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Election Daily News Clips* *September 29th, 2008* *Candidate Tracking:* ***All times in Eastern Standard Time 1:00pm McCain and Palin: are holding a "Road to Victory" rally in Columbus, Ohio *News Clips:** * *MCCAIN NEWS* * * ***After dramatic detour, John McCain's task is to get back on track (LA Times 9/29/08)* By Bob Drogin He ends a confusing and dramatic side trip to Washington that left supporters angry and critics wondering. WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain returns to the trail today after a dramatic but rocky four-day detour that upended his campaign, upset supporters and gave new ammunition to critics who question his judgment. McCain will appear at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, in hopes of regaining the momentum he lost when he abruptly canceled campaign events and returned here Thursday to try to broker a $700-billion bailout of the crippled financial industry. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign29-2008sep29,0,3912709.story *Brothers in Arms Hit Road to Rally Support for McCain* By Krissah Williams Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 29, 2008; Page A08 McCain has never attracted huge crowds and mass followings the way his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, and his own running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have. But throughout his campaign, the former prisoner of war has enjoyed the fervent backing of a fraternity of veterans and their families, who rallied to his cause even when he looked like a sure loser in the Republican primaries and now provide a key core of support in the final days of his quest for the presidency. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802667.html *On Bailout, Candidates Were Surely Themselves (NYT 9/29/08)* By PATRICK HEALY It was classic John McCain and classic Barack Obama who grappled with the $700 billion bailout plan over the last week: Mr. McCain was by turns action-oriented and impulsive as he dive-bombed targets, while Mr. Obama was measured and cerebral and inclined to work the phones behind the scenes. Mr. McCain, who came of age in a chain-of-command culture, showed once again that he believes that individual leaders can play a catalytic role and should use the bully pulpit to push politicians. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/us/politics/29campaign.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1222683035-obqTbNgYgO6q0hVpOyQQBA *McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry (NYT 9/28/08)* By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr. Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings. A lifelong gambler, Mr. McCain takes risks, both on and off the craps table. He was throwing dice that night not long after his failed 2000 presidential bid, in which he was skewered by the Republican Party's evangelical base, opponents of gambling. Mr. McCain was betting at a casino he oversaw as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and he was doing so with the lobbyist who represents that casino, according to three associates of Mr. McCain. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/us/politics/28gambling-web.html *McCain Cronies Hit Jackpot with Gtech (Harpers 9/29/08)* By Ken Silverstein To grease its path, Gtech has hired a slew of McCain's closest aides and advisors. Since 1999, the firm has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to BKSH & Associates, whose chairman until earlier this year was senior McCain advisor Charlie Black, Jr. Black, who left BKSH after it was reported that he was lobbying for clients from the McCain bus, worked on the Gtech account until last year. http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003629 *McCain: 'When They Call It a Tie That Means We Win' (NYT 9/27/08)* By Elisabeth Bumiller ARLINGTON, Va. — The debate reviews are in, and here's one from one of the debaters himself: "I was a little disappointed the media called it a tie, but I think that means when they call it a tie that means we win,'' Mr. McCain was recorded by a television crew as saying on Saturday afternoon in a telephone call to Representative Chip Pickering, Republican of Mississippi. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/mccain-when-they-call-it-a-tie-that-means-we-win/ *Time to Channel Cousin Frank: McCain's answer to the charge he's impulsive: so was Teddy Roosevelt, and look how he turned out. (Newsweek 9/27/08 – Published 10/6/08)* Jonathan Alter John McCain wants us to think he's a man of character when he's actually just acharacter. There's a big difference between the two. "Character" connotes moral courage and fortitude, which McCain once possessed but now seems to have misplaced. By contrast, "a character" is merely a person with an instinct for eccentric self-drama that can be amusing or disturbing depending on the circumstances. http://www.newsweek.com/id/161215/output/print *How McCain Stirred a Simmering Pot* By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 27, 2008; Page A01 McCain listened, then, with Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), he burst into the Senate Republican policy luncheon. Over a Tex-Mex buffet, Sens. Robert F. Bennett (Utah) and Judd Gregg (N.H.) had been explaining the contours of a deal just reached. House Republicans were not buying it…By the time the meeting broke up, the agreement touted just hours before -- one that Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), the No. 3 GOP leader, estimated would be supported by more than 40 Senate Republicans -- was in shambles. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603957.html?nav=rss_politics *Candidates Clash on the Economy and Iraq in Debate (NYT 9/27/08)* By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY Mr. McCain was feisty and aggressive but, particularly during the start of the debate, his language and demeanor offered a reminder of just how much he was a creature of the Senate, as he used phrases that were no doubt understandable in Washington but might have been lost to the audience at home. He spent much of the first 20 minutes of the debate criticizing Mr. Obama for supporting earmarks, special projects sought by members for their district. