Yes, you read that correctly. Of course, I mean conservative in the sense of old-fashioned, unwilling to shake up the status quo, etc. “Records show McCain more bipartisan” in today’s WashTimes would tend to underscore that. Indeed its title is somewhat circumspect given the specifics: In fact, by several measures, Mr. McCain has been more likely to team up with Democrats than with members of his own party. Democrats made up 55 percent of his political partners over the last two Congresses, including on the tough issues of campaign finance and global warming. For Mr. Obama, Republicans were only 13 percent of his co-sponsors during his time in the Senate, and he had his biggest bipartisan successes on noncontroversial measures, such as issuing a postage stamp in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
If you read the rest of the article, for which a whole raft of Democrats declined to comment (no surprise), it seems clear that Obama is the most traditional of pols, almost never journeying out of the safety zone of his party. Obviously Bill Clinton did that often, most notably on welfare reform, not our Barack. It’s hard to know what the MSM is swallowing him so hard as the “agent of change” given the facts. It’s embarrassing even. But so it goes.
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