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Archive for October, 2008
October 1, 2008
- “Thank you, but I disagree with your fundamental principle that she doesn’t have the experience,” McCain replied before citing Palin’s work as a PTA member, city council member, mayor and governor. “You and I just have a fundamental disagreement, and I am so happy the American people seem to be siding with me.”
- “Really? I haven’t detected that in the polls, I haven’t detected that among the base,” he said. “If there’s a Georgetown cocktail party person who, quote, calls himself a conservative who doesn’t like her, good luck. I don’t dismiss him. I think the American people have overwhelmingly shown their approval.”
- “A vote for Senator Obama will leave this country at risk,” McCain said in a scathing speech. “We need a president who will always tell the American people the truth. … Country first or Obama first?”
- “Look, I had my first conversation with him in my entirelife in Harlem,'' Clinton said, referring to a Sept. 11 meetingat his New York office. “When he becomes president, he'll bedoing things for the American people and the world. And thegreatness will then become apparent because of the good he'lldo.''
October 2, 2008
- "The American people expect and our economy demands that the House pass this good bill this week and send it to my desk," Bush said in a statement.
- “She's been very successful in this kind of a format before. She's very intelligent. She knows where she wants to go. She's courageous. And the important thing is that after an hour, the American people are going to get to see this. But I think she's going to do fine.”
- It is hard to imagine higher stakes for a vice presidential nominee on the national stage. Palin wowed even her biggest skeptics with her spirited introduction to the American people at the Republican National Convention last month. It’s been downhill since then, however. She has been largely sheltered from unscripted moments on the campaign trail. And, when she has exposed herself to improvisation or tough questioning, Palin has been criticized for offering vague and at times unusual responses.
- The deeper problem, say growing numbers of worried GOP establishment types, is that while lurching around to win the daily and weekly news cycles, McCain has failed to give voters a broad, forward-looking explanation for why they should support him. McCain’s national security experience and reputation as a reformer add substance to his theme of “putting country first,” but they don’t explain what a McCain presidency would mean, or how it would differ from the past eight years. “At no point have they told the American people where John wants to lead them,” says a third Republican strategist. “Had they spent more time laying the predicate, they’d have something to fall back on now.”
- "The American people are worried about the economy and the financial crisis, and Senator Obama will continue to work with his Republican and Democratic colleagues on solutions to fix the mess," she said.
- "How long have I been at this, like five weeks? So there hasn't been a whole lot that I've promised, except to do what is right for the American people," said Palin, the governor of Alaska.
- Palin returned to the folksy, “you betcha” style of straight talk that endeared her to people at the Republican convention, and displayed a well-coached command of the facts. She didn’t always answer questions, but turned that into a point of pride, saying she may not be answering the way Biden or moderator Gwen Ifill wanted to hear, but that “I’m going to talk straight to the American people.”
- She even said as much in her closing statement: “I like being able to answer these tough questions without the filter … of the mainstream media kinda telling viewers what they just heard,” she said. “I’d rather just be able to speak to the American people.” And so she did.
October 3, 2008
- Palin said there was nothing she and McCain would have to forego. "There hasn't been a whole lot that I've promised, except to do what is right for the American people," she said. "I don't believe that John McCain has made any promise that he would not be able to keep, either."
- And asked how she as vice president would help reduce partisanship in Washington, she said, “Let’s commit ourselves just every day American people, Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again.”
- At one point, Palin even advertised her lack ofresponsiveness, saying, “I may not answer the questions the waythat either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going totalk straight to the American people and let them know my trackrecord.''
- “On Monday I cast a blue collar vote for the American people, shook the foundations of Wall Street, demanding more accountability,” said Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) in opening debate. “But today I’m going to cast a red-white-and-blue collar vote, with my hand over my heart for this country because things are really bad and we don’t have any choice.”
- “Barack Obama really gave them the confidence that this was the right decision for the American people,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) said.
October 4, 2008
- Bush acknowledged that people are worried about their personal finances. “I’m confident by getting our markets moving, we will help unleash the key to our continued economic success: the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people,” he said.
