Bob Rubin

Mitchell: 'Old-Fashioned' McCain vs. 'Centrist' Obama 'Helping People'

By Mark Finkelstein | June 11, 2008 - 07:33

Update | 10 AM: McCain Campaign Comments to NB on Mitchell Remarks

McCain campaign deputy chairman Frank Donatelli has commented to NB on Mitchell's remarks. See report at foot.

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IMing with a friend in England this morning, Morning Joe on in the background, I was vaguely aware that an Obama staffer was on, touting her candidate's economic plan. Signing off my chat, I focused on the tube, only to realize that the Obama staffer was in fact . . . Andrea Mitchell.

Mitchell cast the battle of the candidates' tax plans as McCain's "old-fashioned" supply-side economics versus Obama's "mainstream, centrist" plans that "do help people" while responsibly "paying for everything."

View video here.