McCain On Whether Americans Are Better Off Under Bush: 'Oh, No"

This morning on NBC's Today Show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to distance himself from President Bush on the economy. When host Meredith Viera asked McCain whether Americans are "better off, by any means, than we were eight years ago," McCain replied, "Oh, no. No."

McCain made a similar comment on Bloomberg TV on April 18, stating, "In fact, I think Americans are not better off than they were eight years ago, when you look at what's happened to middle-income Americans."

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Comments

[fignozzle]

he has NO clue.

[Forest]

Cindy McCain at least has some lights on inside her head. More than you can say for her hubby. Vote Cindy McCain!

[Forest]

McCain is a hero turned shill. What happened between then and now?

[ropadopa]

Conservatism is dead! Cold Stone Dead! Period. And this is the election where Democrats should bury it with its life support machinery, Limbaugh, Fox News, and every single supporter of this outdated ideology. For the last thirty years they have directly or indirectly governed this country and today we are teetering on the verge of an economic and social collapse. Which leads me to why Obama is winning despite the party's failure to seize the moment. He recognizes the opportunity to return to common sense policies. Just basically doing whats right for America. McCain has no independent economic, social or military plan except what is written in the party's little red book.

[boyboy]

He is better than Obama. I will vote McCain or Nader.

[mstoot]

Then I guess you'll soon be signing up for the military so you can go to Iraq and fight Bush/McCain's war which McCain intends to keep going for a hundred years. Mighty brave of you.

[shockmagog]

Nader too? Wow, you're all over the map.

[ThePhilosopher]

Are you just voting on personality? You pick one candidate who is to the right of the Democrats and one who essentially to the left of the Democrats! Do you not have any political philosophy?

[madron]

All you people that voted for the moron we now have for president...will vote for this moron also..he should'nt even be a senator...

[SonofKong]

Sounds to me like McCain wants to have it both ways. He's been supporting Bush and Bush's policies for years and now he wants to run away from him.

- MK -

[lisakaz2]

Exactly. Viera did a disservice if she didn't ask: why if you think ppl are not better off that keeping the same econ policies will improve things for the bulk of the American public?

[urbanscorpio88]

That being said, Americans won't be better under him.

[jemiltd]

what about Pastor John Hagee, an influential minister who has endorsed McCain and his anti-Catholic comments. McCain has embraced this endorsement, yet we don't see any repeated loops on CNN, NBC, Fox News of these comments and this has been all but buried as a news item. Yet McCain has not distanced himself from this endorsement at all, he hasn't rejected it, his response on ABC This Week was "I don't agree with his comments," followed by a sarcastic "But thanks, for asking." How hypocritical of him. More than that, how hypocritical of the media for not giving this the same level of coverage as given Minster Wright. Wonder why?

[TheKnownTruth]

No, Rove told him what to say. He couldn't make two complete sentences on his own if he tried...LOL

[GeoLee]

I gyuess he has finally been clued in to the President's approval polls. :-) This must be his first look at middle income Americans in the last two decades or so.

[willfarnaby]

More wingnut BS from Mr. Bush-Hugger himself.

[atienne]

I, for one, am HORRIFIED that for whatever reason, Obama won't be elected President and we would be under the 'leadership' of this sorry sack!

I don't like putting people down for a candidate they support but how on EARTH could ANYONE support this man? I seriously believe you would have to have some serious mental problems because even CHILDREN I know think he's 'bad', 'awful' and 'sounds dumb'. These are quotes from children I know that have seen him.

If a child can see that he's unfit for anything important, what's going on in the minds of adults that actually vote for this has been??

I pray, PRAY that prejudice does NOT rule the minds of America come election day and that for ONCE people actually start to vote in their best interests and no matter WHAT you say, this man is NO ONE'S best interest!

[gonavy]

You don't like to put people down, but....

There is always a BUT.

Many, many, many people wonder how anyone could vote for Obama, or Clinton, for that matter. We are all coming from a different place, with different perspectives, different priorities. There is one simple truth, we all want the best for our country, we all want a better economy, we all want health care and jobs.

The children do not understand politics, they are repeating what their parents are saying.

[sparkandy]

How difficult is it for Obama supporters to understand that some people differ with him on issues rather than simply race? Voting for someone who is NOT Obama isn't a sign of prejudice. It's a sign that the voter doesn't like Obama's politics for whatever reason. This sort of reasoning taints the Obama campaign to the point that non Obamaniacs start to wonder if Obama's as uninformed as some of his supporters.

[lisakaz2]

Can you say that about HRC and gender?

[iBgood]

They should show this back to back with the one where he says we are better off.

Poor Gramps is flip flopping again.

[ann1]

Anyone with good sense would know why the Repubs are fighting Sen Obama so hard. This article is a great example.