McCain and Obama clash on economy

CEDARBURG, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail after their party conventions, clashed over the ailing U.S. economy on Friday as unemployment hit its highest monthly rate in nearly five years.

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Voters say economy overshadows political hoopla

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Trudy Tucker doesn’t know if the back-to-back U.S. political conventions addressed the financial worries she has raising four children — she was too busy to watch.

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Consumer gloom suggests Obama victory: survey

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, should benefit from consumers’ dissatisfaction with the weak national economy, according to Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

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Gov. Palin “knocks it out of the park” with her convention speech…

Text of the speech… it was amazingly delivered and was hard hitting:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States…
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in [...]

The Alpha and the Obama…

This week, the Democratic National Committee holds its convention in Denver, Colorado. Amist the hoopla of Clinton supporters threatening blood in the streets, unpaid vendors clamoring for funds from the DNC, makeshift GTMO’s constructed by the Denver PD, and the veritable circus of coverage I’ve watched today (and we haven’t even gotten to the main [...]