[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Morning 06/26/08

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*Main Topics:* McSame, McDifferent, Nuclear Power, Oil* Summary of Shift:* Foreign policy was the word, today began with an address from President Bush announcing the easing of sanctions on North Korea. This prompted some discussion of the candidates' foreign policy strategies and abilities as well as the obligatory comparisons to Bush. The Supreme Court ruled the DC gun ban unconstitutional. Fires continue in California and rains fall in Missouri, worsening the situation there. Highlights: 1. MSNBC: McCain is "aggressive," more of a neocon than Bush, "more confrontational" than Bush 2. Romney interviews a. CNN: Romney talks McCain and partisanship, state of the Republican Party b. FNC: Romney talks McCain on Korea and drilling c. MSNBC: Romney on energy and green technology 3. MSNBC Shrum: McCain has the style of Dole and the substance of Bush 4. FNC: Nancy Pfotenhauer talks McCain, oil and energy 5. ABC: Religion and politics examined, McCain's pastor problems highlighted 6. CNN: McCain is computer illiterate, importance of president and internet examined Local Highlights: 7. KTNV ABC NV: Protestors dog McCain in Nevada Clips: Highlight #1 *McCain is "Aggressive," More of a Neocon than Bush, "More Confrontational" than Bush *(MSNBC 06/26/08 7:39am) RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE: We've just seen a step forward in North Korea. We have a presidential campaign in which this is a big, big difference between the two candidates. JOE SCARBOROUGH: you are exactly right, I mean John McCain's position is even tougher than, I don't know if you'd say more conservative but it's more of a neocon approach than even George W. Bush's . . . HOLBROOKE: You just made a very important point for the voters . . . I've been taking the McCain positions and the Obama positions and looking at them and what's really interesting is that McCain, on issue after issue, McCain is taking positions tougher than Bush, there's kind of an aggressive. He knows his issues but—on Russia, he wants to kick Russia out of the G8. You can't do that. On Iran he says the only thing worse than war with Iran is a nuclear Iran. On Iraq we know his positions. He is taking very, very hard line positions. SCARBOROUGH: Let's underline this point right now . . . John McCain's positions are even further, let's say more confrontational than Bush's. There is a greater distance between Obama and McCain than Obama and Bush. Highlight #2 *Romney Talks McCain and Partisanship, State of Republican Party* (CNN, 06/25/08, 7:24am) JOHN ROBERTS: John McCain is launching a new line of attack this morning, his campaign released a memo just a couple of hours ago saying, Barack Obama has consistently put his party and his own self interests ahead of the nation. This comes after Karl Rove said that the democratic candidate was quote "arrogant". […] MITT ROMNEY: […] The fact, and reality is that he's not a very experienced person. He's not someone who has shown, if you will, the kind of leadership that I think America needs right now in such a critical time. He has consistently voted with his party on the most partisan issues and put his party's and his personal interests ahead of those of the nation. And I think been unable during his career, at any time, to reach across the aisle, find compromise, find ways to get things done, other than simply toeing the party line. I think people feel we've had too much of that in Washington and that's in part why I think John McCain will be successful. His reputation and record is as a leader, who reaches across the line, sometimes, you know, he's thumbed his nose at his own party and said, look you guys are wrong. He does what he thinks is right. […] ROMNEY: John, there's no question there are a number of republicans, and that's John McCain included, who are willing to reach across the aisle and work with democrats. […] ROBERTS: You know, there's an interesting column that Robert Novak has got out there today. He's talking about this group of people called the Obama-cons, conservatives who may support Barack Obama. And he suggests that Senator John McCain is at risk of losing some conservative votes, not necessarily because they agree with Senator Obama's positions, but because they do not like the Bush administration and they are looking for something different. And he quotes a conservative, Larry Hunter, who says quote, "The Republican party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of weekend with Bernie, handcuffed to a corpse." Do you agree with any of that? Is that what the Republican party is these days? ROMNEY: Gee, I don't think so. You know you're going to find some discontents in any party. And are there things that our party could do better? Absolutely. And are there opportunities for new ideas and strong leadership? Absolutely. And I think John McCain represents that. At the same time, I think you're finding in our party that people are rallying strongly around Senator McCain. I've had the chance to speak now at convention in Maine, Nevada, and frankly all over the country, Texas. And people are enthusiastic about Senator McCain, in party because they recognize how critical the times are right now and how wrong Barack Obama is. Look, he's a very nice fellow, but on the issues of the day he's just simply wrong. […] *Romney Talks McCain on Korea and Oil Drilling/Energy *(FNC, 06/25/08, 7:57am) […] BRIAN KILMEADE: Governor, when you talk about six party talks, there's a lot of people who think that we should not have been in them, there's a lot of democrats in particular that say, let's just go and talk to our enemies. Does John McCain subscribe to the six party talks? I know you're also a worker, trying to get John McCain in that White House. MITT ROMNEY: Well, Senator McCain recognizes that in order for us to make progress in negotiations diplomatically with other nations, we have to strength at our side. That when