Don't McCain me, sir, I was led astray ...

[Dave Monroe]

LEHRER: ... are there fundamental differences between your approach
and Senator Obama's approach to what you would do as president to lead
this country out of the financial crisis?

MCCAIN: Well, the first thing we have to do is get spending under
control in Washington. It's completely out of control. It's gone -- we
have now presided over the largest increase in the size of government
since the Great Society.

We Republicans came to power to change government, and government
changed us. And the -- the worst symptom on this disease is what my
friend, Tom Coburn, calls earmarking as a gateway drug, because it's a
gateway. It's a gateway to out-of-control spending and corruption.

And we have former members of Congress now residing in federal prison
because of the evils of this earmarking and pork-barrel spending....

http://www.olemiss.edu/debate/debate_news/details.php?id=58

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/26/debate.mississippi.transcript/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/politics/2008/09/26/sot.debate.mccain.differences.cnn

Also ...

"word cloud" comparing john mccain's (red) and barack obama's (blue)
comments during the first presidential 2008 debate on 9/26 using
wordle

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jswright/2891719036/