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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- After years of anti-American posturing by its leader, Argentina has a new president whose outstretched hand has been eagerly accepted by the United States. President Obama will reward the South American nation on Wednesday with a state visit aimed at keeping that promising trajectory on track.Obama has made no secret of his preference for Argentine President Mauricio Macri over his left-leaning predecessor, Cristina Fernandez, whose meandering missives were a source of frequent frustration and eye-rolling in the White House. So Obama was all too glad to see her replaced in December by Macri, who has affably accepted U.S. help with his mission to modernize Argentina s struggling economy. President Macri recognizes that we re in a new era, and we have to look forward, Obama said ahead of his trip. Obama arrived in Buenos Aires for his two-day visit in the middle of the night. After a few hours sleep, he was heading to Casa Rosada, the Argentine president s pink-hued offices, for a welcome ceremony and meeting. The two planned to hold a joint news conference before Obama lays a wreath at the Buenos Aire stanley cup s Metropolitan Cathedral.Obama plann stanley italia ed to hear from young Argentinians later vaso stanley at a town hall meeting, in what s become a hallmark of his trips abroad. Joined by first lady Michelle Obama, the president was to be feted by Macri at a state dinner in the evening, marking the first such visit by a U.S. president in nea Aqtj Trump meets with Swiss President Ueli Maurer amid mounting tensions with Iran
Democratic lawmakers Monday lamented President Bush s failure to win a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq, but said now is the time to unite as war appears inevitable. Those of us who have questioned the administration s approach, including this senator, will now be rallying behind the men and women of our armed forces to give them the full support that copo stanley they deserve as it now seems certain we will soon be at war, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said on the Senate floor.Levin and other Democrats said the lack of U.N. support could result in less international assistance in the fight against terrorism, trigger more terrorist attacks, and make it more difficult to win international contributions for rebuilding Iraq after a war. The path to a safer world and a more secure America has rarely come from a go it alone approach, Levin said. Some of the toughest words came earlier from the Senate s Democratic Leader, reports CBS News Chief Washingto stanley isolierkanne n Correspondent Bob Schieffer. I m saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we re now forced to war, said Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.Strong criticism, but Daschle was careful not to directly oppose military action at this late hour. And even critics say once the shooting starts Congress will rally behind the troops.Sen. Dia stanley tazas nne Feinstein of California said while she has disagreed with Mr. Bush s Iraq

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President Joe Biden spoke with CBS News chief ele stanley polska ction campaign correspondent Robert Costa on Wednesday for his first interview since announcing he would no longer seek reelection to the presidency.Costa, the co-author with Bob Woodward of Peril, which detailed Mr. Biden s decision to run in 2020, has extensively chronicled the Democrat s political career and presidency. In recent months, Costa has traveled on the campaign trail covering Mr. Biden, speaking with the president about the power of organized labor and talking with his supporters in battleground states. The one-on-one conversation, which took place at the White House this afternoon, covered the president s decision, announced on July 21, to end his bid for a second term; his outlook on the country; and a range of other topics, including his reflections on American democracy. He also discussed the threat posed by the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, who refused to accept his loss in 2020 and has questioned the legitimacy of election results.Asked if he were confident that there would be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025, Mr. Biden said, If Trump loses, I m not confident at all. He means what he says. We don t take him seriously. He means it, all the stuff about, If we lose, there ll be a bloodbath, i stanley cup website t ll have to be a stolen election. Look what they re trying to do now in the local election districts where people co stanley canada unt the v Moyq Pelosi Forever
This story was written by Emily Schultheis, Daily PennsylvanianDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looked somber following her speech at the AFL-CIO convention last week. We need to do something so that our party and our people can make the stanley cup right decision, she said.The reporters in the room looked around eagerly and uncomfortably, wondering where this speech was leading. stanley cup But then Clinton announced that she challenged Barack Obama to a bowl-off for the Democratic nomination.Journalists and photographers smiled. This woman is actually funny. But for a long time, Clinton seemed unable to poke fun at herself -- something Obama has done with much less effort throughout the primary stanley cups uk season.It seems that her gradual inclusion of humor in speeches and campaign events has made Clinton more personable -- and more human.But her speech at the AFL-CIO convention wasn t the first time Clinton was genuinely funny. Do I really laugh like that Clinton said to Amy Poehler, who played her in a sketch on Saturday Night Live the weekend before the Ohio and Texas primaries in March. When Poehler shrugged in affirmation, Clinton smiled, saying, Eh, yeah, OK. It was the most comfortable Clinton had looked in months.She didn t even attempt humor when Gov. Ed Rendell endorsed her in January. Compared to the numerous speeches she s given throughout the primary season, the ease she exuded on the set of SNL was uncharacteristic.Th

