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From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC's Aram Roston and NBC/NJ's Athena Jones On a conference call intended to discuss recent reports that a foreign policy advisor for the Obama campaign met with Syria’s foreign minister last month in Damascus, McCain senior foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann and Rudy Giuliani were instead peppered with questions about their personal histories...
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From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- As Obama has focused on the economy almost exclusively on the campaign trail in recent days, he has begun to sound more and more like his former rival Hillary Clinton , co-opting her rhetoric on being a “fighter” for ordinary Americans. Obama is hoping to win over voters in traditionally red states with his economic message -- that while...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones ORLANDO, FL -- A day after John McCain told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that Barack Obama would "choose the path of retreat and failure for America" regarding the conflict in Iraq, the Illinois senator demanded before the same group today that McCain not question his patriotism . "I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Yesterday at a town hall in New Mexico, NBC/NJ’s Athena Jones reports, Obama continued a line of attack he used over the weekend, arguing his economic plan would not lead to disaster. Instead, he said that disaster is already here because of Bush Administration policies that John McCain would continue. Obama also reprised and refined a line he used for the first time earlier in the day....
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First Read (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- During a roundtable discussion with a few dozen women here today, Obama used McCain’s recent quip about rich people being those with an income of $5 million to try to paint the Arizona Republican as out of touch with ordinary Americans. "[McCain] was in a panel the other day with me, Rick Warren, some of you may have seen it -- and Rick Warren...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones RENO, NV -- After spending a leisurely week in Hawaii and stopping by a southern California mega-church to talk about faith in politics, Obama was back on the campaign trail today -- and back on the message he hopes will help him defeat his GOP rival: the economy. Obama held a town hall and gave brief remarks on his economic plans. And used every opportunity...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones LAKE FOREST, CA -- Obama talked about Iraq, abortion, the Supreme Court, and his greatest moral failure during an hour-long televised talk on faith and politics with pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren here at Saddleback Church. McCain also attended the event, but he spoke with Warren separately. After Obama’s hour was over, the presumptive Republican...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones and NBC's Alex Wall The Obama campaign held a conference call today to draw attention the Illinois senator’s tax plan and to “set the record straight” regarding what it called false, misleading, and inaccurate representations about his proposals by his rival. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, economic policy director Jason Furman, and senior economic...
