Articles filed under Political Figures
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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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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...
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Poll: Obama backers more fired up that McCain'sJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- John McCain is facing an excitement deficit. While overall interest in the presidential campaign has swelled since last fall, backers of Barack Obama are m...
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McCain TV ad hits Obama on Iraq policyJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain launched a new television ad Friday that accuses presidential rival Barack Obama of switching positions on Iraq "to help himself bec...
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Evangelicals quietly worry about McCainJul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - SIOUX CENTER, Iowa -- Stirring her morning coffee, lifelong Republican Grace Droog voiced her doubts -- and those of many evangelical voters -- about what she isn't hear...
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Obama campaign raised $52 million in JuneJul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign says it raised $52 million last month. The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee ended the mon...