Posted on 12/31/2006 5:10:46 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; former Gov. Tom Vilsack, D-Iowa, presidential candidate.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw; journalist Bob Woodward.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Alexander Haig, former Ford White House chief of staff; journalists Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post and Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News; Gerald Ford biographer James Cannon.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., presidential candidate; wife, Elizabeth Edwards.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Feisal al-Istrabadi, Iraq's deputy ambassador to the United Nations; Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.
ROTFLMAO !!
lol of course it's the only way
Bah...did you see Edwards' interview with Sissy Chrissy the other night??
I couldn't watch over a few minutes of it..but, Edwards said something about how Pres. Bush and others tout "personal responsibility"....and, Edwards' said, "that is wrong...it shouldn't be personal responsibility, it should be everyone's responsiblility...to make sure that everyone has health care, that the poorest get college educations...that America is the world leader, but not in war...in helping all nations..""
You get the drift...and he makes no bones about raising taxes to do it...
Happy New Year all! I just got home, so I missed the puff piece with Edwards and his "Wendys" wife. But it really appears as if Breckgirl is going full bore in this race. He doesnt appear to be worried about Hussein Obama or Hillary. He is running on the Katrina/Africa ticket, so there is nothing a merger with Clinton or Hussein can offer his race. And Hillary has been soooo quiet and Hussein's coming out euphoria seems to have abated somewhat. I guess what Im trying to say is that Edwards would get get the nod if the caucuses were held today, without Hussein/Hillary even getting into the race..
#225, some people from the South particularly parts of Georgia (like Phil Gramm originally from Ga), and parts of SC,TN, and other Southern States twist their mouths when they talk. I have never been able to figure out why, and I have lived in the South since 1966, and the Deep South since 1968. It is not all Southerners and sometimes it is a regional "thang", but Edwards has it, and it may be because he was born and raised in SC, then moved to NC. Someone more knowledgeable about dialects, and accents would better figure it out. At least he does not say "hit was not", or "High 95" (I-95) like some of my TN, and Va friends say. Sort of like the Bronx and Brooklyn mouth twisting accents. For a Politician running in 50 States, it is not helpful.
LIEBERMAN: I did. With all respect to Arlen, I want to explain why I made the decision not to go to Damascus. Look, there's a general principle of, I don't think America should hesitate to think about talking to anybody. But when we talk about people who are hostile to us, who have blood on their hands like the Syrians, we have to talk to them at a time when it can benefit us, not them.
When we're in a position of strength, not to try to strengthen them. The fact is, there's ever reason to believe that Bashar Assad has started this kind of communications offensive to distract the world from holding his regime accountable for the assassination of the Lebanese leader Hariri, and more recently, of the Christian Lebanese leader Gemayel.
This regime of his in Syria has allowed al Qaida foreign fighters to go across Syria and into Iraq, where they have killed American soldiers. So I don't think that -- I think, in fact, we serve his purposes when we talk to him.
And in this case, I believe the Bush administration and Secretary Rice have it right. And when some of us in the Senate go to see Assad in Damascus, contrary to the position the administration has taken, it sends a mixed signal, and it weakens our position. And I think it leads him to achieve a public relations victory that he doesn't deserve.
BLITZER: I want to move on, but I want you to, I want you to...
SPECTER: May I give a response?
BLITZER: Senator Specter, I want you to respond. And then we'll move on.
SPECTER: OK. Well, the Congress, senators, have a very deep responsibility on foreign policy. I serve on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and foreign operations, chaired the Intelligence Committee. We vote for $8 billion a month for Iraq and Afghanistan, $500 billion a year for the military and homeland defense, and constitutionally we have a responsibility.
And senators are independent. Under our constitution, there is a separation of power. And it is true that the president has primary responsibility for foreign policy, but not exclusive responsibility.
And I respect what the administration is doing, but there are others of us who have been in the region who have studied it intently and have some useful suggestions to make. And I think that independence is the strength of our system, and I intend to exercise it.
BLITZER: I'll give you one more chance to respond, and then we'll move on.
LIEBERMAN: Well, of course, senators have a right to go. I just think it was the wrong time to go to Damascus because it encourages Assad and allows him to distract from the terrible things he's done, like killing the Lebanese leaders and letting al Qaida go through his country into Iraq where they kill American soldiers. He doesn't deserve a meeting now.
Yep. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Who said that- Marx or Lenin?
#250, I think it will be sooner than later, and they better get someone in the Bullpen besides that idiot Wallace.
I think you are right about what would happen NOW...
John Edwards definitely is basing his campaign on trying to get the African-American vote...and the socialist anti-war vote.
From what I have heard...he is ahead in Iowa...
I also heard Bill Sammon say nice things about him.
He is scary he is so liberal....
very well said snugs...totally spot on
Lieberman gets it, Specter does not. I was appalled at the Senators from both sides of the aisle considering a Syria-Iran-US Senate Senate summit..
Well, that seems to be the theme then. He was down in New Orleans surrounded by black people as well, although it appeared to me that he was mostly just ordering them around.
I was sick listening to this man, our President campaigned to re-elect, talk like a libeal Democrat.
Snugs you a very astute student of VP Cheney.
Your insight, knowledge, and posts of this great man are a pleasure to read. I always look forward to your posts, but especially those concerning VP Cheney and his family.
Thank you.
I'm afraid Romney is too slick, there is something I don't trust about him, though I have yet to completely figure out what it is other than he seems to say what people "want" to hear, and that bothers me. Now, is he good looking and a great speaker -- absolutely. But I want to know what lies below. I know gay marriage managed to get by him and Mass is the only state that allows it and it happened under his watch.
He is being so transparently obvious in his pandering for the black vote...
Any chance that someone, other than maybe Jesse Lee Peterson, might catch on, and rebel against it??
BTW..did you catch the notes about the Beltway Boys that I pinged you to...from last night??
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