Democrat Barack Obama told voters Saturday he would push an aggressive economic agenda as president: cutting taxes for the middle class, raising taxes on the wealthy, pouring money into “green energy” and requiring employers to set up retirement saving plans for their workers.
Campaigning in Pennsylvania, a key battleground in the fall campaign, Obama said he [...]
Since much ink has been spent on Sen. Barack Obama’s troubles with the white work class vote - “[it has been] painted as a fatal flaw in his campaign,” as Keith Olberman noted - it is important to note that the Senator had big time success among that very constituency in Oregon’s primary on Tuesday.
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The proposed 21st Century GI Bill would allow soldiers to receive free tuition for college. Obama said it is one of a number of upgrades to GI benefits and healthcare the federal government should provide.
“It would provide every returning veteran with a real chance to afford a college education, and it would not harm retention,” [...]
Obama proposes to remake the Veterans Administration for the 21st Century and evokes his grandfather’s World War II Service. Perhaps most interesting is his description of the maltreatment of returning Vietnam War veterans as “one of the saddest episodes in our history” — an olive-branch to the right that’s in keeping with his larger claim [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at last year’s profit levels, a campaign adviser said.
The plan would target profit from the biggest oil companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than $80, according to a fact sheet on the [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Republican Sen. John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said Wednesday he opposes a Senate bill that seeks equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits.
Senate Republicans killed the bill Wednesday night on a 56-42 vote that denied the measure the 60 votes needed to advance it to [...]
