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Obama on VP Debate, Job Loss & McCain's Tax Cuts for Wealthy

2008-10-06T12:51:00Z

Barack Obama comments on the VP debate, the ongoing job loss and McCain's tax cuts and loopholes for the wealthy.

Joe Biden at VP Debate: Offshore Accounts are Unpatriotic

2008-10-06T12:51:01Z

Joe Biden at the VP debate talks about what the effects of the rescue bill may or may not have on the Obama-Biden agenda.

Biden concluded his answer with talking about what an Obama-Biden adminstration wont support, citing a number of corporate tax cuts that McCain has proposed and stated, "offshore accounts are unpatriotic."

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John McCain Rejects "Flip-Flopper" Charge

2008-10-06T12:49:53Z

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Republican Presidential candidate John McCain defends himself from accusations of "flip-flopping" on the issues of taxation and the Christian right.

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Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain discusses the world economy with Aspen Institute president and CEO Walter Isaacson.

John Sidney McCain III, is the Republican senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and serves on the Armed Services, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. McCain formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election on April 25, 2007.

Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007.

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Obama:McCain's 300 billiion in tax cuts to wealthiest

2008-10-06T12:51:02Z

At the Presidential Debate, Barack Obama makes the point that John McCain's tax plan will give away 300 billion in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans.

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Obama: McCain's 4 billion give away to big oil corporations

2008-10-06T12:51:02Z

Barack Obama at the Presidential debate points out that John McCain wants to give away four billion in tax breaks to big oil corporations that are realizing record profits.

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Obama on McCain's Pro-Corporate & Deregulation Positions

2008-10-06T12:51:03Z

At the Presidential debate, Barack Obama discusses McCain's pro corporate and deregulation positions noting McCain's tax cuts and loopholes for corporations and his free market approach for healthcare.

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9-23 Presser Q&A: Obama Stands Firm on Tax Cuts for Middle Class

2008-10-06T12:51:04Z

Barack Obama fields questions from the press on the bailout explaining how he will stand firm on the tax cuts for the Middle Class he's proposed to help restore the economy.

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Rachel Maddow Ratings Are In - She's Cleaning House

2008-09-28T16:51:07Z

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John McCain Wants to Privatize Social Security

2008-09-17T13:57:24Z

The Republicans have already turned to sick sexual innuendo and nonsense about their vice-presidential candidate, pigs, and lipstick in order to distract the public from the real issues in this campaign. One of the items that should be on the top of the list of real issues is Senator McCain’s plans to privatize and cut Social Security.

Senator McCain has repeatedly expressed interest in privatizing Social Security along the lines proposed by President Bush. For those who have forgotten that nightmare, President Bush’s plan would have reduced benefits by approximately 1 percent a year for many workers.

Workers who retire 10 years after the plan is put in place would have seen a 10 percent reduction in benefits compared with the currently projected levels. Workers who retire 20 years after the plan is implemented would see approximately a 20 percent cut in benefits and workers who retire 40 years later would see their benefits cut by close to 40 percent.

Obama: America is Prosperous when All Americans Can Prosper

2008-10-02T20:50:35Z

Speaking in Golden, Colorado, Barack Obama discusses McCain's failed policies and how his record and policies differ from those of John McCain.

"It is time to put an end to he broken system in Washington that is breaking the American economy. It is time for change that makes a real difference in your lives."

"In February of 2006, I introduced legislation to stop mortgage transactions that promoted fraud, risk or abuse. A year later, before the crisis hit, I warned Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke about the risks of mounting foreclosures and urged them to bring together all the stakeholders to find solutions to the subprime mortgage meltdown. Senator McCain did nothing.

Last September, I stood up at NASDAQ and said its time to realize that we are in this together that there is no dividing line between Wall Street and Main Street and warned of a growing loss of trust in our capital markets. Months later, Senator McCain told a newspaper that hed love to give them a solution to the mortgage crisis, but he said I dont know one."

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http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/amandascott/gG5XWF

Barack Obama in Golden, Colorado

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Sarah Palin: McCain/Palin Rally 09/08/08

2008-09-15T14:47:49Z

Sarah Palin
McCain/Palin Rally
Lee's Summit, MO 09/08/08

TRANSCRIPT:
SARAH PALIN: Just the other day, our opponent brought up earmarks and frankly I was surprised that he would even raise the subject at all. Wouldn't want to go there. In just three years, our opponent has requested nearly 1 billion dollars in earmarks- that's about a million dollars for every working day. So we reformed the abuses of earmarks in our state, and I'm ready to help President John McCain end these corrupt practices once and for all.

LABEL: JM MO 09-08 (LF#9) AKG - ClipC

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Sarah Palin: McCain/Palin Rally 09/08/08

2008-09-15T12:49:05Z

Sarah Palin
McCain/Palin Rally
Lee's Summit, MO 09/08/08

TRANSCRIPT:
SARAH PALIN:

LABEL: JM MO 09-08 (LF#9) AKG - ClipB

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Obama Spokesperson Gibbs Shreds McCain Camp Spokesperson

2008-09-27T00:47:33Z

Obama campaign spokesperson, Robert Gibbs, tears up McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer's falsehoods on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

With regard to the ongoing investigation of Sarah Palin for abuse of power, Gibbs said, "There is somebody who is going to get caught on it and I have a feeling that investigation is going to catch it."

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Grover Norquist: Interview 09/02/08

2008-09-02T16:56:48Z

Grover Norquist, ATR
Interview
Minneapolis, MN 09/02/08

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Smith Waltz

2008-10-06T12:22:49Z

Gordon Smith and Jeff Merkley come from two very different places and fight for two very different things. Smith favors tax cuts for the wealthy and big oil companies and denies tax cuts to the middle class.

