A blog written by Manchester College students studying the 2008 presidential campaign.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Obama and Biden: Together Again for the First Time

I was reading this article and I found it extremely interesting that Obama and Biden took the stage in Greensboro to put down McCain's performance in the debate. “This was supposed to be John McCain’s turf and Barack Obama owned it last night.” Biden who said that the focus was mainly on foreign policy said this. Obama mentions that McCain never said the word middle class and never focused on the working people. For this very reason the Obama, campaign did a television ad that focuses on McCain not mentioning the middle class. The McCain representative Tucker Bounds said one last interesting remark that was made in this article. “Barack Obama has a selective memory because John McCain repeatedly pointed to Senator Obama’s vote in favor of higher taxes on families making just $42,000 a year, and his proposal for $860 billion in lavish new government spending which is a crushing burden on middle class families and the Main Street economy.” Right here in this statement it says that McCain is agreeing with Obama in that taxes are hurting the middle class and something should be done about it.The only thing that I read in this article that really disturbed me is that Biden and Obama have not really been campaigning with each other. They will be starting their campaign in Detroit. I do not know about you, but I think they should have been together campaigning a lot more often than just yesterday. It seems to me that the more you are together the better you can have things planned out.

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