Posted on 08/17/2008 5:12:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; former Gov. Tom Ridge, R-Pa.; Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; White House press secretary Dana Perino.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Govs. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and Tim Kaine, D-Va.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Defense Secretary Robert Gates; former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.; former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Reps. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.; Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
Well, since you asked...
Let's be proactive. You do such a nice job starting these threads...but if you also posted the email contact links to each of the shows in advance with these threads, then Freepers would have a *convenient* way to email in suggestions for questions to/on the shows prior to their airing.
That would give Free Republic a small role in shaping the agenda of the shows.
Otherwise, Free Republic is left to merely be reactive...yelling at our TV's and computer screens over questions not asked by the idiot talking heads.
Some people just don’t get it. There has been more thoughtful and honest criticism of President Bush on Free Republic than anything on MoveOn or DU. The difference is we ‘think’ about what we criticize and explain our reasons.
We don’t simply attack Bush and try to destroy him, thereby proving how foolish we are, which is why the left is having less impact on this election.
No doubt, a President McCain will enjoy the same criticisms here on FR when he’s elected. Freepers don’t walk in lockstep as the Democrats and leftists do.
Please don’t make this personal.
Yeah it is a strange place over there, one only need visit the DU to see just how strange they really are.Nasty as well.
BO’s journey to the WH gate has been entertaining - he sort of looked like a post turtle last night, making it up as he went along, unable to smile much because he had to think so hard to avoid expressing the/his hard left agenda. McCain came off as having thought through the issues, simply voicing positions and opinions based on that process as well as his living experiences.
There is really only one true Adult running. We all know what we need to do in November.
Back,back,don’t make me get the holy water and wooden stakes out again.
Obama calling Justice Thomas out on experience is really rich. Here’s just the Wikipedia blurb on Thomas’s solid and incredibly wide-ranging background before his nomination:
“From 1974 to 1977, Thomas was an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri under then State Attorney General John Danforth. When Danforth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 to 1979, Thomas left to become an attorney with Monsanto in St. Louis, Missouri. He returned to work for Danforth from 1979 to 1981 as a Legislative Assistant. Both men shared a common bond in that both had studied to be ordained (although Thomas was Roman Catholic and Danforth was ordained Episcopalian). Danforth was to be instrumental in championing Thomas for the Supreme Court.
In 1981, he joined the Reagan administration. From 1981 to 1982, he served as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1982 to 1990 he was Chairman of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (”EEOC”).
In 1990, President George H. W. Bush appointed Thomas to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
On July 1, 1991 President George H.W. Bush nominated Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall who had recently announced his retirement.[13]”
Perhaps adding to Obama’s animus is the fact that Thomas actually was raised with real African-language roots (as a ‘Gullah’) before shifting to English as his primary language.
Corsi’s book must REALLLY be hurting them. It’s a full court press.
Good request and thanks for reminding me! I used to do just that.
Here are the email addresses or web pages for commenting to the weekend talk shows:
Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)
Face the Nation ftn@cbsnews.com
Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com
ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com
CNN Late Edition CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)
It's very interesting to remember that before 9/11, Saudi Arabia, with US support, was funding restive Muslims with nationalist aspirations in Russia, most notably in Chechnya, in order to keep Russia off balance and focused on their own internal affairs.
It's also interesting that Russia's oil and natural gas transport infrastructure passes through non-Russian ethnic areas (like Tatarstan).
So Russia does have vulnerabilities, despite the "great victory" that the press is falling all over themselves to award them.
McCain should say that his campaign didn't put out the book so it's not their responsibility to deal with it.
I think your assessment of Obama’s performance is right on the money. To me it was obvious how he had to stop and think about what to say and how to say it so as to not say anything.
Yes, any fool should be able to see who’s the adult of the campaigning duo but you seem to forget that many currently so smitten by OBama are very foolish indeed. Let us hope that, as in the past, these fools don’t vote.
And if they try to say Hill brings "experience" to Bambam's campaign as VP, Republicans just need to play the scene of Hillary landing at an airport, being met by a smiling little girl with flowers with Chelsea standing there smiling her butt off and voice over it with Hill's tale of having to corkscrew in for the landing and rushing into shelter from all the sniper fire...
Follow that up with a statement saying compare Hill's combat experience of imaginary sniper fire with McCain's...
Does anyone remember a previous election when dems went crazy over an ad that showed the letters “rat” in one or two freeze frames?
McCain’s team have learned from experience that dems will squeal “no fair, you’re attacking me” no matter what an ad actually says.
This is a perfect example of a little mini-discussion going on upthread about OBama's answers and how he had to work at saying something while saying nothing.
Do you mean to tell me that of all the justices that Clarence Thomas was the ONLY one that OBama wouldn't have voted for? Yeah, right. Like Obama would have been crushing the gates to vote for Alito or Roberts.
Obama said Thomas for one reason only. Thomas is black and Obama wanted the world to know that while he-Obama-is black, he isn't "black" like Clarence Thomas is.
It was a perfect example of Obama pulling an answer out of the air that would say nothing. Hell he couldn't even name one thing Thomas did that so enraged him.
Not that he knews, his constitutional expert self.
<<< ... the next generation is trending much more strongly Pro-Life. >>>
Because every young person is acutely aware that their birth was optional!
Disagree.
While great communicators are a big plus; i.e., Reagan, whose acting background was a gift married to his midlife turn to conservative principles, ACTIONS, PRINCIPLES, DEVOTION TO DUTY AND COUNTRY, CONSISTENCY, and NATURAL AND POLITICAL SAVVY are the big pluses I see which will carry his legacy very positively into the future.
He is a moral and principled man who can be trusted. That’s not to be taken lightly among the ranks of politicians and world leaders.
He will play poker very cleverly, very shrewdly, as I’m sure he’s doing now with Russia, but he’s not a cutthroat at heart .. he does have a heart.
One of his BIG attributes is his ability to cultivate very solid friendships and alliances abroad with important foreign leaders ... many times for purposes for which we have no clue as to reason or need to know, but he has his reasons, which I trust implicity. I believe those relationships exist because he’s so innately real and likable, and he’s trustworthy.
Those friendships have played out at critical times and played an important role in world events for our benefit; i.e., Blair, Howard, Merkel, Berlusconi, Sarkozy, Karzi, Koizumi, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea, and for all their confounding inconsistencies: the Middle East royals and heads of state, like Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, UAE and ruler of Dubai.
Kerry have those qualities? Gore? Edwards? Clinton? Obama?
Yes, great communication skills are wonderful; but gems like Ronald Reagan are the exception rather than the rule, and are a blessing to us that comes along only rarely.
Given the choice, I’ll take principles, actions, devotion to his duty and country, and consistency over great speaking skills every time.
And I’ll not even get into the battles he’s won over the Dim congresscritters. That’s a whole book.
Long story short: he acts on his principles, not polls or political criticism.
Rare, my Friend.
You must have loved the entertaining, schmoozing, winning wordsmith, raconteur and saxaphonist, Bill Clinton.
God bless and protect President George W. Bush. Right man, right time.
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