John McCain vs. Barack Obama

Soaring speech from Obama, plus some specifics
Christian Science Monitor, MA
While he pledged not use the “same partisan playbook” to attack GOP rival John McCain, Obama made the strongest case yet against the Arizona senator, ...

At peace with Clintons, Obama goes after McCain
Reuters
Urged by Democratic leaders to toughen up the attacks on McCain, Obama did just that, calling him out of touch, an acolyte of unpopular Republican President ...

Obama gets it in gear with acceptance speech
Los Angeles Times, CA
Obama was nothing but a "celebrity," McCain's spokesmen charged, an airy elitist out of touch with ordinary Americans. Polls showed Obama losing ground ...

McCain, Obama And Weak Transportation Policy
Wired News 
Transportation isn't even listed under the "issues" tab each candidate has on his website (McCain here, Obama here). That's a big mistake because ...

Spelling out the change
Boston Globe, United States
At the same time, locked in a tight race with McCain, Obama had to persuade skeptical voters that he can meet them on their level, is capable of ...

Obama's speech -- all of the above
Power Line, MN
10:22 Now the subject is McCain. Obama praises him for “wearing the uniform of our country with bravery.” His praise of McCain is the must perfunctory I’ve ...

Barack Obama gets down to policy as he wows 80000 crowd
guardian.co.uk, UK
Bush had betrayed that promise during the last eight years and the country could not take the chance of another four under John McCain, Obama said. ...

Carrington: McCain, Obama Couldn’t Have Emerged in Nigeria
THISDAY, Nigeria
Former American Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter C. Carrington, has said Senators Barack Obama and John McCain could not have emerged as presidential ...

McCain, Obama hitting Ohio Business Courier of Cincinnati
Bizjournals.com, NC
John McCain will make a high-profile stop in Dayton today, where he is expected to announce his vice presidential pick. Presidential Sen. Barack Obama and ...

NH Polls: Obama and McCain Going Pretty Close
TopNews, India
It appears from the recent Obama McCain New Hampshire pre-election opinion polls that Barack Obama and John McCain are going pretty close - going almost ...

Blogosphere

McCain, Obama Not Far Apart on Many Issues
Associated Press  
For starters, Obama has an ambitious — and expensive — plan to get the country close to universal health coverage and require insurance for children; McCain doesn’t. McCain has experience in foreign affairs that Obama lacks. ...

Analysis: Effective, Tough, But Supporters Say Work Remains
hotlineblog  
For those who say Obama has not shown a toughness or willingness to take it to John McCain, Obama not only labeled the senator as out of touch with the lives of regular Americans, he challenged the GOPer to abandon a politics that ...

McCain, Obama share many views
John McCain and Barack Obama share common ground on a wide selection of issues where the age-old Republican-Democratic divide doesn't cut it anymore.

Today’s Science Policy News for August, 29th 2008
Michael Stebbins  
Wired–For better or worse, the presidential campaign has kicked into high gear and both Barack Obama and John McCain. We’re disappointed to see neither candidate considers transportation a top-tier issue. ...

McCain, Obama and Clinton Favorability
Charles  
All three candidates, McCain, Obama and Clinton, have seen rises in their favorable ratings and an initial decline in unfavorable views though with a slight upturn recently. McCain and Obama are enjoying essentially identical ratings, ...

McCain, Obama & Greek Drama
Thomas Nagorski  
We noted earlier that much is being made about the Greek columns at tomorrow's venue for Senator Obama's speech. Now comes this from the McCain campaign: "Today, workers at Invesco Field are putting the...

Google Offers RSS Readers from McCain, Obama, Top Political Bloggers
Brian Heater  
Perhaps even more fascinating is that Google is also offering feeds from John McCain and Barack Obama. McCain's list includes some predictable choices (which, we can only assume someone reads to him), including Fox News, ...

McCain: Obama Has Confidence In Himself But Not In His Country
Greg Sargent  
McCain's argument -- to be delivered at 1 PM at the 90th Annual American Legion National Convention in Phoenix, Arizona -- is based on some rather aggressive parsing of what Obama actually said. McCain is faulting Obama for saying in ...

McCain VP rumors crowd Obama’s day
Fred Barbash
There's no denying McCain veep rumors today ate up some of the DNC airtime. See also: GOP Veep Sheet.

McCain Brilliantly Aims Directly At Obama’s Weakspot..Pits the ...
gem2001  
McCain is doing what Obama supporters should have done this week in Denver at the Democratic National Convention. The Republicans are doing what Republicans do… whatever it takes to win the White House. Its cynically pitting the hopes ...

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