Obama Goes One on One, Battling ‘Just a Speechmaker’ Label:
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has also been showing a more pugnacious side, commenting at a
Philadelphia fund-raiser Friday that he was prepared for a fight with
Republicans, saying, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a
gun.” That line, from “The Untouchables,” led the campaign of his
Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona, to cry foul and to suggest that hopes for an elevated dialogue were in danger.
