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*Main Topics*: Dishonest Ads, Sexism, Gibson Interview, Foreign Policy, Economy, Palin-McCain Ticket *Summary of Shift:* None of the four candidates appeared on today's talk shows. The morning's tone was one of unfocused discussion. Surrogates and pundits touched on women's issues, the Palin interview, her readiness and this week's ads. The remains of Hurricane Ike and the train crash in California kept the anchors busy to the exclusion of all else. Highlights: 1. NBC: Giuliani touches on the negative tone of the campaign, the surge and Obama's experience 2. CBS: McCain's women's rights record debated 3. NBC: Panel explores the inherent difficulty Palin faces in juggling her professional and private commitments 4. NBC: Palin interview demonstrates unreadiness, but not likely to sway anyone 5. MSNBC: Embarassment from a solo palin drawing larger crowds will likely be passing 6. ABC: Fiorina Interview Part 1; Sexism, Earmarks 7. ABC: Fiorina Interview Part 2: Gender vote, equal pay 8. ABC: This Week panel Part 1: Palin-McCain ticket, Gibson interview 9. ABC: This Week panel Part 2: Dishonest ads, Honor 10. CNN: Pawlenty Interview Part 1: Obama vs. Palin's 'Executive Experience' 11. CNN: Pawlenty Interview Part 2: Tax cuts, economy, middle class Clips w/ Labels and Transcriptions: * Highlight #1* *Giuliani Touches on the Negative Tone of the Campaign, the Surge and Obama's Experience *(NBC 09/14/08 10:45am) TOM BROKAW: The ads are getting a lot of attention these days. We want to share with our viewers and with you something Senator McCain said about the tone of this campaign back on April 4th and then go from there . . . JOHN MCCAIN: This will be a respectful campaign. Americans want a respectful campaign. They're tired of the attacks. They're tired of the impugning people's character and integrity. They want a respectful campaign. And I am of the firm belief that they'll get it, and they can get it if the American people demand it and reject a lot of this negative stuff that goes on. BROKAW: And yet, Mr. Mayor, this is an ad that the McCain campaign ran attacking Senator Obama for what they called his principal piece of legislation when he was an Illinois state senator, sex education for kindergarteners. ["Sex Ed" ad plays"] BROKAW: Any number of publications have looked at that ad, and here's what *The Washington Post* had to say, "the McCain ad is wrong when it claims in a voice dripping with sarcasm that Obama's one accomplishment in the education field was a sex education bill for kindergartners . . . the principal purpose of the bill was to make them aware of the risk . . . sexual predators. Given all the major issues that are before us today, wasn't that ad and its misrepresentation inappropriate on the part of the McCain campaign, Mr. Mayor? RUDY GIULIANI: Tom, I think the only thing wrong about that ad is it lists it as an accomplishment of Senator Obama. In fact, the bill . . . didn't pass. I read the bill last night. The bill does say K through 12, and it goes beyond just what Senator Obama is saying now. It also talks about HIV/AIDS education for children K through 12. And when Senator Obama defended himself on this, Hillary Clinton attacked him on this, not just Senator McCain . . . so the reality is, look, everybody has their own biases and prejudices and how they view these ads. But I agree that the campaign has gotten too negative on both sides . . . I think the main reason for that is that senator Obama has refused to debate in these town hall meetings . . . a lot of these ads are going to get done that way. They're going to be able to confront each other with these things. Senator Obama can explain his views on sex education and just what he was doing with that. Senator McCain can either back off it or agree with it . . . BROKAW: . . . when you were at the Republican National Convention as the keynoter in St. Paul the other night, you talked about some of Barack Obama's resume as a community organizer . . . GIULIANI: [at convention] On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a community organizer. What? Maybe this is the first problem on the resume. He worked as a community organizer. He immersed himself in Chicago machine politics. BROKAW: Senator Obama, who had an Ivy League education and could have gone to Wall Street, went back to Chicago on the south side . . . in that mocking fashion, it seemed to a lot of people that you were belittling the role of a community organizer, and it let to this button that was addressed to Senator Palin because she also talked about it. "Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor." In retrospect, do you think you had too much sport with his role as community organizer, Mr. Mayor? GIULIANI: [laughs] No, I think he had too little after I record as a community organizer. The point is that Senator Obama's record as a community organizer is a very sparse one, as is his record as a state senator . . . what I was talking about how little a