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08 Election Daily News Clips
September 18th, 2008
Candidate Tracking:
***All times in Eastern Standard Time
10:50am BUSH: Tour/Remarks at waste-to-energy facility in Huntsville, AL
12pm: McCain and Palin: Rally in Cedar Rapids, IA
- Tracking scheduled for this event 12:35pm BUSH: Attends a Love Parker
Alabama Trust reception in Huntsville, AL
4:50pm BUSH: Attends a Florida 16 Victory Trust reception in Jupiter, FL
8pm McCain and Palin: Rally in Green Bay, WI
- Tracking scheduled for this event 9pm Palin: Interview (Part 2) airs on
FNC's "Hannity & Colmes"
News Clips:
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MCCAIN NEWS
*John McCain can't seem to find his economic footing (LA Times 9/18/08)*
By Noam N. Levey and Maeve Reston
The financial crisis has the Republican and his running mate, Sarah Palin,
reversing themselves on the need for regulation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign18-2008sep18,0,2208769.story
*Amid turmoil, McCain turns to regulation (Boston Globe 9/18/08)*
By Michael Kranish and Farah Stockman
Responding to the turmoil on Wall Street, John McCain said flatly yesterday:
"We need strong and effective regulation." But throughout his two-decade
Senate career, McCain has cast himself as an outspoken critic of government
intervention in the markets, saying that he is "fundamentally a
deregulator."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/18/amid_turmoil_mccain_turns_to_regulation?mode=PF
*Link to McCain Statement on Financial Markets and AIG Bailout:*
http://thepage.time.com/mccain-statement-on-financial-markets-and-aig-bailout/
*McCain, Obama Jockey for Position on Finance Crisis (WSJ 9/18/08)*
By LAURA MECKLER and NICK TIMIRAOS
The crisis on Wall Street and renewed attention to the nation's economic
woes have created new opportunity for Barack Obama to regain control of the
campaign debate after weeks of being on the defensive against John McCain.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122165915959447835.html
*Fundamentally, McCain Has Something to Worry About (WaPo 9/18/08)*
By Dan Balz; A03
John McCain has a fundamentals problem. It is political as well as economic,
and it remains the biggest obstacle standing between the Arizona senator and
the White House.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703307_pf.html
*Campaigns struggle to craft bailout response (Politico 9/18/08)*
By: Alexander Burns
In a testament to the political risk associated with the notion of a federal
bailout, both presidential campaigns struggled Wednesday to formulate
responses to the announced rescue of American International Group, the
ailing insurer.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=724D375D-18FE-70B2-A8F7023E8072B369
*McCain, Obama scramble to shift economic message (WaPo 9/17/08)*
By TOM RAUM and GLEN JOHNSON
With economic anxiety rising, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack
Obama scrambled Wednesday to adjust their messages to connect more directly
with financially struggling voters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702388_pf.html
Out of bounds! McCain stretches definition of 'fundamentals' (McClatchy
Newspapers 9/17/08)
By David Lightman
Throw the flag against: John McCain. Call: False start. What happened:
Republican presidential nominee McCain said Monday, as financial markets
were reeling, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are
very, very difficult times." ...Why that's wrong: Economists, politicians
and journalists have long referred to economic "fundamentals" as
quantifiable concepts, such as unemployment rates, gross domestic product,
inflation, productivity and so forth.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/52623.html
*Phil Gramm's fingerprints are all over market mess (Houston Chronicle
9/18/08)*
By FROMA HARROP
''The fundamentals of our economy are strong," John McCain said as
Wall Street went into white-knuckle panic over diving investor
confidence. Does he believe that? It doesn't really matter, because the
Republican has outsourced his economic policy to the ideologues whose
opposition to regulations brought the financial markets to their knees.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6007788.html
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*John McCain accuses Barack Obama of scuttling immigration overhaul (LA
Times 9/18/08)*
By Nicole Gaouette
The Republican's effort to court Latino voters is challenged by both sides
of the issue.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-immig18-2008sep18,0,2325963.story
Battered Wall Street gives to Obama, McCain (AP 9/17/08)
By Pete Yost
Some of John McCain's and Barack Obama's biggest fundraisers are executives
from the stricken financial services industry, which will need all the help
it can get from whoever wins the White House. Merrill Lynch & Co.'s chief
executive, for example, has raised more than $500,000 for McCain's campaign.
