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- Democratic National Committee
- Jul 23, 2008 MCCAIN WATCH: PLAYING THE BLAME GAME
This week the McCain campaign is spinning furiously, trying to place the blame for rising gas prices anywhere but where it belongs - on Washington insiders like McCain. But McCain can't distract from the fact that he's offering more of the same failed Bush-McCain policies responsible for...
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- Jul 22, 2008 MCCAIN WATCH: THE COST OF WAR AND THE IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY
It's only Tuesday, but John McCain is already off to yet another bad week. After spending yesterday explaining how he confused Iraq and Afghanistan and watching the Iraqi leadership reject his vision for the future of Iraq, McCain today is traveling to two states that highlight the economic...
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- Jul 21, 2008 MCCAIN WATCH: THE ECONOMY: IF YOU LIKE THE BUSH ECONOMY, HIRE MCCAIN
After a week in which John McCain received more criticism for his ties to top economic advisor Phil Gramm, who echoed Senator McCain's sentiments that America's economic problems were "psychological" by saying we are in a "mental recession," McCain is in Maine today,...
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- Jul 18, 2008 DNC Memo: Week Two of the Relaunch - More McCain Misfires
Two weeks into the latest "relaunch" of his campaign and it's more of the same for John McCain: more of the same bad news, bad reviews and campaign chaos. While the elevation of Steve Schmidt was supposed to tighten McCain's message and organization, McCain was under fire from...
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- Jul 18, 2008 McCain Watch: The Economy: John McCain is Not What America Signed Up For
Last week, John McCain's top economic advisor, Phil Gramm, echoed McCain's comments that America's economic problems were "psychological" by saying Americans are in a "mental recession" and that America had become a "nation of whiners." While McCain...
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- NPR World News
- Jul 23, 2008 In Israel, Obama Offers Carrot-Stick Iran Policy
Barack Obama says he'll use "big sticks and big carrots" to negotiate with Iran and persuade the country's leaders not to develop nuclear weapons. Speaking in Israel, he also said he'd push for "tough serious direct diplomacy" with Iran.
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- Jul 23, 2008 Scholar Believes Israel Will Strike Iran Nuclear Sites
An Israeli professor believes that Israel will attack Iran's nuclear program within the next four to seven months. He bases that timeline on unsuccessful diplomatic efforts and Iranian tehnological advances.
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- Talk of the Nation
- Jul 23, 2008 In A Photoshop Age, Can You Believe Your Eyes?
As it gets ever easier to doctor images, will the photograph lose its credibility? A digitally manipulated photo of an Iranian missile launch recently made its way onto major news Web sites, raising concerns about whether images can be trusted. Guests discuss the long history of altered images.
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- Jul 23, 2008 Ambassador Recalls 1995 Meeting With Karadzic
After living as a fugitive for more than a decade, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested Monday on charges related to genocide and war crimes during the Bosnian war. U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke discusses a meeting he had with Karadzic in 1995.
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- TruthOut
- Jul 22, 2008 Cost of Loan Bailout, if Needed, Could Be $25 Billion
Washington - The proposed government rescue of the nation's two mortgage finance giants will appear on the federal budget as a $25 billion cost to taxpayers, the independent Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday even though officials conceded that there was no way of...
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- Jul 22, 2008 Blackwater to Leave Security Business Following Problems in Iraq
Editor's Note: Though, as reported by The Guardian below, Blackwater blames its exit from the security business on negative media coverage, the corporation is still scoring large government contracts and raking in profits in the wake of its bad publicity. Blackwater's...
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