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Posted at 8:27am on Apr. 26, 2008 McCain Blogger Conference Call

By absentee

John McCain held another blogger conference call Friday morning which Moe Lane, California Yankee and I were glad to participate in. Overall it went well. The bloggers took McCain to task over the NC GOP ad, and McCain took Obama to task over Ayers and Hamas. A number of well-known bloggers had the opportunity to ask questions, including Hugh Hewitt, Michael Goldfarb, Jim Geraghty, Amanda Carpenter, Sean Hackbarth, Ed Morrissey, Jennifer Rubin and more.

This will be a summary of a few of the major moments from the call.

"If They Want Their Taxes Raised, and they think that's best for the American future, then I'm not their guy"

Senator McCain began with an opening statement in which he touched on poverty, post-Katrina Louisiana, energy independence, and his stance on the economy, among other things. "Spending is the problem in Washington," he said, "not the lack of revenues".

Here is the audio of the opening remarks:

Read on for specific questions ...

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