Obama has received at least $1.5 million collected by three senior
executives at Lehman Brothers.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WALL_STREET_POLITICS?SITE=ILROR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
McCain Flip-Flops On AIG Bailout: Rejects It Tuesday, Says It's Okay
Wednesday (Huffington Post 9/17/08)
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a day after flatly rejecting
the idea of a taxpayer bailout for American International Group Inc., said
Wednesday that the government had been "forced" into proposing an $85
billion loan to the nation's largest insurer.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/9/17/mccain-flip-flops-on-aig_n_127139.html
*John McCain and the Lying Game (TIme 9/18/08)*
By Joe Klein
Politics has always been lousy with blather and chicanery. But there
are rules and traditions too. In the early weeks of the
general-election campaign, a consensus has grown in the political
community—a consensus that ranges from practitioners like Karl Rove to
commentators like, well, me—that John McCain has allowed his campaign to
slip the normal bounds of political propriety. The situation has gotten so
intense that we in the media have slipped our normal rules as well.
... increasing numbers of otherwise sober observers, even such august
institutions as the New York Times editorial board, are calling John McCain
a liar. ...Are his transgressions of degree or of kind?
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1842030,00.html
*John McCain & The Ghost of Keating Five (The Nation blog 9/17/08)*
by Ari Berman
Back in the 1980s, when the US faced a major savings & loan crisis, John
McCain intervened to protect S&L magnate Charles Keating--a major McCain
donor and friend--from federal regulators. McCain was later rebuked by the
Senate Ethics Committee for "poor judgement" and embarrassed by the $112,000
in campaign contributions, trips and gifts he accepted from Keating.
Following the entanglement, McCain became a born-again reformer and tried to
scrub the Keating episode from his resume.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/361711/print
*Bizarre McCain Remarks Appear To Reject Spain As Ally (HuffPo 9/18/08)*
Late Wednesday night, news made its way from the other side of the Atlantic
that John McCain, in an interview with a Spanish journalist, had made a
series of bizarre responses to a question regarding that country's prime
minister.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/bizarre-mccain-remarks-ap_n_127346.html
*McCain Goes Right in New Economic Ad (The Page 9/18/08)*
TV spot hits Obama with claims galore on taxes and regulation. Campaign says
"The ad will be televised nationally," but actual buy info TBD.
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/18/mccain-goes-right-in-new-economic-ad/
*Link to video of ad ("Dome"): *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjvzyFyMO-k
*Obama Targets McCain on Energy, Social Security in Ads (The Page 9/17/08)*
In an unannounced spot airing in Michigan, the Obama camp portrays McCain
against alternative energies and in the pocket of the oil companies. The
second ad, also unreleased by the campaign, accuses McCain of wanting to
privatize Social Security.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/thepage/<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/time/thepage/>
~3/395656680/
*Link to video of ad ("Social Security"):*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9GZUtCgPc
*Biden Hammers McCain: "Where Was He 5 Years Ago?" (The Page 9/17/08)*
Speaking at the start of a bus tour in Ohio, the VP candidate calls McCain a
latecomer to financial regulation. "If John cares so much about this now,
where was he a week ago? Where was he a month ago? Where was he five years
ago?" "All of a sudden it's 'My goodness, there's greed on Wall Street!'"
