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1.Limbaugh: McCain Throws Cox 'Under the Bus
2,Michael Reagan: Wall Street Bailout 'Robbery'
3.Palin Bans Reporters From Meetings With Leaders
4.McCain, Palin Disagree on Global Warming
5.Al-Qaida Threatens 'October Surprise' Attack

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1.Limbaugh: McCain Throws Cox 'Under the Bus'

Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:53 AM

Rush Limbaugh wishes John McCain’s economic proposals would stop bashing Wall Street, thinks the Arizona senator is running against the wrong people, and deplores his demand that SEC Chairman Chris Cox be fired -- and he wants everybody to know it.


Speaking to Greta Van Susteren on her Fox News show “On The Record” Friday, Limbaugh ripped into McCain, saying he understands what he called “the populist tendency to bash Wall Street because people are upset and to join the chorus that Wall Street is corrupt and full of a bunch of people, but that’s not the case.


“I don't think bashing Wall Street, with the Democrats already doing that, is a way for Sen. McCain to separate himself. What he ought to be doing is what he did in Green Bay this morning, which is attack the people responsible for the Fannie Mae disaster -- and that’s all Democrats. It’s Chris Dodd, it’s Barney Frank, it is Barack Obama, it’s Franklin Raines, and Jim Johnson -- people associated with the Obama campaign.


"I understand the temptation to start ripping into Wall Street, because people instinctively fall into that so-called class envy susceptibility for this. I think it's a mistake. I think he can distinguish himself better by attacking the people he's running against -- he's running against Democrats, he’s running against Obama, he’s running against Wall Street.


“Wall Street is probably going to finish the week higher than when it started … There’s a lesson here to stay calm and cool."


Limbaugh addressed McCain’s attack on Cox, the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman.


“I also wish he hadn’t thrown Chris Cox under the bus, the Securities and Exchange Commission guy, [saying] he would have fired him. Cox had nothing to do with this. This is a tendency of Sen. McCain's to look at himself as Teddy Roosevelt and take on anybody he thinks is a robber baron. I wish that he would take some of that back and just focus on who he's really running against -- the people trying to destroy him.”

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2. Michael Reagan: Wall Street Bailout 'Robbery'

Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:08 PM

By: Phil Brennan

The runaway government bailout of Wall Street at taxpayer expense is nothing less than "robbery,” according to Michael Reagan.


The top-rated talk-show host and Newsmax columnist told the 5 million listeners of "The Michael Reagan Show" on Friday that their pockets and those of their fellow Americans were being picked clean by the panic-driven bailout.


"Democrats Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Penny Pritzker, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are robbing the American taxpayer, and Republicans in the House and Senate had been tapped to drive the getaway car," said Reagan.


“In a political system where well-paid Democrat operatives can enrich themselves at the expense of the American people with zero downside, there is no incentive to behave properly, when the taxpayer will bail you out. Enough is enough, bad decisions have consequences and those consequences ought to include indictments and jail time for those who cashed in."


Speaking to Newsmax.com, Reagan added: “I hope John McCain will not shrink from pointing the finger of blame where it belongs – at Barack Obama, who fed greedily at the trough of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while their top people, including two of his own campaign associates, were flim-flamming the American people. It’s a Democratic scandal from beginning to end, and the American people deserve to know it.”

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3.Palin Bans Reporters From Meetings With Leaders

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:30 AM


NEW YORK — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is banning reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.


Palin plans to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in New York on Tuesday.


The TV producer, print and wire reporters in the press pool that follows the Alaska governor were told at the start of the day they would not be admitted with the photographers and camera crew when they are taken in to photograph the meetings.


At least two news organizations, including The Associated Press, objected and were told that the decision had already been made and was not subject to discussion.


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4.McCain, Palin Disagree on Global Warming

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:59 AM

By: Jim Meyers


Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s position on the causes of global warming stand in sharp contrast to those of her running mate John McCain, with the Alaska governor expressing skepticism that it’s man-made.

McCain has consistently asserted that people are driving global warming and supports a cap on greenhouse gases.

He said in July that “the science of man-made global warming has really been proven,” citing the “preponderance of scientific evidence.”

But Palin “has publicly questioned scientists’ near-consensus that human activity plays a role in the rising temperatures,” The Washington Post reported.


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She opposed the Bush administration’s listing of polar bears as threatened with extinction because of shrinking sea ice, and sued to overturn the decision, claiming it would adversely affect Alaska’s commercial fisheries, transportation, and tourism, and would deter oil and gas exploration.

According to The Post, the reasons for Palin’s resistance to measures favored by environmentalists did not become clear until Newsmax magazine published an exclusive interview with the Alaska governor in the September issue, in which Palin said: “A changing climate will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being mad-made.”


The rest of the media jumped all over the Newsmax story, which hit the stands just as McCain announced that Palin would be his running mate.

The interview was cited by The Washington Post, ABC News, Newsday, Politico, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, CNN.com, Time magazine, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Orlando Sentinel, The National Review Online, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, Portfolio.com, and Media Life Magazine.

Palin also said in the Newsmax interview that the U.S. has “billions and billions of barrels of oil and trillions of feet of natural gas,” and that Alaska’s resources can be tapped “with minimum environmental impact.”

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5.Al-Qaida Threatens 'October Surprise' Attack

Monday, September 22, 2008 11:49 AM

By: Tim Collie


After two major terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Yemen — along with a new U.S. push at insurgent strongholds along the Afghan border — U.S. intelligence is worried about a massive "October surprise" attack geared to sway the U.S. elections.

America's military and intelligence agencies intercepted a series of messages from al-Qaida's leadership last month that seemed designed to warn local cells to prepare for imminent attacks. One such operation may have been the attack that brought down a Marriott Hotel in Islamabad where the newly inaugurated president of Pakistan was scheduled to dine.

The attacks would likely be at American bases or allies abroad, since most experts think the group’s ability to penetrate the U.S. homeland has deteriorated since 9-11. Still, al-Qaida is aggressively recruiting both North African and European operatives who may have a greater ability to enter the United States and blend in before launching an attack, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

“We are not aware of any specific, credible al-Qaida plot to attack the U.S. homeland, but we do receive a steady stream of threat reporting from sources of varying creditability,” said Ted Gistaro, U.S. national intelligence officer (NIO) for transnational threats. “As the election nears, we expect to see an uptick in such threat reporting — of varying credibility — regarding possible attacks.“

Other intelligence experts agreed, adding that a pre-election attack would probably occur overseas.

“There is an expectation that al-Qaida will try to influence the November elections by attempting attacks globally," said Roger Cressey, a former Bush and Clinton White House counterterrorism official.

An official familiar with the new intelligence told the The New York Sun that the intercepted messages amounted to “Be on notice. We may call upon you soon.” It was sent out through many channels, ranging from couriers to encrypted electronic communications to other means. There were no specifics as to where or when.

Though some might scoff at the quadrennial worry of the October surprise in U.S. elections, al-Qaida has attacked other nations on the eve of major elections. On March 11, 2004, the group carried out a series of bombings on Madrid commuter trains. Three days later, the party aligned with the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq was defeated.

But al-Qaida’s ultimate goal is to launch another major attack on the U.S. homeland — preferably with nuclear or biological weapons. Whether that hurts the Republican or Democrats seems beside the point, according to one expert.

Last year, Osama bin Laden labeled the entire American system a failure, Gistaro told a panel at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in August. He called on Americans to convert to Islam, and not cast a vote one way or the other in elections.

“He [bin Laden] claimed that there is no difference between Democratic or Republican candidates winning presidential or congressional elections so long as ‘big corporations’ support candidates,” Gistaro said.


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