Obama takes fight into Republican states

As the US presidential election campaign enters its final chapter, frontrunner Barack Obama has been campaigning in the Republican states of Nevada, Colorado and Missouri. Obama took the opportunity to highlight the absence of President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney from the McCain campaign. He said: “Earlier today Dick Cheney came out of his undisclosed location and hit the campaign trail and he said he is, and I quote, delighted to support John McCain. So I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it.”

Meanwhile, with the clock ticking down to election day, it has emerged that a Kenyan relative of Barack Obama has been living illegally in the US for four years. Obama claimed he has no knowledge of the status of his late father’s half-sister.

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