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/us/politics/27debate.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin *PALIN NEWS* *Some on the right are joining a chorus of criticism over Sarah Palin (LA Times 9/27/08)* By James Rainey John McCain's running mate and his sharp reactions to the nation's economic crisis have led several prominent conservative columnists to slam the senator as reckless and strident. While John McCain and his aides have railed against the "liberal mainstream media" in recent weeks, some of the most searing attacks against the Republican presidential nominee have come from conservative intellectuals. McCain's surprise vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and his sharp reactions to the continuing economic storm have led several prominent columnists on the right to slam the Arizona senator as more reckless than bold, more strident than forceful. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palin28-2008sep28,0,3440078.story *Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy (LA Times 9/28/08)* By Stephen Braun Her faith views are strong and sometimes controversial. Her aides say she seeks to share but not impose her faith; her critics say she has 'a fine-tuned sense of how far to push.' Palin told [Munger] that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story *AP Investigation: Palin got zoning aid, gifts (AP 9/28/08)* By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows. When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception - and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard. http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_ETHICS?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-09-28-11-58-26 *Palin takes questions during cheesesteak run (9/27/08)* By Peter Hamby "So we do cross border, like from Afghanistan to Pakistan you think?," Rovito asked. "If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin responded, before moving on to greet other voters. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/27/palin-takes-questions-during-cheesesteak-run/ *Palin Is Ready? Please.: McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, that is simply not true. (Newsweek 9/27/08 – Published 10/6/08)* By Fareed Zakaria Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in American politics, "to spend more time with her family"? Having stayed in purdah for weeks, she finally agreed to a third interview. CBS's Katie Couric questioned her in her trademark sympathetic style. It didn't help. http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/output/print *OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS*** *The GOP's real go-to guy: What Rush Limbaugh wants, he gets, when it comes to McCain's campaign. (LA Times 9/29/08_* By Zev Chafets Limbaugh says the things that McCain can't or won't say, and pushes both McCain and Palin to ever-tougher rhetoric by raising the bar of acceptable campaign discourse. He also gives permission to his audience to laugh out loud at the Democratic standard-bearer. These are not small gifts to the Republican ticket. Especially not from a man who started out the year as John McCain's great nemesis. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-chafets29-2008sep29,0,1444137.story *McCain's Lost Chance: Obama Holds His Own on Foreign Policy (WaPo 9/29/08)* By E. J. Dionne Jr. McCain is supposed to own the foreign policy issue -- and he should have owned Friday's debate. During their respective primary battles, McCain was a better debater than Obama, who could be hesitant, wordy and thrown off his stride. But the Obama who showed up at Ole Miss was sharper and more concise than the man who frequently lost debates against his Democratic foes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802233_pf.html *The 3 A.M. Call (NYT 9/29/08)* By PAUL KRUGMAN It's 3 a.m., a few months into 2009, and the phone in the White House rings. Several big hedge funds are about to fail, says the voice on the line, and there's likely to be chaos when the market opens. Whom do you trust to take that call?...So what do we know about the readiness of the two men most likely to end up taking that call? Well, Barack Obama seems well informed and sensible about matters economic and financial. John McCain, on the other hand, scares me. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/opinion/29krugman.html?ref=opinion *McCain's Suspension Bridge to Nowhere (NYT 9/27/08)* By FRANK RICH WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his "country first" will take the country down with him if that's what it takes to get to the White House. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=opinion *McCain: Bearish on Debates (NYT 9/27/08)* By GAIL COLLINS John McCain looked a bit off his game during the big presidential debate. Maybe he was exhausted from parachuting into Washington to resolve the financial crisis. Really, there are only so many hills a man can charge up in the course of a single week. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/opinion/27collins.html?ref=opinion *McCain's High Horse Meets Obama's High-Mindedness (WaPo 9/27/08)* By Tom Shales John McCain wore the more presidential tie -- that much can be said for him -- but Barack Obama displayed the more presidential temperament, or the kind of demeanor people presumably would want in a president, when the two candidates met at the University of Mississippi last night for their first debate of the campaign. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092700037.html?hpid=topnews *The Palin Problem (WaPo 9/28/08)* By Kathleen Parker As we've seen and heard more from John McCain's running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn't know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions require her promotion. Yes, she recently met and turned several heads of state as the U.N. General Assembly convened in New York. She was gracious, charming and disarming. Men swooned. Pakistan's president wanted to hug her. (Perhaps Osama bin Laden is dying to meet her?