1.0 link 125096 <![CDATA[McCain Backed Abolishing The Department Of Education]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/mccain-backed-abolishing_n_125096.html Barack Obama's campaign is reminding voters today that John McCain, during the heady days of the "Republican Revolution," once declared that he favored abolishing the Department of Education.

"I would certainly favor doing away with the Department of Energy and I think that given the origins of the Department of Education," the Senator said on CNN's Late Edition in December 1994. "I would favor doing away with it as well."

Linking McCain to "ideologues," Obama declared in his speech Tuesday, "you...

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