claim: "sen. obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: oct 7, 2008 ... sen. barack obama and sen. john mccain meet in nashville for their second  debate. brokaw: good evening from belmont university in nashville, ...... sen.  obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue. i've taken  them on. i'm not too popular sometimes with my own party, much less ...
evidence_2: nov 4, 2010 ... it is an open question whether there was any feasible course obama could have  pursued in the early months that could have diminished the fierce partisan  conflict of his first two years in office. could he have made house minority leader  john boehner and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell an offer ...
evidence_3: jul 17, 2017 ... and the senate majority leader would get a historic legislative achievement to his  name. “every republican senator has been elected or reelected on repealing  obamacare. and he's a guy who wants to win,” one mcconnell insider told me.  but the cost will be that the legislative body he leads and has long ...
evidence_4: list documents fifty lies told by barack obama. ... obama has written (and spoken ) at length about his father's returning to africa from america to work for the  kenyan government, with that country's political turmoil eventually ..... senator  obama didn't say that has never accepted money from political action committees .
evidence_5: now that his relentless tactics have made his party victorious, he is poised to take  down the president and win the senate majority he covets—if he can fend off the  ... usual platitudes about working together and declared publicly, “the single  most important thing we want to achieve is for president obama to be a one-term  ...