When I read that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called the centerpiece of Republican rival John McCain’s economic policies a “full-throated endorsement of George Bush’s policies,” I was reminded of the following passage from the recent Carolina Journal Radio interview of Fred Barnes:

[O]n the Democratic side, … we hear it already:
John McCain, third Bush term. They?re going to stick with that as long
as they can, and they can probably stick with it right through Nov. 4.
So it?s a little hard to make that case against McCain, who split with
conservatives and Republicans and the Bush administration so many
times, but, in other words, that?s their case.

You’ll find a full transcript of the Fred Barnes interview here. Click here for more information about his recent John Locke Foundation Headliner presentation.