time.com - 10/9/2008
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In a time of distress, he's projected comfort and confidence. But eventually he'll need to take risks too
elections.foxnews.com - 10/14/2008
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elections.foxnews.com —
Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the
weekend that his economic philosophy is to "spread the...
wealth around" -- a comment that may only draw fire from riled-up John McCain supporters who have taken to calling Obama a "socialist" at the ...
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Obama to Plumber: My Plan Will 'Spread the Wealth ...
nypost.com - 10/13/2008
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nypost.com —
Posted: 4:09 am October 13, 2008 Barack Obama
has re mained cool and confident amid the financial...
melt down, even as John McCain at times has been embarrassing, lurching from one proposal to the next. But while the polls are reflecting Obama's steady ...
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AN OBAMA PANIC? - New York Post
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Joe Klein on Obama, McCain & Health Care
Cato @ Liberty —
... In a recap of the second McCain-Obama debate, Joe Klein offers his thoughts on the role of government generally and in health care in particular. Excerpts and comments follow: ...
Rampaging Free-Market Anarchists On Wall Street
The Distributed Republic —
Joe Klein, in this week's TIME, writes:
The desire for more government activism is true across the board. All of a sudden, government-provided infrastructure programs — and that's what most of McCain's despised "earmarks" are — don't sound like such a waste of money, especially if they are married to alternative energy sources and conservation (which is why Obama talks constantly about "retrofitting" buildings to conserve energy). All of a sudden, boring bureaucracies like the Securities and Exchange Commission, which have been undermined and underfunded by ...
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