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Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
Biden:
"Hillary might have been a better pick than me"
"Make
no mistake about this," Biden responded. "Hillary
Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to
be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s
get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend,
she is qualified to be president of the United States of
America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of
the United States of America, and quite frankly, it
might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first
rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s
get that straight."
McCain
Camp:
Spokesman Ben Porritt offered this response from the McCain camp: "Barack Obama’s most important decision of this election, and Biden -- the candidate he selects -- suggests, himself, that he wasn’t the right man for the job, and that Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice. Biden certainly has a credible viewpoint on this."
LIPSTICK WARS
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Obama says enough about lipstick smear...
Sen. Barack Obama angrily challenged Republican claims
that he insulted Gov.
Sarah
Palin by using the expression "lipstick on a pig" to
describe Sen. John McCain's attempts to paint himself as
an agent of change, and called the GOP indignation
"phony outrage and Swift boat politics."
see also:
Obama snorts off 'pig' dust up
McCain launches ad blasting Obama's 'lipstick' uip
South Carolina
Dem Chair:
Palin primary qualification is she hasn't had an
abortion
South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler
sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain
had chosen a running mate "whose primary qualification
seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”
Apologizes
"I personally admire and respect the difficult choices that women make everyday, and I apologize to anyone who finds my comment offensive. I clumsily was making a point about people in South Carolina who may vote based on a single issue. Whether it’s the environment, the economy, the war or a woman’s right to choose, there are people who will cast their vote based on a single issue. That was the only point I was attempting to make."
THE CANDIDATES:
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
Sarah Palin gets a warm welcome back in Alaska
Gov.
Sarah Pa
lin
returned triumphant to her home state Wednesday for the first time
since she was named to the Republican ticket with John McCain, and
received thunderous cheers as she promised 3,000 supporters: "I will
do my best to do Alaska proud."
... As confetti flew and a college band played, she walked out of the plane with her husband, Todd, whom she called "the first dude," and three of their children, Piper, Willow and infant son Trig.
... "This is our girl!" enthused Dory Powell, 67, a retired college purchasing agent. "She's brought the Republican Party to life." She called Palin's addition to the ticket a "win-win situation for Alaska. If she wins, we get her in the White House, and if she loses, well, we get her back home here with us."
McCain camp hits Obama on more than one front
Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campaign to a pack of wolves on the prowl against the GOP vice presidential pick, charging that the Democratic nominee favored sex education for kindergartners, and resurrecting the comments of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Polls showing John McCain tied or even
ahead of Barack Obama are stirring angst and
second-guessing among some of the Democratic Party’s
most experienced operatives, who worry that Obama
squandered opportunities over the summer and may still
be underestimating his challenges this fall.
“It’s more than an increased anxiety,” said Doug Schoen, who worked as one of Bill Clinton’s lead pollsters during his 1996 reelection and has worked for both Democrats and independents in recent years. “It’s a palpable frustration. Deep-seated unease in the sense that the message has gotten away from them.”
Obama on sex ed in kindergarten: 'it's the right thing to do'
Rush Limbaugh:
"
Obama has said that this ad you just heard about Obama supporting a law to teach young children about sex education was unfair and misleading, but it's not. I have a summary here of McCain's ad and of Obama's response and then I've got a news article that ran September 27, 2007, on the Fox News website after a Democrat debate.An excerpt from that article reporting on the debate says this: "A fairy tale about two princes falling in love sparked a backlash -- and a lawsuit -- against a teacher and a school last year when it was read to a second-grade class in Massachusetts. But the three front-runners in the Democratic presidential race suggested Wednesday night at their debate in New Hampshire that they'd support reading the controversial book to children as part of a school curriculum. ... Obama agreed with Edwards and revealed that his wife has already spoken to his 6- and 9-year-old daughters about same-sex marriage." This was said by Obama in a debate in New Hampshire last November that a book about two princes falling in love should be read as part of the education curriculum to school kids..."
Obama's museum earmarks draw fire
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama tried to direct more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to a Chicago museum whose chairman is one of the Illinois senator's largest campaign fundraisers.
Mr. Obama has twice since fiscal 2006 sought to have taxpayers foot the bill for a new theater projector and other equipment at the Adler Planetarium on the Lake Michigan waterfront. Neither of the requests, which totaled $3.3 million, was approved by Congress, the museum said...
The National Rifle Association said Wednesday it will send a mailer to 4 million members warning that Barack Obama "would be the most anti-gun president in American history."
The mailer also tells members "Don't believe" Obama on the Second Amendment.
"NRA will not allow Barack Obama to revise history," Chris W. Cox, NRA's chief lobbyist, said in a statement. "He has supported bans on handguns and semi-automatic firearms, and he has voted to ban possession of many shotguns and rifles commonly used by hunters and sportsmen across America. And we will remind voters every single time he lies."
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