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*Main Topics: *Unqualified to be CEO, fundamentals are strong, troopergate,
McCain's homes
*Summary of Shift: *Carly Fiorina's declaration that neither of the
candidates for whom she is spokeswoman are qualified for CEO positions was a
major subject of roundtables and political coverage tonight. Two pundits on
MSNBC's *Hardball* suggested she would be 'under the bus' as soon as the end
of the night. McCain's suggestion that a commission, in lieu of specific
action, would be necessary for the economic meltdown received some degree of
mockery and scrutiny, as did Holtz-Eakin's suggestion that McCain is, in
some way, responsible for the PDA or Blackberry.
Workers continue to clean up after Ike. FDA bans several generic
drugs. A chemical, BPA found in plastic bottles and elsewhere has been
linked to severe health problems.
Highlights:
1) The McCain camp surrogates and the economy
a. FNC: Fiorina attempts to explain herself
b. MSNBC: Romney is 'not quite sure' what Fiorina means, explains the
fundamentals
c. MSNBC: Obama wants to redistribute wealth, McCain wants to create
jobs, Pfotenhauer alleges
d. FNC: Pfotenhauer delineates specifics on the McCain economic plan
e. FNC: Giuliani and the 9/11 commission for the economy
f. CNN: Romney stays vague on McCain's economic plan
g. FNC: Romney suggests we ignore the source of the problem and instead
focus on bi-partisan solutions
2) McCain-Palin honesty under question
a. CNN: O'Callaghan defends Palin on troopergate
b. CNN: How honest are McCain's ads?
3) Liberals paint McCain as out of touch
a. FNC: Activists defend demonstrators outside one of McCain's homes
b. CNN: Begala criticizes McCain's fundamentals claim
No Clips:
1) MSNBC – TODD HARRIS: "If you killed every single earmark, every single
year it would take 100 years to retire the debt."
2) MSNBC – PAUL BEGALA: "The more that Carly Fiorina is out there, the
better the democrats do because she's an idiot. She took Hewlett-Packard's
stock price down […] something like 60%, fired 18,000 people, she said, 'I
only regret I hadn't fired more people faster,' she sold computers to the
Iranian regime, the terrorists in Iran and she says that even McCain or
Barack or Biden or Palin are unqualified to do her job? She was unqualified
to do her job! She's a disaster for the republicans. […] idiot's the wrong
word, Tucker. She's an incompetent.'
Clips
Highlight #1
*Fiorina Explains Herself* (FNC 09/16/08 3:30pm)
SHEP SMITH: Can you confirm the Palin meeting at the UN with heads of
state?
CARLY FIORINA: No I cannot. I don't have anything to announce and I am not
aware of what her particular schedule is.
SMITH: Well the Wall St. Journal's reporting it and if we get more on it
we'll let our viewers know. Did make sense that you would know that, but
you're more of an economic person and these are heady economic times.
FIORINA: Yes they are.
SMITH: On the table night right now, the collapse of AIG, the largest
insurer of all the world, that house on a lot of loans and house on a lot of
insurance agencies and insurance policies for Americans, it could collapse
Wall St, according to many in the know. […] Would you advise Senator McCain
to support a government bridge loan to support AIG or would you advise
against such a thing?
FIORINA: Well he's been clear this morning that he does not support taxpayer
money used to bail out AIG. I think its clear there's a lot of discussion
going on on Wall St. right now to try to find the right set of loans to help
AIG and we'll have to see how that turns out.
SMITH: I think they'd argue that a bailout is one thing and a bridge loan is
another. It seems to be a bridge loan that seems to be on the table, a
short-term loan of about $75 billion dollars. Would you advise for or
against that?
FIORINA: Well I think a bridge loan is certainly important. What's not clear
is whether that ought to be government and tax payer money. You know there
are a lot of Wall St. firms that depend very much on their relationships
with AIG.
SMITH: But that private money is off the table now we're told and its up to
the government or nothing. Would you advise that the government do it or
nobody do it.
FIORINA: Well I'm not sure private money is off the table. You know if you
listen to a lot of these Wall St. organizations, they don't talk about the
failure of AIG would be so terrible for the markets, if they believe its so
terrible, they ought to put some money up to prevent it from happening.
SMITH: And if they do not is it up to the government to do it?
FIORINA: You know what, I think we need to see how this plays out for a
little bit before I start making pronouncements on television. What I think
John McCain's been very clear about is that this whole situation
demonstrates the requirement, the absolute requirement for reform of
regulation, for more transparency on Wall St, for the ultimate reform of
Fannie and Freddie, and that's what he's going to be focused on when he
becomes President of the United States.
SMITH: You were with Andrea Mitchell on NBC a little earlier and you said
Barack Obama […].
FIORINA: […] Look different experiences prepare you for different jobs.
