Washington, Sept. 29 : Presidential candidates – Barack Obama and John McCain have both expressed cautious support for the 700 billion dollar bail out to end the meltdown on Wall Street.

McCain told ABC''s "This Week" program that he will "swallow hard and go forward" with the plan, adding "the option of doing nothing is simply not an acceptable option."

Washington, Sept 29 : Senator Barack Obama’s new campaign video features a ‘Bad News’ picture of a Senator John McCain victory.

According to the Washington Times, the YouTube video shows a mock MSNBC projection of Senator McCain “winning” the November 4 contest with 51 per cent, to 49 per cent vote against Obama.

“John McCain elected 44th president” and “Voter turnout lower than expected” are the mock captions with an MSNBC “Breaking News” headline under a smiling McCain.

Washington, Sept. 29: The marriage of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter, Bristol, to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé, Levi Johnston, before the November 4 election, is being seen in GOP circles as the tonic required to boost the McCain campaign’s flagging fortunes.

According to The Times, the McCain campaign expectations are growing.

New York, September 29: U. S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin have been depicted as animals in an artwork.

Created by Tim Rollings in just a couple of weeks, the piece features Palin's face on the body of a moose and that of McCain on the body of a puppy.

"She even looks halfway decent as a moose," the New York Daily News quoted one art lover as commenting.

The artwork is on display at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery through December.

New York, Sep 28 : US presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama differed on Pakistan, especially over US attacks into Pakistani territory, a policy that Islamabad had sharply protested. 

During the first of a series of televised debates ahead of the November election, McCain emphasized the need for Pakistan’s support said, he would not publicly state a policy of attacking militants in Pakistan, saying Pakistani support Democratic rival, Obama, responded that the United States should attack militants if Pakistan were unwilling to do so highlighting a difference over Pakistan policy. 

New York, Sept 27: Going by party lines, Republican Party’s presidential candidate John McCain should be strictly following his partyman and US President George Bush’s policy of attacking Pakistan to root out terrorism, but during the first presidential debate it was Democrat Barack Obama who appeared to toe Bush’s policy.