McCain: Reid, Pelosi, Obama a ‘dangerous threesome’

Republican presidential nominee John McCain said the trio of Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) represent a “dangerous threesome.” 

{mosads}“This election comes down to how you want your hard-earned money spent,” Sen. McCain (Ariz.) said at a rally in Cleveland on Monday. “Do you want to keep it and invest it in your future or have it taken by the most liberal person to ever run for the presidency and the Democratic leaders, the most liberal who have been running Congress for [the] past two years — Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?”

The crowd booed at the mentioning of the two Democratic leaders.

McCain is hoping to catch Sen. Obama (Ill.) in Ohio and nationally, but, according to polls, he has significant ground to make up over the next eight days.

On Monday, he sought to draw a clear distinction between himself and Obama on the economy, taxes and job creation, charging that the Democrat would seek to raise taxes and stifle growth.

“With one week left in this campaign, the choice facing Americans is stark,” McCain stated, touting his plans of cutting taxes and creating jobs.

“This is the fundamental difference between Sen. Obama and me, the fundamental difference,” he added. “We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is that he thinks taxes have been too low, and I think that spending has been too high.”

McCain argued that Obama’s plan "will destroy business growth, kill jobs and lead to continued declines in the stock market, and make a recession even deeper and more painful.”

In response, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said: “A day after John McCain said that he agreed with George Bush’s economic philosophy, he continued to parrot the same failed policies that give billions to billionaires and big corporations while providing no relief at all to more than 100 million middle-class Americans.”