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First Read: The day in politics by NBC News for NBC News
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LOOKING AT NEXT WEEK.
*** The first presidential debate takes place Friday, Sept. 26 from the
University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. The 90-minute debate, moderated by
PBS's Jim Lehrer, will focus on foreign policy and will begin at 9:00 p.m. ET.
http://www.debates.org/pages/news_111907.html
*** McCain and Palin are expected to head to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday,
where Palin will likely meet various heads of state. NBC's Libby Leist reported
Palin requested a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Biden is
scheduled to meet with the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of
Benazir Bhutto, who won election earlier this month. NBC's Andrea Mitchell
reports Obama will not be going to the U.N. He will participate in the Clinton
Global Initiative speech via satellite.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426577.aspx
LOOKING BACK AT TODAY.
In what was dubbed a 'policy speech' by the campaign, John McCain addressed
members of the Green Bay Chamber of Commerce this morning, giving a distilled
version of his plan for the economy that offered few new specifics but ample
critiques of his opponent's proposals to fix the nation's money woes.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1424983.aspx
In his economic speech today, when referring to his call to fire SEC Chairman
Chris Cox, McCain mistakenly said: "The chairman of the FEC should resign and
leave office and be replaced."
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1424411.aspx
On the campaign trail in Minnesota today, McCain incorrectly suggested that the
executive pay that former Fannie Mae CEOs Frank Raines and Jim Johnson earned
came from taxpayers. Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard Law School, an expert on
corporate governance, confirmed to First Read that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
were private companies until being recently taken over by the federal
government (which came after Raines' and Johnson's tenures).
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1427108.aspx
Tax cuts for the middle class are more important than ever in the face of the
financial crisis on Wall Street, Obama told reporters during a brief press
conference. There is a relationship between economic stimulus that I think
needs to take place right now and long term-tax cuts for the middle class," he
said. "The more that we've got broad-based prosperity and families have higher
wages and incomes -- the better off the economy's gonna be as a whole, and
that's especially true at a time when we've got recessionary tendencies.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1425895.aspx
As officials in Washington continued work on a plan to rescue a teetering
financial system, Obama responded to McCain's efforts to paint him as a
"Washington insider" complicit in the financial crisis, calling it a "panicked"
move by the Arizona senator.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426401.aspx
New battleground polls, showing Obama with a lead in Michigan, a slight lead in
Pennsylvania and a tie in Ohio.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1424868.aspx
Once again calling a vote for Obama a "risk" during these dangerous economic
times, McCain continued the line of attack that he laid out for the first time
in Green Bay last night. "The crisis on Wall Street, my friends, started in the
Washington culture of lobbying and influence pedaling and he was right square
in the middle of it," McCain said, painting Obama as a Washington insider. "My
friends, this is the problem in Washington. People like Sen. Obama have been
too busy gaming the system and haven't ever done a thing to actually challenge
the system. That's not country first, that's Obama first."
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426312.aspx
A day after the McCain camp linked Obama to Franklin Raines, they're now
targeting Jim Johnson.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1424326.aspx
As of yesterday, Sarah Palin had delivered 14 campaign speeches since her
well-received address more than two weeks ago at the Republican National
Convention. And each time, she's packed in thousands of excited Republicans
eager to see this new star of the GOP. But those waiting for hours to listen to
her could hear the same thing -- or something close to it -- simply by pressing
play on a TiVO recording of her acceptance speech. Or clicking on to a YouTube
clip of that Sept. 3 address.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1424780.aspx
Introducing her running mate today in Minneapolis, Palin said that her revoked
invitation to next week's "Stop Iran" rally is the fault of "Democrat
partisans" who politicized the event. "Some Democrat partisans put politics
first and now no elected official will be able to appear at that Stop Iran
Rally," Palin told the crowd. "Iran's pursuit of these weapons should concern
all Americans, this should not be a matter for partisan politics."
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426996.aspx
Meanwhile, Biden made a pitch directly to women voters here today, focusing on
economic issues in particular as he promised to end "a cowboy mentality of the
Bush and McCain era."
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426932.aspx
There's been a lot of talk lately of the disingenuousness of McCain's ads
released in the past two weeks (and there were some really misleading ones --
the latest "Dome" one, in fact, continues to misrepresent on Obama's tax plan.)
But McCain isn't the only one stretching a bit. In addition to that
Spanish-language ad that links McCain to Rush Limbaugh on immigration, Obama's
ad on education up last week isn't exactly square with the facts.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1425825.aspx
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