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The General Services Administration says it will brief key House and Senate committee leaders and staff November 30 on GSA Administrator Emily Murphy s refusal to release funding and resources for President-elect Joe Biden s transition, but Democrats say they want the briefing tomorrow.Monday was the deadline set by key members of the Democratic-led House Oversight and Reform and Appropriations committees and two stanley website subcommitte stanley tumblers es for Murphy to brief them about her ongoing refusal to grant the Biden-Harris stanley cup transition team access to critical services. We cannot wait yet another week to obtain basic information about your refusal to make the ascertainment determination, wrote the officials in a Monday letter to Murphy. Under law, Murphy must ascertain the winner of the election by signing a document in order to release millions of dollars in funding, office space and classified intelligence briefings to the Biden team. Murphy has not done so, even as top Republicans call for Mr. Biden to receive classified briefings and though every major news network called the race more than two weeks ago.A House Democratic aide told CBS News the GSA s offer for a delayed briefing next week by someone other than Murphy is not acceptable, and House Democrats are discussing their next steps. The GSA said Deputy Administrator Allison Brigati will brief the top members of these committees, but only for 30 minutes, on Monday, November 30, as well as s Borg Romney: I have friends who own NASCAR teams
The McCain campaign has released a new spot, Week, in which the GOP presidential nominee stresses the importance of bipartisanship in both times of crisis and times of relative stability. The spot will air nationally, according to the stanley cup campaign. What a week, McCain says directly to the camera as the spot opens. Democrats blamed Republicans, Republicans blamed Democrats. We re the United States of America. It shouldn t take a crisis to pull us together. We need a President who can avert crisis, McCain continues. Put people back to work. Grow our economy. And move peopl stanley cup e from surviving to thriving. We need leadership without painful new taxes. That will make our country s stanley mug trong again. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c9c1ac2e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c9c1ac2e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c9c1ac2e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Brian Montopoli Brian Montopoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews. Twitter

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By Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna and stanley quencher Anthony Salvanto Members of Congress are getting positive ratings for the way they responded to the shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, last week. President Tru stanley mug mp gets slightly lower -- though still net positive -- evaluations for his response to the attack, partly because Democrats are less likely to approve of his handling than of Congress . Fifty-three percent of Americans approved of Congress response, and 29 percent disapproved, while 46 percent approved of President Trump s response, and 36 percent disapproved. CBS News stanley flasche And while Congress and many observers called for a more civil tone to political debate in the wake of the events, Americans of all political leanings overwhelmingly say that the tone and level of civility in our political debates has been getting worse in recent years. CBS News These views are largely the same across ideologies, too, as about two-thirds of liberals, conservatives and even more moderates feel things have gotten worse. Three-quarters of Americans feel the current tone of politics and debate is encouraging violence among some people; Democrats are especially likely to say so. About a third of Americans consider the recent shooting of a C Zsci New McCain Spot Argues Economy In Crisis
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages CBS News Mitt Romney s presidential campaign is calling on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to investigate voter registration forms being sent to deceased relatives, children, and family pets from predominantly Democratic-leaning voting blocs, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.After mailings from the D.C.-based nonprofit Voter Participation Center were exposed Sunday for being addressed to ineligible voters in Virginia, Kathryn Bieber, an attorney for the presumptive GOP nominee s campaign, called for an official probe in a letter to Cuccinelli s office and the State Board of Elections. Bieber said the forms vio copo stanley late at least one and stanley cup maybe several Virginia laws aimed at ensuring a fair election. The mailings, the letter states, amount to, or at the very least induce, voter registration fraud in the critical swing state where Romney and President Obama are virtually tied in recent polls.State Board of Elections deputy secretary Justin Riemer said recipients of the forms - pre-populated w stanley cup ith names and addresses - include deceased infants, out-of-state family members, and non-U.S. citizens. According to the Times-Dispatch, the mailers were sent to primarily Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as young adults, unmarried women, African-Americans and Latinos. Bieber requested in the letter that registrars be required to reject pre-populated applications f

