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Article: McCain targets 'feminist left' in sharpened stump speech
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2008
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Republican John McCain and his supporters
on Monday branded Democrat Barack Obama a liberal and criticized
feminists and the media as they rallied their conservative base in
Missouri, a hotly contested bellwether state, two weeks before the
election.In a stump speech sharpened for the second week in a row,
the GOP presidential candidate defended his running mate, Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin, against attacks from the "feminist left." And Sen.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced McCain by declaring him under
siege by the "liberal elite media.""John's been there and he's met a
little tougher people in his life than the liberal media," Graham