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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Monthly Archives for October 2008
Obama’s FULL track record of moronic judgments (only two major votes) in the Senate: (1)The Surge and (2)The Invasion of Georgia -- Wrong and Wimp -- the Clinton New Democrat Party is dead, here comes the far-left
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Friday, October 31, 2008 1:50 AM
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Joe the Plummer’s PRIVATE driver's license and his sport-utility vehicle RECORDS pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate –
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Friday, October 31, 2008 1:21 AM
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Could anything be more incongruent than an Obama Democrat?
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:43 AM
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Democrats are a joke -- one month ago, “If you make less than, $250,000, you get a tax cut…” -- two weeks ago, “If you make less than, $200,000, you get a tax cut…” – Joe Biden yesterday, “If you make less than, $150,000, you get a tax cut…”
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:42 AM
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According to the Wall Street Journal: Kurt Hauser stated, "No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America tax revenues have remained at about 19.5% of GDP." -- taxes up, economy down
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:30 AM
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According to the Huffington Post: “Early Voting Avalanche” – people who don’t have day jobs or any job at all voting for Obama, getting off the couch and going to the polls – far-left hails victory
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:10 AM
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According to the Washington Post: "Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations" -- big money politics define Obama DEMOCRATS -- FRAUD?
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:17 AM
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In October 2008, everyone is expecting the 1930s… no bottom in sight. Sound familiar? How about DJIA 36,000 during the dot com boom? Conventional thinking was wrong in 2000. Conventional thinking wrong, again, in 2008? No bottom in sight or a great
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:42 AM
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Since the GOP acceptance speech – the Associated Press has run 141 highly NEGATIVE, major, HEADLINES on Palin – during same period, zero negative AP headlines on Obama -- vicious AP headlines listed here
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:52 AM
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“You cannot trust Republicans with your money. They will borrow and spend, borrow and spend, borrow and spend,” DNC Chairman Howard Dean said on MSNBC -- political jujitsu at its finest
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:25 AM
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Deep Blue Mess
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:35 AM
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DRUDGE REPORT – BOMBSHELL – tape of Obama openly SOCIALIST – Bottom-line: if you have a job or ever want a job, you are a MORON to be voting for Obama
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:02 AM
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Far-left DEMOCRAT Henry Waxman in a PANIC – most Americans now realize Freddie and Fannie had the STARING ROLE in this mess – latest far-left straw-man, “Were Fannie and Freddie the (only) cause of this financial crisis?”
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Monday, October 27, 2008 1:17 AM
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“DEMOCRAT Congressman, Barney Frank calls for a 25% cut in military spending” -- another humorous ‘Bush Lesson’ – SPEAK UP, don’t be a ‘careerist coward,’ - Clinton massively slashed defense budgets
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Monday, October 27, 2008 1:01 AM
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Unintended humor in it’s highest form – endless amusement – “OBAMA SELLING election night coverage” – rolling on the floor over here
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 2:22 AM
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Global slow down -- Copper heading for the biggest yearly percentage drop since 1988 – down here, at some point, copper and gold are going to be screaming BUYS
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:42 AM
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March 21, 2007 -- Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on the Iraq War at the very moment the Surge was WORKING BRILLIANTLY -- and Obama viewed himself a military genius -- Obama said: “I wish we had been wrong." -- well, history PROVED Obama 100% WRONG
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 1:56 AM
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff: “I was fully expecting the grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to arrive from Maryland and endorse McCain. ”
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 1:41 AM
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“All of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.” -- Tacitus
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Friday, October 24, 2008 4:01 AM
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According to the Telegraph: “Police fear riots if Barack Obama loses US election” -- Oh crap, the open minded, enlightened, bigcity, far-left is going to riot
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Friday, October 24, 2008 1:47 AM
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California secretary of state, a DEMOCRAT, timed arrest to distract from ACORN's voter fraud scandal -- DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD scandal, large and growing
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:56 AM
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DEMOCRATS in Argentina nationalize ALL private pensions – Argentinian DEMOCRATS steal private savings! DEMOCRAT George Miller’s 401(k) play book? DEMOCRAT George Miller wants to ELIMINATE 401(k) contributions
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:42 AM
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Iraq never participated in the global financial bubble -- guess which new, Middle East, DEMOCRACY is poised to have the best, overall economic growth rate, worldwide, in 2009?
