McCain the lady’s man?
HUDSON, WI — Sen. McCain cast himself as the best choice for American women today during a town hall at J&L Steel Erectors, a female-owned business based in the Badger State.
“Women in America not only take care of the children, manage the household budgets and balance the pressures of work and family, they also run the enterprises that keep our country running,” McCain told the nearly 500 strong, female-majority audience. “There has been enormous progress. That progress, by the way, is far from, far from complete…we have not done enough, we have not done enough.”
While the presumptive GOP nominee lauded the progress women have made in politics, NGOs and business, he vowed today to work toward “equal pay for equal work” and ensure that “there is equal opportunity in every aspect of our society.”
McCain, campaigning with his wife Cindy and one of his chief female surrogates, Carly Fiorina, attacked his Democratic rival one day after Sen. Obama reached out to female voters in New York and Virginia.
“Senator Obama went on at great length about how much he cares about women’s issues. I believe him,” McCain said. “And my opponent was saying all the right things, but the fact is this: When you cut through all the smooth rhetoric, Senator Obama’s policies would make it harder for women to start news businesses, harder for women to create or find new jobs, harder for women to manage the family budget, and harder for women and their families to meet their tax burden.”
The Arizona Senator has an uphill struggle ahead to capture the votes of female voters this fall with the latest Pew poll, released yesterday, showing Obama up by 14 (51%-37%) among women.
For it’s part the Obama campaign countered that McCain “seems stuck in an outdated view of American families.”
“Senator McCain thinks the Supreme Court was right to make it harder for women to challenge pay discrimination at work, and he opposed legislation that Obama co-sponsored to reverse that decision,” said Anita Dunn, an Obama campaign adviser. “Senator McCain has suggested that the reason women don’t have equal pay isn’t discrimination on the job-it’s because they need more education and training. Senator Obama couldn’t disagree more.”
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I can not see him discriminating against anyone the way he is attacked for his age. Past generations realized wisdom comes with age but in our society that is not the case. I have forgotten more than my juniors have learned and I’m not finished learning yet.
[...] The presumptive GOP nominee uses a midday town hall meeting with women in Hudson, Wisconsin, to hit his opponent on taxes, health care and the economy, especially as they relate to women. [...]
Obama doesn’t pay his female staffers equal pay, but McCain does. Evidently, legislation would be necessary to force some people to live up to their platitudes. Another example of actions speak louder than words…
Whenever I hear McCain talk, I think it’s 1950 and he is going to expect that I stay home and care for my family. I know he is described as moderate for a Republican, but it shouldn’t be relative.
On the issues facing women, he shouldn’t be “moderate for a Republican”, he should be unquestionably supportive.
I’m not at all a fan of McCain. I don’t think he wants to protect women’s rights - I think he sees our country as an old boys’ club for white men.
“For the past 25 years, John McCain has consistently voted against women’s health. From opposing funding for family planning programs to voting against requiring insurance coverage of birth control, McCain has taken extreme positions. He has voted against women’s health and has not supported legislation that would help reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion. This has earned him a zero rating, the lowest rating we give in the U.S. Senate.”
via Planned Parenthood
http://www.ppaction.org/ppvotes/thetruthaboutjohnmccain.html
MCain the lady’s man????????????you gotta be kidding…… fox news is tabloid news
Go ahead ladies, vote for McCain and you can kiss the money good bye, what little bit there is left after the disaster that is Bush. I don’t blame women for not be crazy about Obama after the way Hillary was treated, I am still a staunch Hillary supporter myself. I am still mad too, but voting for McCain is not the answer, you will regret it.
I THINK THAT SENATOR McCAIN IS INDEED THE WOMANS CANDIDATE AND FUTURE POLLING, AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE GENERAL ELECTION, WILL PROVE THIS TO BE RIGHT.
THE SENATOR OBAMA I VOTED FOR IN THE PRIMARY IS NOT THE SAME SENATOR OBAMA WHO IS NOW RUNNING AGAINST SENATOR McCAIN. UNFORTUNATELY SENATOR OBAMA HAS FALLEN INTO THE SAME OLD POLITICAL MORASS THAT ALL POLITICIANS FALL INTO…SAY WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR, IT DOESN’T MATTER THAT ITS 180 DEGREES FROM YOUR EARLIER PRIMARY POSITIONS. SENATOR OBAMA IS BECOMING A CENTERIST, THAT NOT WHO I VOTED FOR IN THE PRIMARY.
