McCaskill still out front for Obama
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has been all over cable TV this week, promoting the presidential chances of her chosen candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. — despite Tuesday’s loss in Pennyslvania to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
McCaskill plans to remain a high-profile ally. “That’s one of the failures of my personality,’’ she quipped in a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon. “I have a hard time finding ‘neutral.’ “
McCaskill offered up her own take on Obama’s defeat, which she says is not as bad as some would make it sound. She recalled her own primary contest in 2004, in which she defeated then-Gov. Bob Holden, a fellow Democrat.
McCaskill said she carried a number of rural counties that she subsequently lost in November to Republican Matt Blunt. Her point: Just because Hillary Clinton carried a lot of rural Pennsylvania counties on Tuesday, that doesn’t mean Clinton would carry that turf against Republican John McCain.
“You’re doing apples and oranges,” McCaskill said.
She also contended that the decision of the North Carolina Republican Party to begin running that anti-Obama ad (featuring footage of his former pastor) against the two Democrats running for governor is proof, in McCaskill’s opinion, that Republicans fear Obama more than Clinton.
In any event, McCaskill said ads just as nasty could be run against Clinton. Obama won’t run such ads, but Republicans will, she said.
As for her relationship with Clinton: McCaskill said it was cordial and professional, and that she would expect that would continue “when she’s back in the Senate.” (Is that a dig?).
McCaskill also made clear that she resented some of the national-media coverage that portrayed McCaskill as a turncoat, by alluding to Clinton’s money-raising assistance during her 2006 campaign for Senate against then-Republican incumbent Jim Talent.
Clinton did raise some money for McCaskill, but did not hold any fundraisers for her, McCaskill said. Clinton also did not come to Missouri for McCaskill, (that’s a fact) in part because the latter indicated at the time that she considered Clinton too divisive.
Obama came to Missouri for three high-profile events for McCaskill during the 2006 campaign, including two rallies in St. Louis — one in Forest Park the Sunday before the election.
While not commenting Wednesday on the particulars of who did what, McCaskill said she wanted to make it clear that Obama helped her a lot.
Hillary’s healthcare plan mandates a 15% flat income tax imposed on top of your present income tax. ….. Obama’s plan is how much of a tax . . . and on income ??
We need to know…I don’t want to pay upwards of 50% income taxes like they do in other countries just to have health insurance thrown on us when we only pay about $300 per month for my husband and myself and 2 children. That’s about 2.5% of our combined income. I sure do not want to pay another 13% income taxes which would equate to an additional $20,000 a year in income taxes!
“Just because Hillary Clinton carried a lot of rural Pennsylvania counties on Tuesday, that doesn’t mean Clinton would carry that turf against Republican John McCain.”
Correct. And so is this: Just because Barack Obama carried a lot of rural rural red states in their Democratic primaries and caucuses, that doesn’t mean Obama would carry that turf against Republican John McCain. And just because John McCain carried blue states like California and New York in their Republican primaries, that doesn’t mean McCain would carry that turf against any Democrat nominee.
The electorates in party primaries are entirely different than that in a general election.
We have a lot to look forward to if Hillary becomes President. For sure there will be no more charges of perjury. “Miss spoke” will replace perjury in our legal system and taught in all the schools across the nation.
And babies will not be termed “mistakes” thanks to Obama.
Actually, it is probably more like McCaskill is in Church praying Hillary does not will the presidency.
Are you wrongfully implying A CENTRIST that Hillary Clinton is not pro-choice?
Are you wrongfully implying that some children born into this world were not mistakes on the part of the parents?
Thanks to grace and mercy that our mistakes can be turned into good through Christ.
But, yes, pregnancies and babies are mistakes for some, in fact, many. Why do you choose to live in that fantasy world you imagine?
Thanks to grace and mercy that our mistakes can be turned into good through Christ. Also, our sins, including abortions, A CENTRIST.