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John McCain likes to say, as he did in the Candidates' Forum on Service in honor of the anniversary of 9/11, that he is a maverick because he went against his party. (Of course, that was then, and this is now.) But he then goes on to compare that to Barack Obama, who he claims has not challenged the Democratic Party enough. But that logic doesn't hold up when you realize that the appeal to McCain's supposed maverick ways, is based on the fact that Republicans and Bush are supremely unpopular right now. So, it doesn't really make sense to say that Obama needs to match McCain's (former) rebelliousness within his own party. If change is what's needed, then the party that has not been in power is the more likely origin of that change. In short, it is not Obama that needs to prove that he stands apart from his party. Just another example of illogic from the McCain/Palin campaign.
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