Obama is starting to sound like the Second Coming of Huey Long to me. There is nothing new under the sun.
On Nov 2, 2:35�pm, Kamakazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hip Hip Hooray > > "If you give me your vote on Tuesday, we won't just win this election > - together, we will change this country and change the world," Obama > said in a nationwide Democratic radio address. > > WASHINGTON (AP) - In the final weekend of a long race for the White > House, Barack Obama promised to heal America's political divisions > while rival John McCain fought to hold on to Republican-leaning states > and pledged to score an upset. > > For Obama, buoyed by record campaign donations and encouraging poll > numbers, it was a time for soaring rhetoric and forays into Republican > territory. "We have a righteous wind at our back," the Democrat said > Saturday. > > McCain saw the weekend as a final opportunity to persuade voters to > prove the polls and pundits wrong and sweep him into office. > > "We're a few points down but we're coming back," he told supporters in > Virginia. > > Obama campaigned Saturday in Nevada, Colorado and Missouri, all states > that voted for President Bush four years ago, while McCain struggled > to keep Virginia from voting for a Democratic presidential candidate > for the first time since 1964. > > McCain also made a quick sidetrip to New York City and an appearance > on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" where he joked about his campaign and > his latest plan to win over voters. > > "I thought I might try a strategy called the reverse maverick. That's > where I'd do whatever anybody tells me," McCain said. If that failed, > he quipped, "I'd go to the double maverick. I'd just go totally > berserk and freak everybody out." > > Both men appealed to supporters to turn out on Election Day, saying > the stakes could scarcely be higher. > > "If you give me your vote on Tuesday, we won't just win this election > - together, we will change this country and change the world," Obama > said in a nationwide Democratic radio address. > > Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed McCain, saying Americans "cannot > afford the high tax liberalism of Barack Obama and Joe Biden." > > Obama, campaigning in Colorado, pounced on the remark, saying McCain > had earned the endorsement through supporting the Bush > administration's failed social and economic > policies.http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081102/D946POKG0.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
