Showing posts with label third presidential debate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label third presidential debate. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
THE NEW YORK TIMES: McCain Presses Obama in Final Debate
Senator John McCain used the final debate of the presidential election on Wednesday night to raise persistent and pointed questions about Senator Barack Obama’s character, judgment and policy prescriptions in a session that was by far the most spirited and combative of their encounters this fall.
At times showing anger and at others a methodical determination to make all his points, Mr. McCain pressed his Democratic rival on taxes, spending, the tone of the campaign and his association with the former Weather Underground leader William Ayers, using nearly every argument at his disposal in an effort to alter the course of a contest that has increasingly gone Mr. Obama’s way.
But Mr. Obama maintained a placid and at times bemused demeanor — if at times appearing to work at it — as he parried the attacks and pressed his consistent line that Mr. McCain would represent a continuation of President Bush’s unpopular policies, especially on the economy.
That set the backdrop for one of the sharpest exchanges of the evening, when, in response to Mr. Obama’s statement that Mr. McCain had repeatedly supported Mr. Bush’s economic policies, Mr. McCain fairly leaped out of his chair to say: “Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.” >>> By Jim Rutenberg | October 15, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH: US Presidential Debate: John McCain Attacks Barack Obama as High-spending Liberal
Republican nominee Senator John McCain has fulfilled the wishes of his supporters, aggressively demanding that Senator Barack Obama explain his relationship with a 1960s radical and attacking his Democratic rival as a high tax, high-spending liberal.
Saving their sharpest encounter for the final debate, the US presidential candidates offered clear differences in their visions for the country one of them will be soon be governing.
Much of their disagreement centred around an Ohio plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, whose recently confronted Mr Obama about the higher taxes he would face under the Democrat’s plans. Several times both candidates addressed their comments to "Joe the Plumber" – "if you are watching".
Slipping further behind in the polls, Mr McCain came out fighting and repeated to Mr Obama's face some of the most negative campaign allegations about the Illinois senator.
He demanded to know the full extent of Mr Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, now an education professor who was the founder group of anti-Vietnam War militants called the Weather Underground that bombed government buildings in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
"I don't care about an old washed-up terrorist, but as Senator Clinton said in her debates with you, we need to know the full extent of the relationship with you," said Mr McCain. >>> By Alex Spillius in Hempstead, New York | October 16, 2008
BBC:
McCain and Obama in Tense Final Debate >>> | October 16, 2008
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