Several times during the U.S. presidential debate, Barack Obama said “I agree” or “John is right” in response to his opponent. Republicans spun this to imply that McCain knows what he’s about while Obama is weak. One of the terrible parts of politics is that when a new party is elected, the new government acts as if virtually everything the old government did was stupid, wasteful, or too expensive, and proceeds to dismantle the existing programs and structures to replace them with its own until another elec
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Elections have become a ruthless competitions between parties. I think this overwhelming competative environment that politicians create condition them to refuse any solutions proposed by other running candidates, even when those solutions meet their own agenda.
It's unfortunate that the Republicans have to take something positive and turn it on it's axis to protray a message of weakness.