record he had, how so many of those programs have failed, how little it's been really looked at by the media. This is -- and also, the group that recruited him was a Solowinsky group, that has all kinds of questions on their outlook . . . on capitalism. I think it's Senator Obama's belief that the tax system should be used for a redistribution of wealth rather than revenue for the country . . . which gets you to a very core . . . almost socialist notion that it should be used for a redistribution of wealth. I think what we haven't done adequately in this campaign, meaning Republicans, is maybe some of the emphasis on some of these other issues, it should be on the fact that Senator Obama is the most left-wing candidate the Democratic party has ever had . . . and his running mate, senator Biden, is the third most liberal member of the senate . . . and the community organizer thing was consistent with that kind of very left-wing approach . . . the question is what kind of work did Barack Obama do, and how effective was it long term? . . . BROKAW: . . . Warren Buffett is a supporter of Barack Obama's, and he thinks that there can be an increase in the capital gains taxes without doing any long-term damage to the economy. And I think it would be probably a pretty big reach to describe him as a Solowinsky kind of economist. GIULIANI: . . . be very careful, Tom, what you said is that he thinks it won't do damage to the economy . . . we have twice increased the capital gains tax . . . both times it deprived the government of revenue . . . that is what would happen right now. And at a time in which Barack Obama wants to fund trillions of dollars in government programs, I have to believe that he'd want to look for more revenue rather than less revenue. So what that says to me is that his real concept of taxation is to be used as a redistribution of wealth . . . BROKAW: . . . let me also share with you something that . . . Dick Armey . . . had to say . . . on September 3rd, "the bubba vote and underlying racism will hurt Democrat Barack Obama in key battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania . . . there's an awful lot of people in America, bless their heart, who simply are not emotionally prepared to vote for a black man." . . . so if Senator McCain wins, based on the Dick Armey formulation, does he win on race and playing the race card? GIULIANI: Gee, I think I can speak for Senator McCain . . . he doesn't want a vote from anyone who's voting for him based on race. And I think that same thing would be true for Barack Obama. Unfortunately, there are people out there who are going to vote based on race one way or another. I hope that we're beyond that . . . BROKAW: . . . we are celebrating and acknowledging the terrible sacrifices that people made seven years ago with September 11th, 2001, this past week in New York here at the Pentagon and also in Pennsylvania. It did come up, the whole question of national security at the Republican National Convention. This is what Lindsey Graham, your fellow speaker, had to say about what's going on in Iraq and what he described as the success of the surge. Let's listen to that and then get your response to it. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Let there be no doubt about it, we are on the road to victory. Victory! You can say it at this convention. We are winning! BROKAW: But the man in charge in Iraq, General David Petraeus, in an interview with the French press agency, said "al-Qaeda has been significantly damaged, degraded and is on the run, but it is still capable of launching lethal, sensational, dangerous and barbaric attacks." . . . he went on to say, "Iraq is still hard but hopeful. The progress was a bit more durable. But that the situation there remained fragile." He said he did not know that he would ever use the word "victory," quoting, "this is not the sort of struggle where you take a hill, plant a flag and go home to a victory parade. It's not war with a simple slogan. Not even President Bush will use the word 'victory' or 'winning.' He is using the word 'succeeding.'" wasn't that an overstatement on the part of Lindsey Graham? GIULIANI: I think when you give speeches sometimes you're prone to do that. I can see those statements being kind of similar. Lindsey was talking about the road to victory. He didn't say we had victory. . . . [there]'s a definite decision that Barack Obama made and John McCain made. Barack Obama was just wrong about the surge. And John McCain, to his everlasting credit, was correct about it . . . BROKAW: . . . we'll be hearing from Bob Woodward who's written a new book called "War Within," . . . as LBJ did during Vietnam, did the president forfeit his obligation to the American people to tell them the truth about, in fact, what was happening there, the difference between his public appearances and his private anxieties? GIULIANI: . . . as far as John McCain is concerned, I mean, this is a very strong point in his favor. John McCain, going back to 2003/2004, including