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By Beth Fouhy
Associated Press
POSTED: 02:34 p.m. EST, Nov 17, 2008
CHICAGO: The bitter general election campaign behind them, President-elect Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain met today to discuss ways to reduce government waste, promote bipartisanship and find other ways to improve government.
The two former rivals met in Obama's transition headquarters in Chicago. Obama said before the meeting that he and McCain planned ''a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country, and also to offer thanks to Sen. McCain for the outstanding service he's already rendered.''
Obama and McCain sat together for a brief picture-taking moment with reporters, along with Rahm Emanuel, Obama's incoming White House chief of staff, and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain's close friend. Obama and McCain were heard briefly discussing football, and Obama cracked that ''the national press is tame compared to the Chicago press.''
When asked if he planned to help the Obama administration, McCain replied, ''Obviously.''
After the meeting, Obama and McCain issued a joint statement saying: ''At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time.''
''It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter partisanship in Washington in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and opportunity for every hardworking American family,'' it said. ''We hope to work together in the days and months ahead on critical challenges like solving our financial crisis, creating a new energy economy, and protecting our nation's security.''
Obama and McCain clashed bitterly during the fall campaign over taxes, the Iraq War, and ways to fix the ailing economy. Things got ugly at times, with McCain running ads comparing Obama to celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and raising questions about his rival's distant relationship with a 1960s-era radical, William Ayers.
Obama's campaign, meanwhile, labeled the 72-year old McCain ''erratic'' and ran a campaign ad falsely suggesting that McCain and Rush Limbaugh shared similar anti-immigration views.
McCain delivered a gracious concession speech on Election Night, paying tribute to Obama's historic ascendancy as the nation's first black president. The two agreed that night to meet after the election when McCain called Obama to concede defeat.
CHICAGO: The bitter general election campaign behind them, President-elect Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain met today to discuss ways to reduce government waste, promote bipartisanship and find other ways to improve government.
The two former rivals met in Obama's transition headquarters in Chicago. Obama said before the meeting that he and McCain planned ''a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country, and also to offer thanks to Sen. McCain for the outstanding service he's already rendered.''
Obama and McCain sat together for a brief picture-taking moment with reporters, along with Rahm Emanuel, Obama's incoming White House chief of staff, and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain's close friend. Obama and McCain were heard briefly discussing football, and Obama cracked that ''the national press is tame compared to the Chicago press.''
When asked if he planned to help the Obama administration, McCain replied, ''Obviously.''
After the meeting, Obama and McCain issued a joint statement saying: ''At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time.''
''It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter partisanship in Washington in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and opportunity for every hardworking American family,'' it said. ''We hope to work together in the days and months ahead on critical challenges like solving our financial crisis, creating a new energy economy, and protecting our nation's security.''
Obama and McCain clashed bitterly during the fall campaign over taxes, the Iraq War, and ways to fix the ailing economy. Things got ugly at times, with McCain running ads comparing Obama to celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and raising questions about his rival's distant relationship with a 1960s-era radical, William Ayers.
Obama's campaign, meanwhile, labeled the 72-year old McCain ''erratic'' and ran a campaign ad falsely suggesting that McCain and Rush Limbaugh shared similar anti-immigration views.
McCain delivered a gracious concession speech on Election Night, paying tribute to Obama's historic ascendancy as the nation's first black president. The two agreed that night to meet after the election when McCain called Obama to concede defeat.
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Sterling, Oh
Posted 03:38 PM, 11/17/2008
Reality demands democrat and republican leaders come together complying with demands of Natural Law (what Mother Nature, God, or Whatever Power decreed to be the reality of the real world), God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce.
Demanding every corporation, farmer, business, outsourcer sweatshop, and nonprofit, tax-exempt, organization and Church markets the cost in the wholesale and retail price of his or her product and service. Of every workers, consumers, and taxpayers living (including pension and health care). Enabling parents to love, nurse, nurture, discipline, protect, and provide, for every child (job) they conceive and fund schools, infrastructure, national security, government services, and etc.; with money derived from wages or independent business profit.
And deny investors and stockholders (money marketers) liberty to market more stock dividends (money) quarterly in the wholesale and retail price of every product and service Human Beings use for life. That gets only product or service. To measure and maintain the strength and growth of this unaffordable economy and prove that only money that can only be used to identify agreed value of sellers and buyers in the marketplace has value?
Posted 06:53 PM, 11/17/2008
Loren sounds like that double talking Tom Sawyer. The Republicans are going to treat Obama as the Democrats have treated Bush the last 8 years. Then sit back and sabatoge the country just like the democrats did for 8 years. This is gonna get real nasty.
