“My mother was not able to get a credit card unless my father signed for it,” he said. “He wouldn’t do it because he didn’t believe in credit cards.” Yet his mother made as much money as his father did.

“I have always wanted the opportunity to vote for a qualified woman” for president, “and there’s no question that Hillary Clinton is qualified,” he went on. “Now I’m going to go back and work very hard for Barack Obama. So this is not an anti-Barack Obama. But I’m 71, so this may be my only opportunity to vote for a qualified woman.”