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:01 AM
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DEMOCRAT Congressman, Barney Frank: “Plenty of rich people that we can tax” – YOUTUBE clip here – the Observer kids you not, he actually said it on CNBC – it’s the start of a new TV series: “Barney’s Butt Probe Socialism”
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:59 AM
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DEMOCRATS actually LOVE DISPARITY, “Obama far out spending McCain, greatest disparity in 100 years”
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:48 AM
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Baghdad Reborn – where’s the western press 24/7/365 now?
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:40 AM
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“Global climate change is the issue of our future and it relates to everything,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DEMOCRAT, California said on the Charlie Rose show.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:24 AM
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“The American commander has risked his position when he spoke in this tone and has regrettably complicated relations,” Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, told a group of visiting Kuwaiti journalists in an interview shown on Iraq’s state television.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:02 AM
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DEMOCRATS love big money in politics – Obama $150 million month – ironic - brutal - unintended consequences, McCain/Feingold destroying McCain --
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Monday, October 20, 2008 6:32 AM
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Schumer spreading SHORT rumors for DEMOCRAT vulture billionaires?
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Monday, October 20, 2008 1:09 AM
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CEOs getting slaughtered holding one stock during the stock market down turn, mutual fund diversification wiser, John Q. Public doing better than CEOs --
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:58 AM
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"Burning Down the House" LINK HERE - CENSORed, super popular, anti-Democrat Party VIDEO – liberal-left San Francisco executives fail to SUPPRESS FREE SPEECH --
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:13 AM
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DEMOCRATS creating enduring 'recessionary conditions' -- no jobs and millions trapped in long-term poverty, dependent on 'Obama Welfare'
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:20 AM
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YOUTUBE clip here – ‘Joe the Moron’ BIDEN – quote: “…a three letter word, J-O-B-S…” – the Observer kids you not, another DEMOCRAT mega gaffe... YET Palin gets hammered
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Friday, October 17, 2008 1:51 AM
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“This is the equivalent of what FDR had to do with the SEC, to regulate capitalism,” said Rep. Barney Frank, DEMOCRAT
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Friday, October 17, 2008 1:35 AM
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'Joe the Plumber' Takes Center Stage at Final Presidential Debate - according to the far-left, 'Joe the Plumber' is a tax cheat
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:22 AM
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“Overall, there seems to be a spirit of reconciliation and peace in the air here in Basra,” British Marine Maj. Gen. Andy Salmon said. AWESOME NEWS IN IRAQ – Basra crime and murder rates on par with Manchester, England
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:13 AM
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al-Qaida coup underway in Pakistan, per Times of India “Taliban, al-Qaida and J&K terrorist elements want to take over the country.”
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:31 AM
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Unintended Humor -- Bad Idea Barack has relabled 'welfare checks' -- no joke -- Want to know the new, DEMOCRAT name for 'welfare checks'? -- I kid you not -- 'Lower-middle-class-tax-cuts'
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:18 AM
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DEMOCRATS rejoice – “Bush destroyed the Republican Party and the conservative movement” -- always good for a chuckle, our buddies on the far-left opine, endlessly about Democrat party rule for the next 100 years
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:52 AM
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DEMOCRATS staking out the sidewalks of Palin political events, bating thousands of people walking into or leaving these venues and video taping their responses. Per the far-left, “As we've seen in video after video..."
