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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts

 

Paris Hilton strikes back at McCain with her own 'presidential' ad:

 

Bill Clinton refuses to say Barack Obama is 'ready' for White House

Bill Clinton regrets some things he said - and didn't say - on the campaign trail. But there's one thing he still can't utter: Barack Obama is ready to be President.

"You can argue that nobody is ready to be President," the former President told ABC News.

"You can argue that even if you've been vice president for eight years, that no one can be fully ready for the pressures of the office," Clinton said Monday during a visit to Rwanda. That's probably not what Team Obama wanted to hear from the former commander in chief, whose role in Obama's election push and at the Democratic National Convention remains in flux.

 

 

 

 

 

Rasmussen poll shows McCain
with 1-point lead over Obama

The Rasmussen daily tracking Poll has, for the first time since Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Party nomination, given John McCain a slight edge. When "leaners" are factored in, the poll for August 4th gives John McCain 47% and Barack Obama 46%.

This new tracking poll, which seems to match other polls such as Gallup, as it shows a slow but steady deterioration in Barack Obama's position, should be of great concern to the Barack Obama campaign. The poll numbers are also a bitter birthday present for the candidate; Barack Obama turned 47 on August 4th.
 

Another Obama energy policy shift
 as McCain urges immediate drilling

Sen. Barack Obama called Monday for using oil from the nation's strategic reserves to lower gasoline prices, the second time in less than a week that he has modified a position on energy issues...

... His proposal comes a month after Obama said he would consider using oil from the reserves only in a "genuine emergency," such as "terrorist acts."

... At a small-business forum near Philadelphia on Monday, McCain called on Obama to insist that Congress return from its August recess to confront high gas prices and the energy crisis. He urged immediate drilling off the nation's coast.

 

Cheney not expected to attend GOP convention

One GOP official told CNN there's a "mutual understanding" between Cheney's office and the McCain camp that he is "unlikely" to attend the convention.

A second Republican official said there are still "talks going on" between Cheney's office and the McCain camp and both sides are "still trying to work it out."

The conservative American Spectator first reported Monday Cheney, who has low national approval ratings but is still popular among conservatives, is not expected to attend the convention.

 

 

 

 

Pelosi privately tells Dems they can back drilling

...what looks like intraparty tension on the surface is part of an intentional strategy in which Pelosi takes the heat on energy policy, while behind the scenes she’s encouraging vulnerable Democrats to express their independence if it helps them politically, according to Democratic aides on and off Capitol Hill.

 

 


 

 


 

THE CANDIDATES:

 

John McCain... today's headlines with excerpts

McCain greeted with approving roar by crowd in Midwest

Thousands of motorcyclists greeted Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an approving roar Monday as he sought blue-collar and heartland support by visiting a giant motorcycle rally.

"As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I'll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day," McCain said, referring to Democrat Barack Obama's recent visit to the German capital.

Billed as the largest event of its kind in the world, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has become something of an annual bikers' Woodstock during the past 70 years. It features nine nights of entertainment, with bands including Def Leppard, Lynyrd Skynyrd and REO Speedwagon.


 

 

 

 

Barack Obama... today's headlines with excerpts

Anti-Obama bloggers say they were silenced

Web loggers who are campaigning against Senator Obama's presidential run are accusing Google and Obama supporters of silencing them after their Web logs were marked as spam and their accounts temporarily frozen.

... A day later Google lifted the block on the account, but the incident and earlier Web log freezes in late June have led Mr. Langbert and other anti-Obama bloggers to accuse the Illinois senator's supporters of intentionally identifying their blog addresses to Google as spam blogs. They also say the company has reflexively suspended the sites.

Obama's tire gauge solution

How out of touch is Barack Obama? He's so out of touch that he suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they could save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce. Gleeful Republicans have made this their daily talking point; Rush Limbaugh is having a field day; and the Republican National Committee is sending tire gauges labeled "Barack Obama's Energy Plan" to Washington reporters.

 

 

 

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