chicagotribune.com - 10/5/2008
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The two presidential campaigns on Saturday debated who was more radical as the final full month of the battle opened amid new signs that the fight is turning uglier. Barack Obama attacked first, calling John McCain 's health-care reform proposal "radical" and "out-of-touch" ...
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Republicans Turn to Lies, Race Baiting and Swiftboating
Taylor Marsh —
... during the primaries. It’s what’s
about to happen right now. Palin is more than willing to get in the dirt, urged
by her conservative benefactors, while John McCain obviously approves. Because
we all know Palin wouldn’t say anything the campaign didn’t condone.
Here is a list of links I received today from the McCain camp today, never mind that I’d already
seen the onslaught coming: Washington
Post; New
York Times; Chicago
Tribune; AP;
Reuters;
NBC
First Read; ABC ...
Palin's Remarks Put Ayers in the News
Politics Daily —
... office in Illinois. All of this argues for much more than the casual relationship that the Obama campaign has thus far claimed existed between the two men. Yet the mainstream press has never thoroughly examined the claims of Obama critics that he was unacceptably tied to a man who admits setting bombs in a campaign of violence against the United States. Now that Gov. Plain has brought the issue into the general election, however, there have been a spate of stories looking at the claims, most of them critically. But the fact that the news is ...
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A dead heat in Colorado —
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