MO-Sen: Claire McCaskill Debates
Posted by on October 9, 2006 at 12:29 PM
Missouri Senate candidates, GOP incumbent, Jim Talent, and Democratic nominee, Claire McCaskill, took a spin on Sunday's Meet the Press for a colorful debate:
On Talents close tie to Bush:
Tim Russert, who moderated the debate on NBC's "Meet the Press," noted that Talent sided with Bush on almost every major issue and counted four times that the president had visited Missouri on Talent's behalf.(Washington Post, 10/9/2006)
McCaskill on the Iraq and the War on Terror:
"This is Harry Truman's Senate seat. When he was in the Senate, during the war, a war that was over the fight of our civilization, the fight for freedom, he asked questions about war profiteering and he was called brave," McCaskill said. "In this climate right now, they would question whether or not he was a coward. We need to be asking the questions, we need to have a plan, we need to have accountability." (Release 10/8)
"I believe there are two issues here. One is the war in Iraq, a failed policy where we're mired in a civil war, where we are losing lives every day and innocent Iraqi lives; and then our effort worldwide to begin to be effective against terror. Terrorist cells are popping up. We are creating more terrorists around the world with this failed policy in Iraq. ... But to mix the two is confusing the American public, trying to confuse the American public, and trying to roll all this in into an election year effort to make Democrats, who want our country to be safe, look weak. And we're not weak." (National Journal, Sunday Snapshot)
Talent On Stem Cell Research:
Missouri voters will consider a proposed constitutional amendment on Nov. 7 to safeguard early stage stem cell research.The initiative is supported by prominent moderate Republicans such as former senator John Danforth, along with Gov. Matt Blunt. Supporters believe the measure could be a boon to biomedical research, by making Missouri the first state to formally recognize a right for scientists to conduct the research and for patients to receive treatment.
Talent opposes the measure because he said it could lead to human cloning. (Washington Post, 10/9/2006)
McCaskill On Stem Cell Research:
"Our country has never turned its back on medical research and we shouldn't in Missouri. This provision strictly prohibits human cloning and provides a framework of ethical conduct and laws that are going to restrict the kinds of things that no one wants. I respect people who disagree with me on this issue on principle, I understand there are differences. I come down on the side of hope, hope for cures and supporting science." (National Journal, Sunday Snapshot)
MSNBC has the whole debate up for viewing, here, or you can check out highlights over at the McCaskill site, here.
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