McCain To Attend Debate Tonight
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The Associated Press - 11:34 AM EDT, September 26, 2008
WASHINGTON - Republican John McCain says he’s going to be at the first presidential debate, even though Congress doesn’t have a bailout deal.
With less than 10 hours until the debate was scheduled to start, the McCain campaign announced that the Arizona senator would travel to the University of Mississippi. The campaign said after the forum he will fly back to Washington to continue working on the financial crisis.
The campaign’s statement said McCain is optimistic that there has been progress toward a bipartisan agreement. But earlier in the week, McCain said he would delay the debate “until we have taken action to address this crisis.”
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NEW YORK - Musicians will.i.am and Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson helped launch a new campaign Thursday to cut global poverty in half by 2015.
Kidjo and Black Eyed Peas members will.i.am and apl.de.ap performed a new song written for the Global Call to Actionagainst Poverty called “in my name” outside the United Nations, where world leaders are gathered this week.
“It’s calling individuals to realize their power in solving global poverty and ending world hunger,” will.i.am sang. “Enforcing the politicians to keep what they promised and picking the world leaders that will lead the world honest.”
“How can we continue this injustice and move forward, how can we prepare the next generation not to repeat the same mistakes that are happening today?” said Kidjo, who is fromBenin. “As an African artist, as an African mother, as an African person I cannot just standby.”
Joining them were Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and economist Jeffrey Sachs.
Dignitaries and celebrities used markers to sign six rotating plates of glass.
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Detectives released new audio recordings Thursday of their interviews with three men in Casey Anthony’s life, her brother, her lover and her ex-fiance.
It has been 72 days since Caylee Anthony was reported missing. Detectives believe she’s dead.
Documents have already been released of what some of the men in Casey’s life have said, but Thursday’s audio recordings reveal how they said things and hear their attitudes.
Casey’s brother Lee Anthony told investigators he did not believe Casey when she said the terrible smell in her trunk came from two dead squirrels under the hood. Lee told investigators his first indication that something was terribly wrong was noticing the horrible smell wafting from Casey’s car trunk.
“The trunk was open. The windows were rolled down to what I assume ventilate the horrible smell that I had just, just, uh, smelled for the first time,” he said. “It was, it was, it hit you like a, a wave. I mean it was, it was, whatever it was it was very potent.”
Once their mother brought Casey home, he said he tried to get Casey to tell them exactly where Caylee was, but all she would talk about was how her mother Cindy nagged her about what a bad mother she is.
“That’s when she opened up to me and said, uh, ‘Mom has, um, thrown in my face many times before that I’m an unfit mother and, you know, maybe she’s right. Maybe I am.’ She offered up to me for the first time that, um, my mother has referred, said to my sister that, um, even though Caylee’s been the best thing and the best mistake that she was indeed a mistake, that she was Casey’s mistake,” Lee told investigators.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A childhood friend of Casey Anthony spoke out Thursday on CNN’s Nancy Grace about what Cindy Anthony told her the day after Caylee was reported missing.
“The morning of the 16th, when I talked to Cindy, she told me that she believes Casey was guilty of something. She did not know what, but she didn’t care if it meant that Casey ended up behind bars for the rest of her life as long as she got Caylee home,” said Brittany Schieber.
Friday at 10:00am, the State Attorney’s Office is releasing the 2 hour long videotaped interview, with Caylee’s grandmother Cindy which was done two weeks after she reported Caylee missing. They will also release text messages, hundreds of documents and cell phone records.
Schieber also said that from June 9 until Casey was arrested in July, she was constantly texting her about going out and she could not understand how Casey had so much free time when she had a 2-year-old daughter.
Prosecutors are also releasing Casey’s computer records, which show that Casey deleted Yahoo mail and some photographs of Caylee.
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Subject: Don’t let McCain Stop the Debate!
Hi,
Did you hear that John McCain actually asked to “suspend” Friday’s debate with Barack Obama so he could posture on the financial crisis?
This isn’t presidential behavior. It’s a desperate, reckless move that actually threatens to make it harder to resolve this crisis. And of course, presidents of the United States have to be able to handle lots of important issues at once–they can’t panic and take their eyes off of one urgent priority when another one pops up.
I just signed an emergency petition to the Commission on Presidential Debates urging them to hold strong and make sure that the debate goes forward on Friday, as planned?MoveOn.org is going to deliver it at the end of the day. Can you join me? Just click below to add your name.
http://pol.moveon.org/demanddebate/?r_by=14041-4585195-vSIuApx&rc=paste
Thanks!
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Drudge reports that Letterman mocked McCain during the show’s taping Wednesday afternoon.
“In the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Dave even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, “Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?”
Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, “You don’t suspend your campaign. This doesn’t smell right. This isn’t the way a tested hero behaves.” And he joked: “I think someone’s putting something in his metamucil.”
“He can’t run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sarah Palin. Where is she?”
“What are you going to do if you’re elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We’ve got a guy like that now!”
Best material about 5:00 in.