McCain kämpft gegen Obama um Frauenstimmen

Die beiden Präsidentschaftskandidaten der USA schenken sich wenig, wenn es darum geht, feministische Forderungen zu bedienen:

A day after Obama devoted a day of campaigning to women's issues, McCain did the same. (…)

"Yesterday in New York, Senator Obama went on at great length about how much he cares about women's issues," McCain said at a town-hall forum in Hudson, where women vastly outnumbered men. "I believe him. But when you cut through all the smooth rhetoric, Senator Obama's policies would make it harder for women to start new businesses, harder for women to create or find new jobs, harder for women to manage the family budget, and harder for women and their families to meet their tax burden." (…)

McCain told the audience that he has a record of supporting equal pay for women. He later told reporters he opposed the Senate bill because he didn't want "open-ended litigation by trial lawyers." He said he has demonstrated his support for equal pay "in a whole broad variety of ways, from support of women in the military to all kinds of laws that provide employment" to women.

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