Jennifer Granholm Is a Greater Threat to Women Than John McCain
By Erick Posted in 2008 | jennifer granholm | John McCain | Michigan — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Jennifer Granholm is a desperate woman. Witness her attack today on John McCain.
Seeking to block an effort by John McCain to draw support from Hillary Clinton supporters, Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Saturday called for women to unify behind Barack Obama and attacked McCain's record on women's issues and the economy.McCain's outreach to Clinton-backing women "is an effort to mask his effort on the issues important to the women who supported (Clinton)", said Granholm, who supported Clinton during her primary campaign against Obama.
Telling reporters that "women are not single issue voters," Granholm immediate waved the red shirt of abortion. That is so typical.
Likewise, Granholm highlighted the economy as a reason to support Barack Obama. Does anyone trust what Granholm says about the economy? Under her watch in Michigan, more people have left the state than any other state in the Union save Louisiana, which was hit by Hurricane Katrina.
It's too bad Granholm's tenure does not qualify as a federal disaster, because Michigan sure could use the federal investment to repair the damage Granholm has done.
Given the jobs, education, and economic statistics of Michigan, Granholm herself is not good for women. As Hillary Clinton, the candidate Granholm endorsed, said, she and McCain bring experience to the White House. Obama, Granholm's new choice, will bring a recycled speech.
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I wanted to ask before I said anything that sounded like a generalization of Kentucky demographics, because I know it's just as diverse as Georgia and probably most other states.
I was just thinking a couple of Kentucky-related thoughts from my own experience. First, my parents and my sister were living in the region around Manchester at about the time of my conception, and this experience in the poorest part of Appalachia (at least in 1969) led my father to say, "no child of mine will be born in (eastern) Kentucky." My second thought was of my visit to Toledo, Ohio in the summer of 1999, when I noticed that about half of the people I met there had moved up from Kentucky. I say that knowing full well the differences between the larger cities and the rural parts, just as we have in Georgia.
But I also remembered that Lansing was always said to be comparable to Athens, Georgia, where I live now, a mid-sized city most shaped by its college and the kind of folks college towns tend to draw, so I wondered, did Michigan really get that bad? I remember the "one-state depression" labels from the primary debates and, if Lansing really is that much like Athens, then things must be bad indeed to chase you into Kentucky. I know you said the root of the problem was in Detroit and Dearborn but I'm also guessing you wouldn't have left Lansing if you were insulated from that impact. Please forgive me if it sounds like presumption; I just wish to understand better.
Seriously, I don't mean anything snide by those thoughts. It's just what honestly came to mind.
then why be governor?
This is Jennifer's SECOND term of no economic policy.
Cool cities is not an answer to unemployment.
Raising taxes is not an answer to businesses moving out of state.
I agree that the economic history of Michigan matters a lot on this issue, but incrementally, she is hurting not helping.
any day now. In the meantime, she's probably off to Kuwait, or Europe, or who knows where, on our dwindling dimes. Jenn's brand of leadership is to blame it all on John Engler, and hope that whatever back room deal she made for a cabinet spot with Hillary is transferable to the Messiah.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I'm one of those folks who left Michigan recently, having moved to Kentucky a year ago.
The problem with Michigan's economy isn't in Lansing but in Detroit and Dearborn, where the big auto companies struggle to get their acts together and the UAW's big wages and cumbersome rules make it hard for them to do so.
I don't think a year of Dick DeVos could have helped keep me in Michigan. Granholm's no prize, but the savviest governor would struggle to dig Michigan out of the lethargy that it's in.