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Many Democrats like to think of Barack Obama as a reincarnated JFK, but his congressional colleagues reached further back in time Monday to resurrect FDR and his pump-priming New Deal jobs program to help bolster a wobbly economy. "We need to address the fragility of markets, the stability of our economy," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said as she prepared to meet behind closed doors to talk about the contours of a $150 billion stimulus plan with a high-powered squad of liberal economists including Joseph Stiglitz and Lawrence Summers, both of whom held senior posts during the Clinton Administration...
...Schieffer, the nearly 40-year CBS news anchor and host of the network's Sunday-morning public affairs show, Face the Nation, will moderate the third and final debate between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama on Oct. 15. The matchup between the two senators will focus on domestic and economic issues, areas particularly relevant to Schieffer's experience - his being one of the few journalistic careers that has covered the Pentagon, Congress, the U.S. State Department and the White House...
...community group ACORN - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - on allegations that the group submitted fraudulent voter registration cards. , featuring nonexistent addresses, duplicate applicants and in at least some cases, the names of the Dallas Cowboys football team. The McCain campaign has also released an ad linking Barack Obama to ACORN, reiterating the voter fraud allegations and claiming the organization "forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today...
...affiliates in 41 states and claims to have registered 1.3 million people to vote in the 2008 election. Although the group is technically nonpartisan, its registration drives focus on impoverished minorities, most of whom are likely to vote Democratic, and the organization regularly endorses Democratic political candidates, including Barack Obama...
...that McCain has made it any easier for himself. Over the weekend, the Republican nominee convened an economic strategy session after last week's attempt to paint Democrat Barack Obama as a pal of terrorists largely fizzled. But nothing new came out of the event. And so what was billed as the candidate's big relaunching was, in terms of substance, a collection of things McCain has been saying already - but this time said in a really gloomy, harrowing...