Sarah Palin and John McCain are uniquely experienced to be the President and
Vice President of the United States, Barack Obama is the least qualified
candidate running today in terms of his executive experience, in terms of
his time in public office, so I think the Obama campaign would do very well
to stop hurling the experience argument around because their candidate for
President has less than anyone else running for office right now on these
two tickets. […] I'm sure that John McCain and Sarah Palin, who are very
fast learners, could gain enough business experience quickly to run a major
corporation. But that's not the point. The point is it's a fallacy to
compare a corporation to the country. This is after all America, where our
leaders make a number of incredibly important decisions but are not focused
on the profitability of products and are not focused on a balance sheet,
they are totally different responsibilities.
*Romney Answers to CEO Qualification and Fundamentals* (MSNBC 09/15/08
5:02pm)
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Governor, people vote their pocketbooks, why should they
vote republican this year?
MITT ROMNEY: Well, *I don't think they're going to vote republican or
democrat*. I think they're going to vote McCain or Obama and these guys have
their own views about how to strengthen the economy. The economy is the
number one issue.
Barack Obama is going to have to back off of his pledge to start spending
more money on service projects and health care and raising taxes that would
kill the economy. John McCain is right to get the tax rate down. He's right
to it try to stimulate growth of our economic sector; he's also right to
drill for more oil, use nuclear power so we send less money outside of the
economy. McCain is right on the economy, Barack Obama is wrong.
MATTHEWS: Is he right when he says 'the fundamentals of our economy are
strong' and what do you mean by that when you hear that?
ROMNEY: What he's referring to, of course, is the underlying productivity of
the American work force, the innovative spirit of perk. Those tinges are of
course the envy of the world. Right now our economy is in real trouble, and
a lot of people are really suffering. John McCain is very concerned about
foreclosures and, of course, the fact that a lot of people's 401ks lost a
lot of value today. fort noolt, an uptick today. John McCain wants to make
sure we stop the bleeding in investment accounts and in homes and turn this
economy around, biltd more jobs and see the kind of growth that people in
this country expect.
MATTHEWS: But, if you look at the word "fundamentals," I'm looking at the
jobless rate at 6.1, it was 4.2 five years ago. It's going up this season,
this cycle. You've got 400,000 people in foreclosure. You look at housing
sector, the jobs sector. Where is it healthy? Where is the fundamentals good
in this economy? What part of the economy is doing well?
ROMNEY: Well, right now the economy is really suffering. That's what John
McCain indicated. He's pointing out that the long-term prospects for our
economy can be more positive if we build on pt productivity, the innovative
spirit and the capacity of the American worker.
MATTHEWS: Sure, but that's not a meaningful statement. You can always say
that about the American people. You can always say our workers are the best
in the world. The problem is, you can say the people at Lehman Brothers are
the best in the world. The problem is we have a financial crisis on our
hands. Do you have confidence of in this administration, the republican
administration, right now in power to fix this problem?
ROMNEY: Well, right now *let's make sure we talk about fixing problems on a
bipartisan basis*. I think people in America are tired of the finger
pointing and assessing blame. I look at this financial crisis. I see the fed
made mistakes. I see the administration did, congress did, the market did. a
lot of people did. *Let's stop worrying about republican or democrat*.
Let's fix it and the administration is doing its very best to shore up
enterprises that, if they failed, could have a systemic effect but say, hey,
we'll let the bubble bursting play out in other places where we don't want
to step in and help shareholders out and John McCain has a plan, frankly, to
get this economy going again by holding down taxes, by trading with other
nations and by stopping this insane use of so much foreign oil.
MATTHEWS: […] Let me ask you about Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of
Hewlett-Packard. She said none of the candidates for president or vice
president are capable of being a CEO of any major American company. […] Did
she just step if a puddle? I mean, what did she mean by that?
The government of the United States is 1.the 8 million workers. you have to
run war policy, fiscal policy being you have appoint the supreme court,
oversee all the cabinet agencies of the federal government, all the agencies
independent and other under your report. how can she say being CEO of the
United States is not up to the level of running a business? What does she
mean?
ROMNEY: You know I'm not quite sure to tell you the truth. Having been a
governor and the CEO of a state, I know it's real tough to run a state
effectively, and I know it's tough to also be a CEO. Both are very tough
jobs, and I believe that John McCain, with 25 years of experience in the
senate, and Sarah Palin actually having run a city and a state have the
experience it takes to run the government and they have the experience it
takes to run a company. I'd be happy to hire them.
*Pfotenhauer Slams Obama, Praises McCain* (MSNBC 09/16/08 6:45pm)
DAVID GREGORY: Let me start with something you heard earlier on the program
from former treasury secretary, Larry Summers who said rather pointedly that
John McCain is a Johnny-come-lately when it comes to understanding some of
the real problems both in the economy and specifically what's been happening
on Wall Street.
