The man who made headlines picking a woman as his running mate certainly has no problem pushing women around.
As the Huffington Post reported yesterday:
"On Sunday, McClatchy Newspapers published a story on Sen. John McCain’s oft-discussed temper, detailing one incident in which McCain allegedly pushed a woman in a wheelchair.
According to McClatchy’s report, in 1996, McCain was met in the Senate office halls by a group of family members of POW-MIAs who had been pressing him to pursue more information on their relatives."
The McClatchy report states:
"Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall.
As McCain continued walking, Jane Duke Gaylor, the mother of another missing serviceman, approached the senator. Gaylor, in a wheelchair equipped with portable oxygen, stretched her arms toward McCain.
"McCain stopped, glared at her, raised his left arm ready to strike her, composed himself and pushed the wheelchair away from him," according to Eleanor Apodaca, the sister of an Air Force captain missing since 1967.
McCain’s staff wouldn’t respond to requests for comment about specific incidents."
Not to mention that McCain shoved a woman with a disability while his current running mate has a child with a disability. If Sarah Palin had a heart, a conscience, or character, she'd kick his ass for that.
Surprised? Well, you shouldn’t be. John McCain is a man who believes Viagra should be covered by health insurance while birth control pills shouldn’t:
Additionally, McCain does not support the proposed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which is intended to help achieve equal pay for women, who still, even in 2009, make less than men for equal work. McCain has long-opposed this bill, which will get a Senate vote before the election, forcing Maverick to go on record as being against equal pay for women. His stance: women really need "education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else. And it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them."
Right. Just like it’s hard for Sarah Palin to leave her family and run for VP... hmm.