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News Source: Fox News
| about 1 year ago
The campaign reportedly is spending $140,000 a day to run the ad in battleground states, and aides are echoing its content in daily talking points. "We're running against a celebrity. He is someone who gathered throngs of fans overseas," McCain...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
The Illinois senator offered a fiery defense of his push to bolster the nation's schools and dismissed what he called McCain's "slim record on education."...While still opposed to expanding oil exploration and development on American coastlines, he...
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News Source: USA Today
| about 1 year ago
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday called rival John McCain's campaign cynical, but said he did not believe comments by the candidate and his aides were based on racism. The McCain campaign charged this week that Obama had...
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News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
John McCain and Barack Obama tried to step back Friday from a divisive debate over race, with each candidate denying that he was the first to inject the issue into the campaign. Nonetheless, the candidates and their campaigns argued throughout the...
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News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
Mr McCain's campaign said earlier this week that Mr Obama had "played the race card" by implying that his Republican rival was racist. But Mr Obama in turn accused Mr McCain of bringing up the race issue. Mr Obama was talking to reporters as he...
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News Source: The Examiner
| about 1 year ago
At his news conference Saturday, Obama pointed the finger back at McCain. "None of you thought I was making a racially incendiary remark, or playing the race card," he said. "It wasn't until John McCain's team started pushing it that it ended up...
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News Source: Eitb24
| about 1 year ago
Obama says McCain's team "very good at negative campaigning" 08/02/2008 McCain's campaign aired an ad this week charging Obama played "the race card" in claiming McCain was trying to scare voters about his appearance...Democratic presidential...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
I was going to write about my celebration of the birth of my twin grand-daughters three days ago, a joyful move over Brangelina post, but in the midst of all this family happiness I came upon the McCain ad comparing Obama to Britney and Paris...
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News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Holy 'Web-ad,' Batman,' sounds like they're trying to say something here. Posted August 2, 2008 6:00 AM by Mark Silva Sorry, but we've been around this campaign block a few cycles, and this is starting to get a little weird: The presidential campaign...
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News Source: Turkish Daily News
| about 1 year ago
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said, "We weren't suggesting in any way he's using race as an issue" but that McCain "is using the same, old low-road politics that voters are very unhappy about to distract voters from the real issues in this...