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Burden

2008-10-06T12:22:49Z

The Democratic Party of Oregon is urging Oregonians to call members of Congress and tell them we need to do a better job of balancing the budget and serving the middle class.

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Hannity Falsely Explains McCain's Opposition To Tax Cuts

2008-09-09T18:46:36Z

Sean Hannity falsely claims that John McCain opposed President Bush's tax cuts because they were not accompanied by spending cuts. In reality, McCain opposed the cuts because they favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. From the 8/20/08 Hannity & Colmes. See www.newshounds.us for more.

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Obama's Economic Outlook - Jason Furman

2008-09-22T12:42:09Z

Jason Furman, Economic Policy Director for the Barack Obama Presidential campaign, discusses his candidate's position on the economy.

FORA.tv coverage of the DNC: for a.tv/topic/democratic_convention

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Jason Furman is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is Director of the Hamilton Project. Furman is also a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Noam Scheiber has been with The New Republic since August, 2000. He holds a master's degree in economics from Oxford University and a B.S. in math from Tulane University. In addition to his work at TNR, Scheiber has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Washington Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC and NPR.

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Mitt Romney: Town Hall 12/21/07

2008-09-10T12:44:38Z

Mitt Romney
Town Hall
Rochester, NH 12/21/07

TRANSCRIPT:
MITT ROMNEY: As a matter of fact president Bush did a pretty courageous thing. At a time when our economy needed a boost, needed a stimulus, he said, 'you know what, we're gonna lower taxes.' And not everybody agreed with him. You know, one of my friends is Senator McCain, he voted against the Bush tax cuts. I think the Bush tax cuts were a great thing for our country, I support them, I want to make them permanent, and I want to add to them. [Applause] I want to kill the death tax once and for all. We had a chance to do that by the way, to kill the death tax permanently, Senator McCain also voted against that.

LABEL: MR NH 12-21 (BH#36) IHESA - ClipA

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Economic stimulus... Wal-Mart Style

2008-10-06T12:50:09Z

What's good for Wal-Mart is good for China.

If you're cashing a tax rebate check at Wal-Mart this year, you're in for a surprise. Since 70% of Wal-Mart's goods come from China, Your American economic stimulus check will go overseas, along with our solid, middle class jobs.

Tell Wal-Mart to put America first. Learn more at www.wakeupwalmart.com.

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Obama: Oil Companies have Placed their Bet on McCain

2008-08-28T14:58:50Z

"Senator McCain would not take the steps or achieve the goals that I outlined today. His plan invests very little in renewable sources of energy and he's opposed helping the auto industry re-tool. Like George Bush and Dick Cheney before him, he sees more drilling as the answer to all of our energy problems, and like them, he's found a receptive audience in the very same oil companies that have blocked our progress for so long...

So make no mistake - the oil companies have placed their bet on Senator McCain, and if he wins, they will continue to cash in while our families and our economy suffer and our future is put in jeopardy," Obama stated today, in Lansing, Michigan.

Gas& Oil executives, their family members and their employees are donating fast and furiously to John McCain's campaign.

Greg Sargent of TPM reports:

"It turns out that Hess executives aren't the only ones who gave such huge sums to elect McCain -- generosity towards McCain apparently extends down into lower levels of Hess staff. A lower level employee gave the same, too, and so did her husband, even though he works for Amtrak.

The FEC filings show that Alice Rocchio, who's identified as a Hess office manager, and her husband, Pasquale Rocchio, who's described as an Amtrak "track foreman," each separately donated $28,500 to the RNC-McCain fund, which is called McCain Victory 2008. They gave the money on June 24th, the same day that eight other Hess execs and family members each shelled out the same amount.

So the Rocchios, who live in Flushing, Queens, donated a total of $57,000 to McCain's efforts." tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com

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John McCain: GOTV Rally 1/17/08

2008-08-07T14:27:10Z

John McCain
GOTV Rally
Columbia, SC 1/17/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: We gotta cut that tax rate and we've gotta cut it immediately. I want to go back to Jack Kemp's message. My friends, cutting taxes increases revenues. Don't listen to this siren song about cutting tax—every time in history we have raised taxes it has cut revenues. And is there anybody here who needs to have their taxes increased? [laughter] Please raise your hand. If you think you need to. It'll expand our economy, it'll create jobs and opportunities. And it leads to higher wages. It leads to higher wages. Several studies have shown that . . .
LABEL: JM SC 1-17 (BH#74) GHIDA -- Clip C

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The Rich Tax Cuts Are Out Of Control

2008-08-06T22:46:13Z

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John McCain: Rally 01/22/08

2008-07-02T17:52:28Z

John McCain
Rally
Pensacola, FL 01/22/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: "So now our economy's in tough shape . . . I believe that we have to do a lot of things. We have to cut spending. We have to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 25 . . . we need to make these tax cuts permanent. If we don't make the tax cuts permanent, then you're going to experience, every business and family in 2010 is going to experience an increase in their taxes. We don't need any increase in taxes right now . . . "

LABEL: JM FL 1-22 (GR#65) ICGR- Clip B

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John McCain: Rally 01/22/08

2008-09-19T22:26:37Z

John McCain
Rally
Pensacola, FL 01/22/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: "So obviously we'll need to extend this package. I think we need to make, to make the tax cuts permanent. We need to eliminate the Alternate Minimum Tax. We need to reduce corporate taxes from 35 to 25 so that American businesses will stay in America and can be more competitive with foreign businesses and corporations . . ."

LABEL: JM FL 1-22 (GR#65) ICGR- Clip C

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