during the period you're talking about, was the strongest voice by far that we were making a mistake in Iraq. To the consternation of his own party. And, in that particular sense, there can't be anything John McCain has a stronger record on. It also demonstrates this idea . . . it's sort of a McCain/Palin/Bush ticket, that's kind of wearing thin. The strongest opponent of the strategy in Iraq, not the taking out of Saddam Hussein, but the strategy in Iraq, by far, was John McCain. And he was right about the surge. And Obama was wrong. BROKAW: . . . in a recent interview . . . John McCain was asked about governor Palin and her national security credentials . . . ROB CALDWELL: What experience -- JOHN MCCAIN: Sure. CALDWELL: --does she have in the field of national security? JOHN MCCAIN: Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. BROKAW: More about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. More about solar, more about wind, more about geothermal than the MIT scientists who are working on this initiative? Boone Pickens? Boone Pickens? Senator Al Gore? Do you think she knows more than any of those people do? GIULIANI: I think John was referring to elected officials. He would not be referring to Boone Pickens and certainly wouldn't be referring to nuclear scientists and people like that. I think he was talking about politicians and probably, in particular, the people involved in the race. And I consider that on national security, the best experience you're going to have is executive experience, the kind of experience that a Ronald Reagan had, the kind of experience that a Franklin Roosevelt had . . . so I don't know. I think this experience thing kind of argues in favor of the McCain/Palin ticket. Probably you get to see that, you know, based on the seat you're sitting in. BROKAW: Senator Obama and Senator Biden have both released their tax returns. As you heard, Senator Schumer has recommended very strongly that Governor Palin do the same thing. Will she do that, and will you recommend to her that she do that? GIULIANI: Well, you know, I think that that's something they have to decide. That's not something that's my role to decide when to release them. I think they said they are going to release them . . . I should also point out that that whole investigation in Alaska that senator Schumer mentioned before, I mean, that's being run by Obama supporters. I don't know if you know that . . . *Highlight #2** McCain's Women's Rights Record Debated *(CBS 09/14/08 10:31am) BOB SCHIEFFER: This morning the Obama campaign sent over a new ad . . . what they're saying is that John McCain is the one not being fair to women . . . [Obama equal pay ad plays] SCHIEFFER: Gov. Swift, what's your response to that? JANE SWIFT: First of all, I'll say that I think what they're referring to is a very narrow decision in the Supreme Court that had more to do with enriching trial lawyers . . . than about whether or not John McCain has stood up for women. John McCain has supported the family and medical leave act . . . he actually sponsored the glass ceiling commission. He has done a number of things, including always putting women in positions of leadership . . . I actually just joined with some folks in honoring members of congress this week . . . one of the things that we measured in our best of congres is do you put women in positions of leadership and certainly John McCain passes . . . SCHIEFFER: All right. But do you believe that he supports equal pay for women? SWIFT: I think that he does not believe that that is something that should be determined by endless lawsuits but we all believe that women have an opportunity to be� DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: He doesn't believe it should be legislated. Governor, he doesn't believe it should be legislated. . . . JANET NAPOLITANO: I think you just said no, he doesn't believe in it because he has never acted to enforce it . . . [ . . . ] SCHIEFFER: . . . do you think that John McCain supports equal pay for women? KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON: I know he does . . . because the bill they're talking about is a bill that would extend that statue of limitations and in this case, the person who was alleged to have done the discrimination was dead and it was years after the discrimination occurred. So what John McCain supports is equal pay for equal work, absolutely. But he's supporting a bill that would have a reasonable statute of limitations so that you can have the evidence for a fair trial. SCHULTZ: What Sen. Hutchinson is talking about is the Lily Ledbetter case that the Supreme Court just decided against Lily Ledbetter and what we're trying to do is make sure we can pass a law that ensures that women . . . are entitled to equal pay and that would be gaurenteed in the law . . . and John McCain opposes legislation to overturn the Lily Ledbetter decision� HUTCHINSON: No. No he doesn't. SCHULTZ: Yes, he does. [crosstalk] SCHULTZ: Is he or is he not on the record opposing