CNN/OPINION RESEARCH CORPORATION POLL OF DEBATE WATCHERS

Who Did the Best Job In the Debate?
Obama 51%
McCain 38%

Who Would Better Handle Economy?

Pepsi Center – Denver, CO
August 26, 2008

I am honored to be here tonight. I'm here tonight as a proud mother. As a proud Democrat. As a proud

Invesco Field – Denver, CO
August 28, 2008

To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation.

By BARACK OBAMA

The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States.

North Carolinians have an opportunity during this election to help change the course of this country.

While Barack Obama offers historic, responsive and responsible change, Republicans offer more of the McSame.

John McCain has voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time and promises to continue the failed policies that have gotten us high gas prices, high food prices and no clear path to ending the war in Iraq.

How can McCain offer North Carolinians a better future when he’s spent the primary season recycling George Bush’s failed economic agenda and bragging about his willingness to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years?

MCCAIN’S RECORD VS. MCCAIN’S RHETORIC

New York Times Editorial

It has been five years since the United States invaded Iraq and the world watched in horror as what seemed like a swift victory by modern soldiers and 21st-century weapons became a nightmare of spiraling violence, sectarian warfare, insurgency, roadside bombings and ghastly executions.

Iraq’s economy was destroyed, and America’s reputation was shredded in the torture rooms of Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prisons.

These were hard and very costly lessons for a country that had emerged from the cold war as the world’s sole remaining superpower. Shockingly, President Bush seems to have learned none of them.
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In a speech on Wednesday, the start of the war’s sixth year, Mr. Bush was stuck in the Neverland of his “Mission Accomplished” speech. In his mind’s eye, the invasion was a “remarkable display of military effectiveness” that will be studied for generations. The war has placed the nation on the brink of a great “strategic victory” in Iraq and against terrorists the world over.