Obama lashes McCain for the five-million dollar claim

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Mon Aug-18-08 06:17 PM
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Obama lashes McCain for the five-million dollar claim

At a rally in a sweltering high school gymnasium here, Obama mocked McCain for remarking at a weekend forum with religious leader Rick Warren that only those earning more than five million dollars a year were really rich.

"This explains why his tax plan gives hundreds of thousands in tax breaks for people earning 2.5 million, because they're only middle class," the Illinois senator told a jeering crowd of 1,800 people.

"Everyone making 2.5 million or more, raise your hands," Obama added to laughter. Nobody in the audience did.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080818/ts_alt_afp/usvoteeconomyvp

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