SENATOR OBAMA HAS LOST HIS WAY AND IF HE KEEPS UP THE WAY HE IS GOING HE WILL LOSE THE WHITE HOUSE TO SENATOR McCAIN.
MAYBE SENATOR McCAIN DESERVES ANOTHER LOOK?
You keep talking John, we’ll keep listening. John McCann 08.
McCain the lady’s man? No!!
McCain is the worst choice for women! McCain voted against regulations to support equal pay for women as men. He regularly votes against the human rights of women. He offers women nothing but discrimination!
Sorry. There is no way I can ever see Senator McCain as supporting my interests as a woman. His proposed program of tax-cuts and massive defense spending will put any progressive reform for women like myself on the back burner. More importantly, when I examine his record I realize that Senator McCain is one of only a few Senators to earn a Zero percent lifetime rating from Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund, and he only scored that high because the organization doesn’t have a lower rating. Sadly I see Senator McCain voted against requiring health care plans to cover birth control (3/22/03), and yesterday when questioned about this issue vis a vis insurance payment for viagra, he became speechless, stammered and couldn’t provide a response. He voted against comprehensive, medically accurate sex education (7/25/06).
He voted against international family planning funding (3/14/96). He voted against funding to prevent teen and unintended pregnancies (3/17/05). He voted against public education for emergency contraception (3/17/05). And he voted against restoring Medicaid funding that could be used for family planning for low-income women (3/17/05). Senator McCain would clearly have no problem if Roe v. Wade were overturned. John McCain wants us to believe that he’s a moderate who supports improving the health of women in the United States, but in fact he’s among the most extreme members of Congress who voted against common sense measures on family planning, sex education and access to basic healthcare. Sorry he doesn’t earn the title of “Lady’s Man” in my world.
Senator McCain thinks the Supreme Court was right to make it harder for women to challenge pay discrimination at work, and he opposed legislation that Obama co-sponsored to reverse that decision,”
EVERY woman has been discriminated in the work place either sexual or pay wise. Coworker gleering at females, or inappropiate comments, or lower pay for the same type of work her male counterpart does. If this is McCain position for female equility in the work force, then the female workers are in deep $@#!.
I fail to see how McCain can be taken seriously as a candidate who represents women’s interests. This is a man who committed adultery with his now-spouse Cindy for nine months while still married and cohabitating with his first wife, Carol, and even applied for a marriage license for his second marriage before his first marriage had ended. Obama understated it: McCain’s view of the American family is more than “outdated,” it’s downright antiquated and misogynistic.
Lady’s man is right.
McCain’s broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship
He was having an affair with 24 year old heiress while still married to his first wife Carol. Ronald Reagan hated him for that, for the rest of his life. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, god bless ‘em, were there for poor Carol to help her through that time.
And this is our standard bearer for ‘family values’?
Mccain may say he believes Obama;s b/s but no one else does. We seen what he did in his district in Chicago, NOTHING! The only ones Obama is going to help are the blacks here and in Kenya.
Mcain would have been a good candidate in 2000 but its 2008 now and everyday something seems to happen that reminds us how much mileage he has on his tires.
I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s press conferences when he was President. As a moderate Democrat I didn’t agree with much of what he said but he was sharp, witty and entertaining. By the end of his second term the pressures of the office and the early stages of alzheimers made his press conferences just sad as he constantly couldn’t recall things and stammered his way through answers.
I think American working women, and all American women are smart enough to know that
Obama is the clear choice to champion women’s rights.
John McCain neglects to mention that the “tax burden” he is citing refers to allowing the
expiration of George Bush’s tax cuts to those individuals making over $250,000 a year which
would “burden” McCain’s weathy wife with about $280,000 in additional taxes each year.
She was not “burdened” by this when the Bush tax cuts were put into play.
During the past 8 years of the current Republican administration more small businesses
and start-up business have gone under than at anytime in American history. All this while
the government is bailing out the giant investment banking firms and telling the American
poor and middle class that such actions are “good for us”. McCain has voted in favor of every
single one of the policies that have put us in the economic mess we are in today.