NANCY PFOTENHAUER: Well, I just fundamentally disagree with Larry
Summers—not the first time, probably not the last time but definitely
disagree with him and whether you talk about the Freddie and Fannie mess,
whether you talk about basic anti-corruption and whether you talk about
pursuing what the free market needs, and what we need right now to bring
jobs and economic growth, *John McCain has been out there. That's why his
economic plan is designed to be a job creation plan, not a redistribution
approach*, which is more Obama's and unfortunately, that's a job killer.
So it's a bad path for the economy to follow. So I think Senator McCain has
been a leader on these issues and he's got the record to prove it.
GREGORY: There are obviously, problems about—questions about the policy of
deregulation is the current, what is behind the financial crisis right now
[sic]. Here's what *The New York Times* wrote about McCain's record of Wall
Street Regulation. […] Can you cite an example where, since the sub prime
lending came on the scene, that John McCain actually advocated specific
regulation on the invest many banks?
PFOTENHAUER: […] I don't know if they've applied that same lens to Senator
Obama. We obviously frequently disagree with *The* *New York Times*, but
Senator McCain has very consistently called for strong, consistent, stable
regulation and not the patchwork quilt that we've got and that's just the
problem, as you're aware, David. There's this—I can name, at least, five off
the top of my head. There are probably seven different government agencies
that are supposed to have oversight and actually there's overlapping in some
areas and gaps in others and that's just the problem.
GREGORY: But you say you disagree *The New York Times*. Are there specific
areas where Senator McCain has taken issue with that patchwork of regulation
on this particular issue, regulating investment banks and how overleveraged
they were with some of these sub prime products and lending products.
PFOTENHAUER: Well, I can't go back mentally right now through every speech
he's ever given, but, for example, I can remember once in 2002 where he
talked about problems like this and he laid out a whole protocol. It was
actually a very—it showed a tremendous foresight where he said, 'Look. We've
got to have careful regulation balance. We don't want bureaucracy but
careful regulation,' but he specifically pointed out the potential problems
and the pit falls that we were facing, particularly with corporate abuse and
the fact that, without oversight, these things occur and that oversight is
an important part of making sure the consumers are protected.
GREGORY: […] Should there be specific capital requirements for the
investment banks like there are for commercial institutions?
PFOTENHAUER: I think that's a natural place to start. There is a whole list
of them. […] obviously, you've got the problem that really nobody has been
minding the store on investment banks and there just has to be certain basic
things that make sense, put in place. Then needs to be consistency. So that
similar financial instruments, […] institutions, things that perform
virtually the same role, should be treated the same from a regulatory
perspective and all of that should be very transparent and there should be
increased accountable.
GREGORY: Let me switch gears and talk about Governor Sarah Palin. There are
now numerous conservative columnists who are making the argument that she is
simply not prepared to be vice president, to be a heartbeat away from the
presidency. Today conservative columnist, David Brooks of the *Times* argues
that experience matters, and that Sarah Palin may not have it. […] Does she
have the required preparedness for office?
PFOTENHAUER: I think without question. In fact, as I've said before,
Governor Palin—the bottom of our ticket is more experienced, has more
executive ability, and has a better record of reform than the top of the
democratic ticket. So any type of comparison like that—Sarah Palin is more
qualified than Barack Obama. which is why I think, it's a huge mistake for
their campaign to push the experience line because the American people, when
they look at the accomplishments of Sarah Palin, compared to the tissue
paper thin resume of Barack Obama […].
GREGORY: Beyond the rhetoric, Nancy […] her views and her record, her record
of preparedness, her views of the government, view of the world, those have
not been tested on the campaign trail, as has Senator Obama's. That's a true
statement.
PFOTENHAUER: Oh my goodness. Senator Obama's basically, all we've got is a
bunch of speeches with senator Obama and, David you know that. He's been in
the senate for what? like three years. He's been running for president for
two.
I'm sorry. Running for president doesn't make you qualified for being
president. The guy has never shown a willingness to buck his party
leadership. His list of achievements, his bipartisan achievements are voice
votes and things that passed 96-2. He never took on the entrenched interests
and his own party in order to get the right thing done. Senator McCain's
done that and so has Governor Palin.
*Pfotenhauer Touts McCain's Economic Aptitude* (FNC 09/16/08 5:23pm)
HEATHER NAUERT: What would Senator McCain do to turn the economy around?
NANCY PFOTENHAUER: Well, first of all, he's going to lower taxes on capital
formation, which is job creation. Every time you hear that you should think
about job creation. He's going to keep our taxes low, and he's also going to
offer middle class tax relief. So he's going to lower the burden of
government if you will, and he's going to decrease and limit the tax payer
funded party that's been going on here in DC for so many years. So he's
going to keep taxes low, spending low, open-forcefully open exports markets
so that we have places to sell our goods. 95% of our customers live outside
our borders. So it's a recipe for success and it's been proven to be so when
we tried it in the 80's or the 90's or even its been tried in other
countries like Ireland or New Zealand about ten years ago. So this is the
way you get prosperity, this is the way you create jobs, and that's what
John McCain's going to do.