October 5, 2008
- Rove cautioned on “Fox News Sunday”: “Remember, the campaign ebbs and flows. What we're seeing here is a result of the focus of the American people, voters, on the economic problems that have dominated the news the last several weeks. What's happened then is a shift to Obama.
- Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri fired back: "Really, how ridiculous. American people deserve so much better. Do they really think America is going to think that Barack Obama is palling around with terrorists?"
- Obama said he had been asked about “a whole host of issuesand associations that were a lot more flimsy than John McCain'srelationship to Keating Five and what I have said is that Icannot quarrel with the American people wanting to know moreabout that.''
October 6, 2008
- _”I’m making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there’s no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don’t want it.” — McCain, speaking to reporters on April 23 about the North Carolina GOP ad which called Obama “too extreme” because of his association with Wright.
- “The facts continue to show that there was no grand administration conspiracy in the dismissal of several U.S. attorneys,” Smith said in a statement. “Rather than continue to waste the American people’s time and money, I hope that next year House Democrats put partisan politics aside and focus on a real agenda that serves the American people.”
- In a statement, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the House minority leader, accused Waxman of refusing to investigate the mortgage giants “solely to shield his fellow Democrats politically,” and said it “cheats the American people of key facts that could help all of us learn how we got here — and what we must do to make certain this situation never repeats itself.” Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
- "Whatever anger that exists between the candidates, they are probably going to do their best to sublimate it and speak directly to the American people," Steinhorn said. "I think it would be a huge mistake for one candidate to let it fly."
- Earlier in this campaign when the North Carolina Republican Party said Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright made him “too extreme,” McCain asked it to stop and said: “There’s no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don’t want it.”
October 7, 2008
- "They were getting their manicures, their pedicures, massages, their facials while the American people were paying their bills," said Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.).
- "While there were no knockout blows, McCain did do some things like identifying more passionately, with more of what the Greeks called pathos, with the anger and frustration of the American people," he said.
October 8, 2008
- "It's frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property," the band said in a statement. "The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song."
- In Bethlehem, Pa., McCain shot back: “I don’t need lessons about telling the truth to American people.” And, McCain said, if he ever did, he “probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician.” On taxes, health care and subprime mortgages, McCain said Obama “won’t tell you” his real record.
- “Well I’ve got news for John McCain,” Obama said. “This isn’t about losing a campaign – this is about Americans who are losing their jobs, Americans who are losing their homes, Americans who are losing their life savings. I can take four more weeks of John McCain’s attacks, but American people can’t take four more years of John McCain’s George Bush policies.”
- “The notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that he — I’ve palled around with a terrorist, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points. And, you know, the idea that the McCain campaign would want to make this the centerpiece of the discussion in the closing weeks of a campaign where we are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and we’re in the middle of two wars, I think makes very little sense not just to me but to the American people,” Obama said in the interview.
- "I can take four more weeks of John McCain's attacks, but the American people can't take four more years of John McCain's George Bush policies," Obama told a large crowd at the muddy Indiana State Fairgrounds.
October 9, 2008
- "I think there's room for negotiation there. I think what Sen. McCain would do is try to take action that would be effective for the American people. Starting a trade war with China probably doesn't meet that bill," Levy said.
- "The only thing the American people can trust about Barack Obama is that he's too big a risk in a time of crisis."
- “Barack Obama hasn’t told the American people the total truth about that, about his association with Ayers,” Palin said on conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s show. “Doggonit, he fails to tell the American people with candor and with truthfulness what his associations are and we have to know.”
- Answering questions at a town hall-style event in Wisconsin,McCain said that from Obama's health-care plan to his associationwith controversial figures to his fundraising, the question forvoters is “whether he's being candid with the American people.''
- "That's not the point," McCain continued. "The point is Sen. Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know that's just not true. We need to know the full extent of the relationship because of whether Sen. Obama is telling the truth to the American people or not. That's the question."
- "Barack Obama hasn't told the American people the total truth about that, about his association with Ayers," Palin said. "Doggone it, he fails to tell the American people with candor and with truthfulness what his associations are and we have to know."
