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by Walter Alarkon - 08/18/08 9:07 AM ET

Though Barack Obama said America doesn’t spend enough time thinking about providing opportunities for people to reach the middle class, the country has an ethos of volunteering and has spent more on welfare (when accounting for programs at all levels) than on defense or education, writes Carol Platt Liebau. Andrea Mitchell’s remark on MSNBC that Obama aides believe John McCain cheated during the Saddleback forum on Saturday is just more evidence that the network is in the tank for the Democrat, writes Amanda Carpenter.

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