Pfotenhauer on McCain: MSNBC 10/12/08

Nancy Pfotenhauer and Tamryn Hall on John McCain
"MSNBC Live" 1:05pm
Interview

TRANSCRIPTION
TAMRYN HALL: [A]fter a month of character attacks and finger-pointing we're suddenly seeing a softer side of John McCain this weekend [...]. Looking back at these last series of events what is your best explanation for why we've been seeing this angry language from the audience, including what this lady said in that exchange [where a woman claims Obama is Muslim] there.

NANCY PFOTENHAUER: [I] think people are getting more and more concerned that Senator Obama may actually be elected president and that the policies that he's advocating would take us in precisely the wrong direction, whether you're talking about the economy or the foreign policy challenges that we're facing and I think there's an element of frustration and real concern. [...]

HALL: Are they reacting to his policies or are they reacting to other things because she didn't say, 'I hate his policies.' She said, 'He's an Arab. I can't trust him.' They didn't say, 'I don't agree with tax cuts,' or whatever his plan is. They said, 'Kill him.'

PFOTENHAUER: [I] can't project into the mind of somebody who would say something like that. Obviously I focus primarily and I think our campaign focuses primarily on the policies that he's advocated and, to an extent, some of his associations because it points out the fact that he embraces things when it works for him and he tosses them over the side when it doesn't. [...]

HALL: [H]ow do you convince voters [...] that John McCain is the man to fix the ailing economy when you've got the report that the campaign wanted to change the topic?

PFOTENHAUER: [I] think that's been completely parsed and taken out of context like the 100-years war comment.

[cross-talk]

PFOTENHAUER: The context is whenever there's an economic downturn the political party of the incumbent in the White House carries that burden. That's well known. [...]

NP2 JM MSNBC 10-12-08 13.05 (JR#539)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• McCain
• tracking
• Obama
• anger
• economy
• taxes

[cezanne3000]

nice one Ms. Pfotenhauer.. get an early start on your resume because you'll be out of a job november 5th.

[MissNophi2U]

too little, too late. this lady can't be serious. They are reacting to his race, point blank! She is trying to, but you can't blame him for their racism. If the audience was screaming about issues then maybe her rhetoric would be half valid.

Mccain should point the two-faced finger at no one since he is unrecognizable at this point.

i'm glad the reporter laughed. objective? yikes!

obama '08

let's make it a landslide

[greeniem]

how did the election turn out, you anorexic bitch lmao