- "It's about Senator Obama being candid and straight forward with the American people and their relationship," McCain told Fox News.
- "In America blessing is Obama, American people for good change vote Obama. In America ooh, in America, this is the time, if you miss it it's gone," the vocalists sang.
October 10, 2008
- In 1997, McCain was quoted in the Tribune: “I applaud Secretary Daley for keeping his word to Congress and the American people to attempt to take politics out of the business of the Commerce Department's trade missions.”
- “The times are too serious. The challenges are too great. The American people aren’t looking for someone who can divide this country – they’re looking for someone who will lead it. We’re in a serious crisis - now, more than ever, it is time to put country ahead of politics.”
- “This ridiculous charge is completely false, and has been disputed by independent fact-checkers and bipartisan members of Congress. Barack Obama’s consistent position is simply that any agreement about our long-term troop presence in Iraq must be reviewed by the United States Congress to ensure bipartisan support from the American people,” said Obama spokesman Tom Reynolds.
- “But that’s not what we need right now in the United States. The American people aren’t looking for someone who can divide this country—they’re looking for someone who will lead it.”
- Obama, who was campaigning in Chillicothe, Ohio, said he favors a temporary extension in an expiring tax break to let small businesses write off the cost of many new investments immediately, rather than over several years. He said he was making the proposal “because it’s time to protect the jobs we have and to create the jobs of tomorrow by unlocking the drive, and ingenuity, and innovation of the American people.”
October 11, 2008
- “I think the American people can tell the difference between the results of a politically motivated investigation and a legitimate finding of fact,” campaign spokesman Taylor Griffin said.
- “During another period, in the not too distant past, there was a governor of the state of Alabama named George Wallace who also became a presidential candidate. George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. " As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all. They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better.”
October 12, 2008
- In his remarks, Lewis also said: “As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all. They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better.”
- The two candidates will make their pitches directly to the American people again on Wednesday when they meet for their third and final presidential debate.
October 13, 2008
- “What America needs in this hour is a fighter; someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people. I come from a long line of McCains who believed that to love America is to fight for her. I have fought for you most of my life. There are other ways to love this country, but I’ve never been the kind to do it from the sidelines.”
- "But the American people know that this election isn't about who's up or who's down, it's about who will change the disastrous Bush-McCain economic policies of the last eight years."
- "The American people heard a series of new proposals from Barack Obama today, but what they did not hear was a promise to stop pursuing his massive tax increases," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, saying raising taxes would have a "devastating effect" given the turmoil in the U.S. financial markets.
- The two candidates will make their pitches directly to the American people again on Wednesday when they meet for their third and final presidential debate.
October 14, 2008
- “As we learned during this summer’s [energy] debate, the appetite of the American people to unlock America’s affordable energy resources is very strong,” Inhofe said.
- "What America needs in this hour is a fighter; someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people," the Republican presidential nominee told a rally in Virginia, a key swing state in the 2008 White House race.
- “Our opponents spend so much time pretending they are running against the current president. I think it’s wearing pretty thin,” Palin said, without mentioning Bush’s name. “The American people are really waking up and saying no, the status quo is not one of the boxes to check.”
October 15, 2008
- "This is John McCain’s last chance to turn this race around and somehow convince the American people that his erratic response to this economic crisis doesn’t disqualify him from being President," say the talking points.
- · This is John McCain’s last chance to turn this race around and somehow convince the American people that his erratic response to this economic crisis doesn’t disqualify him from being President.
- “This is John McCain’s last chance to turn this race around and somehow convince the American people that his erratic response to this economic crisis doesn’t disqualify him from being president,” Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. “Sen. Obama is going to use the debate to discuss his plan for the economy. That’s what he’s been doing for weeks. And while McCain has promised to bring up Bill Ayers to distract voters, every minute that he spends continuing to ignore the economy and the middle class is a minute wasted.”
