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Springfield, Ill. -- Barack Obama used his first joint appearance with his vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joseph Biden, to push a more populist economic message, emphasizing his running mate's blue-collar roots and painting Republican Sen. John McCain as out of touch. (Text of Speech) "This working class kid from Scranton and Wilmington has always been a friend to the underdog," Sen. Obama said of Sen. Biden, of Delaware, to the 35,000 people gathered outside the Old State Capital, the same site where he declared his candidacy 19 months ago. The two men plan to take a tour of economically-stressed...

Sun 1 Feb 2004 Why John Kerry must pretend not to be a liberal GERARD DE GROOT ON WEDNESDAY morning, a newsreader at the BBC nearly made me spill my coffee. She said, quite clearly: "Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts has won the New Hampshire presidential primary." "Excuse me?" I said, to no one in particular. Had I perhaps gone to bed in 2004 and woken up in 1960? I looked at the television screen and reassured myself that it was still in colour. The broadcast showed a tall, skinny, craggy-faced man with a very large smile - definitely not...