David Gergen: Debate Sounded Like ‘Four White Guys’ Telling Women How They’re ‘Going To Control Your Lives’
Much to no one’s surprise, the contraception issue got a fair bit of discussion during last night’s CNN debate. The birth control mandate in President Obama‘s health care program has been creating controversy and angering Republicans for a while now — and Wednesday night, they tackled the topic on stage. Afterward, David Gergen, CNN’s senior political analyst, had his own take on things.
In the post-debate analysis, Gergen started by saying:
There’s been a gender gap now for some years, as you well know, and that’s because many women have moved into a position of thinking…that this is about their reproductive rights. And I thought when this argument first started about the Church that the Republicans were in a very strong position, because it did look like the Obama administration was forcing the Catholic Church into taking positions that were really contrarian to their beliefs.
He then noted the shift in discussion:
Once Obama found his compromise, it’s morphed out of that. It’s part of a more general conversation about contraception, and even tonight about culture when Rick Santorum got into what’s happening to families. And for a lot of women it sounds like four white guys who are out there telling them, “Here’s how we’re going to control your lives.”
And so it continues…
Watch the clip, via CNN:
(h/t NewsBusters)
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