Steal their lines and their ideas. This must be the new McCain campaign strategy.
Sarah Palin today tried to explain just how a McCain / Palin administration would change DC. I quoth CNN:
“We’re going to do a few new things also,” she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. “For instance, as Alaska’s governor, I put the government’s checkbook online so that people can see where their money’s going. We’ll bring that kind of transparency, that responsibility, and accountability back. We’re going to bring that back to D.C.”
There’s just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody’s already done it. His name is Barack Obama.
First McCain tried to swipe Obama's "Change We Can Believe In" slogan, branding himself "A Leader We Can Believe in." We all remember how that turned out.
Then Obama busted McCain for swiping his "Change We Need" line in one of his TV ads:
Now, McCain/Palin are clearly so clueless when it comes to "change" that they've decided, what the hell, let's just take Obama's ideas and pretend they're our own!
Oh, and remember how Palin attacked Obama for not having any accomplishments and for not working across party lines?
In 2006 and 2007, Obama teamed up with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to pass the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, also known as “Google for Government.” The act created a free, searchable web site – USASpending.gov — that discloses to the public all federal grants, contracts, loans and insurance payments.
In June of this year, Obama and Coburn introduced new Senate legislation to expand the information available online to include details on earmarks, competitive bidding, criminal activities, audit disputes and other government information.
Maybe McCain and Palin aren't being dishonest in their attacks on Obama. Maybe they're just that ignorant, clueless and unprepared.