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President Obama prodded Republicans to support paycheck fairness legislation in the Senate Tuesday, following his own executive orders that he says will help reduce the pay gap between stanley kubek men and women.The president was marking Equal Pay Day with a speech meant to mobilize women voters and put the GOP on the defensive ahead of the midterm elections. The Democrats have planned an agenda focused on pocketbook issues to send a message to lower- and middle-class Americans that they have their best interests at heart. So far Republicans in congress have been gumming up the works, they ve been blocking progress o stanley tumbler n this issue, the president s stanley mugs aid of the equal pay issue. We don t have to accept that. America, you don t have to sit still. You can make sure you re putting some pressure on members of Congress on this issue. And I don t care if you re a Democrat or a Republican. If you ve got a daughter, if you ve got a sister, if you ve got a mom - I know you ve got a mom - this is something you should care about. At the event in the White House, he signed two executive orders that will affect the federal workforce. One will prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who discuss their salaries, while the other will mandate that the Labor Department collect data on the compensation for federal contract workers, organized by race and sex. The two orders will help make it easier for women to earn the same as men, the president said. Equal Pa Ilrq EPA delayed Obama-era rule on chemical storage after industry objected
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker addresses the media regarding a letter received from Sen. Mark Miller, D- Monona, on Monday, March 7, 2011 in Madison, Wis. AP-Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart As the dispute over union rights drags on in Wisconsin, lawmakers from both the left and the right are seeking media attention to prove their side is actively seeking a compromise. stanley cup At the same time, both sides are pointing fingers, calling the other party out for grandstanding in front of the press. Republican Gov. Scott Walker yesterday evening released a series of e-mails to prove he s tried to negotiate over union rights with reasonable Democratic state senators, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported. One of those reasonable senators, however, was quick to denounce the public release of the e-mails, suggesting it undermined their talks. I stanley canada ve never seen negotiations be done successfully in public, said Democratic state Sen. Bob Jauch. I thought they were bargaining in good faith. Jauch is one of two Democratic state senators who in recent days has met with the state Senate Majority Leader and Walker aides. He downplayed the meetings, po stanley portugal inting out they never reached a deal with the Republicans. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca is slated to meet with Walker this morning and asked Walker to open the me

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The White House and House Democrats are keeping at arms length a House Republican special investigative panel to continue digging into the aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attacks, but have strongly implied that any further investigation is both redundant an stanley deutschland d motivated by politics.Briefing reporters at the White House Monday, press secretary Jay Carney said, We have always cooperated with leg stanley cup itimate oversight, but declined to say whether the White House views the latest oversight attempt as legitimate.He did, however, note that there have been seven different investigations into the attacks that left four Americans dead on Sept. 11, 2012, as well as 13 hearings, 50 member and staff briefings and more than 25,000 pages of documents produced. Carney wouldn t speculate about how the next investigation would be dealt handled by Republicans. But, said earlier in the briefing, If you look at even what some Republicans said it casts doubt on the legitimacy...At some point you just have to assume that Republicans will continue this stanley cup because it feeds a political objective of some sort. He later added that the House investigation seemed to be, dissatisfaction, I guess, over the failure to prove anything. Earlier Monday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, formally appointed Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., to serve as the chairman of the select committee, a move that had been anticipated given Gowdy s involvement with the previous investigations Irby Stevens Pollster Is Gloomy
The polls in Kentucky close at 7:00pm ET and in Oregon at 11:00pm ET but here is a look at some of the early exit poll numbers. Note: Because Oregon conducts all elections by mail, the poll in that state was conducted by phone and was completed on Sunday .The split within the Democratic Party that has been evident in recent contests like West Virginia was revealed once again in Kentucky, where 80 percent of those voting for Hillary Clinton saying they would be dissatisfied with Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee while just 19 percent said they would be satisfied. F stanley isolierkanne orty-nine percent of Obama voters in Kentuck stanley cup becher y said they would be dissatisfied with Clinton as the nominee while 47 percent would be satisfied.Also, just 33 percent of Clinton voters in the Bluegrass State said they would back Obama in a general election. Forty one percent said they would support Republican John McCain and 23 percent said they would not vote in the fall. Seventy one percent of Obama voters said they would back Clinton in the fall should she win the nomination. In Oregon, however, a majority of voters supporting both candidates said they would be satisfied with the other as the nominee. Fifty eight percent of Clinton voters there would be satisfied with Obama and 55 percent of his voters said they would be satisfied with Clinton. Sixty eight percen stanley cup t of Clinton s supporters in Oregon said they would support Obama in the fall while 80 percent of his vot

