Opinion Pieces

October 09, 2008

Behind the Scenes of the Campaign

Key quote: "The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about."

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September 11, 2008

Is Obama's urban life experience hurting his campaign?

Key quote: "Obama has lived a lot of places, but his adult life has been overwhelming "anti-Palin country" - urban and/or elite: here in New York as a Columbia undergrad, and later with NYPIRG; Cambridge, Mass., for Harvard; Chicago."

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September 05, 2008

Barack Obama's Finance Lesson

Key quote: "Barack Obama wants to create jobs in America, and as he declared at the Democratic National Convention last week, he also wants to cut capital gains taxes for small businesses."

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September 04, 2008

NY Post "Barack, Meet Your Nightmare"

Key quote: "Palin quickly established her credibility as a genuine representative of small-town America in a way few politicians can - and then used it to wheel on Barack Obama as a gasbag and a fraud in a witheringly sarcastic assault."

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September 03, 2008

Obama On Women In The Workforce

Key quote: "Mr. Obama, embracing the misleading metric that women make only 77 cents for every dollar paid to men, cosponsored two Senate bills in 2007, neither of which has come to a floor vote."

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September 02, 2008

Was Michelle Obama Right About Staying Away From The ER

Key quote: "When Michelle Obama was an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center, she worked to expand a program that encouraged uninsured patients on Chicago's South Side to visit local health clinics in lieu of her hospital's emergency room."

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How Madonna and others are being part of the debate

Key quote: "McCain's campaign quickly threw Madonna's shtick at Obama: "It clearly shows that when it comes to supporting Barack Obama, his fellow worldwide celebrities refused to consider any smear or attack off limits." That forced the Obama camp to condemn Madonna, sort of..."

Should Obama be far ahead in the polls?

Key quote: "Mr. Obama maintains a consistently narrow lead, but not the double digits he might expect in a country at war and in recession led by a hugely unpopular president. So, we reach for answers."

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O'Reilly gives advice on beating Obama

Key quote: "...to underestimate Senator Obama would be foolish for the Republicans. There's no question that millions of new voters will turn out for him. Many of those voters can't be polled."

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August 29, 2008

A top ten list of reasons for Obama to worry

Key quote: "1. Hillary Clinton's supporters. Some 18 million voted for Hillary in the primaries and polls show about 30 per cent of them are not yet backing Obama."

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