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McCain again raises Obama's ties with 1970s radical
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-10 10:03 Several thousand McCain supporters cheered loudly at McCain's attack over Ayers, but the Arizona senator also faced a few probing questions about his struggling campaign. One man took the microphone and urged McCain to get tougher in his character attacks on Obama in next week's final debate. "I am begging you, take it to him," he said. "Yes, I'll do that," McCain replied. Another man lamented, "We're all wondering why that Obama is where he's at. How he got here? I mean, everybody in this room is stunned that we're in this position." Prospective voters were hit with more bad economic news on Thursday as the US stock market plummeted again, reaching its lowest level in five years on fears that frozen credit markets may lead to a global recession. Obama attacked McCain's mortgage bailout plan at a rally in Dayton, Ohio. At a debate with Obama in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, McCain proposed the US government buy up troubled loans from people who have seen their home values fall below their debt. The loans would then be structured into more affordable mortgages. McCain has called the plan "a critical first step" to get through the crisis. "We have to act to fix our broken economy and restore the credit markets," Obama said at a rally in Ohio, a state that has gone Republican the past two presidential elections and is crucial to McCain's changes this time. "But taxpayers shouldn't be asked to pick up the tab for the very folks who helped create this crisis." The US housing crisis was the seed for the mushrooming Wall Street financial mess that has cost American investors trillions of dollars and put the United States on the brink of a deep recession. |
