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Obama backers blast McCain's health care plan
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The Capital Times - After watching Sen. John McCain's polling numbers sink after the Republican presidential nominee's failed attempt to show leadership in the nation's ongoing financial crisis, Barack Obama's campaign in recent days has sought to further its advantage by going after McCain on another front: health care. Obama over the weekend blasted McCain's health care proposal as "radical," and the Obama campaign has used surrogates to hammer on the Republican's proposal, which they say will kick 20 million ... ...
UW women's golf: Gerry hangs on to win Badger Invite
Found: 2 Months 17 Hours 16 Minutes ago
Wisconsin State Journal - The temperatures went down and the scores went up Sunday, but that didn't keep University of Wisconsin freshman Jessie Gerry from finishing off her first collegiate golf victory Sunday at University Ridge. After shooting 71-66 in Saturday's 36-hole opener, the former Madison Abundant Life golfer struggled to a final-round 78 at the Badger Invitational. But her 54-hole total of 1-under-par 215 was still good enough for a 3-shot victory over Georgetown's Chelsea Curtis (74) and Maryland's ... ...
Bill expands ADA rights
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Washington - People who take medication to control their epilepsy or wear prosthetic limbs to walk would receive......
Retirement spurs race for register of deeds
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Waukesha - When the Waukesha County register of deeds decided to retire after nearly 40 years in office, plenty of......
NFL Beat: Pats, Colts wobbly at the top
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Over the past five years, they have won 81% of their games in building a combined 129-31 record. They have won 18 of the 25 playoff games they have entered, with three of the matchups coming against each other. They have three Super Bowls in th......
MU announces men's hoops schedule
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - A new season will bring new challenges for the Marquette Golden Eagles and new coach Buzz Williams. ...
GOP CONVENTION: Palin takes fight to Obama McCain clinches nom
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Fond du lac Reporter - ST. PAUL, Minn. Claiming her historic place on the Republican ticket, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obamas experience and promise of change Wednesday night and pledged to help John McCain upend the Washington establishment.In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, she said in a barbed reference to Obamas campaign theme. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change, she added in remarks prepared for her prime time address to the Republican National Convention.
In a second unmistakable jab at McCains White House opponent, Palin traced her career as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to governor of her state, adding: I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
As a young man, Obama did a stint as a community organizer.
The Alaska governor had top billing at the convention on a night delegates also lined up for a noisy roll call of the states to deliver their presidential nomination to McCain.
Palin, 44, also jabbed at the news media, which have raised convention week questions about her background and her family, including her 17-year-old unmarried, pregnant daughter.
Heres little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: Im not going to Washington to seek their good opinion Im going to Washington to serve the people of this country.
McCain arrivedin the Republican National Convention city earlier in the day to accept the prize of a political lifetime. Instantly, defended his choice of a running mate, saying she was ready to serve as commander in chief after less than two years as governor of Alaska.
Oh, absolutely, he said in an ABC interview.
Having been the governor of our largest state, the commander of their National Guard, she was once in charge of their natural resources assets actually, until she found out there was corruption and she quit. ...
McCain bounded down the steps of his chartered campaign jet at midday into the arms of his extended personal and political family. His wife Cindy was first in line, then their children, then Palin.
McCain hugged his running mate and greeted her husband Todd, known as the First Dude of Alaska. Then, cameras recording each gesture, the Arizona senator lingered when he reached thecouple that has been the focus of so much convention-week attention, 17-year-old Bristol Palin and the father of her child, Levi Johnston, 18.
McCains remarks dovetailed with an effort by his campaign to depict Palins critics as out to destroy the 44-year-old governor, the first female running mate in party history.
The presidential nomination his after a decade of struggle, the 72-year-old McCain swung the spotlight Palins way on the conventions third night.
While she readied the speech of her career, McCains top strategist, Steve Schmidt, complained about a faux media scandal, generated,he said, by the old boys network that has come to dominate the news establishment.
Equally insistent, former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift said, Just like me, we can assume Gov. Palin loves her children, and we can just leave it at that. It was a reference to the vice presidential running mates daughter, unmarried and pregnant.
