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Obama notes McCain sought to tone down rhetoric, draws boos

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

My colleague Ken Vogel reports from the City of (not so much) Brotherly Love:

“I want to acknowledge that Sen. McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric in his town hall meeting yesterday,” Obama said at a morning rally in North Philadelphia, drawing loud boos from the mostly Black audience.

Obama pivoted into a mini riff on civil political discourse, concluding “We can disagree without being disagreeable.”