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603268.html *Hanging With the Palins? Not for Me. (WaPo 9/27/08)* By Colbert I. King Pardon me, Mr. President: Here's one American who has difficulty relating to the Palins. I'm confident that I would get along with Sarah Palin if we found ourselves in the same company. I was taught good manners. But that's not what Clinton meant. He was suggesting that Americans identify with Sarah Palin. Count me out. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603046.html *Bush's third war: U.S. attacks inside Pakistan mark an escalation that may bedevil the next president.(LA Times 9/29708)* By Andrew J. Bacevich President Bush will leave office without concluding either of the two wars he initiated after 9/11. Now, in the waning months of his administration, the president seems intent on expanding his "global war on terror" still farther. To the existing fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq, he is adding a third: Pakistan. Eclipsed perhaps only by Iraq, Pakistan ranks in the very top tier of the Bush administration's foreign policy blunders. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bacevich27-2008sep27,0,4559985.story * * *BUSH NEWS* * **Bush Keeps Pressure on Congress (The Page 9/29/08) *By Mark Halperin Speaking from the White House Monday morning, the president calls on Congress to pass the financial rescue deal reached over the weekend. Labels the measure "a bold bill" that addresses the root cause of the economic crisis. Says "I fully understand this will be a difficult vote," but "I'm confident that this rescue plan… will begin to restore strength and stability to America's financial system and overall economy." http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/29/bush-to-speak-on-bailout-monday-morning/* * *Bush Poised to Sign Temporary-Budget Bill (WSJ 9/29/08)* By COREY BOLES and JOSH MITCHELL WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush is expected to sign into law a roughly $630 billion bill to fund the federal government through March 2009. The bill would also provide billions of dollars in low-cost loans to ailing auto makers. The Senate on Saturday approved the temporary-budget bill by a vote of 78 to 12, after the House approved it earlier in the week. The measure now proceeds to the White House for President Bush's signature. A White House spokesman said the president would sign the bill into law, but added that the timing remained unclear. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122265399484184411.html?mod=googlenews_wsj *Financial crisis: George W Bush says bail-out 'sends strong signal' (Telegraph 9/29/08)* By Alex Spillius in Washington Welcoming the agreement, Mr Bush said: "This plan sends a strong signal to markets around the world that the United States is serious about restoring confidence and stability to our financial system. Without this rescue plan, the costs to the American economy could be disastrous." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3100907/Financial-crisis-George-W-Bush-says-bail-out-sends-strong-signal.html *OTHER TOP NEWS* *Sweeping Bailout Bill Unveiled: House Set to Vote Today, Senate to Follow (WaPo 9/29/08)* By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane The proposed legislation, which is scheduled for a vote today in the House, would authorize Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. to initiate what is likely to become the biggest government bailout in U.S. history, allowing him to spend up to $700 billion to relieve faltering banks and other firms of bad assets backed by home mortgages, which are falling into foreclosure at record rates. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092800064.html?hpid=topnews *Bailout Plan in Hand, House Braces for Tough Vote (NYT 9/29/08)* By CARL HULSE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON — The House braced for a difficult vote set for Monday on a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry after a weekend of tense negotiations produced a plan that Congressional leaders portrayed as greatly strengthened by new taxpayer safeguards. The 110-page bill, intended to ease a growing credit crisis, came after a frenzied week of political twists and turns that culminated in an agreement between the Bush administration and Congress early Sunday morning. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/business/29bailout.html?hp *Broad Authority, Lots of Money And Uncertainty (WaPo 9/29/08)* By Binyamin Appelbaum, David Cho and Neil Irwin It is not clear how patiently investors and depositors in troubled institutions will wait. Nor is it clear whether, in the meantime, the banking system itself will begin to recover from the uncertainty that is freezing the flow of loans to major corporations, small businesses and individuals. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092803005.html?hpid=topnews *U.S. Attorney Probe Set to Conclude (WSJ 9/29/08)* By EVAN PEREZ WASHINGTON -- A year-long Justice Department probe into the firings of U.S. attorneys is set to conclude without answering the central question of whether White House officials played an improper role in the ousters, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigation by the Justice Department's Inspector General and its Office of Professional Responsibility will not recommend a grand jury referral for former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, according to these people. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122265826984684681.html* * *POLLS* *Obama Way Ahead In Today's Tracking Polls (Talking Points Memo 9/28/08)* By Eric Kleefeld Here's a wrap-up of the four major national tracking polls for today. With one new day of post-debate data within the three-day tracking polls, Barack Obama's lead is growing. • Gallup: Obama 50%, McCain 42%, • Rasmussen: Obama 50%, McCain 44 • Hotline/Diageo: Obama 47%, McCain 42% • Research 2000: Obama 50%, McCain 43% http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/obama_way_ahead_in_todays_trac.php --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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