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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! John McCain&amp;#x27;s moves to be seen as the savior of the bailout plans are faltering as badly as the bailout itself. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be great if someone had a debate about that ?Repubs Bail on Bailout Plan According to those who were at yesterday&amp;#x27;s White House economic summit, John McCain sat quietly and offered little. His supposed bipartisan leadership would have been helpful when the House Republicans, stormed out and refused to support the deal. So much for brokering anything. McCain&amp;#x27;s Record On Banking Reform McCain, never a big player in financial services legislation, has unsurprisingly sponsored no banking reform bills since the start of the 110th Congress in January 2007. Obama has sponsored five. This explains basically nothing about why McCain&amp;#x27;s presence was required in Washington. McCain Still Not Talking Despite open suspicion by many that McCain&amp;#x27;s Washington rescue operation is just a political stunt designed to get him out of tonight&amp;#x27;s first Presidential debate (scheduled a year ago), he has yet to bow to pressure to participate. Instead, he&amp;#x27;s using the opportunity to remind people that Barack Obama refused to do joint appearances this summer, which are completely unlike debates scheduled by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. Obama, however, remains committed to appearing and may end up having ninety minutes of prime-time television all to himself. Palin The Gift-Taker Despite her vaunted status as a reformer who was intent on cleaning up corruption in Alaska, Sarah Palin isn&amp;#x27;t above taking gifts from lobbyists. In less than two years in the governor&amp;#x27;s office she&amp;#x27;s taken $25,000 worth. She says they did nothing to influence her judgment so she&amp;#x27;s still a reformer: She reformed the part where she cares about the opinions of the people giving the gifts. Stonewalling On Rape Kits While reports continue to circulate that, during Sarah Palin&amp;#x27;s tenure as mayor, she cut $15,000 from Wasilla&amp;#x27;s budget intended to pay for forensic exams for rape victims, her campaign office would like to remind people that she&amp;#x27;s very committed to the issue of domestic violence. They just won&amp;#x27;t say whether she actually did or did not do what she&amp;#x27;s accused of. Do you think Sarah Palin knew that her chief of police was charging victims for rape kits? Do you think John McCain is helping in Washington this week? And should the debate go on?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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