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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 9/24/2008
On bailout, Obama warns of 'stubborn' Bush
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From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones CLEARWATER, Fla. -- In his strongest language to date regarding the hotly-debated plan to rescue America's financial system, Obama called on President Bush to be more flexible about changes to the proposal and warned Wall Street CEOs against being selfish about the terms of the bailout. “Yesterday, the President said that Congress should pass this proposal to ease the crisis on Wall Street without significant changes or improvements,” the Illinois senator told ...

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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  Obama: George Bush's "stubborn inflexibility is both unacceptable and disturbingly familiar"

Basil's Blog:  Obama says he’s just like George Bush

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Obama: George Bush's "stubborn inflexibility is both unacceptable and disturbingly familiar"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... "gave Main Street the finger," Barack Obama actually is concerned about how the proposed Bush bailout affects real Americans. And, Obama actually talked to reporters and took questions about it today: ...

Obama says he’s just like George Bush
Basil's Blog — Did you catch what Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said today? The Washington Post said: Accusing President Bush of “my way or the highway intransigence,” Sen. Barack Obama outlined four principles that he said a financial bailout package must address, asserting it was “wholly unreasonable” for taxpayers to accept the White House’s call for legislation with no strings attached. MSNBC reported: “Yesterday, the President said that Congress should pass this proposal to ease the crisis ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — ... Special whining and complaining edition. My friends, it's time to shake up Washington. Obama says Nobama on bailout. Whiners abandon McSame in droves. Little late -- now he says the UN is important. CNN to McSame campaign: Free Sarah!  Tony Perkins: Gay rights = Christians going to jail. McPalin's in NYC; Obama in FL; Biden in IN.

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