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/thepage/<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/time/thepage/>
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Campaigns use phony ads to drive message (Politico 9/18/08)
By: Jonathan Martin
As the fall campaign gets underway in earnest and both sides launch
increasingly negative television ads, both John McCain and Barack Obama are
pursuing a similar two-pronged strategy on the airwaves. ...Then there are
the other ads – if they can even be called that. Aimed at driving the
conversation online and on cable news – where the day-in, day-out campaign
is increasingly fought – these spots amount to video press releases
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=709AC6FF-18FE-70B2-A8D23642A51F7141
*The Value of McCain's Health Care Tax Credit = One Designer Jacket
(WonkRoom 9/17/08)*
The centerpiece of John McCain's health care plan is a tax credit worth
$2,500 for individuals. By coincidence, in her speech at the RNC two weeks
ago, Gov. Sarah Palin wore a jacket designed by Valentino Garavani that cost
$2,500.
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/09/17/health-jacket/
*McCain, Palin in Cedar Rapids today (Cedar Rapids's The Gazette 9/18/08)*
By James Q. Lynch
The impact of this morning's visit by John McCain and Sarah Palin cannot be
measured by how long they stay, but by how much time supporters put in over
the next seven weeks to get them elected, a campaign official said.
*Mixed review to McCain at GM plant in Michigan (Politico blog 9/17/08)*
By Jonathan Martin
UAW political types will be pleased: A number of workers wore Obama t-shirts
or pins and some attempted to line up so they would be in the camera shot of
McCain. They did not appear to be successful. McCain got a polite reception
from the workers, who applauded his lines about the American worker. When he
finished speaking and was leaving, some of the Obama supporters began to
chant, "O-bama—Oh-eight'' It was not an overwhelming demonstration by any
means, but certainly easy to hear in the cavernous assembly plant.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Mixed_review_to_McCain_at_GM_plant_in_Michigan.html?showall
*McCain: We Won't Leave Michigan Workers "Hung Out to Dry" (The Page
9/17/08)*
The Arizonan vows to clean up Wall Street, stop taking money from taxpayers
to fix economic woes in remarks to employees at a GM plant in Lake
Orion. "It is time to get our auto industry back on its feet. It's time for
a new generation of cars and for loans to build the facilities that will
make them." "These workers here are the best in the world. They are the
backbone and foundation of our economy."
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/thepage/<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/time/thepage/>
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*Link to McCain Remarks at GM Plant Wednesday: *
http://thepage.time.com/mccain-remarks-at-gm-plant-wednesday/
*Link to Pool Report for McCain's Michigan GM Plant Tour:*
http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-for-mccains-michigan-gm-plant-tour/
*Lots of Palin love, not as much for McCain (Politico blog 9/17/08)*
By Amie Parnes
At the McCain-Palin joint rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, tonight, the
crowd is chanting "Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!" They havent once screamed for
McCain, even after Palin introduced him.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Lots_of_Palin_love_not_as_much_for_McCain.html?showall
*Quotes of the Day (PoliticalWire 9/17/08)*
By Taegan Goddard
"Two years ago, I warned that the oversight of Fannie and Freddie was
terrible, that we were facing a crisis because of it, or certainly a serious
problem." -- Sen. John McCain, in an interview earlier today, via ABC News.