that decision? HUTCHINSON: There is an alternative bill that does require the equal pay for work� SCHULTZ: No, there is no alternative legislation that ensures that women get equal pay for equal work. And John McCain opposes that bill. *Highlight #3* *Panel Explores the Difficulty of Palin's Professional and Private Commitments *(NBC 09/14/08 10:14am) CHRIS MATTHEWS: Sarah Palin's bio, mother of five . . . and governor to boot, is giving a big boost to the Republican ticket, especially among working women . . . here are a couple of women who think she can do it all. WOMAN 1: I think mom's can really relate to her . . . I think she's done an amazing job with her career. WOMAN 2: She's got everything. I mean she's got this politics thing going, she's got the family, she's got all of the family issues that arise. MATTHEWS: But there's another view too. WOMAN 3: You cannot have the second most powerful job in the world and take care of five kids. You just can't do it. MATTHEWS: Katty, you seem to agree. You wrote in the *Wall Street Journal*this week, quote, "Mrs. Palin has hit a nerve. It's not because she's a woman with children trying to do a man's job. It's because she's actually pushing the combination of professional and personal ambitions beyond the sensibilities of this generation of working women. As women we may be awed by her, but she's not necessarily a role model for so many professional women who now say they want to do it differently." . . . you're a mother of four, right? You've got a two year old, would you turn down the VP job? [ . . . ] KATTY KAY: Look, what's happenening is there is a trend among working women in America who for years did fifty and sixty hour weeks, try to do it, climb the old male ladder and they're now saying, either we choose between career and kids or we have to redefine the way we do careers . . . clearly Sarah Palin bucks that national trend. Is she capable of doing it? I'm absolutely sure she's capable of doing it. The real question that I'm hearing from professional women is not, "How can she do it?" but "Why?" MATTHEWS: People have said, fairly or not, you wouldn't ask that of a male candidate for vice president who had young kids. CYNTHIA TUCKER: I think that's absolutely true because men have not been traditionally seen as the ones who take care of the children . . . that is still largely seen as the woman's role. Let me say however, that I always thought that the women's movement was about giving women choice and if Sarah Palin wants to run for the vice presidency and be a mother of five children I think that's fantastic but it's also true that many women don't want that and don't want that expectation . . . KAY:. . . there are women definitely who feel excited by her, who feel proud of her, who feel that they can relate to her in some way. But I'm hearing . . . lots of confused conversations from professional women friends saying, "Can she do it?", "How can she do it?", "Why is she doing it?" . . . *Highlight #4* *Palin Interview Demonstrates Unreadiness, But Not Likely to Sway Anyone *(NBC 09/13/08 10:11am) CHRIS MATTHEWS: This was the first full week of battle since the conventions and Sarah Palin's tour as opener for John McCain [and it got them] running even with Barack Obama, who's now started to push back hard. BARACK OBAMA: John McCain lately has been out taking about how he's the original maverick and how he's going to tell the lobbyists that they don't run Washington anymore. Here's the only problem: his campaign is run by some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington. Who's he going to tell? His campaign manager? MATTHEWS The Democrats are also jumping for joy with new questions that Charlie Gibson raised about Sarah Palin's crash course in foreign policy . . . CHARLIE GIBSON: When I asked John McCain about your national security credentials, he cited the fact that you have command of the Alaskan National Guard and that Alaska is close to Russia. Are those sufficient credentials? SARAH PALIN: But it is about reform of government. And it's about putting government back on the side of the people and that has much to do with foreign policy and national security issues. Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie. And that's with the energy independence. GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia? PALIN: Perhaps so. GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine? PALIN: In what respect Charlie? GIBSON: The Bush, uh, what do you interpret it to be? PALIN: His world view. MATTHEWS: . . . that was the foreign policy part of the Charlie Gibson interview . . . what was your take, how did she do? MARK WHITTAKER: . . . we've all crammed for exams the night before. You know, classes that we didn't really get around to actually going to the lectures and we had to get out the books the night before. She clearly came as across as somebody who had mastered or at least been studying for these questions just for a week or so. On that level, you have to say she did