newsweek.com - 10/19/2008
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For a man who boasts of delivering "straight talk," John McCain was sending mixed messages. Supporters who gathered earlier this month outside Milwaukee thought he needed to amp up his campaign rhetoric. One by one, they stood and railed against the "shady characters" linked to Barack Obama . ...
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... “‘If we were to go up with an ad during the final weeks of this campaign just showing excerpts of [Wright's] sermons, we would probably win,’ says one senior McCain aide, who declined to be named discussing internal debates on tactics. ‘But we won’t.’ “
Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’
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... Rick, we both know who number two is.
Goldfarb could not or refused to name the individual who he was referring to, despite Sanchez’s repeated inquiries. Watch it:
Goldfarb may have been dancing around naming Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama, however, has disavowed Wright’s extreme views, and McCain supposedly banned his campaign from using Wright’s record against Obama. ...
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