McCain appears on ‘Good Morning America’ at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN — U.S. Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, called the economic policies of Barack Obama, his Democratic opponent, “far left of American politics” during a live appearance today on ABC’s “Good Morning America” at Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Center.

“He wants to raise people’s taxes, that’s clear,” McCain, of Arizona, told Robin Roberts, one of the show’s co-hosts. “We’re going to fight it out on the economic grounds.”

Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, has repeatedly said that his economic plan would provide tax relief for 95 percent of Americans.

Roberts asked McCain if Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, his vice presidential running mate, was the “face of the Republican Party going forward” regardless of the election outcome.

“I think there’s no doubt,” he said. “She’s united our party in a large degree. She’s in many ways an inspirational figure.”

McCain also said Palin, Alaska’s governor since 2007, has “got more experience than Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden put together.”

McCain and his supporters have made similar statements about her “executive experience” as governor and mayor of a town in Alaska. But McCain didn’t include “executive experience” in today’s comment.

Obama has served in the U.S. Senate since 2005, and Joe Biden of Delaware, Obama’s vice presidential running mate, has been a senator since 1973.

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