John McCain On Free Trade

John McCain is bullish on free trade. The country isn't. Yet McCain doesn't miss many opportunities to reproach Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama's emerging opposition to international trade deals.

McCain is such an avowed free trader that he is scheduled to address the Economic Club of Canada next week in Ottawa to assert his support for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Such an appearance helps McCain burnish his foreign policy credentials. But trade can also carry great risks, especially in election battlegrounds such as Ohio and Pennsylvania where many voters blame trade deals for job losses.

Canadian officials are watching the election attentively, too. Obama, who four years ago declared NAFTA had been beneficial, recently talked about reopening NAFTA to strengthen enforcement of labor and environmental standards. McCain has been thumping Obama on that, arguing that such a step not only would hurt trade, but undermine the credibility of the United States abroad.

"You know what message that sends? That no agreement is sacred to him," McCain told reporters Thursday in Boston.

News poll conducted mostly in April found that most Americans have a negative view of trade agreements.

Of those polled, 64 percent said that increasing trade between the United States and other countries has hurt the economy, while just 22 percent said it has helped. Moreover, 54 percent opposed the federal government negotiating new agreements with other countries, as opposed to 43 percent who favored more agreements, though Republicans tended to be evenly split on the question.

Is This True About Michelle Obama You Decide

Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech.

The campaign has created a new website to debunk rumors about the Obamas, www.fightthesmears.com.

The rumor that Michelle Obama used the word "whitey" in a diatribe at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and that a videotape exists, has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

The church, from which the Obamas recently resigned, had been home to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who came under fire for sermons in which he cursed America and accused the government of conspiring against blacks.

Other false rumors confronted on the site are that Obama is a Muslim, that his books contain racially incendiary remarks and that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance or place his hand over his heart. The site repeats the innuendo, in some cases explaining where it comes from, debunks it and encourages people to give the campaign their e-mail addresses to "spread the truth."

Can Barack Obama Out Sword The Swordsman John McCain

Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor has interrupted her self-imposed ban on political statements to announce support for Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

She's asking Ohio voters to join "Citizens for McCain." The effort is headed by Democrat-turned-Independent U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and encourages Americans of all political parties to support McCain's candidacy.

Taylor is the only Republican to win a statewide office during the Democrats' 2006 sweep of elected positions. She has kept a low political profile since and focused on her work as the state's top examiner of public financial records.

Obama McCain In Pa

This election is going to be more interesting then the 2004 race between Kerry And Bush. And if Barack could sway Hillary Clintons supporters it would all but guarantee him winning.

Just as in the Democratic presidential primary, Pennsylvania is already a candidate crossroads in the opening salvos of the general election campaign.

Both major party candidates have their eyes on Pennsylvania's 21 electoral votes this week.

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has an appearance scheduled Wednesday morning at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

And fresh from clinching the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama plans a Friday night fundraiser at a Philadelphia hotel.

McCain strategists hope they can add to their Republican support. They’re trying to appeal to disappointed supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sen. Bob Casey says Obama should be able to win those Clinton supporters over. But Casey calls Pennsylvania “barely blue” and says it will be a tough state for Democrats to win.

Barack Obama Makes Huge Jump In Donations.

Leading Democratic fundraisers predict that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will raise hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few months if he opts out of public financing and begins raising money for the general election.

Specifically, they say Obama could raise $100 million in June and could attract 2.5 million to 3 million new donors to his campaign.

These fundraisers say Obama could increase his fundraising dramatically because of three factors: a boost of enthusiasm among Obama donors following his clinching of the nomination; the migration of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) donors to his camp; and the mobilization of big Democratic donors who have given little so far this year.

Record-breaking projections give Obama strong incentive to pass up $85 million in public funds that his opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has said he would accept.

The question of whether to accept public financing has become a quandary for Obama. He appeared to pledge earlier in the campaign that he would if the Republican nominee did the same. Obama’s aides now claim he merely pledged to “pursue” a fundraising agreement with the Republican nominee.

Though political watchdog groups such as Democracy 21 have pressed Obama to accept government financing, he has resisted because the law would restrict him to spending only as much as McCain — $85 million —between the end of August and Election Day. Democratic fundraisers say Obama could outspend McCain by a margin of 3 to 1, or more, if he skipped taxpayer-subsidized funding.

“One hundred million dollars this June — it’s definitely within reach,” said Wade Randlett, who has raised more than $200,000 for Obama.“

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More Crazy Polls And Attacks

Well another day and more polls are among us with all of them just about showing some outrageously different numbers so which one is a good one to follow. Well i am not sure of that i have been trying to figure that one out myself there are more polls then candidates right now and none of of them even come close to the other. So one would say after this crazy election that these polls will be a thing of the past soon with so many of them and so many discrepancies that no one will pay any attention to them anymore i know i don't.

And for the Democrats to start up the attacks this early is showing that they are scared of losing the election which they will anyways. But its sad to show weakness this early into the election that has begun almost 2 years early to began with. So with that being said its for sure the democrats will not get far in this election by showing their weakness so fast.