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"Quick Draw" Obama Challenges McCain To "Duel" (Updated with McCain response)

30 Jul 2008 12:27 pm

SPRINGFIELD, MO --

 "Wild Bill Hickock," Obama said.

"I was reading on the way over here that he had his first duel in the town square here in Springfield.."

"Now, I don't know if people are aware of the fact... and I have not done ... the research...  Family legend is that Wild Bill Hickock is a distant cousin of mine."

"I'm serious. I'm serious. I don't know if it's true..."

"We're gonna research that. Because I'm ready to duel John McCain on taxes."

He pantomimed a quick draw.

"A quick draw...." he said.

Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesperson, responds:

"If Barack Obama wants this so-called 'duel' than why did he and his entourage run for the hills when John McCain challenged him to ten town halls?  The truth is Barack Obama's bad judgment led him to vote in support of higher taxes 94 times in just three years in the Senate, and he can't hide from that."

The McCain folks have a point here...

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