McCain Advisor Criticizes Bush
Sen. John McCain’s chief policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin criticized President Bush’s handling of the economy and went on to separate McCain from Bush:
Douglas Holtz-Eakin said the only similarity between McCain’s economic plan and Bush’s is a commitment to keep taxes low.
“Sadly, it seems that is all President Bush understood in the economy,” Holtz-Eakin said in an interview to be broadcast this weekend on Bloomberg Television’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.” It is Barack Obama’s budget plan, not Senator McCain’s, that resembles Bush’s policies, he said.
“It’s dedicated to the recent Bush tradition of spending money on everything,” Holtz-Eakin said.
This is the latest and most aggressive effort by the McCain campaign to distance the candidate from the unpopular policies of Bush. Illinois Senator Obama has charged that a McCain victory in November would amount to a third Bush term on economics.
Sen. Obama’s economic adviser Dan Tarullo brought up the possible renegotiation of NAFTA. But this is the Obama campaign. You never know what other people are saying under the radar.
“McCain Aide Says Bush Knows Little About Economy” [via memeorandum]
