http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426932.aspxPosted: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:18 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli
STERLING, Va. -- Biden made a pitch directly to women voters here today, focusing on economic issues in particular as he promised to end “a cowboy mentality of the Bush and McCain era.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, these guys have worshipped, they have worshipped at the shrine of deregulation,” Biden told a mostly female audience. “John McCain proudly said not long ago on Wall Street, and I quote, ‘I’m always, I’m always for less regulation.’”
Biden spoke of a conference call he and Obama took part in with their economic team, and outlined short-term and long-term solutions to the current economic situation, and tied it to the intended focus of today’s event: women’s issues.
“When the economy goes south who are the first people who get hurt the most? It’s women,” he said. “We’ve gotta restore both the protections and the dignity, the dignity of work, the dignity women and others deserve in the workplace.”
Surrounded by six Biden women on stage -- his wife, sister, two daughters-in law, niece, and granddaughter -- the Delaware senator also highlighted his authorship of the Violence Against Women Act, which he said McCain “didn’t believe there was a need for.”
“He said it was unnecessary and over regulating,” he said. “Tell that to the 1.5 million women who found it necessary. … I guarantee you it was necessary. It was not only morally right it was necessary.”
He also mentioned the likely impact a president would have on the Supreme Court, with as many as four justices possibly being replaced, ones Biden said would likely be those “who have been the last bulwark against the onslaught of women’s rights.”
“What do John and Sarah Palin say? They say that they want to appoint more Scalias, more Roberts, more Alitos,” Biden said. “These are decent, bright guys, but they are dead, dead, dead wrong. And ladies, once they are on the court, they will be there long after, long after the next president is gone.”
Biden was introduced by Sen. Barbra Mikulski of neighboring Maryland, who said that women “are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.”
“Democratic women, we wear lipstick too!” she said. “What we don’t need to get is four more years of a George Bush soundalike. And we don’t need another George Bush in earrings being the number two slot.”
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