"So, I'd like to tell you that I did anticipate it, but I have to give you
straight talk, I did not." -- McCain, in an interview with Keene Sentinel on
the mortgage crisis in December 2007.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/17/quotes_of_the_day.html
Trump endorses McCain on Larry King (Politico 9/17/08)
By Mike Allen
"I know John McCain, and John McCain's a great guy, a tremendous guy," Trump
told King. "I've known him for a long time. And I'm with him, and I'm with
him based on the fact that I have great knowledge of John McCain. Also, this
is not the right time for tax increases. And Obama wants to increase your
taxes drastically."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/908/13558.html<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13558.html>
Top Clinton fundraiser backs McCain over Obama (AP 9/17/08)
By Ann Sanner
"I believe that Barack Obama, with MoveOn.org and Nancy Pelosi and Howard
Dean, has taken the Democratic Party - and they will continue to - too far
to the left," Lynn Forester de Rothschild said. "I'm not comfortable there."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MCCAIN_CLINTON_BACKER?SITE=MITRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*See HuffPo's New McCainiac Rothschild Calls Some Americans "Rednecks"":*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/new-mccainiac-rothschild_n_127312.html
Judge says McCain is 'natural born citizen' (AP 9/17/08)
By AP Staff
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to remove John McCain from
the California ballot because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/9/17/judge_says_mccain_is_a_natural_born_citizen/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/17/judge_says_mccain_is_a_natural_born_citizen/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news>
*Campaign-trail reporters sidelined (Politico 9/17/08)*
By: Mike Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown
The flocks of campaign reporters who fly around the country with the
presidential candidates have been more sidelined in the 2008 campaign than
any in generations, sealed off from any meaningful access to either Sen.
Barack Obama (D-Ill.) or Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=736F8A9B-18FE-70B2-A8BA6D16E621CC70
*"Sold Us Out" (Hotline blog 9/17/08)*
New Barack Obama spot out this afternoon -- "Sold Us Out" -- accuses John
McCain of supporting tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. The
ad will run in PA and other, you got it, "key states."
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/09/sold_us_out.html#comments
*Link to video of ad*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCdcvdPHVM
*White House foes to speak at famed NYC dinner (AP 9/17/08)*
Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama have agreed to participate
in what historian and author Theodore H. White once called "a ritual of
American politics" — the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g92pG-rj4FtxIp_AQoZ7gf6sIk4wD938LNT00
*PALIN NEWS*
*Palin Says She's Disappointed by Another Bailout (AP 9/17/08)*
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she's disappointed
that the federal government needed to bail out another financial
institution.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1841913,00.html
*Hackers brea**k into Sarah Palin's e-mail account (AP 9/17/08)*
By Ted Bridis
Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's
governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she
has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_HACKED?SITE=ILROR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*Link to McCain Statement on Palin E-Mail Hacking:*
http://thepage.time.com/mccain-statement-on-palin-e-mail-hacking/
*Palin Takes Questions at a McCain Town Hall (ABC blog 9/18/08)*
By Brett Hovell and Imtiyaz Delawala
At a joint McCain-Palin town hall meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich., this
evening, Gov. Sarah Palin took questions directly from voters for the first
time, but rarely directly answered the questions posed to her or ventured
from lines she often delivers on the campaign trail.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/palin-takes-que.html
*See AP's "Palin joins McCain for Michigan town hall meeting":*
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h21ZbzgPbTVRftcJPT5vkHkonY5QD938R8M00
*Vice President Palin, Energy Czar (The Page 9/17/08)*
The Alaska Governor tells Fox News' Hannity that her role in a McCain White
House would be focused on energy independence, tax cuts and curbing
spending. "We sort of have a do-nothing Senate right now where nobody's
wanting to really pick up the ball…. It's going to take…a change in
leadership in order to really crush that gridlock and get going on
this." Also says on drilling in ANWR: "No secret, John McCain and I agree to
disagree on that one. And I'm going to keep working on him with ANWR."
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/thepage/<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/time/thepage/>
~3/395532005/
*Link to Excerpts from Palin's Hannity Interview — Part I: *
http://thepage.time.com/excerpts-from-palins-hannity-interview-part-i/
*Sarah Palin's wasteful ways (Salon 9/17/08)*
By David Talbot
She poses as a fiscal watchdog, but when Palin was mayor, she grabbed city
funds to give her office a pricey "bordello" makeover.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/17/palin_mayor/print.html
*Rove says politics determined VP pick (AP 9/17/08)*
By MATT SEDENSKY
Republican tactician Karl Rove said Wednesday that Sen. John McCain's vice
presidential pick was a political choice and that excitement over Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin will subside.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/529644.html
* *
*Sarah Palin inquiry is showing more signs of distress (AP 9/17/08)*
By Matt Volz
A bipartisan panel may meet to discuss delaying the investigation into
whether the Alaska governor dismissed a top official because he would not
fire a state trooper who was divorcing her sister.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trooper18-2008sep18,0,909555.story?track=rss
*Monegan dismissal inquiry heats up (ADN 9/18/08)*
By WESLEY LOY
Attorney general accused of backing out of deal to get state workers to
testify.