I can understand a candidate trying to court women’s votes, but for John McCain to
even suggest that he is a better candidate to serve women’s rights than Sen. Obama
is outrageous. He proved quite the opposite in the one remark he made when questioned
about women getting equal pay for equal work saying if women want better pay they
should get more education and training. Is that supposed to mean we are supposed to
be better educated than our male counterparts to get equal pay for the same work???
MCCAIN HAS THE PRIVILEGE OF TELLING ALL WOMEN THAT HE DUMPED HIS FIRST WIFE AFTER SHE STUCK WITH HIM DURING AND AFTER HIS 5 YEARS OF BEING A POW BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT AS GOOD LOOKING AS HE REMEMBERED WHEN THEY HAD MARRIED; HE CHANGED HER IN FOR A TROPHY WIFE WHO WAS YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE HIS DAUGHTER BUT SHE WAS AT LEAST WORTH $100 MILLION DOLLARS, SO THAT WAS AT LEAST A SMART ECONOMIC POLICY; AND HE REFUSES TO VOTE FOR EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK FOR WOMEN FIGURING THAT AROUND 75% IS CLOSE ENOUGH FOR WOMEN’S WORK; AND THEN HE PARADES CARLY FIORINI WHO WAS FIRED FROM HEWLETT PACKARD FOR HER BOARD ROOM SHENANIGANS AND WHOSE ONLY MEMORABLE QUOTE AS CEO IS: “NO AMERICAN IS ENTITLED TO A JOB.” HER WORDS, NOT MINE. IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE PERSON WOMEN WANT FOR PRESIDENT—THEY STILL AT LEAST HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE—ALTHOUGH IF HE GETS IN AND FOLLOWS HIS OTHER WOMEN’S ISSUE POLICIES LIKE WANTING OTHER SUPREME COURT JUDGES LIKE THOMAS AND SCALIA TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE, DON’T BE SURPRISED IF HE’D TRY TO CHANGE THAT AS WELL!! MAYBE YOU CAN ALSO GET A NICE MCCAIN BUMPER STICKER THAT SAYS: “KEEP THEM BAREFOOT, PREGNANT AND IN THE KITCHEN–VOTE MCCAIN”
Not my man! , sorry . How could I like a man that does not think that I deserve equal pay as a manif the job I do is the same or better?, How could he be my man if his friends say women should enjoy rape?, How could he be my man if his friend says our present situation is mental?, How could he be my man if all he wants to do is send my children to war?. NO McCAIN IS NOT A LADY’S MAN.
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How can McCain with his voting record be a womans champion ??
Tomorrow he will be the Veterans champion, but his voting records show his real face…
He is and always will be for the richest and the oil companies…
The taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for birth control, abortion or viagra.
John McCann 08
Carly Fiorina. Carly Fiorina? Why in heavens name would McCain select Carly Fiorina as a chief advisor? Carly Fiorina is the CEO that forced the Compaq acquisition on Hewlett-Packard. She was strategically convinced that merging Compaq and HP would be a great coup in the computer industry. Carly Fiorina is the CEO that didn’t listen to anyone who was telling her that the computer industry had peaked and merging Compaq and HP was the goofiest deal in the industry. Carly Fiorina was the CEO who forced the merger that has had no great benefit for HP. Carly Fiorina is the CEO who was asked to step down as CEO of HP after she was accused of dirty corporate politics. Carly Fiorina? Why in heavens name would McCain want anything to do with Carly Fiorina?
[...] The presumptive GOP nominee uses a midday town hall meeting with women in Hudson, Wisconsin, to hit his opponent on taxes, health care and the economy, especially as they relate to women. [...]
He is my man if he continues to stick to Pro-Life & no amnesty, pro drilling.
I didn’t have prescription insurance for a medical condition for years. My prescriptions ran me around $700 a month. I had to pay for them. Not the government. I don’t feel that BIRTH CONTROL is a necessary prescription that the government/taxpayers should be forced to pay. That is an individuals responsibilty. It has nothing to do with Womens rights, it has to do with the Woman/Individual being a responsible person and taking charge of her life.
