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Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
Obama, McCain get tough & personal in final debate
"One hundred percent, John, of your ads, 100 percent of them have been negative," Obama shot back a few moments later to his rival, seated only a few feet away at a round table.
"That's not true," McCain retorted.
"It is true," said Obama, seeking the last word.
... McCain played the aggressor early and often.
He demanded to know the full extent of Obama's relationship with William Ayers, a 1960s-era terrorist, the Democrat's ties with ACORN, a liberal group accused of violating federal law as it seeks to register voters, and insisted Obama disavow last week's remarks by Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat, who accused the Republican ticket of playing racial politics along the same lines as segregationists of the past...
McCain puts Obama on the defensive
from
the Associated Press:
This time, John McCain kept Barack Obama on the defensive.
The feisty Republican tried hard to find a lifeline Wednesday night, challenging his Democratic rival at every turn over his truthfulness, associations and record.
By that measure, McCain won the last debate of the 2008 campaign.
see also:
McCain intense, Obama maybe too cool ..."Some of [Obama's] passion seemed to have gone missing"
"Sen. Obama, I
am not President Bush.
You wanted to run against President Bush,
you should have run four years ago."
-John McCain
Who is Joe the Plumber?
He is J
oe
Wurzelbacher, an Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business who came
to symbolize the notion of spreading the wealth in Wednesday night's
third and final presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and
Republican John McCain.
Wurzelbacher watched Wednesday night's debate and said he still thinks Obama's plan would keep him from buying the small business that employs him.
About McCain: "He's got it right as far as I go."
Joe the plumber:
"Joe The Plumber" has weighed in on Wednesday's
presidential debate and he says that Barack Obama's tax
plan "infuriates me."
"To be honest with you, that infuriates me," plumber Joe Wurzelbacher
told Nightline's Terry Moran. "It's not right for someone to decide
you made too much---that you've done too good and now we're going to
take some of it back."
Obama's tax plan infuriates me
"The Washington Post/ABC poll found 45%
of voters
still don't think Obama's qualified to be president"
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
Sarah Palin wows the Granite State
Thousands of people waited hours to see the hockey mom speak in Dover, in Meredith on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee...
... In her first trip to New England as part of the campaign, the Alaska governor said New Hampshire shares much in common with her home state, including a shared love of fishing and tax opposition - she even wished she could share the motto “Live free or die.”
Berwick, Maine resident Andrea Burton said Palin speaks to regular people because of her life experiences.
“I think people can relate to her because she has problems. She comes across as a real person,” Burton said.
McCain talks economy with Hillary
On
Sept. 24, Hillary Rodham Clinton received a surprise
phone call from the man she’s often denounced as an
economic know-nothing: John McCain.
This was no social call, even though Clinton likes McCain enough to keeps his photo on the wall of her Senate office. The GOP nominee had already chatted with Bill Clinton about the mortgage crisis and wanted to pick the senator’s brain about her new proposal to have the federal government buy up bad mortgages and renegotiate terms more favorable to homeowners on verge of default.
“McCain said he had been motivated by it, he was very complimentary about what she had proposed and wanted to know more,” said a person with knowledge of the call.
Clinton responded coolly. “She didn’t engage him, she just said, ‘Thank you’ and heard him out.”
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Obama counts on boosting voter turnout in GOP states
Mike DuHaime, McCain's political director, said the Obama campaign had registered an impressive number of new voters, but the Republicans are ``probably more surgical about who we register.''
The Obama campaign, however, has more money than past Democratic candidates, having out-raised McCain by a better than a 2-to-1 margin, allowing the Democrat to compete in traditionally Republican states such as Virginia.
Such organizing ``hasn't been done on a presidential level in 44 years,'' said Mitch Stewart, Obama's Virginia director.
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