Archive for October 26th, 2008
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One poll moves (a lot); the rest stay flat (The Yahoo! Newsroom)
The Yahoo! Newsroom – Over the weekend there wasn’t much change in the poll numbers in the presidential race between John McCain and Barack Obama.
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Pentagon on guard for White House wartime transition (AFP)
AFP – The Pentagon has been preparing for months for the first wartime change of presidents in 40 years, a period of heightened vulnerability that, if history is a guide, US adversaries will try to exploit. -
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance for Florida
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Florida and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by Hurricane Gustav during the period of August 31 to September 7, 2008.
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President and Mrs. Bush Host Celebration in Honor of Theodore Roosevelt’s 150th Birthday
President Bush on Monday said, “We remember many of our Presidents as leaders made for a unique moment in our history. President Roosevelt, as John said, was a man for all seasons. He was a soldier who won the Medal of Honor, a peacemaker who won the Nobel Prize. He was one of the world’s most daring big game hunters, and a leading advocate for conservation of our country’s natural resources. He was an intellectual who sometimes read several books a day, as John mentioned, and he wrestled here at the White House.”
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President Bush Meets with President Lugo of Paraguay
President Bush on Monday said, “I told the President that the United States wants to help. We want to help with education and health care. We care deeply about people being able to work. Our — we believe in the social justice agenda. I believe that — that it’s important that the United States be in a position to help influence the lives of citizens that simply want a more hopeful day. And Mr. President, it gives me great comfort to know that you’re the person with whom we can work.”
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White House race gilded by history (AFP)
AFP – “Historic” might be the most overused word of the White House race, yet the spellbinding plot twists of 2008 have undeniably made this campaign one for the ages. -
Gun sales thriving in uncertain times
Increase is attributed in part to economic woes and fears that Democrats will enact new gun controls.
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Obama Wages `Uphill Battle’ to Wrest West Virginia From McCain (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg – Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama and John McCain stand
watch outside a music and movies store in Bridgeport, West
Virginia. The life-size cutouts seem almost life-like; sometimes
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Press Briefing by Dana Perino – 10/27/2008
MS. PERINO: Hi, everybody. The President is meeting with the President of Paraguay right now and they’ll have pool at the bottom. And then the President will make remarks tonight in honor of Theodore Roosevelt’s 150th birthday. That celebration will be in the East Room tonight. And other than that, I don’t have anything to start with.
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President Bush Meets with President Lugo of Paraguay – October 27, 2008
President Bush on Monday said, “I told the President that the United States wants to help. We want to help with education and health care. We care deeply about people being able to work. Our — we believe in the social justice agenda. I believe that — that it’s important that the United States be in a position to help influence the lives of citizens that simply want a more hopeful day. And Mr. President, it gives me great comfort to know that you’re the person with whom we can work.”
