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The Note: Economic Woes Provide Obama Opportunity
Political Radar — Alaska First Dude Todd Palin Knew Wife Was Destined for Higher Office | Main The Note: Economic Woes Provide Obama Opportunity September 16, 2008 8:36 AM ABC News' Rick Klein and Z. Byron Wolf report in Tuesday's Note: NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- When it comes to the fundamentals, there’s nothing like a full-blown economic crisis to make things very serious very fast in the race. When it comes to the fundamentals, there’s a very real opening for a candidate to jump through with an economic message that connects. And when it comes to the fundamentals, Sen. John McCain widened that opening for his rival Monday when he said, again -- ...

The President of Metaphor
Hit & Run — John McCain is calling for a "9/11 Commission" to investigate the various bank failures on Wall Street. "[American workers have] been betrayed by a casino on Wall Street of greedy, corrupt excess -- corruption and excess that has damaged them and their futures," he added. [...] "We're going to need a '9/11 Commission' to find out what happened and what needs to be fixed," he said. "I warned two years ago that this situation was deteriorating and unacceptable. And the old-boy network and the corruption in Washington is directly involved, and one of the causes of this financial crisis ...

McCain’s Incoherent Babbling On the Economy
Firedoglake — John McCain is desperately trying to spin his way out of the blunder of repeatedly insisting that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong," even as Americans watch Wall Street crash and hang on by its fingernails and their economic security disappear in a blizzard of bad ...

Obama Attacks McCain's Response to Crisis on Wall Street
Political Punch — How Transparent Will Palin Be? | Main Obama Attacks McCain's Response to Crisis on Wall Street September 16, 2008 2:58 PM GOLDEN, COLO. -- In front of eight American flags and a crowd of 2,184, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told voters want to understand he and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., differ they should look at how they have responded to the housing and financial crisis. “This morning instead of offering up concrete ideas to solve the problems Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book – you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem,” Obama told his supporters who’d packed the bleachers at the Colorado ...