NAUERT: Okay one thing Senator McCain talked about today is naming a
commission, put together a commission to figure out how we got to this place
in the first place. And the Obama camp is saying that's just passing the
buck, that's what Washington does.
[…]
PFOTENHAUER: I find it ironic that Obama's talking about passing the buck.
This is a guy who voted present over 130 times in the Illinois State Senate
because he didn't want to take a stand on controversial issues and has done
virtually nothing that involved ever challenging his own leadership here in
Washington. What Senator McCain recognized is that the only way we're going
to get real change here is if we have a bipartisan independent group look at
what's gone on and make those recommendations to Congress in a thumbs up,
thumbs down situation. That's what its going to take.
And Barack Obama I noticed was criticizing the 9-11 commission today when it
wasn't his idea. He certainly approved of the 9-11 commission in the past
and almost in the same breath, within the same speech, he called for an
advisory group. So I thought that was pretty ironic- especially since
there's what you called for already exists, the President has an advisory
group. It's called the Working Group and it has the CFTC, the SEC, the Fed,
Treasury, and private advisers. So that, what he called for, his solutions,
already exists and didn't prevent the crisis from occurring.
NAUERT: How would simplifying mortgages work? John McCain has talked about
that, explain that.
PFOTENHAUER: Well first of all your earlier question was absolutely on the
money if you will, in that one of the problems that happened here is that
instru-loans developed. There were loan products developed that dissociated
risk from return, so you had people being offered zero interest loans, no
money down. It just totally divorced the people taking out the loans from
the lending risk and that's a real problem that should not happen and
Senator McCain called that one months ago. In fact, years ago when he asked
for Freddie and Fannie in 2003 and 2005.
*Giuliani and McCain's 9/11 Commission for the Economy* (FNC 09/16/08
7:15pm)
RUDY GIULIANI: The reality is we have a – the strongest economy in the world
– there are a lot of problems with it.
SHEP SMITH: He said yesterday the economy's in crisis.
GIULIANI: And it is in crisis. But you can - we've got a world problem that
we have to deal with and we have significant problems in our economy. I
think the best way to describe our economy, you have to have a single word
answer rather than fundamentally strong or whatever, is we have a resilient
economy. But, having said that, I mean this is still the world's leading
economy, under a lot of stress, with a lot of problems. Seems to me you
attack it in a positive way, not a negative way. You don't run it down,
which is what I think Senator McCain was trying to convey. I also think
today he put out a far more specific approach to what do about the economy
than Senator Biden did. All Senator Biden did was spend the entire day
attacking him.
SMITH: You prosecuted Michael Milken back in the day. Would it be your
advise that there's somebody to prosecute here and now?
GIULIANI: I can't say that. I think the idea of a commission is a very good
idea though.
SMITH: But calling it a 9/11 commission seemed to get away with him this
morning.
GIULIANI: Well I think the Obama campaign has descended into criticize
everything that John McCain says. Even if you said it yourself. Senator
Obama was in favor a commission to work out his health care plan, to work on
the Democratic primary; he's recommended commissions for very big issues,
very small issues. All of the sudden Senator McCain recommends a commission,
which makes a lot of sense, I mean one of the things Senator said I said
myself today, which is a lot of these transactions were transactions people
didn't really understand. We've got to get to the bottom of what happened in
order to fix it. That includes to find out whether people are criminally
responsible for this. There may be there may not be. It should be done in a
deliberate way.
*Romney Defends McCain's Economic Credentials; Says McCain Has Plan But
Won't State It* (CNN 09/16/08)
MITT ROMNEY: Yeah it's a bubble's bust, and they always bust, and the
housing market got way too overheated with very low interest rates and then
mortgages handed out like they were candy and housing prices got up and up
and up and speculators moved in and that's finally now readjusting and it's
doing so with a lot of pain for a lot of people. […] There's so much blame
that could be assessed, you could say Wall St. made mistakes, the S&P they
oversea, the rating agencies made mistakes, Congress made mistakes.
They have oversight committees that look at these various areas and also on
the administration […] the question is what's the right thing to strengthen
the economy – John McCain has the answer, Barack Obama doesn't. […] Well of
course we're going to have to study the regulatory structure on Wall St. to
make sure these kinds of bubbles are identified before they become a crisis
proportion and that's going to take study. But the immediate action that has
to be taken is to keep taxes down to allowed our trade with other nations to
continue and to get ourselves off our dependence on foreign oil by drilling
for more oil, using nuclear and also using coal, and on those issues, Barack
Obama's going to have to reverse course. He can't raise taxes now. He can't
add more spending programs. He can't cut off trade. And he just can't say
we're not going to be able to use nuclear and offshore drilling. […] Look I
campaigned with-against John McCain on the issue of the economy and with
regards to the fundamentals of America's economy, what he's referring to is
the innovative capacity of America, the ability of our American workers, and
the productivity levels in this country. *Those fundamental elements*. But
John McCain has been saying for a long time the economy's in real trouble
[…]
*Romney Discourages Blame Game; Let Capitalism 'Work its Magic'
Instead*(FNC 09/16/08 4:20pm)
NEIL CAVUTO: Governor, what do you make of this rhetoric? It's pretty tough
on almost all capitalists, it sounds like.