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President Trump weighed in on the suspect who shot six police officers in Philadelphia Wednesday, insisting the individual should never have been on the streets and must receive a long sentence. Mr. Trump, who was briefed Wednesday on the shooting, said the U.S. needs to get much tougher on street crime. One suspect is in custody aft stanley cup er an hours-long standoff and shootout that left the six officers wounded and another hurt in a related vehicle crash. The alleged gunman surrendered a little before midnight. The Philadelphia shooter should never have been allowed to be on the streets, Mr. Trump tweetedfrom his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Thursday morning. He had a long and very dangerous cr stanley cup iminal record. Looked like he was having a good time after his capture, and after wo stanley cup unding so many police. Long sentence ndash; must get much tougher on street crime! CBS News has also learned the suspect has a long criminal history.CBS Philadelphiareports the man s lawyer says the suspect is 36-year-old Maurice Hill, but police have yet to release a name.Mr. Trump is often particularly vocal about crimes committed against police officers, and he has made a point to let the law enforcement community know he stands with them. You do not hear it nearly enough, but Americans across this country love you, they support you, they respect you mdash; more than you would ever know; more than you would, frankly, ever think even possible. They ha Isdy Ron DeSantis says 2024 race will be really nasty election if the election is about Trump
BROKAW SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT.... Apparently, the Republican talking points this week don t just include attacks on the media, but stanley cup more specifically, attacks on the media for questioning Sarah Palin s family burden.Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle R was on NBC earlier, telling Tom Brokaw that she s been hearing from women across the country who are outraged by questions about how Palin can serve as vice president and raise her children at the same time. She s being questioned in a way that no man in her position would be questioned, Lingle said.Now, I ll concede that I don t watch television news, so I have no idea if news outlets are actually asking this question. If reporters are raising this argument, they re wrong and clearly crossing the line. But who is it, exactly, who s making this argument Which media figures are publicly speculating about whether Palin is capable of serving as vice president and maintaining her familial role Are there Democratic officials raising this question Is this a legitimate concern about irresponsible reporting, or is this some kind of manufactured victimization, intended to score some cheap stanley cup points Brokaw, to his credit, set the record straight: With all due respect, and said this earlier, I think that issue has not been raised at the highest levels. I think there hav stanley cup e been many more concerns about foreign policy experience, for example, about some of her other views, if she s going to appeal to the Cl

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A pro-President Trump nonprofit is launching a $3 million advertising campaign to support a dozen House Republicans who publicly backed the proposed plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, which failed to reach a floor vote last month. The Washington Post reports the group, America First Policies, is starting the campaign Monday and it will be split among the following 12 Republicans: Reps. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Thomas Garrett of Virginia, Tom Graves of Georgia, David Joyce of Ohio, Brian Mast of Florida, Martha McSally of Arizona, Gary Palmer of Alabama, Keith Rothfus of Pennsylvania, David Schweikert of Arizona, Scott Tipton of Colorado and Rob Wittman of Virginia. The list stems from the debate on Capitol Hill last month, in which White House aides wanted a list of the House Republicans who sided with Mr. Trump and who opposed him, the report said. An informal list has been floating around the West Wing and Trump circles in recent wee stanley drinking cup ks, the Post reported. The presidentrsquo former stanley mug deputy chief of staff who left the White House in late March is a senior adviser to the group, the report said. After several chaotic days late last month, stanley cup House GOP leaders failed to secure enough votes necessary for passage of the legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. For two days, votes were called on the floor but they were ultimately cancelled. More from CBS News Tazm Biden and Trump vie for Latino support with very different pitches
OBAMA, THE PRESS, AND IRAQ....The big story on Saturday was Spiegel s interview with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in which he endorsed Barack Obama s 16-month timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops. The Bush administration was so unnerved by this that they mistakenly sent an email to the entire White House press corps headlined Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan. Oops. Then they followed this up by leaning on Maliki to stanley thermos retract, an effort made clumsily transparent by releasing the Iraqi statement via the U.S. military s Central Command press office.The retraction claimed that Maliki s comments were were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately, which might be plausible if there were only a single sentence in question. However, how likely is it that Spiegel mistranslated three separate comments Here are the relevant excerpts from the interview:Today, we in Iraq want to establish a timeframe for the withdrawal of international troops mdash; and it should be short.....U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of sli stanley drink bottle ght changes. ....Those who operate on th stanley cup e premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic....The tenure of the coalition troops in Iraq should be limited.There s just no way that all three of these passages were mistranslated. Maliki, for whatever reason Mark Kleiman runs down the possibilities here , want