- A : “No, you know the truth is I don’t – I say that sort of jokingly. I don’t think it’s of that much consequence to him. He’s going to deliver his message and talk to the American people. Whatever the idiosyncrasies of Sen. McCain’s debating style is not nearly as important as the opportunity to talk to people. So he’s paying more attention to the questions and to the American people who he is trying to address than that. Obviously it was noted, but it’s not particularly …”
- “If White House documents exist that set the policy for the use of coercive techniques such as waterboarding, those documents have been kept from the committee,” Rockefeller said in a statement. “That is unacceptable, and represents the latest example of the Bush administration withholding critical information from Congress and the American people in an attempt to limit our oversight of sensitive intelligence collection activities.
- “It sort of froze everything for a moment,” he said. “It forced the American people to take another really hard look at John McCain.”
- “The American people have a right to expect we will not make the same mistakes twice,” Townsend said.
- “In 2006, House Republican leaders voluntarily testified under oath in the matter of disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley. Will House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Pelosi, Congressman Emanuel, and Congressman Van Hollen, agree to do the same?” Boehner asked today in an e-mail. “The American people deserve to know what House Democratic leaders knew about Congressman Mahoney’s reprehensible actions, what they did with the information, and whether they played any role in the actions Congressman Mahoney took. If all handled the situation appropriately, they should come forward immediately and provide a detailed accounting of their actions in the Mahoney matter, and they should welcome the opportunity to testify under oath about their actions.”
- “What I’ve done is call Barack Obama out on his record,” Palin said in an interview with WMUR, a New Hampshire television station. “That’s fair and that’s appropriate and it’s what is best for the American people, to know what the choices are.”
- In his initial response to McCain, Obama didn't repudiate Lewis, but rather recalled reports suggesting that people in campaign crowds were calling Obama a terrorist or threatening to kill him. After more prodding from McCain, Obama called Lewis' comments inappropriate, and fought back with a broader point: "The American people have become so cynical about our politics, because all they see is a tit for tat and back and forth."
- OBAMA: “That’s going to be up to the American people. I think that, obviously, she’s a capable politician who has, I think, excited the — a base in the Republican Party. And I think it’s very commendable the work she’s done on behalf of special needs. I agree with that, John. I do want to just point out that autism, for example, or other special needs will require some additional funding, if we’re going to get serious in terms of research. That is something that every family that advocates on behalf of disabled children talk about. And if we have an across-the-board spending freeze, we’re not going to be able to do it.”
- “That's going to be up to the American people,'' he said ofPalin. He called her capable and noted her popularity with thebase of the Republican Party.
October 16, 2008
- When moderator Bob Schieffer encouraged the two men to air their grievances against one another, all the drama hung around Obama the Imperturbable. “I think the American people are less interested in our hurt feelings. . I don’t mind being attacked for the next three weeks. What we can’t afford is four more years of the same failed economic policies.”
- "We’re so hyper about fact-checking," the McCain aide said, "that you have candidates actually curtailing what they believe they can tell the American people."
- “I think the American people are less interested in our hurt feelings during the course of the campaign than addressing the issues that matter to them so deeply,” the Democrat said.
- Later outside his home he told a crowd of reporters "I want the American people to vote for who they want to vote for," and in an informed way.
- "That's always one of the president's goals, to reassure the American people, try to return confidence and strength to the markets, and to let people know that we're not going to let the system fail," she said.
- “You didn’t tell the American people the truth,” the Arizona senator said.
- “The important point here is, though, the American people have become so cynical about our politics, because all they see is a tit-for-tat and back-and-forth,” the Illinois senator said. “And what they want is the ability to just focus on some really big challenges that we face right now.”
- “He’s trying to unite the American people,” Young said. “It’s strength and vision that I’m looking for. Barack Obama is demonstrating that.”
- "He won, and small businesses won across America," McCain said. "They won because the American people won't let Sen. Obama raise their taxes in a tough economy. They're not going to let him do it, my friends."
October 17, 2008
- Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters in Missouri blame the Bush Administration for the economic crisis, 27% blame Congress, and 11% point to the Clinton Administration. Some look beyond the political realm-12% say Wall Street is to blame while 7% say the American people are at fault.
- “I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views,” Bachmann said on MSNBC’s Hardball. “That's what the American people are concerned about. That’s why they want to know what his answers are.”
