"John McCain has offered essentially four more years of the same," Barack Obama said and is quoted on KansasCity.com . "He says he's about change, too. Everybody's about change these days. But you know what, it's not about change when you vote with George W. Bush 95 percent of the time." However, he added gently: "John McCain and I are both Americans." Democrat or Republican, he said, "we all love our children and we all love this country."