Washington, Oct 8: Pakistan once again emerged as one of the focal points of the debate between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. The two rivals had the second of their three debates yesterday.
Both stuck to their earlier stances regarding tackling terrorism in Pakistan, particularly along the Pak-Afghan border.
The Nashville, Oct. 8 : Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain engaged in a spirited second debate here on Tuesday night, with a focus on the current economic mess and their respective stances on key foreign policy issues.
The debate, which was held at Belmont University, saw Obama faulting the Bush administration and by extension McCain for a deregulatory environment that he said had led to the nation’s economic crisis.
Washington - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain began their second presidential debate Tuesday night in a discussion on the economy against the backdrop of a widening global credit and economic crisis.
In the only presidential debate scheduled in the so-called town hall meeting format, the two candidates quickly heard questions from a group of 80 undecided voters about the financial crisis in the United States and the 700-billion-dollar rescue package approved last week in Congress.
New York, Oct. 7 : In a sign that the race for president has returned to about where it was before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket leads the McCain-Palin ticket 47 percent to 43 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll.
Interest, therefore, in Tuesday’s presidential debate is high. Roughly two in three registered voters say they are "very likely" to watch the debate, about the same percentage who said they were very likely to watch the first presidential debate and the vice presidential debate.
Washington, Oct. 7 : John McCain, it seems, has another running mate -- General David H. Petraeus, the former commander of American forces in Iraq and now the CENTCOM chief.
Though officially, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is McCain’s running mate, but she didn''t get a mention once during McCain’s first debate with Barack Obama.
He, however, named General Petraeus seven times, and has since been invoking the former Iraq commander in speeches around the country -- in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida, reports the Washington Post.
According to the paper, McCain has even been carrying around a biography of the general and told Palin that Petraeus is "a great American hero."
Washington, Oct. 7 : Barack Obama has decided to target John McCain for his role in the "Keating Five" savings-and-loan scandal as a rejoinder to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin questioning his ties to Vietnam-era radical William Ayers.
Attempting to link the early-1990s scandal to the current economic crisis, the Obama campaign launched a Web site devoted to "Keating Economics," including a documentary-style video of McCain''s involvement and news clips of his Senate testimony.
Washington, Oct 8: Pakistan once again emerged as one of the focal points of the debate between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. The two rivals had the second of their three debates yesterday.
The Nashville, Oct. 8 : Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain engaged in a spirited second debate here on Tuesday night, with a focus on the current economic mess and their respective stances on key foreign policy issues.
Washington - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain began their second presidential debate Tuesday night in a discussion on the economy against the backdrop of a widening global credit and economic crisis.
In a sign that the race for president has returned to about where it was before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket leads the McCain-Palin ticket 47 percent to 43 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll.
Barack Obama has decided to target John McCain for his role in the "Keating Five" savings-and-loan scandal as a rejoinder to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin questioning his ties to Vietnam-era radical William Ayers.
