Biden Hits McCain Hard in Michigan Stops
FLAT ROCK, Mich. (Sept. 16, 2008) -- U.S. Sen. Joe Biden came out swinging in his first solo appearances on the campaign trail in Michigan yesterday.
(Sept. 17, 2008) -- The crisis on Wall Street will leave the next U.S. president facing tough choices about how best to regulate the financial system, and although neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has yet offered a detailed plan, their records and the principles they have set out so far suggest they could come at the issue in very different ways.
On the campaign trail on Monday, McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, struck a populist tone. Speaking in Florida, he said that the economy's underlying fundamentals remained strong but were being threatened "because of the greed by some based in Wall Street, and we have got to fix it."
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McCain, Obama Find Common Ground at Columbia Forum
(Sept. 11, 2008) - In a brief and uneven truce in an otherwise rough few days of political warfare, presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama agreed last night on the need to expand the U.S. military, and said they would have done more to tap the nation's outpouring of patriotism if they had been in the White House when the World Trade Center was attacked.
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