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CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama says that amid the current financial crisis, it's more important than ever for he and John McCain to sit down and hold a presidential debate.
Republican McCain proposed earlier Wednesday that Friday's debate be postponed while the two candidates work to deal with the nation's financial troubles. Obama said he and McCain are working on a joint statement setting out their ideas on how to solve the financial crisis. But Obama also said he believes it's important to go ahead and have the debate.
Obama said, "It's my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess."...
From CBS News'
September 24, 2008, 4:36 PM
Ryan Corsaro:
(CINCINNATI) - Joe Biden tackled the broad spectrum of national security today, saying the Democratic ticket would offer more “hard-headed” diplomacy with allies in dealing with countries like Iran and calling John McCain “dangerously wrong” in his views on terrorism, the war in Iraq, and foreign relations.
Appearing in the cavernous dome of Union Station, Biden attempted to drive the Obama campaign’s message that a McCain presidency would carry on the same type of foreign policy under the Bush Administration.
“After 9/11, the President of the United States of America had an incredible opportunity. He had an opportunity to join America and the rest of the world in common cause,” said Biden, speaking in the same spot where Bush made a televised case against Saddam Hussein in 2002.
“But instead, instead by starting a war of choice in Iraq before winning the war of necessity in Afghanistan, the President of the United States by imposing torture, detention, eavesdropping that defy our values and endanger our national security.”
“By showing disdain to our allies and empty bluster to our enemies, President Bush divided America, divided the world instead of, instead of uniting us.”
Biden accused McCain of the same blustering and fixation on Iraq, and insisted the central war on terrorism was not in Iraq, but rather in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan....
