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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (28987)	8/29/2008 3:56:57 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I still think Richardson would have been slightly better than Biden, but the rumors of him having bimbo eruptions in his past were probably somewhat true. Besides, Biden is a more charismatic campaigner.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (28987)	8/29/2008 4:59:49 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

FOX NEWS CAUGHT LYING AGAIN 21-Aug-08 09:24 pm FAIR AND BALANCED MY ASS. PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO BAN FOX FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. THEY ARE NOT A LEGITIMATE NEWS ORGANIZATION... Fox’s Campaign Carl Lies, Gives McCain Credit For Fictitious GI Bill Provision Yesterday, while speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to steal credit for the GI Bill that he actively opposed. Fox News’s Carl Cameron gave McCain’s efforts a major boost last night, declaring that McCain successfully changed the GI Bill — to create “a more proportionate award” of benefits — and thus was able to support it: CAMERON: John McCain initially took some opposition to it [the GI Bill], because in McCain’s view, it didn’t proportionately give GI benefits to servicemen and women, depending on how long they were actually in active duty and service. He thought it should be a more proportionate award. He fought for it, it was inserted into the legislation, and in the end, McCain supported it. The GI Bill as approved in no way resembles McCain’s so-called proportional proposal. The GI Bill provides 100 percent tuition payments to those who have served 36 months in active duty, and gives 80 percent to those who have served 24 months. By contrast, under McCain’s proposal, a soldier would have had to serve four times as long — 12 years in active duty – to be eligible for the most generous benefits. McCain has offered a handful of excuses why he did not support the GI Bill, claiming it was too expensive, too generous, or might somehow hamper retention rates. The fact is that McCain was always “full of it” on the bill, and now — with the help of Fox News — he’s simply trying to rewrite history.