October 18, 2008
- “But you know, I just want to be there to show Americans that we will rise above the political shots that we take because we’re in this serious business for serious challenges that are facing the good American people right now.”
- Obama is “committed to ensuring Social Security is solvent and viable for the American people, now and in the future,” says his official Web site.
October 19, 2008
- "The American people did not support the goals of nation building, peacemaking, law and order, and certainly not warlord hunting," McCain said in an Oct. 14, 1993 , Senate speech on Somalia .
- MCCAIN: Or you don't know the difference between that and what is a legitimate issue, and that is Senator Obama being truthful with the American people. But let me tell you what else I think you should be talking about and the American people should be talking about. In the debate the other night, I asked Senator Obama to repudiate a statement made by John Lewis, a man I admire and respect and have written about that connected me and Sarah Palin —
- MCCAIN: Civil rights leader, American hero. That connected me and Sarah Palin to segregationists, to the campaign of George Wallace, and even alluded to the bombing of a church where four children, four children were killed, and I asked him to repudiate that statement. I have repudiated every statement made by any fringe person in the Republican Party. And it has come up from time to time, and it probably will. The fact that Senator Obama would not repudiate that statement I think is something the American people will make a judgment about. That robo call is accurate. It’s totally accurate. And there is no comparison between it and the things that were done and said in South Carolina.
- “There’s $200 million of those campaign contributions — there’s no record. You can report online now. Two hundred million that we don’t know where it came from. Lot of strange things going on in this campaign. The American people should know where every penny came from,” McCain said. “They know where every penny of my campaign contributions came from.”
- Obama's campaign has purchased a half-hour television slot at prime-time on October 29, six days before the election, to make a closing argument to the American people.
- “I understand what politics is about — I know how you cango after one another and that's good,'' Powell said. “But Ithink this goes too far, and I think it has made the McCaincampaign look a little narrow. It's not what the American peopleare looking for.''
- "I believe Senator Obama's comments to Joe the Plumber in his driveway that they need to 'Spread the wealth around,' I think, is having an impact on the American people. I guarantee you," McCain told the conference call.
- Asked whether the endorsement would undercut his campaign's assertion that Obama is not ready to lead, McCain said, "Well, again, we have a very, we have a respectful disagreement, and I think the American people will pay close attention to our message for the future and keeping America secure."
- He also brought up Ayers, whom he tied to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a community activist group that McCain's campaign has accused of perpetuating "massive voter fraud." McCain said in the interview that when Obama and Ayers "served on a board together, that board gave $230,000 to ACORN. So we need to know more about it. The American people need to know and they need to know about those relationships including the ACORN relationship which the Obama campaign in the primary gave $830,000 to ACORN and the listing was that they gave the money for ‘lighting and site selection.’ Must have been great lights and a great site."
October 20, 2008
- Asked whether the endorsement would undercut his campaign’s assertion that Obama is not ready to lead, McCain said, “Well, again, we have a very, we have a respectful disagreement, and I think the American people will pay close attention to our message for the future and keeping America secure.”
- For at least two years, the American people are potentially looking at a liberal policy agenda dominating Washington from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. In fact, it’s conceivable that the Democrat majority in the Senate could be large enough that the traditional minority right to filibuster would be entirely eviscerated. So why isn’t it appropriate to ask what that policy agenda would look like?
October 21, 2008
- But what really has to be understood is, this is an unprecedented circumstance for the American people, and it relates to decades of spending far more than we’re producing. … You’ve heard this many times in your life from your father and your professors, that these twin fiscal and trade deficits, coupled with family borrowers and no savings, implied at some point there’s going to be the piper that has to be paid. And it could well be that that point has just occurred. And it could be that the rest of the world is going to simply stop financing America’s lack-of-saving culture — lack of savings in our culture. And every American family and our governments are going to have to understand this.
- “What Sen. Biden was saying and what is obvious to the American people, and the reason why Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama, is because American presidents are tested. That is a statement of fact,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said on MSNBC.
- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden issued a videotape just four days before the 2004 U.S. presidential election directly addressing the American people.
