Subject: [big campaign] McCain website posts commentary calling Hillary Clinton a 'B*tch.'
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 11:37:28 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

McCain website posts commentary calling Hillary Clinton a 'B*tch.'
<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/09/mccain-website-posts-commentary-cal
ling-hillary-clinton-a-btch/> 

Recently, Sen. John McCain has been reaching out to Sen. Hillary
Clinton's (D-NY) supporters by lavishing praise
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0608/McCain_lavishes_prais
e_on_Hillary_says_shes_inspired_American_women.html>  on Clinton. But a
"news article
<http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/NewsReleases/F37AC6BE-3529-4C5
5-8E16-712D05A1FAD8.htm> " posted on McCain's website may undermine
those efforts. The "article," which is actually a reader's comment made
at Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish
<http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/12/quote-for-
the-d.html> , refers to Clinton as "the B*tch
<http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/NewsReleases/F37AC6BE-3529-4C5
5-8E16-712D05A1FAD8.htm> ":

	Fred Thompson is good but pointless. He clearly doesn't want to
be in this race. His wife must really want to be First Lady. Paul is
hopeless. Huckabee is at least sincere, but I just feel that nominating
him is tantamount to giving away the store. He's a big-government
liberal with the compassion of Jimmy Carter and a nanny-state busybody
of the highest order. I'd rather have the Bitch. At least she'd balance
the budget. You know, like her husband did.

This isn't the first time McCain has been associated with such insulting
descriptions of Clinton. In 2007, after a supporter asked him "how do we
beat the b*tch," McCain replied "that's an excellent question
<http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/11/full_video_mcca
in_says_supporters_bitch_query_about_hillary_is_an_excellent_question.ph
p> ." (HT: Americablog
<http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/mccains-web-site-talks-about-anti.ht
ml> )

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Adam Jentleson
Communications and Outreach Director
The Hyde Park Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund
202-247-8614

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