RIP, Maam
Not good with all these names.
Is it too bad or is it good riddance? :)
My sympathies to Ms. Roberts’s family and friends.
” a better place and all of us better journalists.”
Ummmmm, OK!
RIP
Reminder: Free Republic has a long tradition of being respectful of our enemies, on obituary threads.
There are a few heinous exceptions, but Cokie is not one of them.
She suffers no longer and neither will we by her tongue. RIP
From what I recall, Cokie was a smart lady a good speaker.
She always dressed well.
She was Old School Democrat, pleasant, and able to discuss without seeking to destroy her opponent . The kind of Democrat that I was raised listening to on 60 Minutes type programs. I always got the impression that she enjoyed every minute on the air speaking her mind about the news of the day. She was a News Hound, like most of us here.
She was not one of the wackier journalists of today and was Southern bred . . both parents served in the House and her mom was US Ambassador to the Holy See. Certainly left of center but was willing to be tougher on the Left than most.
Democrat operative, nothing more.
That’s what passes for journalist these days.
RIP, Ms. Roberts.
Cokie was a lifelong Democratic swamp creature. DC royalty: her mother was Rep. Lindy Boggs (an old fashioned democrat who was a practicing Catholic and did vote pro-life), who herself succeeded her late husband Hale Boggs, who was House Democratic leader when his plane disappeared in Alaska in 1972. Cokie adjusted her views regularly, in line with the leftward drift of her party, and was a reliable flack for the Establishment Left. RIP.
She was the real deal - an old style journalist with class and ethics. Prayers for her family and loved ones...
I hope the worms can stomach her better than I could.
I find 75 a bit to young to pass away and I hope that God is with her and her family and those who loved her . I did not agree with the majority of her opinions but with that said I’m sure she would have felt the same way towards mine .
Wow I remember her and she wasn’t those wacky reporters spreading lies. Wow she died 17 years after being diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
Her father of course was a Democrat Congressman.
Comey’s firing like déjà vu all over again with Nixon era
By COKIE ROBERTS
May 10, 2017
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/opinion-comeys-firing-dj-vu-nixon-era/story?id=47324958
It feels like déjà vu all over again for those of us who lived through the Nixon administration. An investigator gets too close to the occupant of the Oval Office for comfort and gets the boot. The rule of law is threatened. Now what?
We know how Watergate turned out — the combination of a relentless special prosecutor (even after one had been fired), high pressure committees on Capitol Hill, a persistent judge and a probing press forced Richard Nixon to resign.
Now, with the exception of the media, which Trump has undermined on a daily basis, none of those other checks on the president is in play. The Senate Republican leadership has made it clear that no special committees or special counsels will be named. And the Congressional investigations that are underway stray far from serious inquiries.
In the immediate wake of the bombshell firing of FBI Director James Comey, members of the Trump team used the opportunity to call for the termination of the investigation into the Kremlin’s meddling into the presidential election in the United States of America, just in case any of us missed what this dismissal was really about.
White House mouthpieces and some congressional Republicans point to the fact that Comey’s dismissal came after a recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who joined with his boss, Jeff Sessions, in papering Comey’s demise.
Defenders of the president’s decision to oust the man investigating his team’s ties to Russia gloss over the fact that it was promoted by an attorney general who recused himself from that investigation because of his own contacts with Vladimir Putin’s representatives.
Instead they point to the deputy — citing his recent confirmation vote of 94-6 as a sign of overwhelming endorsement of his probity.
But that was before Rosenstein sent out a memorandum that is laughable on its face. The idea that the Trump Justice Department terminated the FBI director because of his handling of Hillary Clinton’s emails during the presidential campaign doesn’t pass the red face test.
Without any of the players in Washington ready to use the checks the Founders placed on the presidency, Donald Trump seems certain to shut down any credible investigation into Russian interference in what are supposed to be our free and fair elections. There are state elections coming up soon. I suspect Moscow is well-prepared.
I’d be more upset if my lawn guy missed a week.
Cokie Roberts: Trump Calling Clinton “Unhinged” Is Code For “We Shouldn’t Elect A Woman”
Cokie Roberts quips that when Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is ‘unfit’ to be president or ‘unhinged,’ he is really issuing a sexist dogwhistle which “is totally code for we shouldn’t elect a woman. That is exactly what that is.”