you bargain with a position of strength, that when you have leverage, you're able to get more done. When you're dealing with a nation like Iran for instance, that it's critical to have Europe combined with us, in putting in place the kind of sanctions to get Iran to move. And the same is true in regards to North Korea. You have to have our friends around the world, and even some of those, if you will, are partners with the same interests, come in together and put in pressure on a regime like Kim Jong Il's regime. The idea of just showing up and saying, hey let's talk, no preconditions, no pressure, no leverage, that's something that accomplished virtually nothing. I think history has shown that where that was done, America's interests were not advanced. CLAYTON MORRIS: Governor, you just mentioned leverage, the President mentioning leverage in asking how it was actually working in North Korea and he said you had to do it with leverage. John McCain in an interview about a week ago said, he didn't think the United States had sufficient leverage. Where's the disconnect there between John McCain and the Bush White House? ROMNEY: Well, actually I don't think it's a disconnect. The President indicated that the United States alone doesn't have the kind of leverage on a nation like North Korea that the United States has if we're combined with Russia, and South Korea, and China, and Japan. And particularly China, 2/3rds of the trade that goes on in North Korea goes on with China. And so when China sits at the table, which they did last Fall. Which they're saying you know, we're going to pull back on our shipments of gasoline into North Korea. That's a message that's heard loud and clear by Kim Jong Il. GRETCHEN CARLSON: Governor, I want to ask you a quick question, this of course was breaking news this morning, but I do want to ask you about the gas situation in the United States. Because, it's interesting to watch our political season this year, who would have known that this would become the hot topic now. You would like to point out that you feel that John McCain and Senator Barack Obama have very differing plans when it comes to how to control high gas prices. ROMNEY: Well, there's no question about that. Barack Obama I think, pretty consistently through his career has proven that he puts the partisan interests of the left-wing of the Democratic party first. And with regards to energy, that means he has to be, and he is, anti-nuclear power. He stands in favor of putting a new tax on coal and natural gas, those are of course the two big domestic sources of energy that we have to tap into. He's against offshore drilling, ANWR drilling, and so forth. John McCain, on the other hand , is saying look, we got to get ourselves off of our dependence on foreign sources of energy. And so John McCain is saying, look, let's explore drilling offshore, let's think again about ANWR. Let's certainly fast-track nuclear power plants. Everybody agrees we ought to have all of the renewable sources of energy that we can. Solar, wind power, agriculturally based sources of energy. We all agree on that. But we also need those additional sources, which John McCain supports and of course, Barack Obama, unwilling to part with the partisan part of his party. He's unwilling to take those steps. *Romney on Energy and Green Technology *(MSNBC 06/26/08 8:03am) JOE SCARBOROUGH: . . . you're a Michigan guy. Tell me, why can't Americans make a car like Toyota that gets fifty miles to the gallon? MITT ROMNEY: It's one of the great imponderables . . . we have been so far behind on the technology front . . . and I'd like to see us as a nation invest dramatically more in terms of energy efficiency. That's something I think you're going to see coming out of a McCain White House . . . investments in technology to help us become energy independent. [. . .] ROMNEY: We haven't had an energy policy. We haven't been investing in technology to find new sources of energy . . . we got to be far more committed to spending the research dollars it takes to find new sources of energy . . . we can do that and that's why I'm convinced that John McCain's right. We need more drilling, more nuclear power, clean burning coal, you need all of the sources that really have great promise for us to finally get us energy indepndent. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: But doesn't he need to demand it? . . . at this point I think that the criticism has been that there hasn't been real leadership on this issue? . . . what does John McCain need to do to really draw the line on this? [. . .] ROMNEY: Well, I think you're going to see over the course of this campaign that people are going to listen to both candidates and people are going to make their assessment as to what they really think about the candidates when they've heard from them. And this is a little early and I think with time . . . people are going to recognize the Barack Obama consistently puts the partisan interests of his party and his own personal interests . . . ahead of the country. Highlight #3 *Shrum: McCain has the Style of Dole and the Substance of Bush *(MSNBC 06/26/08 7:12am) BOB SHRUM: And I'm not sure so far that John McCain has shown he's a much better candidate than President Ford was. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Really? SHRUM: Right now, John McCain, who I said was the strongest Republican nominee . . . is coming across as a combination, stylistically, of Bob Dole, and, substanitvaly, of George Bush. