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McCain dispatches allies to New Hampshire

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor October 21, 2008 04:39 PM

Following up on John McCain's rally Wednesday in New Hampshire, two high-profile surrogates will visit on Thursday, McCain's campaign announced this afternoon.

Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who was nearly McCain's vice presidential pick, plans a press conference in Concord, followed by forums at Dartmouth College in Hanover and Keene State College in Keene.

Also, former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman, a former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, plans to promote McCain's energy proposals at GT Solar in Merrimack and at a roundtable in Portsmouth.

Democrat John F. Kerry eked out a narrow win in New Hampshire in 2004, but McCain is counting on the state's four electoral votes to pull off a come-from-behind win.

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People need to wake up. Obama is not talking about taking Joe the Plumbers money and giving it to people without jobs. That is ridiculous and untrue. He is talking about Mega rich people who are raking in obscene profits while paying their workers minimum wage. If they complain too loud about the low wages, they look for workers in India or China to do the work so they can make even higher profit.

Think about the Walmart hiers making billions a year while their workers can't pay rent. Think about mortgage and finance CEO's with paychecks of 487 million over three years while they rape homeowners. Think about Oil execs making 500 billion a year in profit while they bleed America dry.

Wake up people. These mega rich 1-5% don't let ANYTHING trickle down. They rape the American worker for everything they can and they DON'T PAY TAXES! They write off losses, find every loophole and then have folks like McCain subsidize them. AND YES ... paying taxes is patriotic!! It is how we fund America. The problem is that the middle class carries the burden while the mega-rich carry off the rewards.

Posted by Dave October 22, 08 12:57 AM
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so what your saying is that obama is like robin hood. thats funny.
if you think things are bad now just wait, if we give obama the chance to tax us to death he will.
becarefull waht you wish for.

Posted by tony October 26, 08 11:23 PM
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