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Barry Goldwater’s Family Spat Over Prez Choice

A feud within the late Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater Sr.’s family over whether any of them should publicly be backing Democrat Barack Obama over Goldwater protégé John McCain is spilling out into postings on the Huffington Post Web site.

First, CC Goldwater, a granddaughter of the 1964 presidential nominee from Arizona, praised Obama and blasted McCain in a posting Thursday. Here’s some of what she wrote:

"After the last eight years, there's a lot of clean up do. Roll up your sleeves, Senators Obama and Biden, and we Goldwaters will roll ours up with you." The entire post is here.

But that apparently didn’t sit well with all the members of the Goldwater family. Barry Goldwater Jr., responded with his own blog that “dad would have opposed Obama. Here some of what he wrote:

"My father would never endorse a candidate or a party that wanted to grow government, raise taxes or in any way step on our freedoms." The entire post is here.

-- Billy House, Media General News Service

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