ok. But, the real questions is, is potentially being the leader of the free world something you can just, just try to cram for in the brief a period of time. MATTHEWS: . . . were those her thoughts or were those the thoughts of the briefers from the McCain camp? KATTY KAY: It sounded like she was repeating lines because actually quite often she did actually, literally repeat lines. There were various moments. She was asked about Israel and she said we shouldn't second guess Israel. MATTHEWS: Four times she said the same exact phrase. KAY: Exactly, and there were certain lines that were clear that [pauses] it was almost as if the spontenaiety had been prepped out of Sarah Palin and she did come across at certain points as nervous. But I came away from that interview thinking that if you liked Sarah Palin beforehand, you probably liked her after that interview. And if you didn't like Sarah Palin and were worried about her experience, you looked at that interview and thought she hasn't got the experience. MATTHEWS: Didn't you think it was funny that they didn't prep her on the Bush Doctrine? Of all the things they went through, they went, "We forgot the big one!" KAY: The most interesting bit of that whole interview was that three seconds of pause. *Highlight #5* *Embarassment from Solo Palin Drawing Larger Crowds Will Likely be Passing *(MSNBC 09/13/08 9:27am) ALEX WITT: Do you think this is just the usual post-convention settling of all the polls for McCain and Palin or do you think when Americans got a chance to hear the full interview there with Sarah Palin, her first one, that that had an influence here? STEVE THOMMA: Well, certainly the two convention bounces are dissipating. By definition, a bounce goes up, comes back down . . . that whole base has hardened . . . they're energized on the Democratic side and now they're energized for the first time on the Republican side . . . WITT: Sarah Palin is going to be solo campaigning for the first time this week. Now, you know she drew that big crowd again in Nevada yesterday. Do you think John McCain can afford to not campaign with her. Should they be a tag time together? THOMMA: There will be an embarrassing story or two if she pulls 20,000 voters and he pulls 2,000. I think two things, that's a short term story and officially the McCain campaign welcomes that, says we're happy to have people turn out anywhere. But sure, it's a short term embarrassment. I was at the rally they had in Virginia this week where they both appeared. And even when they're together, it was very noticeable, Alex, there's a lot more chanting of "Sarah, Sarah, Sarah" than there is of "McCain, McCain, McCain." Clearly the excitement in the party is for her. WITT: Let's go now to the lighter side of politics, shall we . . . ? TINA FEY (as SARAH PALIN): You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything. AMY POEHLER (as HILLARY CLINTON): [talking over "everything"] Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy. FEY: And I can see Russia from my house! WITT: . . . I called that, Tiny Fey, as soon as I saw Sarah Palin . . . *Highlight #6* *Fiorina on ABC Part 1; Sexism, Earmarks* (ABC 09/14/08 10:00am) CARLY FIORINA: Well I think you need look no further than the op-ed page in the New York Times today to realize that the Democratic Party is in full throated panic over Sarah Palin. You have a column by Maureen Dowd that is mean spirited and extreme, you have a column by Frank Rich that is disrespectful to a Presidential candidate who is vigorous, who is able to govern for 8 years, and who will be, current trajectory, the President of the United States, and you have a column by Tom Friedman whom I generally love, who is reverting back to the old argument that conservatives are stupid. Sarah Palin has transformed this race. She has transformed this race by energizing the Republican Party, she has transformed this race by having a whole set of independent and yes Democratic women say it is the Republican Party who gets it, it is John McCain who gets it, not the Democratic Party. Taken for granted- GEORGE STEPHENOPOULOS: How about the argument Senator McCaskil just made about John McCain's age, and Sarah Palin on the issue of earmarks has not walked the walk. FIORINA: Okay lets start with John McCain's age. I frankly find this disrespectful in the extreme. This is ageism. All you need to do is look at the schedule that John McCain has kept for the last two years to realize that he is one of the most vigorous, most energetic campaigners frankly in my judgment out there. So I think this continued resort to he's too old is desperation, frankly. Not to mention disrespectful to a very capable commander in chief. In terms of earmarks, Claire McCaskill conveniently forgets the fact that Barack Obama has asked for almost a billion dollars worth of earmarks in a very short tenure in the Senate. That's about a million dollars a day. *She also conveniently ignores the fact that Sarah Palin, as Governor, stood up and said I know earmarks are