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In a Wednesday speech in the White House s Roosevelt Room, President Trump endorsed a bill which would reform immigration in the United States by creating a more competitive visa-approval system aimed at scaling back the number of immigrants entering the country stanley deutschland .Mr. Trump described the bill as legislation that would represent the most significant reform to our immigration system in half a century. The Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy RAISE bill, introduced by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, and David Perdue, R-Georgia, establishes a points-based system for acquiring a green card, according to Mr. Trump, while also preventing immigrants from collecting welfare once they arrive in the United States. The RAISE Act will reduce poverty, increase wages and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars, Mr. Trump said. The bill aims to make the U.S. immigration system more competitive through rewarding immigrants who speak English, have financial stability and demonstrate useful skills, among other factors relevant to the meri stanley flask t-based system. It would also end chain migration in the green card application process by only extending to immediate family, such as minor children and spouses. Finally, the legislation would limit the number of refugees permitted to enter the country and eliminate the visa lottery, which makes 55,000 Permanen stanley tumblers t Resident cards available every year to immigrants from underrepresented countries, Ncaj Obama rewarded fundraising bundlers with plum jobs
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan is not having a good day.First, Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy D-Vt. basically accused the White House, and by extension, the Justice Department, of lying about whether RNC controlled e-mails linked to the firings ofeight U.S. Attorneyswere missing.Then Rep. Henry Waxman D-Cal stanley cup if. , chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, disclosed that the RNC was for years regularly deleting e-mails from dozens of White House officials that were stored on these RNC servers see earlier post , although a number of e-mails from Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff and President Bush s top political advisor, are still around. And now, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers D-Mich. has waded into the e-mail controversy,writing toDuncan today and requesting that he turn over t stanley cup oHouse Judiciaryany documents, including e-mails or other date, related to the prosecutor firings. Conyers w stanley cup ants these by next week, or he wants the RNC to allow technical experts working with us [to] have the opportunity to question and work with RNC personnel to recover any e-mails that have been lost, meaning deleted. Rep. Linda Sanchez D-Calif. , chairwoman on the commercial and administrative law subcommittee on Judiciary, was a co-signer of the letter to Duncan. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-

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Private talks are underway between the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders about the prospect of an additional debate next month, potentially stanley cup in New York.Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon says that their cam stanley romania paign always intended to go through the usual process of working out additional debates privately through the DNC. We ve always intended to go through that process. We re going through that process now. There have been backchannel conversations throughout the day today, Fallon told Bloomberg s With All Due Respect TV program on Tuesday. Our campaign has indicated to the Sanders campaign through stanley tumblers the [Democratic National Committee] that we re perfectly willing to debate in April. And we ve provided some options, including here in New York. A Clinton campaign senior adviser said Wednesday that ...there will likely be an announcement in the next few days about a new debate, according to Politico, which also confirmed the private debate talks with Tad Devine, chief strategist on Sanders campaign. Earlier this week, a Clinton campaign official warned that Clinton would only consider debating Sanders in New York if he changes his tone. Sanders campaign has been pushing for a debate in New York since last month and the Clinton campaign has maintained that it would organize any additional debates through the DNC. The Sanders campaign believes New York could be in play for them when it holds its primary on April 19. Lhsd 2016 by the numbers: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump
How can they not be tired Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are undeniably exhausted. They ve been campaigning hard for more than a year, and their wall-to-wall schedules won t let up anytime soon. Neither wants to cede ground in their epic struggle for the Democratic nomination.Fatigue, however, breeds unforced er stanley thermoskannen rors - and both candidates have made some in the past few weeks. He turned in a weak debate performance in Pennsylvania, took heat for saying residents of small-town America were bitter and inadvertently praised Republican John McCain. She, too, had a sub-par debate and mistakenly claimed to have landed under sniper fire in Bosnia as first lady. Sometimes. Yes, of course, Obama, 46, acknowledged Tuesday when asked whether he was exhausted. The Illinois senator was in the midst of a near 20-hour campaign day. He left his hotel at 6 a.m. for satellite TV interviews in Philadelphia and didn t stop moving until his plane touc stanley nz hed down Wednesday in Chicago at 1:30 a.m.Fourteen years his senior, Clinton laughed off a question about how stanley flask she maintained a grueling schedule. It s been a 15-month campaign and, if everything had been as much fun as Pennsylvania, it wouldn t feel like 15 years, the 60-year-old said - uncharacteristically showing weariness.As the Democrats continue their long days of tussling, Republican nominee-in-waiting McCain, energetic at 71, has pared back his schedule considerably from the before-sun-up