One of the best lines in Brack Obama's speech on the economy was a direct attack on the controlling philosophy the Republican Party:
What has happened these last eight years is not some historical anomaly, so we know what to expect if we try these policies for another four. When lobbyists run your campaign, the special interests end up gaming the system. When the White House is hostile to any kind of oversight, corporations cut corners and consumers pay the price. When regulators are chosen for their disdain for regulation and we gut their ability to enforce the law, then the interests of the American people are not protected.
It’s an ideology that intentionally breeds incompetence in Washington and irresponsibility on Wall Street, and it’s time to turn the page."
http://thepage.time.com/obamas-remarks-on-confronting-an-economic-crisis/John McCain has made the direct comparison to George Bush slightly more difficult with his nomination of the bright, shiny object for VP. By all means, Obama should continue to link McCain to Bush (it's not hard, given the record), but, for me, what will get those voters we can still reach really thinking about pulling the lever for Obama is to get them to reflect on Republicans controlling Congress for 12 of the last 14 years, about McCain's economic guru Phil Gramm's religious hostility toward regulation, about how anti-government conservatives have extended their dominance of the Republican Party to the ecomony as a whole.
McCain can distance himself from Bush cosmetically, but rejecting the Republican Party, which he
claims to have done regularly, is a taller order. It forces him to sound like a Democrat, which he has been doing more and more this week. Calling him on that is easier and more effective than equating him with W. After all, W. himself was just the latest spear carrier in the Reagan Revolution which won't end until we attack it directly.
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