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Senator McCain Fires Up 6000 in Belton, Missouri

Frank Morris

By Frank Morris

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Belton, MO – A crowd of about 6-thousand arrayed on a Baptist school football field cheered Senator McCain's pledge to end the Iraq war in victory. Then McCain echoed Obama's running mate, Senator Joe Biden, who recently predicted that Obama would face an international crisis early in his term, if he's elected president.

We don't want a president who invites texting from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars.

The crowd booed again, when McCain characterized Senator Obama's plan to cut taxes to 95% of Americans, as a socialistic transfer of wealth . their wealth to people who don't pay taxes to begin with. McCain admitted being behind in the polls, but assured the crowd that nothing is inevitable.

I’ve been at KCUR almost 30 years, working partly for NPR and splitting my time between local and national reporting. I work to bring extra attention to people in the Midwest, my home state of Kansas and of course Kansas City. What I love about this job is having a license to talk to interesting people and then crafting radio stories around their voices. It’s a big responsibility to uphold the truth of those stories while condensing them for lots of other people listening to the radio, and I take it seriously. Email me at frank@kcur.org or find me on Twitter @FrankNewsman.
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