Public healthcare - to cost RM8.4tril this year - is emerging as the defining issue of the 2008 campaign for the White House. A MIDDLE-AGED man walking his Labrador near Belmont University pointed to his dog and said: “He’s for Obama, too.” Across the street, about 20 youths cheered and whistled as they waved placards declaring “Peace, Love, No War” and “Nashville Loves Obama”. One young woman kept twirling a hula-hoop while like-minded fans of Democratic candidate Barack Obama honked to show their support as they drove past. Meanwhile, John McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” campaign has been zooming around town the past few days. Nashville “swayed to the beat of politics” as local paper The Tennessean described it; Music City was playing host to thousands of campaign staff and journalists who arrived for the second...
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