With friends like these ...
Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 07:23PM The New York Observer reports that while campaigning on behalf of Hillary Clinton, feminist icon Gloria Steinem had this to say about John McCain: 
“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’”
And that's not even the money quote. The Observer article notes that "referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said with bewilderment, 'I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be President? I don't think so.'"
A couple of points. First, you'd think the Clinton campaign – after all the issues with Bill wandering off the message reservation – would have learned its lesson about reigning in their surrogates. Well, evidentially not. Second, this quote is going to follow them like an albatross should Hillary somehow manage to win the nomination. Rest assured, McCain's camp is going to feed this quote to the conservative base that it so desperately needs to galvanize; heck, the ad practically writes itself.
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