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Barack Obama gives a town hall in Albuquerque, New Mexico about the economy.
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Ari Melber: Obama Attacks McCain's Elitist Millionaire Mindset
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
There's an old saying in American politics -- elections are not decided by the producer price index. The Obama campaign is jumping on the recent jump in the index, though, with a statement slamming the Bush-McCain economic agenda and, more importantly, hitting McCain's millionaire mindset:
The unexpected jump in the Producer Price Index announced today is just further confirmation of that our economy is failing hard-working American families. This economy may be working for the multimillionaires that John McCain considers part of the middle class, but with prices rising and wages stagnating, tens of millions of typical ...
In Defense of John McCain
Matthew Yglesias —
Via Ari Melber, Barack Obama links John McCain’s tax policies to his odd belief that people earning three or four million dollars are year aren’t rich:
This seems kind of unfair to McCain; if the operating factor here were really a belief in the middleclassness of low-grade multimillionaires, then McCain’s tax plans might phase out benefits for people making $6 million or $60 million or whatever. But in fact McCain has a principled belief in giving you more the richer you are — it’s true that someone earning $2 million a year does better than ...
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* Sen. John McCain holds a town hall meeting at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM.
* Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Virginia, holding a discussion on the economy in Martinsville and then a town hall meeting Lynchburg.
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