Thrust into the national spotlight less than a week ago, the 44-year-old Alaska governor made a brief visit to the Xcel Center to prep for her prime time address to delegates already on her side and a prime time TV audience counted in the millions.
Little is known nationally of her views, although a video surfaced during the day of a speech she made at her church in June in which she said U.S. troops had been sent to Iraq on a task that is from God.
In his interview with ABC, McCain said of Palin, I mean, this person is going to come to Washington and, Im telling you, the old boys network, they better look out because change is coming.
He took another slap at Democratic rival Obama, saying Americans dont want somebody who has who is, frankly, necessarily gone to Harvard or an Ivy League school. She probably hasnt been to a Georgetown cocktail party, he added.
McCain s campaign gave speaking turns to three of his former rivals in the primaries of last winter and spring, and they used the opportunity to praise him and warn of the consequences of a defeat.
Maybe the most dangerous threat of an Obama presidency is that he would continue to give madmen the benefit of the doubt, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in remarks released in advance.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney accused Obama of ducking several questions at a recent joint appearance with McCain, who he said hit the nail on the head: radical Islam is evil, and he willdefeat it.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani added that Palin has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket, which includes Obama and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate.
Not everyone was quite on message, though.
I think that Gov. Palin and Sen. Obama do not have extensive experience in government, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania told reporters. He said she has potential, and judged Obama a political phenomenon, no doubt about it.
Whatever Palins impact on the race, McCains story was among the most arresting in recent presidential politics.
The son and grandson of admirals, he had a rebellious youth by his own account, running up a healthy ledger of demerits at the Naval Academy. Shot down over Vietnam, he was held and tortured for more than five years before his release.
Along the way, he turned down an offerof early freedom from captors eager for a propaganda boost.
Elected to Congress in 1982, he moved to the Senate in 1986 as a Reagan Republican. Soon singed by the Keating Five scandal, involving the savings and loan industry, he shifted course.
He began carving out a mavericks role, championing legislation to reduce the influence of money in politics and fighting wasteful government spending.
Increasingly over the years, he parted company with fellow Republicans on issues as diverse as tobacco, health care, immigration, judicial nominees, a commission to investigate the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the use of torture in interrogations and more.
He first ran for president in 2000, but lost the GOP nomination to George Bush in a bitter struggle.
As the early front-runner eight years later, he watched helplessly as anger with the Iraq war drained him of the support of independents while conservatives deserted because of legislation giving illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
Out of money but not hope he pared back his campaign and persevered. When Huckabee defeated Romney in the leadoff Iowa caucuses, it opened the door for McCain to win the New Hampshire primary five days later.
He did, and despite a chronic shortage of funds, methodically dispatched his rivals, one by one, before clinching the nomination with a series of big-state Super Tuesday wins on Feb. 5.
Never a favorite of conservatives, he worked slowly to draw them to his side, and his selection of Palin was a surprising stroke.
Social conservatives greeted her pick enthusiastically support that coalesced in the ensuing days as her daughters pregnancy became known.
While McCain himself appeals to independents, strategists said they hoped Palins presence on the ticket would gain a second look from conservative Democrats who sided with New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during her failed candidacy earlier in the year....
Health care expenses: Your money or your life
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The Daily Page - In 2005, while taking a winter vacation in Florida with her fiancé, Bonnie Barklow noticed a lump in her left breast. Upon her return home in March, the lump was biopsied, and she was diagnosed with localized breast cancer. The tumor was treated with Taxol, a chemotherapy drug. The tumor went into remission, and Barklow continued to take her yearly winter trips to Florida....
Future uncertain for international program at NTC
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Wausau Daily Herald - On August 12, Northcentral Technical College will welcome 20 students from Central America and the Caribbean. These students will spend two years in Wausau learning technical skills and being a part of the Wausau community....
Packers president backs Thompson in Favre standoff
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The Capital Times - MILWAUKEE -- Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy restated his support for general manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy on Friday in the standoff with Brett Favre. Murphy attended a meeting of the team's executive committee Friday. He was not available for comment afterward, but team spokesman Aaron Popkey said Murphy has "full confidence" in how Thompson and McCarthy are handling this matter. Favre is having second thoughts about football after retiring in March. But the Packers ... ...
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