slate.com - 9/16/2008
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This is the change the Obama campaign has been waiting for. After two weeks of political news dominated by Sarah Palin, bad weather, a reunified GOP, and nervous Democrats, there is suddenly real news: Wall Street banks are collapsing. Everyone is talking about the economy (a pig that can't be improved by lipstick, or Honeybaked), and the economy is an issue with which Barack Obama has had an advantage with voters. Even better, as luck would have it, he'd already planned to devote the week to ...
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Playing the blame game in the Wall Street crisis
neo-neocon —
... And yet Obama saw fit to criticize McCain’s statement of faith in the basis of our economy in order to try to paint John McCain as seriously out of touch. This is the Obama who wants us to come together, and presents himself as post-partisan? It would be almost funny if it weren’t so serious. ...
Doubletake: Strong in the fundamentals
The Swamp —
... Oliphant: Yes. In fact, John Dickerson of Slate said this very thing the other day. That Obama risks being a downer when people want to be uplifted. And Obama already has to worry about Carterian comparisions. But McCain is seeing rough seas too. He backtracked from his fundamentally strong comment. Then his surrogate Carly Fiorina says that McCain and Palin couldn't run a Radio Shack. ...
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ON THE TRAIL: Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 9/16/2008
* Sen. John McCain holds a Road to Victory Rally in Tampa, Florida. He then heads to a joint rally with Gov. Sarah Palin.
* Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Golden, Colorado.
* Sen. Joe Biden holds a community gathering with his wife Jill in Media, ...
McCain: So he didn't say it? —
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Now McCain says Obama DIDN'T call Sarah Palin a pig -- despite defending his campaign's "ad anyway, saying Obama 'chooses his words very carefully.' The implication: Obama was slyly up to something when he said McCain's call for change in Washington ...
Pigs, toasters and BlackBerries, oh my —
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From NBC's Mark MurrayWell, that didn't take long. A day after one of the most substantive debates in quite some time -- over the economic mess on Wall Street -- the presidential campaign has devolved back to the trivial.
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