http://www.adn.com/troopergate/story/529607.html
*Palin Blames Lobbyists Like Her Campaign Manager For The** Failure of
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (ThinkProgress 9/17/08)*
By Ryan Powers
While Palin blames the need for the Fannie-Freddie bailout on the two firms'
lobbyists, she seems more than willing to take those same lobbyists' money.
In fact, at least 20 McCain-Palin fundraisers "have lobbied on behalf of
Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac<http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080716/pl_politico/11781;_ylt=Aqra8AQGuKZ7chQBIo7D5e2s0NUE>"
in recent years. More significantly, the McCain-Palin campaign manager, Rick
Davis, "served as president of an advocacy group led by Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac" that worked to cripple regulatory initiatives in Congress and
protect the two institution's "healthy
profits<http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/andrew_zajac_barack_obamas_tak.html>
."
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/9/17/palin-blames-davis/<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/palin-blames-davis/>
Palin takes first impromptu question from national press (CNN 9/17/08)
Sarah Palin took her first impromptu question from a reporter traveling with
her campaign Wednesday while shaking hands at a restaurant called Karl's Inn
of the Barristers in Cleveland. A pool reporter from the national press
corps asked Palin's reaction to the federal bailout of insurance giant
AIG. Palin said she is "disappointed that taxpayers are called upon to
bailout another one." "Certainly AIG, though, with the construction bonds
that they're holding, and with the insurance that they are holding, very,
very impactful to Americans," she said. "So you know, the shot that has been
called by the feds, its understandable but very, very disappointing that
taxpayers are called upon for another one."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17/palin-takes-first-impromptu-question-from-national-press/
AP Interview: Rove: Palin excitement will subside (AP 9/17/08)
By Matt Sedensky
Republican tactician Karl Rove said Wednesday that Sen. John McCain's vice
presidential pick was a political choice and that excitement over Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin will subside.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/ROVE_CAMPAIGN?SITE=ILROR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS*
*Down Days for McCain (WaPo 9/18/08)*
By David S. Broder
Wall Street and its woes are causing big problems for the Republican
candidate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702970.html
*Shocked, shocked by greed (Boston Globe 9/18/08)*
CONFRONTED with unprecedented turmoil in the financial sector, Republican
presidential candidate John McCain first resorted to a cliche, insisting
that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." But the bad news keeps on
coming - first the failure of the investment house Lehman Brothers, and now
the $85 billion federal bailout of the insurer AIG. Belatedly, McCain has
repackaged himself as a crusading populist. On Tuesday, he denounced the
"excess, greed, and corruption of Wall Street."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/09/18/shocked_shocked_by_greed?mode=PF
*McCain's Veto Pen (WaPo 9/18/08)*
George F. Will
For his closing argument, he should remind voters of the virtues of divided
government.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702975.html?nav=rss_print/editorialpages
*The McCain of the Week (NYT 9/18/08)*
GAIL COLLINS
At rally in Ohio, Senator John McCain morphed into a new persona — a raging
populist. If he is going to keep changing into new people, he should send
out notices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/opinion/18collins.html
*Wall Street's Just Deserts (WaPo 9/18/08)*
Harold Meyerson
Both Reagan-age government and Wall Street's investment banks deserve to
die.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/index.html
*The rise of Sarah Palin (Washington Times 9/18/08)*
Gary Andres
Picking Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee energized John McCain's
presidential campaign like a Caribou Coffee jolt of caffeine. She produced a
bump in the polls and a burst of excitement. ...The reform-minded Alaska
governor could also help down ticket with Republican congressional
candidates.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/18/the-rise-of-sarah-palin/
*The End of the Bridge to Nowhere (Weekly Standard 9/18/08)*
by Fred Barnes
How Sarah Palin killed a costly project.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/577dmopp.asp
