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Monday, Oct. 27
, 2008GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
'tragedy the redistribution of wealth not addressed
by Supreme Court' ... 'redistributive change'
"Now we know that the slogans 'change you can believe
in'
and 'change we need' are code words for
Barack Obama's ultimate goal: 'redistributive change.'"
ANOTHER station banned...
Biden bans Philly station for tough interview
Obama cuts TV station's chord
over Biden
grilling
Barack Obama’s campaign has pulled the plug on a Florida
news station’s access to the presidential candidate
after an anchorwoman angered Joe Biden with
uncomfortable questions during a satellite interview.
WFTV-Channel 9 anchorwoman Barbara West quizzed Sen. Biden about Obama’s intention to “spread the wealth,” referring to the Democratic White House contender’s comments to “Joe the Plumber.”
She compared Obama’s comments to the socialist doctrine of Karl Marx then asked Biden, “How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to ‘spread the wealth?’ ”
McCain vows to come from behind
Republican
presidential nominee John McCain, lagging in most national polls,
compared himself today to legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute
Rockne and said he is closing the gap between himself and Democrat
Barack Obama.
``I feel like Knute Rockne at halftime,'' McCain said on NBC's ``Meet the Press'' program. ``We are doing fine. You're going to be up very late on election night.''
McCain: Obama 'inaugural' on par
with 'Dewey defeats Truman'
John McCain added a moment of levity to his stump speech this evening in New Mexico, ridiculing his opponent Barack Obama for a news report that indicated his staff has already drafted his inaugural address.
“My friends, when I pull this thing off, I have a request for my opponent,” McCain said. “I want him to save that manuscript of his inaugural address, and donate it to the Smithsonian. And they can put it right next to the Chicago paper that said ‘Dewey Defeats Truman.’”
Palin says Obama should delay 'coronation'
"And
you know that elections -- they're not decided until the votes are
counted. But our opponent, he sure seems, once again to be getting out
a little bit ahead of himself," Palin said at the Tampa rally. "John
McCain and I, we're out here asking for your vote so we can get to
work for you, and a lot of folks are still undecided. And you know,
Barack Obama and I, we both have spent quite some time on the
basketball court. But where I come from, you have to win the game
before you start cutting down the nets."
Zogby:
Obama 49.9%, McCain 45.1%
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
McCain again asserts independence from Bush
Sen.
John McCain said Sunday that he and President Bush share a "common
philosophy" but insisted that he is his own man in his first
appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" in more than nine months.
In the half-hour interview nine days before the election, the Republican presidential nominee asserted that he has bucked the president's policies and his party on spending, Iraq and climate change, a record that he said proves his distance from the unpopular chief executive.
McCain drops the "E" word in Iowa (ethanol)
“On the subject of ethanol, my friends, I will open every market in the world to the best products in the world, and that’s the American agricultural farmer and worker,” said McCain at a rally at the University of Northern Iowa...
... The remark was a shift in tone, though not in
policy, from McCain, who has long been a staunch
opponent of federal corn ethanol subsidies — a position
that hasn’t helped him win votes in the Iowa
agricultural belt.
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Wright TV ad aimed at Obama's 20-year relationship with pastor
The National Republican Trust PAC, which aired one harsh anti-Obama ad that it also used to fundraise on Drudge and elsewhere, says it's putting $2.5 million behind this spot in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
There are no "Obama 2008" buttons, banners or T-shirts visible here at U.N. headquarters, but it might be difficult to find a sliver of territory in the United States more enthusiastic over the prospect of the Illinois senator winning the White House.
An informal survey of more than two dozen U.N. staff members and foreign delegates showed that the overwhelming majority would prefer that Sen. Barack Obama win the presidency, saying they think that the Democrat would usher in a new agenda of multilateralism after an era marked by Republican disdain for the world body.
Obama supporters hail from Russia, Canada, France, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Indonesia and elsewhere. One American employee here seemed puzzled that he was being asked whether Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was even a consideration. "Obama was and is unstoppable," the official said. "Please, God, let him win," he added.
Big crowds for Obama's 'Red State Tour'
The
tour was timed to drive up the numbers of early voters in a rolling
series of states that allow early voting: North Carolina, Virginia,
Florida, Indiana and then Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado over
the weekend. He will touch down in Pennsylvania on Monday and spend
the night in Philadelphia before returning to the red state
battlegrounds, including a Wednesday rally in Orlando, Fla., with
former President Bill Clinton.
State statistics have suggested a national surge in early voting among
Obama's core voters, and he hopes to have built a head start and
brought some unreliable voters to the polls before the majorities in
traditionally Republican-leaning states vote on Nov. 4.
"It's easy, it's fun," he told a crowd of some 45,000 students in Fort Collins, Colo., Sunday afternoon of early voting. "You'll feel morally superior while those lazy procrastinators are waiting till Nov. 4."
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Obama promises to restore 'higher purpose'
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