MITT ROMNEY: […] I think, at a time like this, people are really concerned
about what will happen to the future of our economic system and a lot of
people pointing in different directions […]. There was blame in congress.
There was blame in the administration. Look, there's blame at the fed. There
is blame at the rating agencies. There's blame for the investors.
*Nobody could escape blame in a setting like this*, but you know we can stop
the discussion about who's to blame and talk about how we're going to make
things better and, in this case, I think it's time for Barack Obama to say
he's gonna put a hold on any proposals for massive new programs and he's
also gonna put a hold on the idea of raising taxes. Raising taxes and
increasing federal spending right now is exactly the wrong way to go. He has
got to say no to the tax hike. A tax hike right now would be devastating.
CAVUTO: Governor, do you worry, though—I know it's campaign season; I know
it's rhetoric and I know it's populist-sounding and maybe someone has
figured, in a focus group, that's the way to resonate with voters, but there
has been more bashing [of] the fat cats, more bashing of the corporations,
more bashing of profits—this is on the part of the republican team. I am
just wondering what is going on, here.
ROMNEY: Well, the free enterprise system in capitalism is one of the things
that propelled our economy to be the powerhouse that it is globally despite
the enormous troubles it's going through right now and *our long-term
outlook can be positive but certainly we're going to rely on the
entrepreneurship of the American people, the risk-taking and capitalism, to
work its magic* and to employ people and to make things the way we would
like it to be for kids and grandkids. I know it's tempting to point fingers,
but I would rather point in a direction we would like to go and get this
economy going again, like—
CAVUTO: At least you are pointing in a direction and not just an arbitrary
finger in the air, but let me ask you, governor: Wall Street was up today on
a day the Federal Reserve kinda said 'No' to a lot of stock-traders' demands
for a rate cut. 48 hours after the treasury said no to a bailout of Lehman
Brothers we're getting sort of twin acts of tough love on the part of Uncle
Sam. What do you make of that?
ROMNEY: Well, I think what's happening is the Federal Reserve and the
Treasury; they're making a careful assessment of what kind of systemic
action might occur or consequences might occur based on the failure of a
company like Lehman and where they see massive consequences they're going to
step in and try to protect the American public with shareholder support or,
excuse me, with taxpayer support, but where they see limited consequence or
limited systemic effect they are probably not going to step in and
that's—that kind of measured approach I think is being well received by
people who are making an informed assessment of the—
CAVUTO: Yeah, but you know what I wonder, governor, why they didn't do this
before, if they were so afraid about appearing to have a ring around their
nose and being led by the markets and not ticking 'em off, and you know this
from your Bank Capital days, obviously when you came in to fix up a company
and some of the medicine might be tough […], but they would look favorably
if it turned out okay […] is the message now that—maybe that is the message,
that tough love ultimately earns you more tough respect than easy money.
ROMNEY: Well, if people are acting out of the interest of the economy and
the American people, I think you're gonna find that Wall Street generally
recognizes and appreciates that, but, if you see instead people bailing
companies out to try and help shareholders, they're gonna find that
negative—even if they are in the marketplace 'cause they they want to make
sure that the people leading our country economically are doing what is
right for the economy, long-term.
Highlight #2
*O'Callaghan Vouches for Palin's Honesty* (CNN 09/16/08 3:15pm)
RICK SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez here in the World Headquarters
of CNN. "Newsweek" investigator Michael Isikoff just broke down for us the
probe in Alaska, which he's been looking into, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's
dismissal of a state public safety commissioner for reasons having to do
with her ex-brother-in-law. So say some of the investigators in this case,
has not been proven. Now we are going to get on a McCain/Palin's take on
this. Campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan is joining us from Anchorage,
Alaska. Hey, Ed, thanks so much for being with us. We certainly appreciate
it.
ED O'CALLAGHAN: All right.
SANCHEZ: Let me read to you something that is coming to us right now. This
is from somebody on our Facebook that we put out. We asked them to start a
discussion on this, as we are doing the newscast. This one says that -- it's
from Curtis Ross (ph). He says: "Look, I really feel like she should not be
allowed not to cooperate and not be harassed about this. It just does not
need -- help her too much in the whole truth-telling thing." So, basically,
here you have somebody saying, if an American doesn't want to cooperate,
they don't have to. Is that your take?
O'CALLAGHAN: No. Governor Palin very much wants to cooperate. She wants to
cooperate with an investigation, however, that is fair and impartial, and
not directed by Obama supporters here in Anchorage. And that place for that
inquiry to happen is before the personnel board. There is a personnel board
inquiry that was initiated in August. And, under Alaska law, personnel board
is the appropriate forum to inquire about any allegations of ethical
breaches. And so there is an investigation pending there. It is an
impartial, independent investigation. And Governor Palin is very much
interested in allowing that investigation to go forward and cooperating with
fully with it. She wants to be an open book in that investigation, so that
there is a serious search for the truth as to what happened with the
replacement of Commissioner Monegan. That is really the question here.