*First a Bridge, Now a Road (NYT 9/18/08)*
First there was Alaska's Bridge to Nowhere, an infamous pork-barrel project
that eventually succumbed to public derision. Now comes the Izembek road —
some call it the Road to Nowhere — another Alaska boondoggle and a surefire
environmental disaster.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/opinion/18thu4.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
*The real issues of election 2008 (LA Times 9/18/08)*
'Values' voters may not think so, but this election should be about
pocketbook and security issues.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-values18-2008sep18,0,1736151.story
*Hey U.S., welcome to the Third World! (LA Times 9/18/08)*
Rosa Brooks:
It's been a quick slide from economic superpower to economic basket case.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks18-2008sep18,0,6908905.column
*BUSH NEWS*
*Bush cancels fundraising trip to deal with economy (AP 9/18/08)*
By BEN FELLER
With the financial markets in turmoil, President Bush canceled a planned
trip to Alabama and Florida on Thursday to consult with his economic
advisers in Washington.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gH8vjAe8Yxxfh2Mgi2N-G9cqOD8QD9390NVG0
*White House Avoids Standard Assurance About Economy (WaPo blog 9/17/08)*
By Dan Eggen
Following a shift in message by GOP presidential candidate John McCain, the
White House today avoided asserting that the fundamentals of the U.S.
economy are strong -- a regular talking point for President Bush and his
aides.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/17/white_house_avoids_standard_as.html
*See WSJ blog's "White House Not as Confident as McCain on Economy's
'Fundamentals'": *
http://feeds.wsjonline.com/%7Er/wsj/washwire/feed/%7E3/395588643/
*GOP: Does Bush have economic plan? (Politico 9/18/08)*
By: Daniel W. Reilly and Martin Kady II
Whipsawed by the government's on-again, off-again intervention in the
nation's financial crisis, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said
Wednesday that congressional Republicans "don't feel like they understand
the coherent strategy" of the Bush administration — "if there is one."
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=72FB6295-18FE-70B2-A849746978F48BB0
*Bush: 'We Are at War with Extremists' (AP 9/17/08)*
By MATTHEW LEE
President Bush said Wednesday that the attack on the U.S. embassy in the
capital of Yemen was a reminder that the United States remains "at war" with
ideological extremists.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1841911,00.html
*OTHER TOP NEWS*
*U.S. Stocks Plunge as Lending Freezes Up Following AIG Takeover (Bloomberg
9/17/08)*
By Elizabeth Stanton and Lynn Thomasson
U.S. stocks tumbled as bank lending seized up in the wake of the
government's takeover of American International Group Inc., raising concern
that more of the nation's biggest financial companies will fail.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alP0Hs3.ZArE&refer=home
*A Big Unknown: Cost of Bailouts (WSJ 9/18/08)*
By SUDEEP REDDY and JOHN D. MCKINNON
Profit Is Possible for Government if Firms Do Well
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122169793009750167.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*Iraq's Counterinsurgency College (WSJ 9/18/08)*
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
The U.S. focus in Iraq is fast shifting from fighting a war to preparing for
its aftermath.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122169821303850455.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*U.S. to Expand Drone Use, Other Surveillance in Afghanistan (WSJ 9/18/08)*
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
The U.S. Army is preparing to deploy a network of drones and other
surveillance aircraft to Afghanistan in an expanding effort to defeat the
resurgent Taliban and reverse a downward spiral in the country.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122169509501550021.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*High Turnout, New Procedures May Mean an Election Day Mess (WaPo 9/18/08)*
By Mary Pat Flaherty; A01
Faced with a surge in voter registrations leading up to Nov. 4, election
officials across the country are bracing for long lines, equipment failures
and confusion over polling procedures that could cost thousands the chance
to cast a ballot.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703663_pf.html
*Outside Groups Air Ads on Abortion Issue (WSJ 9/18/09)*
By AMY CHOZICK
Economic news has dominated the debate between presidential candidates Sens.
