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Obama Pens an Op-Ed for NY Daily News
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Billy Parker
Published Oct 12, 2008
Modified Oct 12, 2008
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Barack Obama contributed on an Op-Ed for today's Daily News. Much of it reads like a standard Obama stump speech on the economy--albeit if you read it online, now it's a stump speech with classic News headlines shuffled in like "MAC: YOU'RE LYING! BAM: STOP DIVIDING!" Obama does cater parts of the piece directly to the Empire State, saying that his economic plan would mean $3.2 billion in an economic stimulus for NY and that he'd help save 64,000 jobs here alone. While the Post was one of the first daily papers in the nation to come out with an official endorsement (of John McCain), the News has not yet chosen who they will back. The paper did turn a few heads back in 2004 with their endorsement of George W. Bush over John Kerry.
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