SANCHEZ: Let me ask you...
O'CALLAGHAN: So, the question is -- yes, sir, Rick.
SANCHEZ: I just have to ask you a question, because you just raised a very
important point. You said that it is the Obama camp that is actually
directing this. What proof do you have that the Obama camp is in any way
directing this? What contact has there been between the Obama camp and the
folks in Alaska who are directing this investigation? Please share it with
us.
O'CALLAGHAN: Well, yes, Rick. Thank you. In the legislative council
investigation, that investigation is actually being run by, as was revealed
in a committee hearing on Friday, two senators that are well-known Obama
supporters here. In fact, they are pictured on the Obama Web site as
campaign spokes -- not spokesmen, but campaign supporters of Obama. That is
Senator Elton and Senator French. That's the investigative council that is
going on. Those were the gentlemen that chose the special investigator,
Steven Branchflower. There are a number of conflicts between Steven
Branchflower and Senator Elton. And all of that has led to a partisan
inquiry that has already had a prejudgment as to the conclusion. The public
statements of these gentlemen have said that the Republicans could expect an
October surprise at the end of this inquiry. That implicates the national
election. And, once that happens, this is no longer an independent inquiry,
which is what was originally allowed, but a partisan affair with a
predetermined judgment. The appropriate method to do here is to bring it to
the personnel board, impartial. There is an investigator already appointed.
There's a filing made yesterday which shows through e-mails from the
governor's own office that what really is at the bottom of this affair is
Commissioner Monegan's budgetary disputes during a time he was the
commissioner of public safety here in Alaska. He challenged the governor at
every turn. And the governor exercised her executive authority to replace
him with someone who she thought would be more in line with her budgetary
priorities.
SANCHEZ: What would be the harm in just going ahead? If she really does have
absolutely nothing to hide in an investigation, what would be the harm in
going ahead and answering their questions? Even if they are people who don't
like her, but like Obama, as you stated is the case with Senators Elton and
Senator French, how could they possibly harm her if there is no -- if there
is nothing that has been done wrong?
O'CALLAGHAN: The concern is that they -- Senator French has already stated
publicly that they have already reached their conclusion. And their
conclusion is that it will not be good for the governor, is what he said.
So, the concern there is that they have already reached their conclusion.
Here, we have a personnel board inquiry that is going on. No judgments have
been made. They have maintained the integrity of the investigation, which,
as a former prosecutors, I can say, is the most important thing that an
independent investigator wants to do, is to maintain the integrity of the
investigation. Through the public statements of Senator French and what was
revealed at the hearing on Friday, which was that Senator French was
actually directing which witnesses the investigator, Branchflower, was going
to try to interview, that shows that it is no longer an independent
investigation, that is a partisan affair that is being directed by Democrats
that are on record as being ardent supporters of Obama.
O'CALLAGHAN: That is not the appropriate forum. I'm sorry. There is a little
bit of feedback out here in lovely Anchorage.
SANCHEZ: I know it is always difficult when we do these satellite
transmissions, so I will try and just ask the question and then hear you out
on it. Do you have any information that would lead any reasonable people to
believe that there is direct contact between either Barack Obama, himself,
or Barack Obama's campaign and Senators Elton and French?
O'CALLAGHAN: Well, actually, CNN reported several weeks ago that the Obama
campaign contacted a gentleman that is the head of the police union here.
That is important, because that gentleman, John Cyr, also represents
Commissioner Monegan in a personnel board filing that he made against the
governor, implicitly recognizing that the personnel board is the appropriate
jurisdiction for this inquiry. I don't mean to get too technical...
O'CALLAGHAN: ... on you, but that is what they have done.
SANCHEZ: Yes, but that's not the senator's, though, right?
SANCHEZ: But you mentioned French and Elton. Is there anything that ties
Obama's people to French and Elton, though, since you said they're the
ones...
SANCHEZ: Go ahead.
O'CALLAGHAN: Go ahead, Rick. John Cyr, as CNN reported, was contacted by the
Obama campaign. And John Cyr is associated with Senator French, because they
have shared some budgetary priorities together. I would say, actually, a
good question would be to ask Senator Elton whether -- and Senator French
whether the Obama campaign has contacted them.
SANCHEZ: I guarantee you that we will do just that after this conversation.
Let me ask you a question. Can you say for -- can you explain to us, if this
thing were resolved and let's say that they got an independent prosecutor in
this case, and you felt that they were more fair, would she then likely
cooperate with this investigation?
