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Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
The
match-up at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.,
will be moderated by NBC's Tom Brokaw
Kenya detains Corsi during Obama probe
Officials scuttle Corsi's
news conference on investigation
The
government of Kenya is holding WorldNetDaily senior
staff reporter Jerome Corsi in custody at
immigration
headquarters after police picked him up at his
hotel
just prior to a scheduled news conference in which he
planned to announce the findings of his investigation
into Barack Obama's connections in the country.
Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book "The Obama Nation," was picked up by authorities at his hotel at 9:45 a.m. and is being detained at Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi.
... Corsi had promised a news conference today that would "expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency."
... Corsi told WND Editor Joseph Farah by telephone that Kenyan authorities claimed they were holding him because the immigration forms his party filled out for customs had been lost...
Reuters/Zogby poll: Obama 47, McCain 45
Palin handles heckler at rally
"Bless your heart, sir, my son is in Iraq
fighting
for your right to protest right now"
THE CANDIDATES:
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
McCain unloads on Obama - 'who is the real Barack Obama?'
“I don’t
need lessons about telling the truth to American people.
And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard,
I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago
politician. My opponent’s touchiness every time he is
questioned about his record should make us only more
concerned,” McCain said.
“All people want to know is: what has this man ever actually accomplished in government? what does he plan for America? In short: who is the real Barack Obama?”
Business cool toward McCain's health coverage plan
American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain’s proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say...
Palin to appear on Saturday Night Live?
...the
Chicago Sun-Times
reports that Palin may appear on Saturday Night Live
herself, potentially to make fun of Fey's American
Express commercials. Bill Zwecker reports that while
some McCain staffers want Palin to simply keep joking
about Fey's impression on the campaign trail – she wrote
"I'm not Tina Fey" on one backer's cell phone – others
believe it is important that she appear on the show
herself...
Palin plays fear card on Obama
“I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America -- as the greatest source for good in this world,” Palin said of Obama to 2,000 supporters at a rally in Clearwater, Florida this morning. “I'm afraid this someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.”
“This, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in, not my kids, not for your kids,” Palin added.
The
GOP presidential candidate told a campaign rally: "Sen. Obama has
accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he
believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be
believed."
In some of the harshest language yet, McCain said the campaign comes down to a simple question: Who is the real Barack Obama?
McCain drew the loudest cheers when he said the Democrat has written two memoirs but "he's not exactly an open book."
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Homeless driven to vote for Obama
Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.
The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency...
Aided by the faltering economy, Barack Obama has the upper hand in the race for Ohio, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, putting John McCain at a disadvantage in a state considered vital to his chances of winning the White House in November.
Overall, among likely voters in the new poll, 51 percent said they would support Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), if the election were held today, while 45 percent said they would back McCain and his vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
RNC unloads its William Ayers file against Obama
"The Relationship Between Barack Obama And Bill Ayers Is Much More Extensive Than Obama's Campaign Is Willing To Admit"...
Jujitsu Obama calls McCain 'erratic' in crisis
Branding
his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is
preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as
having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.
Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker...
Obama launching 'Keating 5" attack -despite previous statement it isn't 'germane'
Monday the Obama campaign started hitting Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on his role in the late 80s/early 90s Keating 5 scandal, despite previous indications by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, made months ago, that the scandal was not "germane" to the presidency because McCain had apologized for his role.
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