Obama would drag US into depression: McCain camp

AFP, July, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — John McCain's White House campaign Monday dragged rival Barack Obama back to the domestic fray, scorning his economic plan as a recipe to plunge the United States into a 1930s-style depression.

Top aides to the Republican senator vied to steal the thunder from an illustrious panel of economic advisors being convened by Obama -- and recapture some of the headlines after the Democrat's much-acclaimed foreign tour.

But with fewer than 100 days now to go before the November 4 election, Obama had opened up a nine-point lead in the latest Gallup poll released Sunday -- 49 percent to 40 for McCain.

Carly Fiorina, a key lieutenant to McCain and former boss of computing giant Hewlett-Packard, said a recession triggered by the 1929 Wall Street crash...