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Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
Biden: America's enemies
will test Obama in first 6 months
Joe
Biden warned that America's enemies would test Barack Obama with an
international crisis within six months if he's elected president - a
shocking comm
ent
John McCain eagerly pounced on yesterday to claim Obama isn't ready to
be commander-in-chief.
"Mark my words," Biden told donors at a Seattle fund-raiser Sunday night.
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.
"Watch. We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
"And he's going to need help . . . to stand with him. Because it's not going to be apparent initially; it's not going to be apparent that we're right."
McCain: Obama not ready to be commander-in-chief
"The
next president won't have time to get used to the office. We face many
challenges here at home and many enemies abroad in this dangerous
world," McCain said. "We don't want a president who invites 'testing'
from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans
are already fighting two wars."
McCain said it was even "more troubling" that Biden suggested supporters stick by Obama if the actions he takes are wrong or unpopular.
"Senator Obama won't have the right response, and we know that because we've seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign," he said.
Former Secty of State Madeleine Albright agrees:
Obama extends poll lead to 7.2 points
Dems get set to muzzle the right
SHOULD Barack Obama win the presidency and Democrats take full control of Congress, next year will see a real legislative attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine - and to diminish conservatives' influence on broadcast radio, the one medium they dominate.
... most Democrats - including party elders Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Al Gore - strongly support the idea of mandating "fairness."
Would a President Obama veto a new Fairness Doctrine if Congress enacted one? It's doubtful.
John Kerry jokes McCain wears adult diapers
"Barack
got asked the famous boxers or briefs question," Kerry went on. "I was
tempted to say commando."
The senator said Obama successfully parried that question but that John McCain, the GOP nominee, had some problems.
"Then they asked McCain and McCain said, ‘Depends,'" Kerry said to lots of laughter from the crowd.
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
McCain emphasizes distance from Bush
At
virtually every campaign stop, McCain is reprising a line he used last
Wednesday in his final debate with Sen. Barack Obama: "I am not George
Bush." And in a television ad introduced last week, McCain looks into
the camera and says, "The last eight years haven't worked very well,
have they?"
As he struggles to pull his campaign out from beneath the shadow of a president whose approval ratings have reached historic lows, McCain is offering some of his toughest criticism of the Bush White House. In recent weeks, he has focused his message on the administration's handling of the nation's financial crisis, suggesting that the Treasury Department has been more interested in "bailing out the banks" than helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure.
Swing voters bothered by McCain's temperament, party
Swing voters have tilted Obama's way as the economy has
overwhelmed all other issues as the top priority for
Americans. In interviews with Cavenaugh and a dozen
others who participated in a recent Los Angeles
Times/Bloomberg poll, demeanor emerged as a dominant
theme in their explanations for why they trusted Obama
more than McCain to guide the nation out of its
financial crisis.
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Obama: Powell has a place on my team
"He will have a role as one of my advisers," Obama said on NBC's "Today" show, a day after the retired four-star general gave a huge boost to Illinois senator's front-running campaign by endorsing him for President.
Obama campaign blankets Florida - urges early voting
As Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton barnstormed Florida on Monday to remind people that voting is under way and continues for two weeks, it was clear voters are already turning out in record numbers.
"I want everybody after this rally, if you have not already voted, I want you to go vote,'' Obama told at least 7,000 people at a Tampa rally marking the first day of early voting in Florida. "Don't wait until Nov. 4. You don't know what might happen on Nov. 4. Your car might break down. You might have an emergency."
Obama to visit ailing grandmother in Hawaii
Barack Obama will cancel his presidential campaign stops and return home to Honolulu Thursday and Friday to visit his maternal grandmother who raised him, the woman he calls "Toot," whose health has suddenly deteriorated...
Obama votives spotted in San Francisco
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