Obama, McCain Take Fight to Pages of Journal

Rivals sounds familiar themes with columns in conservative newspaper

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 3, 2008 11:14 AM CST

(Newser) – Barack Obama and John McCain are appearing together today on one battleground—the opinion pages of the conservative Wall Street Journal. Obama sticks almost exclusively with economics, mentioning the paper’s own reservations with McCain’s housing rescue plan. He’s also quick to remind readers in upper tax brackets they’ll still pay “capital gains and dividend taxes one-third lower than they were under President Reagan.”

McCain sounds a familiar note on economics: “I will fight the Democrats’ plans to redistribute the fruit of America's labor and turn our economy into a full-fledged disaster,” he writes, before underlining his foreign-policy credentials. “There is great need for American leadership in the world, and I understand that only by exercising that leadership with grace and wisdom can we be successful in safeguarding our interests.”

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Barack Obama speaks at a rally at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Barack Obama speaks at a rally in the rain at the Cleveland Mall in Ohio yesterday. (AP Photo)

Barack Obama and John McCain shake hands after the presidential debate Oct. 15, 2008, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. (AP Photo)

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Nov 3, 2008 12:06 AM CST

Larry G, You are so right. McBush and the squaking Parrot have lied about every time they have opened their mouth. Lets hope none of their crap has stuck. America does need a new direction, and that is what we would get with Obama/Biden.

Shannonals

Nov 2, 2008 11:44 PM CST

Ever notice how McCain states how he statse how he will do soemthing, but never says how?

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Nov 2, 2008 11:24 PM CST

Mcain will only bring 4 more years of Bush policies and America cannot afford more of the same. He has run the dirtiest campaign ever. I welcome negative campaigning if it is about the issues, but McBush and the secessionist from Alaska has thrown so much personal crap against the wall hoping something will stick. Well, America isnt buying it this time. This old man has built a wall so big between the left and right that no matter what he does as President, it will be more of the same. VOTE OBAMA! America needs a new direction.

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Obama, McCain Take Fight to Pages of Journal