The McCain campaign Web-Site is keeping up with the Obamas.
by Mark Silva
John McCain is taking a home-page from Barack Obama's playbook.
McCain, in the process, also is taking a page from George W. Bush's book.
After McCain crushed Bush in the New Hampshire party primaries of 2000, the governor of Texas returned to the campaign trail with a retooled logo modeled after the self-styled maverick who had humbled him in the Granite State: "Reformer with Results.''
And now that Obama has clinched the Democratic Party's 2008 nomination with his "Change We Can Believe In,'' a motto that the television networks have been more than happy to include in their frames of Obama interviews and campaign appearances, McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, has emerged with his own new motto:
"A Leader We Can Believe In."
These two will march toward November Web-site to Web-site.






Comments
Does McCain have any original ideas? He's been in the shadows while Obama and Clinton fought it out but now that the dust is settled it's obvious he's just ripping off ideas from the Democrats and Obama. I mean when did he decide he cared about the mortgage crisis? Only after he first said the government didn't have ANY responsibility. He changed his tune once his pollsters told him that his ideas are not popular. What. A. Hack.
Posted by: jackson | June 5, 2008 9:40 AM
Of course, they are going to steal, they have been stealing from the taxpayers for the last eight years !! What is so surprising about that ?!! They have stolen the good names of several American Veterans, who became disabled in their service to our country !! They have besmirched the good names of these fine men, in the name of a power grab. These classless and clueless people will sell their mothers down the river to win elections. That is how pathetic, a once proud Republican Party has become.They have done some inexcusable things to our nation and they should not be rewarded for their dishonorable behavior !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | June 5, 2008 10:25 AM
I like McBush's cost-cutting approach to campaign slogans and website design - just copy from your opponent! You save all that money on expensive consultants and webpage designers and you can put it into important stuff like hiring a bigger crowd for your next speech.
Posted by: Tom O | June 5, 2008 10:29 AM
What? They do not look alike. It looks more like the Hillary website. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/
Mark Silva please do some basic research before accusing someone of plagiarism.
Everyone remember to write in Hillary-Barack this fall instead of voting Barack-Hillary.
Posted by: Gale Teschendorf | June 5, 2008 11:14 AM
Gale, Please do write in Hillary or vote for McCain if you'd rather see McCain win. Dividing the Democratic vote is such a great idea...if you are a Republican.
Posted by: Tom O | June 5, 2008 11:39 AM
Don, I'm a liberal, and i very likely support most of the same things that you support, but your rhetoric is repeatedly based in opinion and has barely any substance to it. Please use facts, real facts. and maybe cite some sources. Emotional appeals, which appear to be your specialty, do not work for people who have independant use of their minds.
Posted by: Travis H | June 5, 2008 11:48 AM
"A Fossil We Can Believe In."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6fmyH_Yh2c&feature=user
Posted by: Anton Chigurh | June 5, 2008 12:32 PM
As a previous posted said, does McCain have any original ideas? His campaign's copying of Obama's slogan is indicative of how he would run the administration... copying President's Bush's agenda. Doesn't McCain's advisors see that what they are doing is just giving credibility to the idea that a McCain presidency would be a 3rd Bush tern? As Homer Simpson would say, "DOH!"
Posted by: Mike B | June 5, 2008 1:25 PM
Presidential candidate John McCain denied that the Soviets interrogated U.S. POWs in Vietnam. But, former U.S., Soviet, and Vietnamese intelligence agents say they did. Why is McCain lying? click to view video http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/McCainKGB.wmv
Posted by: David Z | June 5, 2008 1:37 PM
Please, " Travis H ", I promise I will not tell you what or how to post your opinion and I hope you can refrain from telling, or asking me not to post the way I do. I'm not a Ridiculous Republican that lies at every opportunity. Take for instance, the case of Senator " Questionable Conduct " McCain. That story is fact ! Check on " The Keating Five " and tell me it is a figment of my imagination. No, " Travis H ", see the substance in this story and, get back to me, if I have misled you. I'm going to take you at your word and believe you are what you say you are, a liberal. Even though, I do have a tiny-weeny doubt that you are what you say you are, given your criticism and it being the election season, and all !!! If that is the case, at least you were civil in the criticism. Isn't that what debate is all about?
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | June 5, 2008 2:33 PM
Copycat copycat copycat, that John McCain, just like
Romney, had his 'change' signs all through his campaign. But why doesn't McCain just drop his nominee status and hop aboard the Obama train since he loves Obama's ideas and wants to be like him so much and has already stollen his ideas and logos. I just know he also loves Obama's foreign policy ideas too, but afterall, he must show he's Republican and continue to vote for and stay Iraq.
Posted by: RuthieM | June 5, 2008 2:51 PM
The thing that really upsets me don about your first post on this topic, is the way that you maliciously, though not overtly, try to declare the left as being the only ones on the side of our troops. This kind of talk is equivalent to the right's blatant use of religion and taxes to scare up votes. Then after this you try to accuse me of being conservative. You try to throw that branding at me, very similair to how the obama camp is pinning george bush to McCain. I am a supporter of Obama, because i think that it is a new generation's time to lead this country, but i remember much of McCain's history and he is a very liberal-friendly republican. I understand that you must do certain things to get the presidency, so i do not consider his recent shoring up of his politically conservative base to be a permanent change in the entire tone of his career. Obama has had to accept help from deplorable character's as well, that is just the nature of an american political election and it is a non-issue.
I would much prefer Obama as president, but i would not be dissatisfied if McCain wins. Please, do not demonize either candidate. The only product of this conduct is inflaming your base, instead of attracting those independently minded people that i mentioned before. If you really wanted to be a useful democrat, you would focus on the differences on the real issues between Obama and McCain, and you would go to every effort to describe WHY the democratic platform is better than a republican platform, rather than just repeatedly claiming that it is without offering any support for such a claim.
The best analogy that i can come up with, is that your posts remind me of a cheerleader.
Posted by: Travis H | June 5, 2008 2:56 PM
" Travis H ", I was hoping you might have a comment on " The Keating Five ", but I see you choose to ignore the story and that is understandable. I would like to know what you think about it, if you are ever curious enough to research the story. It has a lot to do with the caliber of the man and I thought you would be interested in some history. My mistake. Good luck in November !! Obama in 2008 !! Rah-Rah.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | June 5, 2008 3:37 PM
well i really would have looked it up, but i'm at work right now, and sadly enough the state of illinois limits my internet access to the chicago tribune and i think the white house home page. i call it restricting personal freedom, but they call it policy, oh well.
Posted by: Travis H | June 5, 2008 3:49 PM
From the NY Post today, Dick Morris points out yet another shady Clinton administration retread that Obama has appointed to head his VP search team.
"On his first day as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama has made his first clear, serious mistake: He named Eric Holder as one of three people charged with vice-presidential vetting.
As deputy attorney general, Holder was the key person who made the pardon of Marc Rich possible in the final hours of the Clinton presidency. Now Obama will be stuck in the Marc Rich mess."
Read more at http://www.nypost.com/seven/06052008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obamas_vp_search_mistake_114031.htm
Must be more of that "change" Obama talks about but doesn't deliver.
Posted by: Bruce | June 5, 2008 4:45 PM