Obama turns back the economy

From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones RENO, NV -- After spending a leisurely week in Hawaii and stopping by a southern California mega-church to talk about faith in politics, Obama was back on the campaign trail today -- and back on the message he hopes will help him defeat his GOP rival: the economy. Obama held a town hall and gave brief remarks on his economic plans. And used every opportunity to draw contrasts with McCain on tax policy, health care and energy, hitting the Arizona senator for running negative ads and repeatedly saying that he had not been truthful about issues ranging from dealing with high fuel costs to his support for alternative energy. "John McCain and I fundamentally disagree on how we are gonna move this country forward. He ran a negative ad -- which is most of the ads he runs -- he ran a negative ad that claimed all my economic plan was was higher taxes and that it would lead to economic disaster," Obama said, before going on to tell the audience that his tax policy ... (link)