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Live blog of the 2nd Presidential debate in Nashville 2008-10-07 19:47:41 In just about fifteen minutes, John McCain and Barack Obama will sit down in a town hall debate at Belmont University in Nashville
, Tennessee and from all indications, it could be a lively debate. The debate will be moderated by Tom Brokaw, of NBC News and he will choose the questions from an audience of [...] Read more:Presidential
Wall Street plunges below 10,000 2008-10-06 10:53:27 Let’s see now, wasn’t it just last week that Congress and President Bush was telling us that the $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street
had to be passed and let’s be quick about it? Well Congress did pass the bill and President Bush signed it into law, but that hasn’t kept Wall Street
from [...] Read more:plunges
Barack Obama’s attack on the First Amendment 2008-10-06 10:24:36 The mantra of BarackObama
’s Presidential campaign is “Change we can believe in”. He also throws hope in for good measure and he has no end of flowing speeches, telling the American people he is the “change we can believe in”. With all due respect, I beg to differ. The kind of change he is [...] Read more:attack
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Wall Street bailout plan close to passing the House 2008-10-03 06:46:54 After the somewhat surprising defeat of the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street
in the House
of Representatives on Monday and the reviving of that bill in the Senate on Wednesday, it looks like the House is ready for another vote on the measure, possibly as early as today. It really is amazing to see [...] Read more:Wall Street
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Live blog of the Vice Presidential debate 2008-10-02 19:28:45 In just over thirty minutes from now, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Delaware Senator Joe Biden will take the stage in St. Louis for this election’s only Vice Presidential
debate and we will begin to see how Sarah Palin shapes up one on one with Senator Biden. I had a live blog during John McCain [...]
Sarah Palin to debate Joe Biden tonight 2008-10-02 08:56:03 Tonight is the night that may be the make or break night for Sarah
Palin. She gets the chance to prove her worth in tonight’s Vice Presidential debate in St. Louis. Her opponent is Senator Joe Biden
, who is a very experienced and accomplished debater and who has been urged to take the gloves off [...]
Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn split votes on economic bailout plan 2008-10-02 06:32:13 The United States Senate voted yesterday 74-25 in favor of an economic bailout plan that is almost identical to the plan that failed to pass the House of Representatives by 12 votes on Monday. The Senate did add some tax cuts and other items, trying to persuade enough of the no votes in the House [...] Read more:split
Barack Obama shares the blame for the economic crisis 2008-10-01 06:46:22 As should have been expected, Presidential politics has raised it’s ugly head during the economic crisis we are in and especially since negotiating began on a $700 billion bailout plan to buy bad mortgage loans from mortgage companies and remove them from the books. BarackObama
has openly stated that John McCain and his support [...] Read more:Barack Obama
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Is the economic bailout package really needed? 2008-09-30 06:40:57 About a week and a half ago, President Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, came to Congress and announced we were in the middle of a major economic crisis and asked for $700 billion to straighten the mess out. Since that time, the American taxpayer has been bombarded with the “news” that if the [...] Read more:package
Economic bailout agreement close–The Democrats add pork 2008-09-28 08:44:49 It’s beginning to look as if our leaders in Washington are determined to bailout Wall Street, in spite the outcry of House Republicans and people like Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee, not to mention the taxpayers of America. According to Reuters:
U.S. lawmakers on Sunday were set to sign off on a deal to create a [...] Read more:Economic
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