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Article: Obama: End 'broken politics"
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2008
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DENVER - Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama
promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and
the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked
on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first
black president."America, now is not the time for small plans," the
47-year-old Illinois senator told an estimated 84,000 people packed
into Invesco Field, a huge football stadium at the base of the Rocky
Mountains.He vowed to cut taxes for nearly all working-class
families, end the war in Iraq and break America's dependence on
Mideast oil within a decade. By contrast, he said, "John McCain has
voted with President Bush 90 ...
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