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: That's how I see. SCARBOROUGH: What's happened to him? SHRUM: . . . they had three or four months where they had the nomination consolidated and they didn't seem to do anything with it. They didn't seem to come up with a long-term game plan. They didn't seem to come up with a big positive argument about how he does represent change. Maybe he is just so determined to spend his time talking about the Iraq War, talking about international policy, not really addressing the economy and placating the Republican base that he's never going to do it. SCARBOROUGH: But as long as the news is good out of Iraq, which it has been, at least over the last couple weeks . . . Americans don't care about Iraq, they don't want to hear about Iraq. . . Highlight #4 *Pfotenhauer Talks McCain and Oil and Energy *(FNC, 06/25/08, 8:51am) BRIAN KILMEADE: First off, Nancy, you're getting a lot of grief foe, according to Barack Obama, Senator McCain's getting some grief because he used the term "psychological effect" when it comes to drilling at home, not a financial effect. NANCY PFOTENHAUER: Well that just reveals ignorance of the future markets. I mean on the one hand, people complain about speculators, on the other hand Obama wants to dismiss the role that they play on oil prices. So, when we announce that we are no longer going to be relying on foreign sources for our oil , and that we're going to take our destiny into our own hands, if you will, by increasing domestic production. That sends an immediate signal to the market, and the market reacts very very quickly. Also, Obama people, and Obama himself would like you to believe that it's going to be about a decade before we actually see oil out of the ground. They exaggerate that by about twice as long as what we've heard it to be. So about 5 years until we see that oil actually come online, but an immediate short term effect on prices is absolutely possible. *Pfotenhauer Talks McCain and Oil and Energy Cont.* (FNC, 6/25/08, 9:03am) GRETCHEN CARLSON: McCain yesterday did say that he's setting a goal of weaning the U.S. off of foreign oil by 2025. Sounds like a long way off, but it's really not, right? NANCY PFOTENHAUER: It's not, you know, and if I can just say that this is really emblematic of Senator McCain. He's the type of person who has always put his country first and has been willing to take on controversial issues when they were essential to ensuring our prosperity and our peace. And this is very emblematic of him. I have to say, I think it is also emblematic of Senator Obama's unwillingness to ever break with his party leadership, to do something that is difficult but in our country's interest. And you see, he has no short term policy solutions, because he would alienate the left, the hard left part of his base. BRIAN KILMEADE: Will you confirm some reports that say that the Senator is revisiting ANWR and might consider supporting drilling there? PFOTENHAUER: I can't confirm that, I certainly have not heard anything along those lines. Highlight #5 *Religion and Politics Examined, McCain's Pastor Problems Highlighted* (ABC, 06/25/08, 7:16am) DAN ABRAMS: So why is religion playing such a combustible role in this election? In part, some observers say, because we have an unusual situation where the democrat seems more comfortable talking about his faith than the republican. Obama is trying to turn that to his advantage by aggressively courting evangelicals. […] ABRAMS: It's worth noting that John McCain has had pastor problems too. Choosing to renounce endorsements from John Hagee and Rob Parsley after their controversial comments came to light. ROD PARSLEY: Islam is an anti-Christ religion. ABRAMS: At this point John McCain has a solid lead among evangelical voters, but some observers believe that Obama may have a real shot at peeling off some moderates. Which is why you can expect Obama to keep emphasizing his faith, despite Robin, what we've seen to be the obvious risks of this strategy. Highlight #6 *McCain is Computer Illiterate, Importance of President and Internet Examined* (CNN, 06/25/08, 6:55am) JOHN ROBERTS: It turns out that the man who could be our next president is far from computer savvy. […] JEANE MOOS: We don't expect the president to be the Liberace of the keyboard. But still, should the next President of the United States know how to work a computer? CHILD: I mean, yeah, I guess so, it would be helpful. Why not? MOOS: Ask John McCain. Here's how he describes his computer skills. JOHN MCCAIN: I am an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance that I can get. ANNONYMOUS: Oh that's absolutely ridiculous. It's the 21st Century and you should know how to do it. He's got people to do that! He's got to be thinking of more important things. MOOS: While Cindy McCain's been spotted scrolling her blackberry. John McCain tends to be handed a blackberry to talk on. Barack Obama on the other hand is one of those guys so intent on reading his blackberry that he could run into something. He is a blackberry fiend, says his spokesperson, has a laptop on the road and sometimes uses it to talk to his daughters, and surfs the web when he is in need of important information such as sports scores. A far cry from this guy [Bush] GEORGE BUSH: I hear there's rumors on the internets. And on of the things I've used on the Google is […] MOOS: Just the other day President Bush did it again. BUSH: They can go on their computers and dial up volunteer.org. MOOS: At least John McCain isn't still dialing up, he knows to leave off the "the". But McCain's admission that he was computer illiterate was fodder for debate at something called the Personal Democracy Forum. The online expert who had worked for John Edwards got into it with the internet expert for the McCain campaign. […] But when McCain's guy said this, "John McCain is aware of the internet" became a joke on the internet. But do we really want a president that sits around the oval office googling all day? This 74 year old likes to Google. 74 YEAR OLD WOMAN: I mean this is such an easy thing to learn, I taught myself how to use the computer. MOOS: At least John McCain knows the difference between a laptop and a lap dance. Even if jokers made a mockup of McCain's real website with "How does this thing work?" and "Should I double click here?" Local Highlight #1 STEVE WOLFORD: Along with supporters, there were also a number of protestors at UNLV for McCain's visit. 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