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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/22/2008
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Our guest blogger is Robert Gordon , Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now placing robocalls attacking Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on the grounds that Obama “opposes mandatory minimum sentences.” If Giuliani ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/22/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
It was perhaps predictable that the task of
recording the worst of McCain's robo-slime -- the worst...
so far, at least -- would fall to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani has recorded a new McCain robocall in which he suggests, in effect, that Barack Obama ...
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In New McCain Robocall, Rudy Giuliani Suggests Obama ...
thinkprogress.org - 10/20/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
On Saturday, the New York Times published an
investigative piece on Cindy McCain that delved into, among...
other things, her past addiction to painkillers. Responding with outrage, the McCain campaign called the article “gutter journalism at its ...
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Giuliani: ‘God Forbid Somebody Would Do Some Reporting ...
politico.com - 10/22/2008
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politico.com —
Blog: Rudy takes to phones to hit Obama
on crime...
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Rudy takes to phones to hit Obama on crime
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McCain and Crime
Matthew Yglesias —
... history and that still wouldn’t have anything to do with foreign policy or the military. Using him as a crime control policy surrogate, by contrast, makes sense. Crime went down by a lot under his watch, and his policies had something to do with that. Unfortunately, the basis for his attack on Barack Obama has something to do with mandatory minimum sentencing which had nothing to do with the New York City crime drop. Meanwhile, Robert Gordon observes that John McCain opposes many policies that really did contribute to reducing crime in New York City. Maybe if ...
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