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Missouri Governor Matt Blunt strongly criticized Barack Obama's campaign today for what he called their attempts to intimidate those who would speak out against him. Blunt described the Obama Campaign as using "police-state tactics" in Missouri to suppress opponents from speaking out against him:
Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to uselaw enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.
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“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his
campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
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“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of
Jefferson . I can think of nothing more offensive to
Jefferson ’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.
“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting
law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.”
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Here is full video of the John McCain - Sarah Palin Rally held yesterday in O'Fallon, Missouri, just outside St. Louis. McCain and Palin were joined at the rally by Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
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Politico.com is reporting that Sen. John McCain will appear with Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee at a suburban St. Louis rally on August 31, the day before the GOP Convention begins, and two days AFTER he has announced the choice of his Vice-Presidential running mate. This is fueling increased speculation that Mitt Romney will be McCain's choice. If neither Romney or Huckabee is the choice, it would mean the rally will include a fourth person - the nominee McCain has chosen:
Making matters more confusing, Politico has learned that McCain will visit suburban St. Louis, Mo for a major rally with Romney and his still-bitter primary nemesis Mike Huckabee on Sunday, August 31st, the day before the start of the GOP convention.
Top Missouri Republicans yesterday received the invitation for a rally featuring McCain and his two top primary challengers. They'll be joined by country star John Rich at a minor league baseball stadium in O'Fallon, Mo, about 35 miles west of St. Louis.
Missouri was hard-fought territory on Super Tuesday, with each of the three Republicans faring well. So the event would seem to represent a pre-convention unity rally in a swing state where each has a strong following. But Huckabee and Romney can hardly stand one another, and Huckabee has warned against selecting his once and perhaps future rival twice this month.
It would take a considerable act of pride-swallowing for Huckabee to stand before thousands of fans and watch as McCain touts Romney as his running mate.
But then it would take the same amount of magnamity for Romney to join such a rally the day before the convention if McCain has tapped somebody else as his vp and it's that person who McCain is lauding in Missouri.
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Sen. John McCain has opened up a 10-point lead over Barack Obama in the ultimate bellweather state of Missouri. McCain now leads Obama 50%-40% in a new Public Policy Polling (D) survey out today. In the same poll last month, McCain led by only three points at 47%-44%.
McCain's lead in Missouri is significant. Missouri has voted for the winner in every Presidential Election since 1956, and has only failed to vote for the winner that one time since 1900.
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Here is a brief local news interview with Sen. John McCain, and his wife Cindy, in Kansas City, Missouri, July 30, 2008, where he talked about the importance of Missouri in this year's election.
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Here is a local news interview with Sen. John McCain while he was in Kansas City, Missouri for a Town Hall Meeting yesterday - July 17, 2008.
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Here is video of most of John McCain's Town Hall Meeting today in Kansas City, Missouri. This video embed is provided by local Kansas City NBC station KSHB. The quality is excellent, and it shows John McCain at his very best. The crowd was very enthusiastic and McCain was in great form.
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Show-Me-State Looking Strong For McCain
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John McCain hit Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hard today at a Town Hall Meeting in St. Louis for their recent protectionist talk on NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement:. McCain, in contrast to Obama and Clinton, described himself as a "free trader:"
Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized his Democratic rivals on Tuesday for pledging to renegotiate a hemispheric trade treaty that Democrats blame for U.S. manufacturing job losses.
At a town-hall meeting in St. Louis, the Arizona senator also called for the Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress to approve a free-trade treaty with Colombia that is being stymied on Capitol Hill.
"On trade, I'm a free trader," McCain told employees at Savvis Internet company, a session dominated by questions about the ailing U.S. economy. . . .
In recent weeks, both Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have increased their criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement linking the U.S. economy with those of Canada and Mexico. read more »
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Here is a link to the live video feed of John McCain's Town Hall Meeting this morning in St. Louis, Missouri, with the employees of Savvis Inc. Just click the image above to open the live feed and watch.
UPDATE: 8:10 AM CT - The local station is now saying the Town Hall Meeting will begin in "about 30 minutes," which would put it at, or just after, 8:30 AM CT. The live feed is now working, but nothing happening yet.
UPDATE: 8:08 AM CT - According to MyFox St. Louis, John McCain raised over $600,000 last night at the fundraiser held in St. Louis!
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