Articles filed under Misc Elections
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In Germany, Obama urges joint fight against terrorJul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - BERLIN -- Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terro...
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McCain credits Bush lifting offshore drilling ban for drop in oil pricesJul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania -- Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President George W. Bush's lifting of a pr...
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Obama tours Holocaust memorial in IsraelJul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - JERUSALEM -- Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama toured Israel's Holocaust memorial Wednesday, laying a wreath in memory of the 6 million Jews who died and sa...
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Obama's great-uncle recalls liberating Nazi campJul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Charles T. Payne had his first close brush with history at the end of World War II, when his infantry division liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Nazis' Buchenwald conc...
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It's an easy choice to not support ObamaJul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Marcy Rieser (Fence Post, July 12) is right to say that "the choice is easy" this November, but she's wrong in her conclusion. How anyone could vote for shallow, flip-fl...
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Actually, Obama would be good hireJul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Rebuttal to Hank D'Ambrosio (Fence Post, July 11): You would not hire Obama, and why is that? I take it you hired Bush judging from your letter and what company did he r...
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Republicans start arena conversion for conventionJul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Construction crews began removing row after row of Xcel Energy Center seats. Forklift drivers slid load after load of electrical equipment off semi tr...
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Is McCain zeroing in on running mate?Jul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - ROCHESTER, N.H. -- Yet another town-hall meeting isn't doing the trick. Neither is dropping in on a former Republican president. So just what can John McCain do to draw ...
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Iraqi officials welcome Obama, his plan to withdraw troops by 2010Jul 20, 2008 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraq's government welcomed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday with word that it apparently shares his hope that U.S. combat forces could...
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Obama meets with Afghan presidentJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - KABUL, Afghanistan -- Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a man Obama has chided for not doing enough to rebuil...