Closing Arguments Barrack Obama Election 2008 Eve

With the finish line in sight, Obama serves up familiar, pie-in-the-sky promises.

In the last few days, Obama has wrapped up his pitch to the electorate with some misleading claims we’ve heard before:

He continued to ask voters to believe he can pay for every dime of an ambitious health care plan and other spending proposals while cutting taxes for all but the most affluent. Budget experts say that’s unlikely.

He also kept up the drumbeat on a promise to end “tax breaks for sending jobs overseas,” as though that could do much to keep jobs at home. Experts say it can’t.

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Closing Arguments Barrack Obama Election 2008 Eve

Closing Arguments John McCain Election 2008 Eve

John McCain and Sarah Palin close their campaign with a new set of dubious attacks.

In the final week, the McCain-Palin campaign unleashed some all-new misleading attacks on

Obama:

• McCain strained to tie Obama to a Palestinian professor whose views on Israel are quite different from Obama’s.
• McCain and Palin both distorted a seven-and-a-half-year-old radio interview with Obama concerning the court system and civil rights.
• McCain and the GOP ran ads claiming Obama’s military budget would mean huge job cuts in Virginia, despite Obama’s proposal to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps – and McCain’s own calls for ending wasteful weapons programs.

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Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue

Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue

With less than a week to go before Election Day, both sides are worried.

Republicans, while still holding out hope for a “McCain Miracle,” are increasingly worried that McCain is losing in a way that, as David Frum put it, “threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him.”

Democrats, while being careful not to count their electoral chickens before they’re hatched, are privately worried about winning without enough of a majority in the Senate to really change things.

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