October 22, 2008
- Her response was: “Absolutely. I’m very concerned that he may have anti-American views. That’s what the American people are concerned about. That’s why they want to know what his answers are.”
- The U.S. occupation, Obama declared in August 2007 , encourages terrorist attacks, "ties down our military, busts our budgets, increases the pool of terrorist recruits, alienates America, gives democracy a bad name and prompts the American people to question our engagement in the world."
- “The American people are still unfamiliar with Sen. Obama and we feel it’s important to bring to light his positions on all the issues. One of the reasons he’s had the success he’s had is that people don’t know much about him,” Moyle said.
October 23, 2008
- “We’re so busy taking care of other places, and other countries and rebuilding for them, that the American people are just lost in the picture somewhere,” Gibel said. Recommend Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print (function() { /** * YUI function to get all elements by class name * getElementsByClass */ function getElementsByClass(className, tag, root) { tag = tag || ‘*’; root = (typeof root == ‘string’) ? document.getElementById(root) : root || document; var nodes = [], elements = root.getElementsByTagName(tag), re = new RegExp(‘(?:^|\s+)’ + className + ‘(?:\s+|$)’); for (var i = 0, len = elements.length; i defaultHeight) { // if primary exists then use that height, otherwise use related var obj = getElementsByClass(‘primary-media’,’div’,related)[0]; if (!obj) obj = related; // set height from primary or related container minHeight = parseInt(obj.offsetHeight, 10); // if the minheight is smaller than default, then set it to default if ( (minHeight heightLimit) { // set overflow and height bd.style.height = minHeight + “px”; bd.className += ” overflow”; story.className += ” read-closed”; // add read more expand button var div = document.createElement(‘div’); div.className = ‘read-more read-more-expand’; div.innerHTML = ‘Read Full Article’; // we have to handle the case where a user might click the button before our YUI script loads // if so, remove the height and overflow setting then hide the button, also add #full hash to url so // if script eventually is loaded it doesnt recreate the buttons and collapse the story div.onclick = function(ev) { var e = ev || window.event; // show full story bd.style.height = ‘auto’; bd.className = bd.className.replace(‘overflow’,”); story.className = story.className.replace(‘read-closed’,”); // hide the toggle button div.className += ’ hide’; // add #full hash to url to prevent YUI script from loading window.location.hash = ‘#full’; // disable link follow if (e.preventDefault) { e.preventDefault(); } else { e.returnValue = false; } } // add div to document bd.appendChild(div); } }})(); More… Video: A Closer Look at Candidates' Health Plans ABC News Video: How to rig an election CNN Video: Palin: plus or drag on McCain? Reuters 60 Minutes: Afghanistan battle intensifies: On the ground with U.S. soldiers Taliban attacks increasing Most Viewed - Politics What are the candidates hiding? Politico McCain's path to victory through Pa. Politico McCain says Obama will ‘say anything’ to win AP GOP donors critical of Palin's pricey threads Politico Errors, mischief could lead to long election night AP All Most Viewed » Most Blogged - Elections $150,000 Wardrobe for Palin May Alter Tailor-Made Image New York Times – Wed Oct 22, 7:09 pm EDT Blogs About This Story (35) Prev Next Zombie: Billy Ayers’ Forgotten Communist Manifesto, ‘Prairie Fire’ Little Green Footballs – Wed Oct 22, 6:19 pm EDT Blogs About This Story (11) Prev Next Op-Ed Columnist: Rebranding the U.S. With Obama New York Times – Wed Oct 22, 8:18 pm EDT Blogs About This Story (8) Prev Next Elsewhere on the Web McClatchy Newspapers: Electric zaps help check for fish in Florida lake Politico: What are the candidates hiding? ABC News: Obama: McCain Poses Natl. Security Risk Alerts Get an alert when there are new stories about: Yglesias Republican presidential nominee John McCain multiple sclerosis diabetes insurance companies Add Selected Alerts View More Alerts » Also on Yahoo! News Today in History Obituaries Corrections News by Region (Yahoo! Directory) Yahoo! News & Media Sites Daily Features All Comics » Opinions & Editorials: Diverse views on news from the right, left, and center. All Opinion » Photo Highlight Photo Highlight Slideshow
- “He told the American people something that was patently false and then he’s raised a whole lot of money and the implications of that for future presidential elections should be very disturbing to every American. One thing we’ve shown in history — you get unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns, you get corruption and you get scandals,” McCain said.
