Thursday, July 31, 2008

Fwd: Daily News Digest: Politics News

Today's Politics News:

Obama's convention crowd: Biggest phone bank ever
Obama campaign rejects rapper Ludacris' rhymes
McCain camp compares Obama to Spears, Hilton
Obama: McCain thinks nation on the 'right track'
McCain’s cacophonous Cabinet
Details sometimes fall away as McCain campaigns
AdWatch: McCain ad casts Obama as empty celebrity
Broad tobacco regulation bill clears House
FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm
Scalia takes to stage to tell lawyers how to win
UN: NKorea facing worst food crisis since 1990s
--> Obama's convention crowd: Biggest phone bank ever
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:01 pm PDT
AP - Those 75,000 Democrats who will pack a football stadium for Barack Obama's
conventionspeech won't be there just to whoop and holler on television. They'll form the
world'slargest phone bank to boost voter registration — fired-up supporters using
computertargeting the campaign has spent months putting together. Full Story Top
Obama campaign rejects rapper Ludacris' rhymes
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:32 pm PDT
AP - Barack Obama's presidential campaign said Wednesday that a new rhyme by
supporterand rapper Ludacris is "outrageously offensive" to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton,
RepublicanSen. John McCain and President Bush. Full Story Top
McCain camp compares Obama to Spears, Hilton
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:10 pm PDT
AP - John McCain's presidential campaign on Wednesday released a withering
televisionad comparing Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, suggesting the
Democraticcontender is little more than a vapid but widely recognized media concoction. Full Story
Top
Obama: McCain thinks nation on the 'right track'
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:39 pm PDT
AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said Wednesday his Republican
rivalJohn McCain "thinks we're on the right track," drawing a chorus of boos from a swingstate
audience vocal about the status quo. Full Story Top
McCain’s cacophonous Cabinet
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:57 pm PDT
Politico - Republican faithful have grumbled in recent weeks about the lack of a
consistentmessage from John McCain’s campaign on key issues, leading observers to wonderwhat
McCain’s top advisers are thinking. Full Story Top
Details sometimes fall away as McCain campaigns
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:10 pm PDT
AP - Details can bedevil any presidential candidate. Republican John McCain
announcedthis week that he backs an anti-affirmative action referendum that has drawn sharpdebate
in Arizona, his home state. Then he added a curious note: He doesn't knowthat much about it. Full
Story Top
AdWatch: McCain ad casts Obama as empty celebrity
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:37 pm PDT
AP - TITLE: "Celeb" Full Story Top
Broad tobacco regulation bill clears House
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:20 pm PDT
Reuters - Legislation to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration broad authority to
regulatecigarettes and other forms of tobacco cleared the U.S. House of Representatives
onWednesday. Full Story Top
FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:32 pm PDT
AP - The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in
irrigationwater and in a sample from a batch of serrano peppers at a Mexican farm, federalhealth
officials said Wednesday. Full Story Top
Scalia takes to stage to tell lawyers how to win
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:53 pm PDT
AP - It's a pretty good crowd for a summer Friday morning at Kennedy Center. From
stageright (where else?) Justice Antonin Scalia enters. Full Story Top
UN: NKorea facing worst food crisis since 1990s
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:41 am PDT
AP - Flooding and poor harvests have caused North Korea's worst food crisis since
thelate 1990s and have put millions at risk, the United Nations' food agency said Wednesday. Full
Story

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