Truthout roundup 8/30

Energized, Obama and Biden Take Their Show on the Road
http://www.truthout.org/article/energized-obama-and-biden-take-their-show-road
Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny, International Herald Tribune: "Obama left Denver to campaign for the first time with his running mate, Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, starting late Friday in Beaver, Pennsylvania."

Why CIA Veterans Are Scared of McCain
http://www.truthout.org/article/why-cia-veterans-are-scared-mccain
Laura Rozen, MotherJones: "Four years ago, the candidate called the CIA a 'rogue organization'; now he's advised by a former Chalabi promoter and Agency basher. No wonder the spooks are spooked."

Senator Barack Obama and the Paradox of Dr. King
http://www.truthout.org/article/senator-barack-obama-and-paradox-dr-king
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: "On August 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the greatest speeches ever - what has now become known as the 'I Have a Dream' speech. Forty-five years later to the very day, Senator Barack Hussein Obama became the first African-American to accept the presidential nomination of a major political party in America."

Storm Is Called Gustav, but New Orleans Hears "Katrina"
http://www.truthout.org/article/storm-is-called-gustav-new-orleans-hears-katrina
Howard Witt, The Chicago Tribune: "Precisely three years to the hour after Hurricane Katrina slammed into metropolitan New Orleans, flooding the city, killing more than 1,800 people and displacing at least a million others, city officials interred the last unidentified bodies of Katrina victims inside austere granite crypts at a new memorial cemetery."

Study: Bankruptcies Soar for Senior Citizens
http://www.truthout.org/article/study-bankruptcies-soar-senior-citizens
The Associated Press: "First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do. She declared bankruptcy."


FOCUS: Robert Parry How the Republicans Win
http://www.truthout.org/article/how-republicans-win
Robert Parry, Consortium News: "Barack Obama made it across the tightrope of the Democratic National Convention, gaining solid endorsements from Bill and Hillary Clinton and giving a rousing speech before some 80,000 supporters at Invesco Field in Denver. But now comes the time when the Republicans win elections."

FOCUS Risky Palin Pick Raises Questions About McCain
http://www.truthout.org/article/risky-palin-pick-raises-questions-about-mccain
Peter Wallsten, The Los Angeles Times: "For a candidate known to possess a quick temper and an unpredictable political streak, the decision raises questions about how McCain would lead -- whether his decisions would flow from careful deliberations or gut checks in which short-term considerations or feelings outweigh the long view."