MELBOURNE. Fla. -- McCain just told a rally not far from the Kennedy Space Center that no matter the nation's fiscal pressures he'll push for more NASA funding including $2 billion needed to keep flying until a replacement is ready for the Space Shuttle.
"We just saw the Chinese. We saw them in space. We've got competition. We'll be the first nation to Mars. We will continue," he vowed.
Sen. John McCain just pulled into Florida International University in Miami where there's a big raucous crowd in the gym.
His buddy Joe Lieberman the Connecticut senator who ran as the Democrats' pick for vice president in 2000 just introduced McCain -- with a twist on that Joe the plumber stuff:
" a regular guy who happened to ask Obama a question about taxes and now has news crews camped out at his house.
"He wasn't recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks," McCain declared.
If you could use a breather from all the tension over taxes war and whether Joe the Plumber is really in fact Joe or a plumber take in the candidates at the Al Smith dinner a New York Catholic fundraiser.
Todd J. Gillman has a report and here are the video clips of John McCain and Barack Obama at their best:
Barack Obama said "The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D. C by 2,000 slots." .
John McCain said Obama. "as a member of the Illinois State Senate voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention to a child born of a failed abortion." .
Our own Gromer Jeffers Jr will be one of the panelists along with Maria Renée Barillas of KUVN Univisión 23 television and Paul Burka of Texas Monthly.
Milbank you may or may not recall was after she commented on Obama's relationship to Bill Ayers.
In this recent online exchange a reader points out that the FBI has found a second report of the words "kill him" being yelled at a later Scranton. Pa rally to be unfounded.
Millbank says he can't speak to the Scranton rally but points out that at the behest of the Palin campaign the Secret Service is now not allowing reporters to go into the crowds and interview audience members.
What this does he says is prevent reporters from talking to audience members about the things they say and identifying them which Millbank calls "dangerous territory" for SS guys who are allegedly supposed to be protecting the candidate - not his or her aspirations or desires to stay away from the media.
Seems to me like that's not what tax dollars are meant to do. It's certainly not in the best interests of the candidate who - believe it or not - actually BENEFITS from what the reporters can find out about the audience.
The guy to the right is Justin Long the actor who plays a Mac computer on Apple's clever advertisements that poke fun at PCs. Long was at Barack Obama's rally today in Londonderry. New Hampshire - after spending several days registering voters in colleges around New Hampshire and before jetting off to do publicity for a new movie.
We talked briefly about Long's experiences registering voters. Then I asked the important question: Who's the Mac?
Must say this young celebrity was being a bitb cautious. "I think it's a little dangerous to make that comparison," he said while laughing a bit. "It brings up all sorts of unwanted images maybe." Huh? I could only guess he meant people might think he was talking about The mack -- a/k/a Max Julien -- and not a computer. Anyway the answer seemed obvious enough to me. Obama's campaign has used technology to get huge numbers of young people involved in their cause and McCain is the guy who doesn't use e-mail. Alas. Long stuck to talking points. He was also somewhat hesitant to name the movie - it's
This is one appointment John McCain can't afford to miss. His last date with David Letterman fell victim to a dramatic gamble when the senator suspended his campaign to focus attention on the stalled $700 billion fiscal bailout. Except McCain didn't really drop everything. Just mainly. Dave.
Then tragicomedy on the tarmac at Philadelphia airport. McCain's 19-minute flight to Newark after a post-debate rally got caught in a weather delay in Newark. Aides scrambled. The senator and his wife just boarded a chopper bound for Manhattan. Dave awaits.
Press corps left behind on the Straight Talk Air. Taxiing hoping to get to the Big Apple before sundown.
John McCain hit Barack Obama hard on taxes last night employing the help of a certain now-famous-for-at-least-a-few-days Ohio plumber. McCain's constant theme is Obama will raise your taxes; Obama says I will only if your household makes over $250,000. Want the details all in one place? Take a look after the jump. You can also find out why on people making just $42,000 a year.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cancelled a planned fundraiser in Austin Thursday because of pressing business at home. Wildfires are raging in several parts of Southern California - two of those near Los Angeles - and state leaders are trying to resolve a massive revenue shortfall in the state budget. Mr. Schwarzenegger's office called late Wednesday to say the governor would not be making the trip to Texas.
A spokesman for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst who was hosting the event said there has been no decision on re-scheduling the fundraiser. The luncheon - with tickets starting at $1,000 a person - was intended to raise money for a California group that is pushing a referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot that would take legislative redistricting out of the hands of lawmakers and turn it over to a 14-member citizens commission. Mr. Schwarzenegger a Republican is more enthusiastic about the ballot issue than the California Legislature now controlled by Democrats.
9:58 p m. John McCain made two assertions on corporate taxes one that small businesses pay 50 percent of the taxes and the other that U. S corporations are among the highest taxed in the world. Both are wrong.
10:23 p m. Barack Obama reprised his misleading allegation that McCain would impose taxes for the first time on peoples' health care plans.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is the draw at a $500 a head debate watch party for Senate Democratic hopeful Rick Noriega tomorrow night at the East Dallas home of Renee Skinner and Trey Branham.
Noriega and freshman Republican Sen. John Cornyn meet in their second and final debate at KERA-TV Channel 13 at 8 p m tomorrow.
Noriega's finally getting some help from big name national Democrats. Yesterday former President Bill Clinton stumped for him in Dallas and earlier this month. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton appeared at a Noriega fundraiser in South Texas.
Dallas lawyer Fred Baron a key figure in the Democratic Party both in Texas and nationally is being treated for cancer. His son. Andrew a pharmaceutical company executive to allow the use of an experimental drug. Andrew says his father has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
"While Fred is seriously ill from cancer he is undergoing treatment and he and his family remain hopeful. We remain hopeful as well and pray for Fred's recovery," said family friend Matt Angle director off the Texas Democratic Trust.
Mr. Baron is the major funder of the trust a source of money for the party's rebuildling efforts. He was the top fundraiser for former Sen. John Edwards in his unsuccessful presidential bids. Edwards has dropped out of sight following a sex scandal earlier this year. Some Republicans have put up ads in recent weeks against Democratic legislators in Texas linking them with Baron and by extension. Edwards' scandal.
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