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Biden decries attacks. McCain issues promise of debate 'straight talk.' Obama stumps in Ohio
Published on Monday, Oct 13, 2008
Associated Press
Sarah Palin told St. Clairsville voters in southeastern Ohio on Sunday that she and running mate John McCain would bring jobs back to this economically depressed piece of Appalachia.
Using her folksy appeal, Palin highlighted her record as mayor of a city about the size of St. Clairsville, near the West Virginia border. She said Democratic rival Barack Obama doesn't understand places like this.
''I love 'Small Town USA' because hardworking, good American [families], you guys, you just get it,'' Palin said while standing on a stage with an open barn as her backdrop.
''It's kind of like those simple lessons our parents used to teach us: Don't spend more than you have. It's that common-sense conservatism that is John McCain. . . . America just cannot afford another big spender in the White House.''
McCain and his running mate have toned down their attacks on rival Barack Obama. Last Monday, Palin said Obama was ''palling around with terrorists.'' On Friday, after voters at campaign rallies shouted ''terrorist'' and ''off with his head'' toward the stage, McCain called Obama ''a decent, family man'' whom the public shouldn't fear and cut off a woman who called him an Arab.
Changing the subject
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday accused the McCain campaign of trying to distract Americans from their economic woes by launching ''unbecoming personal attacks'' at Obama.
Appearing at a boisterous rally near his childhood home in Scranton, Pa., Biden said McCain's campaign is desperate to change the subject from the financial crisis that has wiped out many Americans' college and retirement savings. He said McCain has resorted to making ''ugly inferences'' about Obama in the waning days of the campaign.
''Every single false charge, every single baseless accusation is a simple attempt to get you to focus on something other than what's affecting your family and your country,'' said Biden, who was cheered by some 6,000 people packed into a sports arena in the blue-collar city where he lived until he was 10.
''It's good to be home!'' said the Delaware senator, who was joined on stage by former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton — the former Democratic presidential candidate who has her own roots in Scranton, where her father grew up and is buried.
If Obama and Biden win Pennsylvania, Sen. Clinton predicted Sunday, ''there's no way they can lose the White House.''
Tough talk
McCain vowed Sunday to ''whip'' Obama's ''you-know-what'' when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate.
McCain made that pledge as top advisers said he is weighing new economic proposals to help the nation weather the financial crisis. The Arizona senator refused to answer a reporter's question Sunday about what plans he might be considering.
Addressing several dozen volunteers at his campaign headquarters outside Washington, McCain promised some of his signature ''straight talk'' about the state of the race. National and many battleground state polls have shown him trailing Obama amid the deepening market crisis.
''We're a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we're right in this game,'' McCain said to cheers. ''The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we've seen it come back up because they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We'll give that to America.''
McCain said he and running mate Palin would continue campaigning hard in the three weeks left before Election Day, in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado. The two planned a joint appearance today in Virginia, a Republican stronghold turned battleground this time.
''We're going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we're going to be going out 24/7,'' McCain said.
Helping families
During an hourlong visit to a neighborhood of ranch-style and split-level homes near Toledo, Obama was repeatedly asked what he could do to help struggling families.
His answers ranged from tax cuts to aid for struggling auto companies to measures to reduce home foreclosures.
Denise Knisley, a 53-year-old grocery store employee, said she had been thinking about voting for the Democrat and definitely will after meeting him. The two talked for several minutes in her driveway, with Obama leaning against the open gate of a silver Jeep Liberty.
''He sounds really positive, like he's going to help us,'' Knisley said. ''You've got to believe in somebody.''
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Tepplin, DC
Posted 08:57 AM, 10/13/2008
If Palin can bring new jobs to Ohio, The Cleveland Browns will win the Super Bowl. THIS year.
Akron, , OH
Posted 09:13 AM, 10/13/2008
I'm not voting for a lawyer ever again!!
Posted 09:27 AM, 10/13/2008
Well, Marianne, good thing Abe Lincoln ain't a-runnin', huh?
Posted 09:40 AM, 10/13/2008
Why is she gerna pull dem der jobies outta her dang gum huntin rifle by gollie?
Posted 09:46 AM, 10/13/2008
PALIN 2012: She can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never, ever let you get away with divorcing her sister...
Posted 10:18 AM, 10/13/2008
Just like her Bridge to Nowhere! Thanks but no thanks!
Obama/Biden '08
Posted 10:20 AM, 10/13/2008
g,
Creativity: 1/10
Execution: 1/10
Hypocritical stereotyping stemming from uninformed worldview: 9/10
Copley, OH
Posted 10:33 AM, 10/13/2008
Palin thanks but no thanks the Republicians have taken enough from Ohio....I am going to Obama/Biden for 2008!
Posted 10:39 AM, 10/13/2008
This woman is as dumb as she is delusional.
Besides, she'd better check her notes: McCain was very straightforward when he spoke to crowds about the reality of bringing jobs back to hard-hit industrial areas.
Caribou Barbie, go home!
Posted 10:40 AM, 10/13/2008
J:
You thinking with the wrong head....PRICELESS!
Posted 11:01 AM, 10/13/2008
Wait a minute... did Jason actually voice support for Sarah Palin by accusing a detractor of hers of having an "uninformed worldview"?!?!?
Posted 11:07 AM, 10/13/2008
Did I voice support or am I mocking the ridiculousness of "g?" But thanks for the failed attempt at pointing out a bit of irony.
