AP - A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the U.S. safer, a sharp rebuke to John McCain’s aides who said the Democrat had a naive, Sept. 10 mind-set toward terrorism.
AP - Democratic lawyer and nonprofit executive Donna Edwards won a special election Tuesday to become Maryland’s first black woman elected to Congress.
AP - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to meet with some of her top contributors next week in an effort to calm donors who remain frustrated with Obama’s presidential campaign.
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain called on Tuesday for energy conservation and an end to
a ban on U.S. offshore oil and natural gas exploration to help
curb the nation’s “dangerous” dependence on foreign oil.
Reuters - White House hopeful Barack Obama
said on Tuesday the weakness in the U.S. dollar reflects the
soft economy and large trade deficits, and the best way to
strengthen the currency is to restore the economy’s health.
AP - Republican Sen. John McCain called for a clean break from Bush administration energy policies on Tuesday, then promptly pivoted to accuse campaign rival Barack Obama of supporting recycled measures that failed in the past.
Reuters - Republican John McCain’s camp
accused Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama on Tuesday
of being weak on terrorism, drawing a sharp rebuke from Obama
on the politically charged issue of how to deal with Islamic
extremists.
AP - A New Orleans congressman who is facing trial on federal corruption charges says he will seek re-election to a fifth term.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama is moving quickly this week in hopes of uniting the labor movement behind his candidacy.
AP - Obama: Republicans need to learn the lessons of 9/11, not me … McCain says windfall profits tax would worsen dependence on foreign oil … Boren has kind words for Obama, despite not endorsing him … Obama says he will help students pay for college … Obama to seek AFL-CIO endorsement in meeting with leaders … Democrats sue for investigation of McCain decision to reject public money for primary
AP - TITLE: “Global”
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama recalled paying off his own mountain of student loan debt and promised struggling college students Tuesday he would help them pay for school.
AP - Democratic Party officials plan to file a new lawsuit to compel federal regulators to investigate whether Sen. John McCain violated election laws by withdrawing from public financing.
Former Vice President Al Gore’s decision to endorse Sen. Barack Obama drew wall-to-wall coverage across the media spectrum. But, will it carry significant weight with voters? As always, we return the to handy dandy Fix Endorsement Hierarchy for the answers….
CQPolitics.com - Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is launching an aggressive Capitol Hill campaign to bring former supporters of vanquished primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton fully into his camp.
AP - A major labor union and the liberal organization MoveOn.org are joining forces to air a provocative new ad portraying John McCain’s Iraq policy as a prolonged presence that would involve a new generation of Americans.
MoveOn.org, one of the most influential progressive political groups, isn’t known for subtlety in its advertising. A newspaper ad that ran on the eve of Gen. David Petraeus’s testimony on Capitol Hill in September 2007 labeled the military man “General…
AP - THE RACE: The presidential race nationally
AFP - Republican presidential contender John McCain said he will announce Tuesday his support for relaxing a ban on US offshore oil drilling to ease what he called the domestic “energy crisis.”
AP - Make more than $250,000 a year? Watch out. Barack Obama wants to raise your income taxes. Social Security taxes, too.
