<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Republican John McCain said Sunday that cutting taxes and stimulating the economy are more important than balancing the budget, and accused both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama of supporting tax hikes that would worsen the impact of a recession.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59039/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59039/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain Proposes Break in Gas Taxes]]></title><description><![CDATA[John McCain wants the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer and ensure that college students can secure loans this fall, a pair of proposals aimed at stemming pain from the country's troubled economy.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58376/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58376/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain v. Obama on the Economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Okay, this article doesn't have pretty pictures or fancy videos, but it does contian some really important information on the economic platforms of our presidential candidates.  If you live in America and plan to vote, please read it (as well as anything else you can find on their platforms).  Please, people, let's not vote either way because of race.  There's much more to it than that.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64268/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64268/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain vs. Obama: Rasmuessen's Most Recent Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it comes to the economy, 47% of voters trust John McCain more than Barack Obama. Obama is trusted more by 41%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that, when it comes to the War in Iraq, McCain is trusted more by 49% of voters. Obama is preferred by 37%. McCain has an even larger edge --53% to 31%--on the broader topic of National Security.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/63742/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/63742/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton &amp; McCain Win New Hampshire]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US presidential race has been left wide open after Hillary Clinton and John McCain both rebounded to win victories in the New Hampshire primary.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/46594/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/46594/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[What Clinton Wishes She Could Say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won&#8217;t Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?<br/><br/>Here is why: She and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama&#8217;s likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naive Democrats just don&#8217;t see it.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58407/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58407/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Opens Double-Digit Lead Over McCain: Poll]]></title><description><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opened up a 10-point lead over Republican opponent John McCain two weeks before the November 4 U.S. election, according to Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Tuesday.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79962/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79962/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[How the candidates will affect your taxes]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;According to the Tax Policy Center's findings, the common assumptions most people make about the plans of McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, and Obama, the Democrats' pick, are not wildly off-base.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/73725/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/73725/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain Talks Economy With Hillary]]></title><description><![CDATA[This was no social call, even though Clinton likes McCain enough to keeps his photo on the wall of her Senate office. The GOP nominee had already chatted with Bill Clinton about the mortgage crisis and wanted to pick the senator&#8217;s brain about her new proposal to have the federal government buy up bad mortgages and renegotiate terms more favorable to homeowners on verge of default.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79556/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79556/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Fires Back At McCain's Tactics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama accused Republican rival John McCain on Wednesday of stooping to low tactics by labeling the Democrat a socialist.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80565/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80565/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives Claim Obama Is &#8216;So Bad For The Economy,&#8217; While Wall Street Donates More To Obama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservatives have been trying to frighten investors about the prospects of a Barack Obama presidency. <br/><br/>Wall Street however, disagrees, and is donating more to Obama&#8217;s campaign than to the campaign of Sen. John McCain]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72546/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72546/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain Better Than Obama?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It would seem that some voters think that McCain is better suited to handle the war than Obama. <br/><br/>Thoughts?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/66613/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/66613/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[USA Today: McCain up by 10% among likely voters]]></title><description><![CDATA[John McCain up 54% to 44% among likely voters according to a new USA Today poll.<br/><br/>Sarah Palin effect?  Maybe?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75239/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75239/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama: McCain makes a virtue out of Selfishness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lower taxes, apparently, is selfishness.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80822/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80822/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama: World wants to see U.S. lead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving &quot;our <b>influence</b> around the world.&quot;<br/><br/>This is where Obama's foreign policy starts to look like W's.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61120/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61120/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain VS McCain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Without any opposition, McCain is left with no one to debate but himself.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/55724/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/55724/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton, McCain win big endorsements]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times on Thursday endorsed Democratic Sen. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/opinion/25fri1.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hillary Clinton</a> and Republican <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/opinion/25fri2.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sen. John McCain</a> for their party's nominations to contest the U.S. presidential in November.<br/><br/>Linked to Ny Times editoral on each canidate and why they chose them.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48306/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48306/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama, the Candidate of Shadows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Throughout his campaign Barack Obama has mocked his critics, noting that they just don't get what a novel figure and consistent unifier he has been for his whole life. &quot;They say: We don't know enough about him. His pastor once said something. He's got a funny name, sounds Muslim.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/60215/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/60215/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ludacris bumps Barack Obama, blasts John McCain! What a surprise...]]></title><description><![CDATA[LYRICS: <i>&quot;Hillary hated on you, so that b***h is irrelevant,&quot; &quot;McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed / Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped.&quot;</i><br/><br/>The song notes that Obama has praised Ludacris, and calls on him to <i>&quot;give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer.&quot;</i>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/70985/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/70985/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain on the attack, Obama unrattled.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The third debate: McCain is on the attack and Obama is cooler than an ice cube.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79588/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79588/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton will get nomination chance]]></title><description><![CDATA[A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton's name to be placed in nomination at next week's Democratic nominating convention.<br/><br/>Party unity????]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72410/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72410/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>