Barack Obama and John McCain this week, but independent groups on both sides
are betting that key segments of the electorate will base their decision on
abortion.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122168591637749337.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*Big Labor-Backed Group To Unleash Massive Mail Blitz In Swing States Tying
McCain To Bush (TPM 9/17/08)*
By Greg Sargent
The AFL-CIO and an affiliated independent group are preparing to unleash an
unusually large blitz of mailers targeting at least 1.5 million households
in battleground states and across the country -- the group's first foray in
a new and all-out campaign to win back Reagan and Bush-supporting Dems in
the race's final stretch.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/big_laborbacked_group_to_unlea.php
*Conyers and HCAN Agree In Principle: Health Reform is On The Table
(DailyKos 9/17/08)*
by DemFromCT
In the pursuit of health reform, a major issue for the voters, there's been
some debate about the Health Care For America Now coalition and what their
push for quality, affordable health care means for single payer advocates
and for those who want this issue addressed in DC (see Health Reform: An
Integrated Problem In An Integrated World and Health Care Discussion
Links). Today, John Conyers, author of H.R. 676 (the Expanded and Improved
Medicare for All Act), is releasing a statement of principle. "I am proud to
join HCAN's broad progressive campaign to raise awareness about the need for
true universal health care reform…
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/13254/7111/380/601702
Congress Passes Bill With Protections for Disabled (NYT 9/18/08)
By ROBERT PEAR
Congress gave final approval on Wednesday to a major civil rights bill,
expanding protections for people with disabilities and overturning several
recent Supreme Court decisions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18rights.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print
*POLLS*
*LATEST NATIONAL POLL (The Page 9/18/08)*
From Quinnipiac University poll:
Obama 49, McCain 45
Dates conducted: Sept. 11-16. Error margin: 3.1 points.
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/18/latest-national-poll/
*
*
*McCain Seen as Less Likely to Bring Change, Poll Finds (NYT 9/18/08)
By ROBIN TONER and ADAM NAGOURNEY
Despite an intense effort to distance himself from the way his party has
done business in Washington, Senator John McCain is seen by voters as far
less likely to bring change to Washington than Senator Barack Obama. He is
widely viewed as a "typical Republican" who would continue or expand
President Bush's policies, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News
poll.
*
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/politics/18poll.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print
*
*
*New National Numbers (The Page 9/17/08)*
From CBS News/New York Times poll:Obama 48, McCain 43, undecided 7
Dates conducted: Sept. 12-16. Error margin: 3 points.
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/17/new-national-numbers-38/
*Latest CNN Polls: Tight As Ticks In Four Battlegrounds (Atlantic Online
9/17/08)*
By Marc Ambinder
Florida: Obama 48, McCain 48
Indiana: McCain 51, Obama 45
North Carolina: McCain 48, Obama 47
Ohio: Obama 49, McCain 47
Wisconsin: Obama 50, McCain 47
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/latest_cnn_polls_tight_as_tick.php
*Maxed-Out Moms (The Page 9/18/08)*
A new TIME poll shows John McCain and Sarah Palin are winning over the swing
voters that both sides need in November. The poll, conducted Sept. 11-15,
shows Obama and McCain running a dead heat among women overall. But McCain
holds an 18-point lead among older, less-educated likely women voters.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/thepage/<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/time/thepage/>
~3/396053144/
*Link to TIME poll:*
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842107,00.html
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