O'CALLAGHAN: Governor Palin has said that she will cooperate with a fair,
just investigation. That is in the personnel board. They, in fact, made
filings before the personnel board yesterday indicating her full intent to
cooperate. She wants to cooperate with an investigation that going to have a
search for the truth here, because we know she is an open book here, and, at
the end of the day, what a fair and impartial investigator will find, Rick,
is that the governor did nothing wrong here.
SANCHEZ: But are Elton and French the fly in the ointment here for you? Is
that what you are saying, get rid of them, and you cooperate with the
investigation? Are you saying that?
O'CALLAGHAN: We are cooperating with the investigation that has the
appropriate jurisdiction, the personnel board.
SANCHEZ: OK.
O'CALLAGHAN: We certainly agree that Elton and French are no longer
impartial and are not interested in conducting a fair and impartial
investigation.
SANCHEZ: So, just one more time, for the record, as it stands right now, and
as this investigation stands, Sarah Palin is likely not to cooperate? Is
that correct?
O'CALLAGHAN: Sarah Palin is 100 percent going to cooperate with the
personnel board inquiry that is the appropriate jurisdiction and where this
inquiry should lie.
SANCHEZ: But not the legislative inquiry?
O'CALLAGHAN: Well, we have to see how that transpires. The legislative
inquiry, they have certain moves that they can make, too, I believe. And
what we want to do is make sure it is fair and impartial. We have had
absolutely no indication over the last several weeks that this is going to
be a fair and impartial inquiry in the legislative council.
SANCHEZ: But, one more time, as it stands right now, she will not cooperate
with the legislative inquiry? Is that correct?
O'CALLAGHAN: If the legislative inquiry asks Governor Palin of certain
things, I am sure that Governor Palin's attorney would consider those
requests. However, the personnel board is the appropriate inquiry. And
Governor Palin is an open book with respect to that fair and impartial
hearing.
*Do the McCain Camp's Recent Claims Pass the Honesty Test?* (CNN 09/16/08
2:45pm)
RICK SANCHEZ: OK. We look into this and we asked, what is Joe Biden actually
talking about? What is he complaining about? Here is CNN's Randi Kaye now
taking a look at that.
RANDI KAYE: Call it what you will, mistruths, half-truths, stretching the
truth, telling the truth. Whatever it is, it has Democrats and Republicans
questioning what is going on inside of the McCain campaign. Their opponents
have gone so far as to say that John McCain and Sarah Palin are lying their
way into the White House, claims that the campaign brushes off.
TUCKER BOUNDS: I think that those who say that John McCain and Governor
Palin are lying about anything in this campaign need to pay closer attention
to our advertisements and the record of the candidate that we are running
against.
KAYE: Make no mistake, the Obama campaign has also been accused of mistruths
along the way, like telling voters that McCain wanted to spend 100 years in
Iraq. McCain actually said troops should stay in noncombat roles for as long
as it takes, not that he wanted 100 years of war.
NARRATOR: He is running the sleaziest ads ever, truly vile, dishonest
sneers...
KAYE: McCain stands by his ads, he told the ladies from "The View."
JOY BEHAR: We know that those two ads are untrue. They are lies. And yet
you, at the end of it, say I approve these messages. Do you really approve
them?
KAYE: Did Obama want to teach sex education to kindergartners? Not really.
The program in question was intended to teach kids how to avoid sexual
predators, says the non-partisan group, factcheck.org.
VIVECA NOVAK: What he wanted to do was increase the range of some sex form
of education, K-12. But the kind of thing he was interested in having kids
at a young age learn about was inappropriate sexual advances that might be
made against them.
KAYE: The campaign's response?
BOUNDS: Our ads are based on honesty and truth and a true reflection of
Barack Obama's record.
KAYE: But what about Sarah Palin? On the campaign trail she keeps hammering
home one point, I told Congress, thanks, but no thanks to that infamous
Bridge to Nowhere. But that's not true. Congress had already killed the
project.
NOVAL: She never said no thanks, Congress.
KAYE (on camera): Opposing the bridge plays into a bigger theme of the
McCain campaign, that Sarah Palin is the perfect crusader to help McCain rid
Washington of its addiction earmarks and wasteful pork barrel spending.
KAYE: The truth -- Governor Palin has cut Alaska's earmark requests in half.
But this year alone, the state asked for $197 million.
NOVAK: She says that she vetoed a lot of legislation that would have called
for earmarks. But that doesn't get rid of the fact that she actually did ask
for earmarks for the state of Alaska.
KAYE: On energy policy, Palin said Alaska provides 20 percent of the energy
produced in the U.S. Is that true? No. The U.S. Energy Information
Administration says it's 3.35 percent.
NOVAK: It's a big deal because Sarah Palin and John McCain have been
claiming that Palin is an expert on energy in the United States, because
Alaska has a good bit of oil. But the figures she's citing are simply wrong.
KAYE: And what about Palin's international credentials? The extent of her
travels abroad?
BOUNDS: The Alaska National Guard has confirmed, just like we had confirmed
at the campaign, that she has traveled abroad. She went to Kuwait, she
entered Iraq. She underwent and presided over a ceremony. So here we are
trying to bat down something that was completely true, 100 percent accurate.
