TOLEDO, Ohio -- At an economy town hall here Sunday afternoon, Obama said his rival's pick for vice president was against equal pay for equal work.
“We're gonna make sure that equal pay for equal work is a reality in this country,” he said. “You know, John McCain's new VP nominee seems like a very engaging person, a nice person, but I've got to say, she's opposed like John McCain is to equal pay for equal work. That doesn't make much sense to me.”
When asked what Obama was basing that line on, campaign spokesperson Jen Psaki linked Palin to McCain's agenda.
"Sen. McCain has a clear record of opposing equal pay and as his running mate Gov. Palin is tasked with promoting his agenda,” she said.
Obama is hoping to win over many of Hillary Clinton's women supporters by focusing on kitchen-table issues and on policies of importance to women. McCain's selection of Palin, a mother of five, is widely seen as part of an effort to appeal to some of these same voters as well as to women in general.
Nobody is against equal pay for equal work. What Republicans are against is federal regulation of salaries and creating a situation in which somebody in the federal government gets to make a judgment about which type of work equals which other type of work.
If passed, the legislation would be a nightmare for employers. If female A is doing secretarial work, and male B is doing data entry work, how are we supposed to decide if female A should get the same pay, more pay, or less pay than male B? It would be a bureaucratic nightmare.
Obama is going to come up with a better attack than that.
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