Posted on 08/26/2007 5:08:19 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; cyclist Lance Armstrong.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and his wife, Elizabeth.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. military commander in Iraq; former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga.
Ah, yes, that line from the deck of cards. There ought to be a drinking game for that... a shot for everytime someone on these shows says:
* “Win the peace”
* “Exit strategy”
* “No military solution”
* “Civil war” etc...
Has Warner explained how he came up with 5,000 as the number of troops that should be home by Christmas???
Check out my post 33 and after viewing this few can argue with the job we are doing in Iraq.
Are the politics not always in our favor? Of course. But we have that problem here!
Only answer is for the people of Iraq to control their own destiny, vote the bad guys out and good guys in. It will happen but not if we pull out before their fledgling democracy of their own making is ready.
Look at Korea. We are still there. The threat from NK is still there. The threat from terrorism in the Mid-East is even greater!! Pulling out is just sheer folly. The job is not done.
Warner believes that if he says things in an important sounding way, it will actually make sense.
Timmy insists there must be a significant draw down of military in Iraq by next year.
Of course Timmy brings up Maliki’s statement about finding friends elsewhere.
It’s a nice round number?
I'm guessing dartboard. But he's willing to let the President pick the number. Very generous of him.
The man is a fool and needs to be put out to pasture. He was elected to LEAD and instead, like the rest of the pussies in Congress they stick their fingers in the wind and adjust their positions accordingly. They are true losers, every one of them.
Everything!! along with a cradle to grave mentality of those in charge that covet crooks more as voters than dirtbags.
Sam Brownback and Mike Huckabee are the only Republicans to say they will attend.
Armstrong said other candidates have cited scheduling conflicts.
“I would think it would take a major scheduling conflict to not show up to discuss the number one killer in this country,” he [Armstrong] said.
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What arrogance!
“Credibility in the world stage...” another catchphrase...
Tiptoeing around the Sadr problem.
Lays the smackdown on Iran, though.
HuffPo Calls For Military Coup In USA
Huffington Post Idiot Calls For Military Coup In America
I see Sen. John Warner, R-Va. is on Meet the Depressed. Does anyone think he would be on a Sunday show if he hadn't said it's time to "redeploy the troops" this past week?
Very interesting exchange between Wallace and Sen. Jack Reed on FNS about how this “sending a message to the Iraqi government and drumbeat to draw down” is actually working against the Iraqi government.
Reed is too busy smirking to really answer the question.
Can we play that game, too? I remember August 1998. I'm sure the media and their pre-crowned Presidential Candidate want to forget 1998, but I haven't. Read on:
This Day in History 1998: Clinton testifies before grand jury
On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting president to testify before the Office of Independent Council as the subject of a grand-jury investigation.
The testimony came after a four-year investigation into Clinton and his wife Hillary’s alleged involvement in several scandals, including accusations of sexual harassment, potentially illegal real-estate deals and suspected "cronyism" involved in the firing of White House travel-agency personnel. The independent prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, then uncovered an affair between Clinton and a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky. When questioned about the affair, Clinton denied it, which led Starr to charge the president with perjury and obstruction of justice, which in turn prompted his testimony on August 17.
After testifying, Clinton addressed the nation live via television and gave his side of the story. He admitted to an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky and said that he regretted misleading his wife and the American people when he denied the affair earlier. He insisted that he had given "legally accurate" answers in his testimony and that "at no time" had he asked anyone to "lie, hide or destroy evidence or to take any unlawful action." In addressing the investigation into his past business dealings, Clinton insisted that the investigation did not prove that he or his wife Hillary had engaged in any illegal activity.
The damage, however, was already done. Revelations from the investigation sparked a battle in Congress over whether or not to impeach Clinton. While Democrats favored censure, Republicans called loudly for impeachment, claiming Clinton was unfit to lead the country. In December 1998, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president, but after a five-week trial in the Senate, Clinton was acquitted. Public opinion polls at the time revealed that while many people disapproved of Clinton’s extramarital affair--which he conducted in the White House Oval Office—most did not consider it an action worthy of impeachment or resignation.
If you play spin the bottle after about 20 rum'n cokes the number 5,000 will start coming up every time--blindness begins to set in.
I can’t believe that 41% of Vets can stand HRC
Warner believes his comments 11 months ago are responsible for the whole surge idea. LOL.
Depends. Is the Pope a Muslim? Is Osama bin Laden a friend to America? Does gravity point upward??
Of course this is a stage for the antiwar movement.
And some folks wonder why senators rarely get elected President.
I really miss George Allen!
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