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Alert Name: Obama, McCain, Palin, Biden, September 22, 2008 Compiled: 5:17 AM U.S. / POLITICS The sessions are part of an effort to demonstrate that Sarah Palin is prepared to operate in the arenas of foreign policy and national security despite criticism of her level of experience.
U.S. / POLITICS John McCain’s campaign manager played a role in helping the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges. U.S. / POLITICS The Obama campaign spent $53 million, the McCain campaign spent $41 million, and both campaigns got a fund-raising boost from the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. U.S. / POLITICS The alternative visions of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain respond to different sources of public discontent with Washington. U.S. / POLITICS John McCain and Barack Obama called for more oversight in the bailout but said the expenditure would not force them to scale back their ambitious agendas. CORRECTIONS OPINION The discomfort with certain forms of black assertiveness is too deeply rooted in the national psyche to just disappear. OPINION A friend serving in the Bush administration tried to talk me out of my doubts about the $700 billion financial bailout. I’m not convinced. OPINION World leaders converge on a battered New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, my advice to them is: think Damien Hirst.
BUSINESS Two years ago Henry M. Paulson Jr. took the devalued post of Treasury secretary. He is now likely to leave as the most powerful in history. ARTS / TELEVISION When comedians stay silent about dark events, you know things are really dire. By that standard, then, Sunday night’s 60th Primetime Emmy Awards were not all that reassuring.
U.S. / POLITICS The following is a transcript of an interview with Senator Barack Obama by John Harwood of The New York Times and CNBC, as provided by CNBC. |
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Comments: 41
Heard on NPR today: McCain is ahead of Obama by 10 percent in the rural vote. However, this means that McCain is not doing anywhere near as well as he needs to to win; it was the rural vote that voted in Bush in 2004; the race is too close to call at this point.
Interesting, from NPR: McCain's recent lack of growth even with Palin has stymied Republicans.
Obama has continued to gain.
The rural vote is critical. The cities largely vote Democratic and the rural communities largely vote Republican.
McCain also said in a magazine article published recently - he was interviewed BEFORE the Wall Street crises, but in the article he said he favored lack of regulation in the health care industry, just as he favored lack of regulation in the financial markets.
ooooooooh. BAD timing.
Chris: the word is :lose not loose
Gather Broadcasting: Have it your way
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Thank you for compiling those articles. While we get the NYT every day, I don't always have time to read all of it the way I want to, so this was wonderful. Personally, I hope Obama and Biden win. If I could have anyone I wanted, it'd be FDR since I think we need someone of that stature to get us out of the mess we are in, but I believe that Obama and Biden will help get this country back on track and make it live-able again for those of us who aren't making 100k + a year.
anyway, it's always good to have a discussion. thanks for opening one up.
My mother hasn't been doing well, and a lot of the care giving has fallen to me, so I've been caught up with that besides my family and everything, but I am determined to be back here again, so I"ll be around again. anyway. I hope you've been well.
:)
I am glad to have these, as well - cince it makes easy reading to fid out what the candidates are up to.
I will be glad to share my NUT alerts with you folks.
Yes, FDR was great. I expect he is turning in his grave, right about now. He designed the entitlements so they would be forever.
IF Social Security had een privatized, it would be falling, along with other.
:O\
Nothing wrong with that in "The Last Frontier" state.
The rest of the states though is another story.
Perhaps this will be a learning situation for all the other politicians, democrat and republican?
Hugs, A.
McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac
By JACKIE CALMES and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
The disclosure contradicts a statement by Senator McCain that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had no involvement with the company for the last several years.