- Associated Press
- John McCain and Barack Obama shake hands at the end of their town hall-style presidential debate.
McCain, Obama tangle over the causes and cures for the economic crisis
By Charles Babington
- Associated Press
Updated: 10/07/08 10:54 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years tonight in a debate in which Republican McCain called for a sweeping $300 billion program to shield homeowners from mortgage foreclosure.
"It's my proposal. It's not Sen. Obama's proposal," McCain said at the outset of a debate he hoped could revive his fortunes in a presidential race trending toward his rival.
In one pointed confrontation on foreign policy, Obama bluntly challenged McCain's steadiness. "This is a guy who sang bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, who called for the annihilation of North Korea — that...
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A $7.6 million grant to help fight the global AIDS epidemic has been awarded to the University at Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, the university announced this morning.
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