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ABC News: Obama on Clinton VP Talk: 'Settle Down'
Summary from Canada, from articles in English
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Instead of attack ads and internet mayhem, the two remaining presidential candidates - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain - are talking about a campaign centred entirely on issues. (article 2)
If true, that would be a pretty abrupt change from the character assassination that has become the campaign norm in the recent past. (article 2)
Obama's people have called the idea appealing, but are recommending an even less-structured, lengthier exchange more in line with the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates of 150 years ago. (article 2)
Democrat Barack Obama smiles while speaking at a primary election night rally on May 6, 2008, in Raleigh, N.C., after sweeping to victory in the North Carolina presidential primary. (article 1)
Lawmakers and lobbyists, Democrats and Republicans alike, would put their politics on hold and gather for... their weekly poker game. (article 1)
It was a chance for Obama, then an Illinois state lawmaker, to socialize over cards and cigars (or, in his case, cigarettes). (article 1)
He had already navigated the exotic corners of Hawaii and Indonesia, the halls of privilege of Cambridge, Mass., and the poverty-wracked streets of Chicago as a boy, a student and a young man. (article 1)
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Obama, Clinton, McCain, campaign, Democratic |
Source articles
- Barack Obama: Walking between worlds (cbc.ca, 06/04/2008, 3066 words)
- Washington File (cbc.ca, 06/05/2008, 232 words)
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