What John McCain Thinks Of The Bush Years

From McCains speech at the RNC the other night

You know, Cindy said a lot of nice things about me tonight. But, in truth, she’s more my inspiration than I am hers.

 

(APPLAUSE)

 

Her concern for those less blessed than we are — victims of land mines, children born in poverty, with birth defects — shows the measure of her humanity. And I know that she will make a great first lady.

Touching isn’t it – if she is concerned about victims of land mines maybe she could point us towards her lobbying efforts to get the United States off this list.

From the Wikipedia entry on the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction

Thirty-seven states, including the People’s Republic of China, India, Russia and the United States, are not party to the Convention.

Good company they’re keeping ain’t it?

(Sorry, that one’s not really about what McCain thinks about the Bush years, but it does point to hypocricy – and the bunker always likes to point that sort of thing out)

….. let there be no doubt, my friends, we’re going to win this election. And after we’ve won, we’re going to reach out our hand to any willing patriot, make this government start working for you again, and get this country back on the road to prosperity and peace.

Shorter version: Bush’s legacy, government does not work, they screwed the economy, two wars in 4 years.

I’m very proud to have introduced our next Vice President to the country. But I can’t wait until I introduce her to Washington. And let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second Washington crowd: change is coming.

Shorter version: Well, that one’s pretty self explanatory and quite short enough

….. we’re going to change Washington, and stop leaving our country’s problems for some unluckier generation to fix, you can count on it.

Shorter version: No vision for the future and no consideration for future generations.

I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party. We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption. We lost their trust when rather than reform government, both parties made it bigger. We lost their trust when instead of freeing ourselves from a dangerous dependence on foreign oil, both parties and Senator Obama passed another corporate welfare bill for oil companies. We lost their trust, when we valued our power over our principles.

Shorter version: Pride and principles went out the door, lost trust, corruption, bigger government, corporate welfare, power hungry.

We’re going to change that. We’re going to recover the people’s trust by standing up again for the values Americans admire.

Shorter version: Did not stand for American values.

We need to change the way government does almost everything: from the way we protect our security to the way we compete in the world economy; from the way we respond to disasters to the way we fuel our transportation network; from the way we train our workers to the way we educate our children. All these functions of government were designed before the rise of the global economy, the information technology revolution and the end of the Cold War. We have to catch up to history, and we have to change the way we do business in Washington.

Shorter version: A bunch of Luddites, stuck in the past, that didn’t do much of anything right.

The constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn’t a cause, it’s a symptom. It’s what happens when people go to Washington to work for themselves and not you.

Shorter version: The greedy f*ckers screwed you over

We’re going to finally start getting things done for the people who are counting on us

Shorter version: They got nothing done and didn’t even bother pretending they served the people

Early in the speech McCain said, about Obama

Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us.

It seems they agree on a whole lot of things doesn’t it?

So why is it when the other guys^[tm] say the things McCain said they’re bad?