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...Inside-the-beltway representatives had better straighten up. With this kind of leadership, who needs Congress? Joe Myers, Mesa, Arizona...
...patronizes Katie's Restaurant, in Wilmington, Delaware, which has been closed for years. Klein's idea of the "unwritten rules" of campaign rhetoric seems to be that the media have the right to selectively use facts to form public opinion and smear the candidate they oppose. Kent Doss, Tubac, Arizona...
...tagline American to everything she did. Fox News and its friends spent most of the spring linking Obama to Jeremiah Wright and thus painting him as a closet racial militant. But in the general election, McCain has hewed closer to Penn's advice. One gop commercial touted the Arizona Senator as "the American President Americans have been waiting for," as if there were another kind. Over the summer, McCain unveiled a new slogan: "Country first." When Obama traveled abroad in July, a McCain ad showed images of him addressing a Berlin crowd alongside the words "The biggest celebrity...
...That's about the last thing the McCain campaign needs to hear right now. Florida, run by a Republican Governor and legislature, was supposed to be the Arizona senator's to lose. But while polls through September showed him and Obama in a dead heat, Obama seems to be pulling away as the nation's economic crisis worsens. Four polls released last week show Obama not only leading -one, by Quinnipiac University, has him up by as much as eight points - but breaking the 50% barrier for the first time...
Overall: As promised, he was comfortable in a town-hall environment, directing his attention to the individual questioner and the crowd. The Arizona Senator was by turns aggressive, sensitive, conservative and conversational. Successfully presented a negative case against Obama with an upbeat, optimistic smile - but was unable to paint a truly damning portrait of an Obama presidency, especially on the economy. He exhibited a few physical and verbal tics that made him look his age, including a heavy reliance on his "my friends" crutch, and seemed nervously well aware of the high stakes. Without a solid...