Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...television ad called "Chicago Machine." The spot began with a narrator intoning, "Barack Obama - born of the corrupt Chicago political machine," before running through a list of Obama's allegedly unsavory cronies. A few weeks later, McCain started using what became one of his favorite lines on the stump: "I don't need any lessons about telling the truth from a Chicago politician." (See pictures of Obama's victory celebration in Chicago...
...fact that the two leaders had worked together closely during the final days of World War II and in the creation of NATO, the 1952 campaign had strained relations to the breaking point. Truman thought Eisenhower had sold his soul when he wouldn't denounce Joe McCarthy on the stump: "I thought he might make a good President," Truman said at the time, but "he has betrayed almost everything I thought he stood...
...Basra airport. During the briefing, said a senior U.S. military official, then-Senator Obama seemed "receptive" and "asked good questions." The hope among senior officers in Iraq is that President-elect Obama will make good on another promise he's made over an over again from the stump: "We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting...
...campaigning isn't over in the state of Georgia. The two main candidates in a bruising U.S. Senate race there acknowledged they're headed for a runoff battle that could recycle weeks of the same stump speeches, party luminaries and withering attack ads that plagued the state in the period leading up to the vote. It is the election as Groundhog...
...hour, or of the year, but his biography is defined by the women in his family. Ann Dunham was the "mother from Kansas" who married the man from Kenya. Michelle Williams Obama, the candidate's wife, has become an important, increasingly warming voice on the campaign stump. His daughters Malia and Sasha stole the show the opening night of the Democratic National Convention...