Deeds Uses College Paper to Attack McDonnell.

Trailing badly in the polls, and in search of a strategy, Democratic candidate for governor Creigh Deeds has once again broken his promise to avoid injecting divisive social issues into the campaign by exploiting an academic paper written by McDonnell decades ago.
Deeds is circulating a master's thesis written by Republican Bob McDonnell. The paper is over 20 years old, so old that it was written before the fall of the Berlin Wall and before many of the people who will vote in this election were even born.

In the paper McDonnell criticizes the philosophy of contemporary feminists. In an interview with the Washington Post, McDonnell said:

"Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older." He said that his views on family policy were best represented by his 1995 welfare reform legislation and that he "worked to include child day care in the bill so women would have greater freedom to work." What he wrote in the thesis on women in the workplace, he said, "was simply an academic exercise and clearly does not reflect my views."

McDonnell added: "Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older." He said that his views on family policy were best represented by his 1995 welfare reform legislation and that he "worked to include child day care in the bill so women would have greater freedom to work." What he wrote in the thesis on women in the workplace, he said, "was simply an academic exercise and clearly does not reflect my views."

What do Deeds do when he read the Post article? He told his aide to send it around.
"Please take a few minutes to read the article and then forward it to every person you know: friends, family, neighbors, you name it," wrote Deeds senior advisor Mo Elleithee in a blast e-mail Sunday, following the publication of the thesis by the Washington Post.

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