obama bailout

LA CROSSE, Wisc. – Sen. Barack Obama has not taken the stage here yet, but the attacks on his rival are in full force.
Ron Kind, a local star who had held every post from high-school quarterback to county prosecutor before being elected to Congress in 1996, ripped into Sen. John McCain as an economic lightweight [...]

RENO, Nev — Sen. Barack Obama doubled down in gambling country Tuesday, telling a morning rally at a university here that Congress must pass a bailout plan to tackle the financial problems that are “no longer just a Wall Street crisis, [but] an American crisis.”
“It’s the American economy that needs this rescue plan,” Obama told [...]

RENO, Nev. — Sen. Barack Obama is not taking the bait — for now.
Strolling off his plane with cell phone in hand, the Democratic presidential nominee looked calm as he arrived in Nevada today, walking around the tarmac in deep conversation for several minutes.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Sen. Barack Obama swiftly reacted to the failed congressional vote on the bailout on Monday afternoon, casting the setback as a “bump in the road” that would not prevent ultimate passage of a “rescue package.”
“While things are never smooth in Congress,” Obama told voters as soon as he took the stage, “understand [...]