corrupting, we must ask for less of them. * STEPHANOPOULOS: But she still requested them. FIORINA: As Governor she did not, as Governor she vetoed about half a billion dollars. CLAIRE MCCASKIL: No, she did. She just requested this year George, she requested hundreds of millions of dollars of earmarks for Alaska. She took the money for the bridge to nowhere. She hired lobbyists to get earmarks. This is a woman who has been lobbying for earmarks, has received earmarks. As a Mayor, as a Governor, this is a good example that I'm talking about. You know honor is talked about lot in this campaign. Honor comes with honesty. And you've got to be honest about the facts*. Sarah Palin has been an earmark queen in Alaska. That's the fact*s. [�] FIORINA: The facts are that Sarah Palin rejected the money for the bridge to nowhere. The facts are that Barack Obama has asked for more earmarks in his short tenure than Sarah Palin ever has. If we want to have an argument about the facts of reform, lets ask whether Barack Obama has ever stood up against his party, has ever took a tough position. Sarah Palin without question stood up against the Republican Party, is a reforming Governor, Barack Obama without question voted present over a hundred times rather than take a tough issue, tough position on a tough issue and he has never stood up against his party. So if we want to have an argument on the facts of reform, let's have it. Let's not dismiss John McCain as the commander in chief. STEPHANOPOLOUS: She did stop the bridge to nowhere but she did keep the money. FIORINA: Sarah Palin has made significant reforms and significant progress in the amount of earmark money that Alaska takes. She stood up as Governor and said we must reform this corrupting process. It is true as Mayor she worked within the system that she was a part of. But it is also true that she stepped forward against her own party and said enough is enough. *Highlight #7* *Fiorina on This Week Part 2; Equal Pay, Women Vote* (ABC 09/14/08 10:15am) [�] CARLY FIORINA: Well first let's just remember for the record it was the Barack Obama campaign that launched the first negative ad. Let's just recall we want to talk about honesty, let's recall the spate of ads that said John McCain was in favor of 100 year war in Iraq, please. I mean this high and mighty attitude that somehow John McCain has somehow stooped to a new level in politics, is a, untrue, and b, is as I recall Barack Obama promised the campaign of hope and politics of promise, etc. etc. But having said that, my personal opinion? Barack Obama made a critical strategic error by not choosing Hillary Clinton. There are a whole host of women in the Democratic Party who believe the Democratic Party does not understand what sexism is, routinely underestimates the impact of women, and they are coming in droves to the Republican Party because they think the party and John McCain get it. That's a fact. [�] FIORINA: Those are ridiculous charges, point one. But I think the important point here is that this is what the Democratic Party has done for years. It has tried to hold women hostage by frightening them on issues such as reproductive rights, Roe v Wade, American women in this country will not be held hostage by the politics of fear on Roe v Wade any more. I know many, many pro-choice women who are pro-McCain. And if we want to talk about equal pay for equal work, I think this once again is an example of John McCain walks the walk and Barack Obama talks the talk. And all you have to do is look inside their two Senate offices, and 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. [�] FIORINA: I absolutely agree with Senator McCaskill. Women care about healthcare, education, national security, the economy, whether we're going to create jobs in America or overseas, and that is why they will vote for John McCain. Not all of them, but enough of them that he's going to win because wherever they come out on Roe v Wade, most women are not single issue voters. They are like men, caring about all the issues that matter to this country � we're going to win on the substance of the issues. *Highlight #8* *This Week Panel Part 1 � Palin-McCain Ticket, Dishonest Ads* (ABC 09/14/08 10:30am) JAY CARNEY: If this were a legal arena, there would be a lot of things that were different, including, you know, fact checking some of these assertions made by the campaigns, especially the McCain campaign. Sarah Palin, on the issues, did poorly. I think she didn't know any of the answers on the Bush Doctrine. She talked about reforming government, and just kept saying they would find efficiencies in the agencies without defining what agencies � no major gaffes but it doesn't matter because tone matters more than substance in these debates, and we're still talking about Sarah Palin which means that's all the McCain campaign cares about because it's become a Palin-McCain ticket. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And that is good for John McCain. PAUL BEGALA: Right it's actually become a Palin-Obama race which is good for John McCain. Richard Nixon, when everybody was trashing Spiro Agnew, said you don't shoot down in a Presidential campaign. Democrats beat Spiro Agnew, they just couldn't beat Nixon. STEPHANOPOULOS: And they beat Dan Quayle. BEGALA: They couldn't beat Bush. So it seems to me Democrats' smarter move vis-a-viz say Charlie's interview, is this, Charlie Gibson has now spent more time rigorously interviewing Sarah Palin to be Vice President than John McCain did. I would put it on McCain. This was perhaps politically successful but Democrats should cast it as rash, reckless, impetuous, but that's about John McCain. And they seem not to be able to resist the shiny object that is Sarah Palin, who is not running against Barack Obama. [�] STEPHANOPOULOS: Paul, you're obviously very close to both Clintons and Hillary Clinton, can the Palin choice work to pull off her voters, or is that just a false hope on the McCain team. BEGALA: Not a lot of them. I just can't imagine the profile of a Hillary Clinton diehard who is so committed to Hillary that she'd have problems with Barack is a profile of the Sarah Palin diehard, I think that that's a superficial guess by the McCain campaign. I don't see that happening, I think it's transparent, phony when she said oh Hillary's got a lot of grit and toughness, [crosstalk] Yeah but they were laughing at calling her the b-word just a few weeks ago as Claire McCaskill pointed out. [�] STEPHANOPOULOS: Paul let's begin with this strategy their team is taking with this, they're doing what you think they should do, focusing straight on on John McCain. BEGALA: They are and they are trying to paint him as out of touch, you know, the notion that maybe McCain thinks googling is an alternative lifestyle and I think that's fine, it's sort of a way to sneak in the age issue, which Claire McCaskill is very frontal about. STEPHANOPOULOS: Is that wise? BEGALA: It is the first thing you hear in focus groups. But it's not discussed on television and polite company, right? And I think again I think the Palin pick is an entre into that even more than whether he can google, right? He is 72, he has had cancer 4 times, facing the most important decision of his life, does anybody believe he put country first or campaign first? [�] CARNEY: I think the age isn't the issue. The out of touch, the you know when talks about how he doesn't understand the economy, when he says in Washington, we're not really in touch with what goes on in real towns. And that's why I picked Sarah Palin. I think that it could help reinforce the idea that he is more of the same. But I think they got to be careful about going after being ageist because senior citizens vote, and they resent being told- [�] BEGALA: Well Democrats can always find a way. God finds a way when there is no way, well there's no way to lose you can count on us to find one. But I think it's not just that, I think it's real. Right the race has tightened, Palin has energized the Republican base, but also begun to move the race towards independents. And I think anybody, I think my friends in the Obama campaign just a few months ago thought this was going to be easy. I think they've been disabused of that notion. I think Claire's right, they're hitting back hard, a much more sort of populist edge to it � something Obama did not particularly care for in the primaries as Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. I think that's probably more fertile territory than to continue to be distracted by whether Sarah Palin � [�] CARNEY: *They don't care if the ads are factually correct, they don't care if we criticize them.* *Highlight #9* *This Week Panel Part 2; Culture War, Dishonest Ads* (ABC 09/14/08 10:45am) PAUL BEGALA: There is the factual response, which should matter at some level in politics, that this was to defend children from sexual predators at that age. But what I would do is go right at McCain's strength, which is word that Jay Carney used in an interview with him and I think that set him off and that's honor. This is a dishonorable thing to do. When McCain was a naval officer he embodied the word honor, and now as a politician, he embodied the word politician. It is as dishonorable as an attack as I can imagine. There's plenty of good, wonderful issues to attack Barack Obama on, but I think this shows McCain has become what he has always pretended to be � a typical politician. [�] *So why not an ad that says John McCain wants to leave our children vulnerable to sexual predators. That would be unfair.