominance.

The writer, formerly deputy assistant to President Bush, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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Gus: "Every village have one". So why did the GOP choose one to place at the head of their party in 2000, and why did the good American people placed him ultimately at the head of the USA? Why did the GOP pick a VP not unlike the Antichrist of Democracy? Could the GOP have done better?

Was being an adviser to President Bush, Mr Wehner, like being an adviser to a block of wood? A tin of bake beans? A brat?

So many questions... and unfortunately still plenty of time (about a week plus oodles till the inauguration of the next lot) for Dumbyaducky to do plenty more damage to everything. Come on! Go on a holiday! Suck on your thumb! Play with your Game Boy! But please... don't do anything that could be "presidential"! You'll muck it up like the rest of your career...

Choo-choo... Puff-puff... Ting-bing... Zzzzzzzzzz... Attaboy...