As for abortions or viagra, I definately don’t want my hard earned money paying for someones else mistake, accident, etc… or need for help with the sexual situation.
McCain 2008
I can’t believe people are basing their like or dislike of McCain on the rating that Planned Parenthood gives him. IF all public schools could teach abstinance the teenage pregnancy rate would drop drastically. Planned Parenthood is Pro-Abortion, period. If they were Pro-Choice they would let the child choose. Let’s give the baby the choice if it wants to be aborted or not. All of the teenage pregnancies happened because the boy and girl both made a choice. Schools teach how to use birth control but they don’t teach abstinence. That’s just asking for more teenage pregnancies. Insurance or tax payers should not have to pay for birth control. That again is another choice we make. As for Viagra, it is a drug that treats a medical condition, commonly known as erectile dysfunction. If there ever is a male birth control pill insurance and taxpayers shouldn’t pay for it either. If they are to pay for birth control pills then they should pay for condoms. Condoms are birth control. Birth Control is a choice. If you choose to be sexually active then it’s your choice to use birth control. IF you choose to use birth control then you buy it. IF all of those teenage girls and boys had made the choice for abstinance we would not have the teenage pregnancies. Planned Parenthood’s rating of anything is so subjective it can’t be trusted. This election cycle has not produced a really strong candidate on either side. However, when I vote I vote in favor our liberties, freedoms, security, and in favor of a government that is involved in as little of our lives as possible. McCain is definately the stronger candidate for all of those. Obama, according to his stated policies and goals, will be leading us down a slippery slope into the abyss.
God Bless
I can’t believe people are basing their like or dislike of McCain on Planned Parenthood’s rating. Planned Parenthood is Pro-Abortion, period. If they were Pro-Choice they would welcome teaching abstinence. Birth control is choice. If those teenage boys and girls would choose abstience then we would not have a teenage pregnancy problem. Insurance and taxpayers should not have to pay for birth control. Viagra is a drug that treats a medical condition, erectile dysfunction. I don’t think taxpayers should pay for that either if the patient is a sex offender. If the taxpayers and insurance were to pay for the pill then they would have to pay for condoms. Condoms are birth control. A vote for Obama is a vote down a sippery slope into the abyss.
Obama says one thing, but I agree I don’t believe he has women’s best interest at heart. He would say anything to get elected, and he’s not trustworthy.
This mid-western woman and family of majority of females are definitly voting for John McCain.
McCain/Powell 08′ The Best Choice For Women
If your a woman who thinks McCain is on your side, look at his response to a question about supporting birth control “Uhm, i dont normally duck questions” “I dont know enough on the topic”
Too bad he voted to not allow women the right for birth control 2 times. So either he doesnt care what he signs and votes for and never be able to use voting record against obama, or he doesnt take the time to learn what he needs to vote for.
Either way it shows he is either haphazard or doesnt stay educated on what he votes for.
Sucks he doesnt read his OWN platform
” * Sen. McCain says Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision and says the abortion question should be left to the individual states to legislate.
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* He calls abortion a human tragedy and supports a constitutional amendment banning abortion except in cases of rape, incest and threat to the life of the mother.”
Right off of the FOXNEWS site.
Too bad fox didnt cover his blunder. If Obama gets McCain looking like he did during that interview, its all over for this old man.
Yeww gross! He looks very pale lately and apparently his memory is going because he does not know what he used to stand for. He is no longer the “Maverick”. He is for privatizing Social Security. He thinks the way it works now is a “disgrace”. Well today if it were privatized, everyone would be in pretty poor shape considering the stock market is volatile. Where would many women be then? He will push for more conservative justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, he against equal pay for women.
John McCain is one of only a few Senators to earn a Zero percent lifetime rating from Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund, and he only scored that high because the organization doesn’t have a lower rating….
He voted against requiring health care plans to cover birth control (3/22/03).
He voted against comprehensive, medically accurate sex education (7/25/06).
He voted against international family planning funding (3/14/96).
He voted against funding to prevent teen and unintended pregnancies (3/17/05).
He voted against public education for emergency contraception (3/17/05).
And he voted against restoring Medicaid funding that could be used for family planning for low-income women (3/17/05).