October 24, 2008
- “I know Halloween is coming, but John McCain as the candidate of change? Whoa, come on,” Biden said during an outdoor rally in the capital city’s downtown. “John McCain and change? He needs a costume for that. Folks, the American people aren’t going to buy this.”
October 25, 2008
- Restoring health to the nation’s economy will be even more difficult considering the mess that the nation finds itself in at this point. It will likely require patience, sacrifice and a positive attitude from the American people. That will require inspirational leadership from the nation’s president, and there is every reason to believe that is Obama’s greatest strength.
October 26, 2008
- “Transparency and efficiency are not conflicting principles,” Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. “In fact they often work hand in hand as a more transparent government is a more accountable government. From the beginning, this campaign has been about the American people, from the 3.2 million individuals who have contributed an average of $86 to the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who have spent hours working to send Barack Obama to the White House. When Barack Obama is president, the government will be about them and not about Washington insiders who have controlled government for far too long.”
- In his speech, Senator Obama will tell voters that after twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy. Obama will ask Americans to help him change this country, and say that in just one week, they can choose an economy that rewards work and creates new jobs and fuels prosperity from the bottom-up, they can choose to invest in health care for our families and education for our kids and renewable energy for our future, and they can choose hope over fear, unity over division and the promise of change over the power of the status quo. After a summer of fairly direct partisanship, Obama's fall stump speech has edged back toward his 2004 convention speech, with a passage about how there's no red and blue America. It will be interesting to see how much of that there is in the final week.
October 27, 2008
- And now, after twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy. Senator McCain says that we can’t spend the next four years waiting for our luck to change, but you understand that the biggest gamble we can take is embracing the same old Bush-McCain policies that have failed us for the last eight years.
- “If the American people want to get something done, that’s not a bad idea.” said Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, said on CBS’ “Early Show.”Divided government gives everybody the ability to not do something and then point the finger at the other guy.”
- In 2008, Goldstein said, Obama "has convinced a broad cross-section of the American people he's presidential," so Palin gives swing voters who are warming to the Illinois senator one more reason to move away from McCain.
- WASHINGTON – Democrat Barack Obama’s “closing argument” speech Monday included a sweeping accusation against GOP rival John McCain: “Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy.”
- “And now, after twenty-one months and three debates, Sen. McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy. Senator McCain says that we can’t spend the next four years waiting for our luck to change, but you understand that the biggest gamble we can take is embracing the same old Bush-McCain policies that have failed us for the last eight years.”
October 28, 2008
- Twenty-one months after he began an uphill climb that has culminated with him "so close" to the White House, Obama said, "My faith in the American people has been vindicated."
October 29, 2008
- "I think this whole issue of the relationship with Bill Ayers needs to be known by the American people," he told Radio Mambi. "Senator Obama said it was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know much more than that."
- “John McCain dressed as an agent of change is just not a costume that will sell to the American people,” he said. “Especially when John McCain is the one who’s been saying under the Bush economic policies we’ve made great economic progress.”
- “When the next President is tested, the American people can have John McCain’s judgment of siding with George Bush and Dick Cheney on every major national security decision, or they can have the steady leadership and sound judgment of Barack Obama that has earned the support of Americans like General Colin Powell,” said Gration.
- "I think this whole issue of the relationship with Bill Ayers needs to be known by the American people," the Arizona senator told Spanish-language station Radio Mambi.
- Obama “didn’t tell the American people the truth” when he claimed during the primary that he would negotiate in good faith on a course to public financing, he said.
- “I reject it,” he said of Limbaugh’s statement. “Look, there is racism in America. We all know that because we can’t stop working against it. But I am totally convinced that 99 and 44 one-hundredths percent of the American people are going to make a decision on who is best to lead this country.”
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