* [�] JAY CARNEY: *John McCain doesn't want to debate issues that reinforce the � remind people why there's 80% wrong track in the country, why the economy is stumbling along, under the party in power which is the Republican party. We're returning to the culture war, making it a cultural distinction as you said, this is a divide of conservatives and Republicans, liberals and Democrats, what is distinct about this is how unJohn McCain like it is. [�] * *Highlight #10* *Pawlenty on Late Edition Part 1 � Leadership Contrast Between Obama and Palin* (CNN 09/14/08 11:22am) TIM PAWLENTY: Remember went Senator McCain invited Senator Obama to have a series of Town Hall meetings across the country and at first Senator Obama said that sounds like a great idea, focused on the issues, the tone and tenor of the debate may change, Senator Obama changed his mind and went into a different direction and his campaign has increasingly gone in a different direction as his star has faded. I mean he was ahead pretty substantially in the spring and early summer, now he's not even in a place like Minnesota, polls out this morning show the race tied. So he's getting somewhat desperate or hysterical when Governor Palin was first announced as a running mate, the emphasis was on things like her 17 year old daughter. So it wasn't the McCain campaign that started to focus on things unrelated to the economy, unrelated to the issues of our time, it was other folks including Senator Obama's campaign or his surrogates who were bringing these issues forward. So I think it's unfair to say now as Senator McCain's campaign is defending Gov. Palin, that somehow that's inappropriate. WOLF BLITZER: But what about the point that Governor Richardson made that she really doesn't have much national security experience and visited Kuwait, visited Germany to meet with troops from the Alaska national guard, was on a vacation in Canada, and in Mexico had a refueling stop in Ireland, but hasn't had much experience and she told Charlie Gibson of ABC that she hasn't met with any world leaders. PAWLENTY: *The facts are she has traveled internationally somewhat as you just described but more importantly, she's running for vice-president, and has as much or more executive experience and leadership experience as Barack Obama does and he's running for President. She's run a state, she's been the commander in chief of a national guard, she's been the leader on one of the most nationally and internationally sensitive issues of our time and that is energy. Barack Obama has not had that executive or leadership experience. So if we want to have a contest on who's had more leadership and executive experience, in way that relate to defining issues or leadership or executive experience, she far exceeds Barack Obama*. [�] Well just quickly on that issue working with Senator Lugar on rounding up loose nuclear weapons, Barack Obama has cited that as one of his bold and courageous gestures working across party lines, my goodness Wolf, who's against rounding up loose nuclear weapons? We're all for that and I think it passed on a voice vote I think unanimously or I think close so that's not an example of some big bipartisan courageous bold leadership on his part, but more to the point, Governor Palin is somebody who's go the judgment and executive experience to exercise as issues come forward her state or behalf of the nation as Vice President if need be as President. Her experience and Barack Obama's experience are different, there's no question about that. But you can see in her experience she's led something, she's run something, she's done something, she's accomplished something. As it relates to Senator Obama, I have two questions: what has he run in terms of executive experience, the answer is nothing. And the answer is what also has he done? Another question, what he as he done? What has he accomplished? And his record in that regard is very thin. * Highlight #11* *Pawlenty on Late Edition Part 2- Tax Cuts, Economy* (CNN 09/14/08 11:40am) WOLF BLITZER: Alright lets focus in on the last part, new tax cuts for corporations, but nothing for the middle class. What do you say? TIM PAWLENTY: Well first of all Senator McCain's tax proposal has a lot for the middle class. For example, he's offering tax credit for individuals who can't afford their own insurance, so that would be tax relief for people to help them get health insurance. He also has said we should eliminate or phase out the alternative minimum tax, which is increasingly affecting middle income individuals. He's also been in favor of other tax credits and deductions for middle class individuals including doubling the exemption for people who have dependants for 3,500 to 7,000 dollars and he's also mindful of the fact the number one pathway to economic stability or success for people is something called a job and so having incentives or tax policies that encourage entrepreneurs and small and medium sized businesses to invest in buildings, to add equipment, and hire employees is the right direction for the country in contrast with Senator Obama who wants to heap a bucket load of new tax increases on America's businesses, particularly small and medium sized businesses. And they're providing, Wolf, 70% of the new jobs in this country. We need to do things to encourage entrepreneurs and small business owners, not discourage them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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