KAYE: Apparently not. We checked with the Army National Guard and they told
us that they are 100 percent sure Palin never made it past the Iraq/Kuwait
checkpoint, that she never entered Iraq. And her trip to Ireland, originally
billed by the campaign as visit to a foreign country, campaign spokeswoman
Maria Comella says, it was a refueling stop. Some Republicans are uneasy.
Bush White House strategist Karl Rove on Fox News Sunday, criticized both
the McCain and Obama campaigns.
KARL ROVE,: McCain has gone in some of his ads, similarly gone one step too
far and sort of attributing to Obama, things that are, you know, beyond the
100 percent truth test. Both campaigns ought to be careful about that.
KAYE: Still, political expert Larry Sabato, says mistruths can work well
with the party base, which is conditioned to believe the campaign.
LARRY SABATO: A smear campaign can succeed. If it's completely outrageous
and it's completely contrary to the facts, then probably the truth will
catch up with it before the end of the campaign. But if the unfairnesses or
the mischaracterizations are subtle enough, then the campaign will probably
succeed.
KAYE: Randi Kaye, CNN, Anchorage, Alaska.
Highlight #3
*Liberals Defend Protesters at One of McCain's Many Properties* (FNC
09/16/08 4:25pm)
NEIL CAVUTO: These people today protesting outside McCain's condo in
northern Virginia. They're asking McCain to take folks in who are losing
their homes to foreclosure. McCain's place is a few miles from the district.
Tons of other politicians and a lot of Democrats live nearby as well, so why
pick on McCain? Let's ask two of those demonstrators. Chris Chaith and
Christy Huntaman are with Change2Win (Change to win) Um, jump all here but
Chris to you first, why McCain's place?
CHRISTY HUNTAMAN: To be honest, it just made sense. He's got extra homes. We
have people who have none.
CAVUTO: A lot of folks seem to have extra homes, in fact, big homes. So I
just want to know and just to get a sense, Chris Chaif, why this one? Why
not Biden, I mean he has a compound down in Delaware, couple of homes on the
compound – I think we have that – why didn't you go down there?
CHRIS CHAIF: Well I think because Joe Biden has a record that stands strong
with America's working families and the middle class, and he has a record
that he's proven that he's standing with us. I think for John McCain, we
wanted to make this issue personal and very real and very direct.
CAVUTO: So John McCain's done nothing in his past that's for working folks?
CHAIF: Well let's just look at this record, 26 years he's voted against the
minimum wage 19 times, today he defined the soundness of the American
economy around his support for American workers, where was he over those 26
years voting against the minimum wage? […] Look I think at the end of the
day we have a candidate running for President who in March blamed homeowners
for the foreclosure crisis, then claimed he was for deregulation, now he's
saying that he believes we need to have a commission to look into the
problem.
CAVUTO: Christy, do you think there is some culpability on Barack Obama's
part too, that he envisioned an aggressive lending policy to reach out to
minorities and those who couldn't qualify and shouldn't qualify for loans,
getting loans backfire. And that he had a hand in that? […] Whatever
happened to personal responsibility?
CHRISTY HUNTAMAN: You know I can speak for where I'm from in Ohio, I can
tell you that people got into these mortgages with the best intentions. They
wanted the American dream And what they got was very different, they got
screwed. Gas prices went up, everything else went up, and so when everything
went up… […]
*Begala Attacks McCain on Fundamentals of Economy Issue* (CNN 09/16/08
5:00pm)
PAUL BEGAL: A lot of Democrats have their panties in a wad, we're all
nervous, they need to stop whining and start fighting – the way that Obama
and Biden are doing. And I have to say, the key to this has been John McCain
and I want to publicly thank him. Senator McCain, thank you again for being
so clueless on the economy. I'm trying to think of a bigger Presidential
gaffe – Carville and I were just talking on the phone – than John McCain, in
the midst of an economic melt down, saying the economy is fundamentally
strong.
No, John McCain is fundamentally wrong. And this is the biggest gift he
could have given Barack Obama. Obama to his credit is pouncing on it. […]
And you know what McCain said today – I hope the viewers at home are sitting
down – he called for a commission. Whew! There's change. A blue ribbon
panel? Maybe a task force, ooh maybe a study? How clueless can you get? […]
In point of fact, Barack Obama's proposed tax cuts for 95% of Americans and
small businesses he placed that to generate economic growth. But this is not
what McCain says – when he wants to look at for example Terry talks about
deregulation, one of the reasons we're in this mess is that Phil Gramm, a
banking lobbyist who used to be a Senator, who's very close to Barack- John
McCain put a loophole in the law that deregulated these Wall St. instruments
that have caused so much of the problem. […] But if you want change, not
commissions, chump change, then you gotta be for Obama, he's the only hope
for change, he's put out quite a specific program.
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Jacob Roberts
PAO
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