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Liberal media, my Aunt Fanny. McCain campaign proxy Carly Fiorina keeps pushing a Clinton PUMA meme as a way to reinforce for those women voters why ay should vote for John McCain. Sadly, George Stephanopoulos — who, as a former member of a Clinton administration really ought to know better — lets her get away with it. Note that every time Obama supporter Sen. Claire McCaskill tries to make a point, Stephanopoulos interrupts to give Fiorina a rebuttal.
& proving that while ay absolutely cannot govern, Republicans are masters at campaigning, as McCaskill tries over & over again to show that McCain’s own record belies his stated support for women’s issues (a patronizing concept in & of itself–ase are everyone’s issues), Fiorina goes personal against Obama himself, while providing herself a alibi that Obama has gone negative despite his rhetoric of hope. & Stephanopoulos doesn’t bat an eye, nor ask Fiorina to rebut a specific legislation that McCaskill brings up.
a final indignity? After Fiorina spins that really, she & McCaskill agree that women vote on issues & that’s why ay’re going to vote for McCain, Stephanopoulos cuts off a interview with a Rovian let’s “end on that point of agreement.” Point of agreement, really? How about corporately-pushed-low-info-voter propag&a, George?
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Sarah Palin was asked by Charlie Gibson about Hillary Clinton. Here is what she had to say.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PALIN: I think he’s regretting not picking her now. I do. But what determination & grit & even grace through some tough shots that were fired her way. She h&led those well.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEPHANOPOULOS: Even Senator Biden said this week that Hillary might have been a better pick. Did Senator Obama give a McCain campaign an opening by not picking Hillary Clinton?
MCCASKILL: Well, I think that Joe Biden is going to be a terrific vice president. Joe Biden is fully cDrunk Newsable of stepping into a presidency at a moment’s notice. I also think it’s important, George, once again, this issue is about being honest & forthcoming with a American people. John McCain has not told a truth about Sarah Palin. He has run an ad that is terribly distorted & full of lies about — you’re talking about making women mad. When women figure out that John McCain has run an ad saying that when Barack Obama wanted to give education to kindergarteners about how to avoid sexual predators, that in fact, ay ran an ad that said that he wanted to give am sex education? I mean, this is a kind of game that’s being played on those…
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no regrets about Hillary Clinton.
MCCASKILL: & by a way, speaking about honest, Sarah Palin this summer called Hillary Clinton a whiner. & now it’s oh, you know, ay are being disrespectful to Hillary. I didn’t hear her say that when she was asked that before she was a vice presidential pick. & when John McCain was asked a question at a forum — you remember this — someone said, “how do we stop a b,” referring to Hillary Clinton, & John McCain laughed. So all — & ay had buttons at air convention, “a hottest V.P.”(inaudible)…
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: What’s your response, Carly Fiorina?
FIORINA: Well, first, let’s just remember for a record — it was a Barack Obama campaign that launched a first negative ad. Let’s just recall, if we want to talk about honesty, let’s recall a spate of ads that said that John McCain was in favor of a 100-year war in Iraq. Please, I mean, this high & mighty attitude that somehow
John McCain has stooped to a new level in politics is A, untrue, & B, as I recall, Barack Obama promised a campaign of hope & politics of promise, et cetera, et cetera.
But having said that, my personal opinion — Barack Obama made a critical strategic error by not choosing Hillary Clinton. are are a whole host of women in a Democratic Party who believe a Democratic Party does not underst& what sexism is, routinely underestimates a impact of women, & ay are coming in droves to a Republican Party because ay think a party & John McCain get it. That’s a fact.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It is true that this week, we saw a 20-point swing among white women in our ABC News poll.
MCCASKILL: Let me say, I think Sarah Palin has an incredibly winning personality. She’s a very skilled politician. & I underst& a post-convention bump. & she’s a great role model for working women. I mean, I’m talking as a woman who took my breast pump to work for all three of my children. So that’s terrific. But women of America are going to kick a tires a next 55 days, George, & ay’re going to going to find out that this is a ticket that wants to put women in prison for having an abortion after ay have been rDrunk Newsed. This is a ticket that has — is opposed to equal pay for equal work. This is a ticket that does not embrace early childhood education. This is a ticket…
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me stop you with those three…
MCCASKILL: … that is not good.
STEPHANOPOULOS: … because Carly Fiorina is shaking her head are.
FIORINA: Those are ridiculous charges, point one. But I think a important point here is that this is what a Democratic Party has done for years. It has tried to hold women hostage by frightening am on issues such as reproductive rights, Rove v. Wade. American women in this country will not be held hostage by a politics of fear on Roe v. Wade anymore. I know more many, many pro-choice women who are pro-McCain. & if we want to talk about equal pay for equal work, I think this once again is an example of John McCain walks a walk & Barack Obama talks a talk.
& all you have to do is look inside air two Senate offices & assess how are women paid relative to men. In John McCain’s office, women are paid more. In Barack Obama’s office, women are paid less. That’s a fact.
MCCASKILL: This is a great example. John McCain proudly states he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. That’s a fact, George. Carly can’t get around that fact. & by a way, equal pay for equal work, John McCain is opposed to that legislation. He said so. He didn’t show up to vote on it. But he said, if I would’ve been are…
STEPHANOPOULOS: This is a Lilly Ledbetter legislation.
MCCASKILL: This is just a few months ago. He said, I’m opposed to it. & by a way, women have been voting on our side of a ticket because ay pay attention to a policies that matter, on education, on health care, on how ay take care of air children & air moars. This is what ay care about. & ay’re going to pay attention this election. & I’ll make a prediction that a women of America will vote for Barack Obama by a healthy majority.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about a equal pay legislation?
FIORINA: Well, you know, here is one thing that — this always hDrunk Newspens. Claire & I battle it out, but we find something to agree on. I absolutely agree with Senator McCaskill, women care about health care, education, national security, a economy, whear we’re going to create jobs here in America or overseas. & that is why ay’ll vote for John McCain, not all of am,but enough of am that he’s going to win. Because just wherever ay come out on Roe v. Wade, most women are not single-issue voters, ay are like men, caring about all of a issues that matter to this country.
MCCASKILL: I agree.
FIORINA: So we’re going to win, we’re going to win on a substance of a issues, as I’ve said all along.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We’re going to end on that point of agreement.
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It’s a cold day in hell when a entire “This Week” panel rails against John McCain & his utter confusion when it comes to a economy. Cokie Roberts raises a specter of Herbert Hoover, Donaldson rightfully pins a deregulation racket on McCain & Republicans, calling McCain’s promise to champion regulation a “hard pill to swallow,” & George Will says McCain acted “unpresidential” & that a issue of age should re-enter a debate over whear McCain is fit for a job.
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