Posted on 05/04/2008 5:20:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Joe Andrew, former DNC chairman; Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe; Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain's campaign.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; Richmond Mayor and former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Govs. Mike Easley, D-N.C., and Bill Richardson, D-N.M; Robert Reich, former labor secretary; Gene Sperling, adviser for the Clinton campaign; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
One candidate at a time. We have one in CO running for US Senate, Bob Schaffer, and he will get a lot of support from individuals regardless of what the local party does.
Energy is our best issue. If you like $4/gal gas, thank Pelosi. If you want $8/gal gas, Vote Obama.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
If she could, she would take her brain out and play with it most days.
Is she that stupid or does she just think that we are?
Hillary just misspoke, don’t you know.
Watching Dean on FNS saying Republicans are playing the race card. Right. Republicans, and not Hillary. Used to be a song “Twist and Shout” and I think Dean should take it up as his personal anthem.
Good bumper sticker.
Is HilaryCare going to draw the same line her “husband” drew w/terrorists?? That should scare they’re turbans off.
Pray for W an Our Amazing Troops
More like McCain is playing hide under the bed. NC Republicans are playing hard ball from what I’ve heard, and other states are following suit.
Still, Republicans need to nail them more often than we do.
Hillary: “I am going to fix NAFTA.”
What a powerful woman she is.
If she gets elected, THEN she will release information on the Clinton Foundation.
My first thought was, "how could you? On what grounds?" Of course, Tim Russert stuck to the script and let Obama keep talking.
Don't infomercials usually mention a web-site and an 800 number?
Hillary: “America has not been the land of opportunity fot the last 7 years.”
Really????
While on Meet the Press, Barack's problem with an emotional political approach to the campaign is belied his coming across as a subdued, thoughtful academic prone to argue on the basis of ideology and policy.
I remain convinced that the pundits seem to routinely miss the essential dynamics of this election--ressentiment in the black electorate and white guilt in the haute bourgeois. Nietzsche has an approach that I used: HERE.
Most seem to get tied up in value judgments as to what Pastor Wright said. The outcome is a polar set of judgments and little else. Trying to understand this election, IMHO, requires an understanding of basic, race feelings and dynamics best considered as ressentiment
What was noteworthy, once again, was on Meet the Press, Barack flopped around why he liked and stayed on in his church of 20 years. Barack is either being hesitatnt to express his true feelings or is being advised to squelch such discussion by his handlers who who really do not understand the dynamics of Evangelical Christianity.
Barack could have easily said that Pastor Wright led him to Christ and now he and his family see Jesus Christ as their personal savior. For this Barack could say he has a big debt and an enduring gratitude. He might also say that from time to time he has heard Pastor Wright say things that he didn't agree with thought of as silly and wrong. Barack could go on to say, like most humans, he denied the importance of Pastor Wright's bizarre beliefs. He gave him a pass because of his leading many to Christ and for his many good works.
This emotional and depth approach to his Wright problem would be congruent with reality and most would understand it--at least to some degree. Failing at coming to grips with the 20 year issue, suggests Senator Obama was just being politically calculating and networking in his church preference
This is McCain (from This Week, February 17, 2008) [emphasis added]:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about on the issue of climate change? Because you and Sen. [Joe] Lieberman [I-Conn.] have come out for a bill which would have mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.No wonder McCain admits he doesn't know much about economics. Who does he think is going to pay for GE making all that profit, since he says it isn't the American taxpayer? Will President McCain just mandate that profits will henceforth grow on trees? Where is the profit from those mandated fluorescent bulbs coming from? Is McCain secretly suggesting he will set up a program to provide free fluorescent bulbs to the American people, since he says "It won't cost the American taxpayer"?
MCCAIN: Gradual reductions, yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But they are mandatory.
MCCAIN: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you sticking by that?
MCCAIN: What I mean by that is that it's cap-and-trade, that there will be incentives for people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's a free-market approach. The Europeans are using it now. We did it in the case of addressing acid rain -- look, if we do that, we stimulate green technologies. I have great faith in the American industry. General Electric, the world's largest corporation, has announced they're dedicated to green technologies. This will be profit-making business.
It won't cost the American taxpayer. It will make profits, because we'll move forward with the innovation and ability of American industry to address this issue.
[Hint, JohnnyMc: Consumers. And a majority of consumers are also taxpayers. So, all that corporate profit will cost the taxpayers.]
See post #20.
The very sad part of all this is that only one of them gets to lose the nomination. I saw the part where Hillary is less worried about Iran having nuclear weapons than Al-Queda, because “Iran is a state”. That makes it all better.
If they do get caught it's well, we know more about that issue now than we did than which she pulled today with Steffie and he was too dumb not to call her on it.(or too scared/intimidated) Lawyers can make the worst managers, they don't always manage but vacillate.
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