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:04 AM
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Tennessee DEMOCRAT bigwig -- PALIN EMAIL HACKING -- State Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, DEMOCRAT chairman of Tennessee's House Government Operations Committee – DEMOCRAT son INDICTED in PALIN EMAIL HACKING
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Monday, October 13, 2008 1:33 AM
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The Observer found a 'political jujitsu gem' – verbatim from the leading far-left guiding light -- “In general, Alaska has double the national average of birth defects. While the causes are unknown…”
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Monday, October 13, 2008 1:17 AM
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“We’re having tremendous success, because we’ve combined our technological advantages with the Iraqi firsthand knowledge of the terrain, the culture and those intangibles that only come from being an Iraqi,” Army Col. Philip Battaglia, 4th BDE CDR said
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 1:13 PM
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"As the situation on the ground in Iraq continues to improve, I urge you to consider sending your military forces to Afghanistan, where there is an urgent need for trainers as they expand their army," U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 1:34 AM
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DEMOCRAT George Miller wants to ELIMINATE 401(k) contributions (starting with high-income Americans per Miller) – far-left radicals with a border-line idiotic level of understanding of basic economics are working to destroy wealth
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Friday, October 10, 2008 1:52 AM
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"DEATH SPIRAL" -- words like 'death spiral' in news papers and on business news shows? -- Another screaming contrarian signal and time to begin scooping up good companies... cheap?
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Friday, October 10, 2008 1:19 AM
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DEMOCRAT, U.S. Senator, Claire McCaskill said, "I spit on this before I put it in." try an internet search for "Dirty Senate Tramps" -- you'll find a picture of Claire McCaskill
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:57 AM
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According to Gallup, less than 9% of Americans are pleased with the way “things” are headed right now in the U.S.A. -- for average Americans, Bush has “things” more screwed up than Jimmy Carter
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:36 AM
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An average stock market crash lasts 30 months with stock prices plunging 50% -- OK, from DJIA 14,000 on 7.18.2007 to DJIA 7,000 on 7.18.2009
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:44 AM
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Happening right now -- AWESOME news in IRAQ yet no American press coverage -- Hani Khallaf, the Arab League representative, moved to Baghdad and OPENED his Baghdad office yesterday -- yet another MASSIVE STRATEGIC VICTORY
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:34 AM
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The media does the dirty work – “…the McCain/Palin campaign's attack on Obama because he happens to know Bill Ayers…” Meanwhile, back on earth, every Palin statement is shredded - the press is comical
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:24 AM
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"Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews..." said DEMOCRAT Congressman Alcee Hastings
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Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:59 AM
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Chris Matthews totally cracks me up - "Barack looks good on TV, that's GOOD" -- two days later on the same TV channel -- "Palin looks good on TV, that's BAD" -- the media willingly doing the dirty work
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Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:56 AM
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Wall Street Journal - Bear Markets That Won't Go Away
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Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:22 AM
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IRAN is despicable, openly trying to weaken participatory Islam and destabilize the Iraqi democrats
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Friday, October 03, 2008 1:48 AM
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SHORTS jumping sharks – ‘gold ban’ canard just flew by the window again... the last time the Observer saw this 'unique bird's migration' into the press was in 1980... gold was at $850.00 ($2,000.00 inflation adjusted) per ounce
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Friday, October 03, 2008 1:22 AM
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Democrat Leadership Mostly Morons -- per ABC News -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev -- "One of the... major insurance companies... one with a name that everyone knows that's on the verge of going bankrupt.”
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:21 AM
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Morons Moving Money -- “Businesses and institutions with large accounts started withdrawing money to lower their balances to below the federally insured $100,000 limit.” Carlos Evans, Wachovia's wholesale banking executive, said in an interview.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:20 AM
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Asked about the Community Reinvestment Act on 'The View', President Bill Clinton said Fannie and Freddie had lots of money in 90s and he gave the money to poor people for subprime loans
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:49 AM
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"That's why his first response to the greatest financial meltdown in generations was a ‘Katrina-like’ response." Obama said about John McCain
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:23 AM
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