Posted 11:14 AM, 10/13/2008
Um...is this the same Sarah Palin who kept saying she was against the bridge to nowhere even after everyone knew it was a lie?? The same Sarah Palin who says that she's glad the Alaska legislature's report concluded she did nothing unethical or illegal even though we all know it concluded she did exactly that. The same Palin that keeps lying about Obama's tax plans.
Does this woman have any shame?
Posted 11:20 AM, 10/13/2008
By golly Cliff i think da vermit surely did. Now let's all go catch one of dose blasted moose, by golly i got a taste for it rights bout nows.
Posted 11:38 AM, 10/13/2008
Palin is an Alsakan Appalachian!
Posted 11:48 AM, 10/13/2008
Prediction: McCain wins the election due to the Bradley Effect, and on Inaugeration Day Barack Hussein Obama is arrested trying to blow up the viewing stands with his Muslim Socialist Arabic Terrorist buddies. Meanwhile, a cold blast of January Washington wind blows Sarah Palin's wig off and she stands revealed as Dick Cheney. You heard it here first.
Posted 12:09 PM, 10/13/2008
Despite the stats, I see thousands of high paying jobs posted on employment sites -
http://www.indeed.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.simplyhired.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches you to the jobs)
Good luck to those that need jobs!
Posted 12:16 PM, 10/13/2008
i wouldn't drop my wallet in front of any politican and expect to get it back. i think i'll skip voting this year
Ravenna, OH
Posted 12:21 PM, 10/13/2008
Hey Sebryna, high taxes are why corporations left Ohio. Why are you voting for someone who will double the capital gains tax, give free healthcare to anyone without a job, do nothing about the illegals except tell you your child needs to learn Spanish, voted down an amendment that would have made English the official language of this country. Do I need to give any more examples?!
San Diego, CA
Posted 12:26 PM, 10/13/2008
Let's see..."don't spend what you don't have". I guess by that logic, we'll be pulling out of Iraq tomorrow. We had a surplus when the last Democrat left office and now after eight years of McCain's buddies in office, we have a huge deficit.
This woman is an idiot and McCain should lose the election just on having made such an irresponsible pick for VP.
Posted 03:54 PM, 10/13/2008
Best part of Obama getting elected? No more excuses from this breed of unaccountable Democrats that has emerged post-Bill. How will they move forward when there is nowhere to point the finger? And we'll be repeating this "change" exercise again in 4-6 years, just like always.
Posted 04:39 PM, 10/13/2008
Above so much debate hype, it is statements like Denise Knisley's about Obama that ring so true. It is a statement of hope in troubled times and of a candidate willing to listen to us. My husband and I just retired in March. We've worked hard all our lives and are struggling to hold onto the American dream. For our country men to send someone like Palin to the White House, a heart beat away from President, is just too scary to believe. A talking seal with nice legs is not the hand I wish to see on the tiller. We can't stand more of the same in Washington; we do need intelligent leadership. McCain and Palin represent the shadow of the American dream... empty talk and no solutions for people like us. If McCain had won to privatize Social Security, we'd have lost even that. Our cost of insurance is astronomical because of a pre existent bout with cancer. We can not change policies so are paying an exorbitant fee to keep the one his company carried on us. This takes up one entire retirement check my husband earned. Obama is the one that speaks to our heart and our pocket book. Talk of the Bradley effect is so fear inducing. It threatens the Obama wave. Ohioans need only to look past the hype, and vote their hearts and pocket books. We need real change to survive this crisis, steady leadership, and we need to believe again in the American Dream. We need to send Palin back to Alaska to deal with her ethics charge. We need to remember McCain was investigated, too, for an ethic violation. We need to hold in our hearts that we did make it to the moon in ten years. We need to reclaim our pride in this country--we need to elect Obama and recreate the American dream.
Posted 08:07 PM, 10/13/2008
Obama and Biden are trying to hide this from you. Every voting American needs to know this before heading to the polls. This is what they don't want you to know. In 2006, Obama campaigned for a relative in Kenya, who was running for the Presidency. Obama's cousins name is Raila Odinga. Subsequently, Odinga lost by 230,000 or so votes. He did not accept the loss. So he called for demonstrations by his political supporters who in turn committed ethnic cleansing and genocide. Point blank, this guy tried to subvert the election process and use blackmail until he got what he wanted. Here is a video that gives a good accounting of the events along with photo's as proof of Obama and Odinga campaigning together. And Obama, used U.S. taxpayer money for this and his Senatorial position to help this terrorist. Titled: Barack Obama & Raila Odinga - Link: - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related
Posted 10:02 PM, 10/13/2008
I have to bring up a number issue that isn't addressed: National Defense. As a lifelong Republican who switched to the Democratic party in 2004, I must question the true patriotism of John McCain. When Karl Rove and other White House officials leaked the name of undercover operative Valerie Plame (Wilson), I was hoping that McCain and other Republican patriots would come the the U.S. intelligence community's aid. He didn't, where as other Republicans did. Please view my Blog and scroll down to read the thoughts I wrote on the Plame affair- http://declassifiedsecrets.blogspot.com/ I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on the matter. Robert61
Front Line, KC
Posted 08:16 AM, 10/14/2008
The Socialists running ohio are running jobs out as fast as they can. A needy public is the way for Socialists to get elected. Keep people at the bottom needing help. Of course what McCain/Palin should do is take a page from Obama and offer tax cuts on taxes that don't exist. And offer to give tax breaks to those that don't pay any taxes. Buying election, the Socialist way. Redistribute the wealth. 4 years of Obama will kill the American dream.
