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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 8/19/2008
Obama: A feistier candidate
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Yesterday at a town hall in New Mexico, NBC/NJ’s Athena Jones reports, Obama continued a line of attack he used over the weekend, arguing his economic plan would not lead to disaster. Instead, he said that disaster is already here because of Bush Administration policies that John McCain would continue. Obama also reprised and refined a line he used for the first time earlier in the day. “We were in a forum the other day and Rick Warren ask [McCain] ‘Well, what do you consider rich?’ -- John ...

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Carol Platt Liebau: Obama's Double Standard
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Larry King Live, Claire McCaskill was begging Tim Pawlenty to have John McCain denounce Jerome Corsi's book. Really, is this what it's come to for them -- they have to keep on supplicating John McCain or his surrogates to say something on their behalf? See how that strategy works out with Russia, folks. But the amazing irony is that even as Barack bemoans the supposed impugning of his love of country, he's perfectly willing to turn around and tell audiences that John McCain doesn't care about anyone but the rich : So I want to see a show of hands everybody making more than ...

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