NPR reported (2/2/0
that, “Many Republican voters seem to believe, incorrectly, that the current Republican front-runner, Arizona Senator John McCain, supports abortion rights.”
John McCain wants us to believe that he’s a moderate who supports improving the health of women in the United States, but in fact he’s among the most extreme members of Congress who voted against common sense measures on family planning, sex education and access to basic healthcare.
In contrast, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton agree on all of these issues.
Oh my god women, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Look at McCains’ voting record! THINK!!!!!!!!!How can HE be “for”us?????????????????????????????????
The only women McCain is for young and rich women he can bed. He will treat us just like he did his ex wife.
Poor Carol McCain, me think the straight talk “lady’s man” McCain bus done ran over her long time ago………On to the WH and run over all the women in the way…..
To all the lady’s “Do not do this to yourself, Do not vote this Lady’s man to the WH.”
Take a moment and REMEMBER CAROL MCCAIN!!!!!
Does is really matter how John McCain feels about women’s right? We’ve already seen how Obama treats women. Just ask Hillary.
Go McCain!!
As far as OB for president. I am old enough to remember the heroic deed of MC staying in a pow prison camp , the worst in in recent history, when he was publicly told he could leave because his father was a fleet admiral. Would OB stay 4 years in hell so that his fellow AMERICANS could go home? I think not. McCain went through more hell than most any everyday American ever does in their lifetime. So he is older than OB who cares He has proven HONOR and INTEGRITY he surpasses W1 and W2,BC, OB. The only person who would garner my vote over MC would be C.Powel.
Veterans for McCain
Support the Warriors The real heros
If you can stand on a line in the dark with a gun pointed at your head so that my kids can sleep in a FREE country you have my vote.
I am a democrate women, also small business owner. I will vote for McCain. Obama doe not have the experience. He is to young!
Forget ladies man and for that matter, forget the values in which Obama was taught in church for years by a close friend and the person that married him. What does the left want to hear? That is what Obama is going to tell them. So your liberal media driven opinion of McCain is not very high. I will vote for a man of conviction and recognizes a threat that the party of no accountability wants to ignore. Oh yea, what exactly will Obama accomplish in regards to the economy? Hopefully it won’t be take more money from people who actually earn it and give it to a person who decided 5 kids and a monthly check from the government is a good route to take in life. Illegal imigration is a good thing because they do jobs that AMERICANS won’t? Who did it several decades ago? Answer: People who knew that in order to survive in this world, you did what you had to do, legally. Now, no one has to be accountable for themselves because the gov’t is there to bail them out. What a society and what a party!
Marcee since when is planned parenthood the role model that you would follow for womens health issues. Give me a break.
He did not vote “against women’s rights” he voted against the tax dollars being involved.
As for other countries….do you honestly think those corrupt governments let any of that money go to their people?
I am all for helping, but we have become a crutch for alot of these nations. they keep demandng more from us with little or no results.
Do you honestly think those corrupt governments let any of that money go to their people? If it did, they wouldn’t have half of the problems that they do. It is not upto us to constantly fund other nations for social programs.
The Bush administration is considering withdrawal additional combat forces from Iraq, but a timeframe will depend on a report from newly-confirmed Central Command leader and Multinational Forces in Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus, the Pentagon said Sunday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen have both said they want to begin shifting focus from Iraq to Afghanistan, and to withdrawal forces from Iraq based on conditions on the ground. If Iraq remains on the positive trends through September, removing additional troops would be the logical next step.
This sounds like Obama’s plan. So it was all a lie after all. Obama does appear to be more in tuned with the ground conditions in that region than John McCain. Maybe McCain does not possess this great military insight after all.
Not my man, I wouldn’t vote for McCain for anything, he need to go home and try to keep his old adultery self together. He’s to slow and he way behind time for this generation.
At least Fox found enough space to include one article about McCain. Obama gets more than his fair share of media coverage - even by Fox news.
I wish Sen. McCain would shpotlight his wife more and show how hard she works for such noble causes as children and land mines. We always see Michelle Obama’s face on a magazine or on tv….but why will they not give Cindy McCain equal time….if McCain was smart he would let his wife’s accomplishments be more widely known.