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Barack Obama attacked President Bush for the Iraq war and promised universal health care by 2012 during a campaign appearance Tuesday and he drastically overstated the death toll from last weekend's Kansas tornadoes.
The Democratic presidential candidate, appearing before about 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser, took aim at the Bush White House in a 20-minute speech.
"How could we have been involved in a war that never should have been authorized, that has already cost us half a trillion dollars," Obama told the crowd in his third visit to Richmond in eight months. He drew the loudest ovation of the evening when he said he would "make sure every individual has health care by the end of the next president's first term, by the end of my first term."
But minutes later, caught up in his exuberance, the Illinois senator blurted out that 10,000 people had died in twisters that tore through Kansas. The death toll was 12.
A short while later, his shirt sleeves rolled up and his head glistening with sweat, Obama appeared to realize his error.
"There are going to be times when I get tired. There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes," he said.
Obama returned to the former Confederate capital determined to contend for Southern support and cash as the latest national polls show him trailing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by double digits.
A recent Newsweek poll showing Democrat Barack Obama leading top Republican presidential hopefuls could have been made up and might help al-Qaida, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in her latest verbal broadside.
Coulter, a best-selling author known for outrageous and often controversial statements, was asked Sunday on Fox News' "At Large" what she thought about the survey results.
"I think this is Newsweek doing more push polling for al-Qaida," she said, referring to campaign-season telephone calls to voters masquerading as neutral surveys but designed to build opposition to targeted candidates.
Asked by host Geraldo Rivera whether she thought Newsweek would make up the results, Coulter said, "Yes, I do," adding, "In polls where people are actually allowed to vote, Republicans do a lot better."
Coulter did not explain how the poll might help the terrorist group. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, some Republicans have argued that their party would do a better job of protecting the U.S. against terrorism than Democrats.
Coulter's remark drew a response from Evans Witt, chief executive officer of Princeton Survey Research Associates International, which conducted the Newsweek survey.
"As the 2008 election campaign continues to heat up, I am sure that there will be informed and incisive criticisms of polls from many observers," he said. Coulter's comments "do not fit into this category," he added.
Newsweek spokeswoman Jan Angilella said the magazine would have no comment.
In March, Coulter used a gay slur about Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3154165
The Democratic presidential candidate, appearing before about 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser, took aim at the Bush White House in a 20-minute speech.
"How could we have been involved in a war that never should have been authorized, that has already cost us half a trillion dollars," Obama told the crowd in his third visit to Richmond in eight months. He drew the loudest ovation of the evening when he said he would "make sure every individual has health care by the end of the next president's first term, by the end of my first term."
But minutes later, caught up in his exuberance, the Illinois senator blurted out that 10,000 people had died in twisters that tore through Kansas. The death toll was 12.
A short while later, his shirt sleeves rolled up and his head glistening with sweat, Obama appeared to realize his error.
"There are going to be times when I get tired. There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes," he said.
Obama returned to the former Confederate capital determined to contend for Southern support and cash as the latest national polls show him trailing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by double digits.
A recent Newsweek poll showing Democrat Barack Obama leading top Republican presidential hopefuls could have been made up and might help al-Qaida, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in her latest verbal broadside.
Coulter, a best-selling author known for outrageous and often controversial statements, was asked Sunday on Fox News' "At Large" what she thought about the survey results.
"I think this is Newsweek doing more push polling for al-Qaida," she said, referring to campaign-season telephone calls to voters masquerading as neutral surveys but designed to build opposition to targeted candidates.
Asked by host Geraldo Rivera whether she thought Newsweek would make up the results, Coulter said, "Yes, I do," adding, "In polls where people are actually allowed to vote, Republicans do a lot better."
Coulter did not explain how the poll might help the terrorist group. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, some Republicans have argued that their party would do a better job of protecting the U.S. against terrorism than Democrats.
Coulter's remark drew a response from Evans Witt, chief executive officer of Princeton Survey Research Associates International, which conducted the Newsweek survey.
"As the 2008 election campaign continues to heat up, I am sure that there will be informed and incisive criticisms of polls from many observers," he said. Coulter's comments "do not fit into this category," he added.
Newsweek spokeswoman Jan Angilella said the magazine would have no comment.
In March, Coulter used a gay slur about Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3154165
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