The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - preview
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For Sunday, November 11, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert talks to Barack Obama.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace chats with more Presidential hopefuls: Democrat Bill Richardson and Republican John McCain.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Democrat President "hopeful" Chris Dodd.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer chats it up with Presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer has his usual cast of thousands, including (but not limited to): Richard Armitage, John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke, and Presidential hopeful Joe Biden.
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All of the "hopefuls" are playing catch up right now, but to what is Obama trying (MTP) to catch up? What of the "Politics of Hope"? Mike Huckabee (FTN) is from there, you know, although Ron Paul (FTN) clearly is not from anything resembling the concept. It will be interesting to see if he stresses his libertarian credentials on this show or plays to the audience, whooping up the anti-Bush/anti-war/anti-GOP fervor in the minds of the untapped hippies.
Rice has some things to say – Pakistan, Palestine, date-rape toys from the PRC, and a possible veep slot – on TW, but all eyes will be on Chris Dodd. No, actually they won't be on Dodd. Most will tune out about that time. Never mind.
Richardson (FNS) is hoping to launch some sort of anything-surgence, a surge of his own, a "see me, notice me" moment, but I don't see anything left for him to do. He's already taken a stronger position against victory in Iraq than has Congressman Paul, so there's little room to go there. What's his position on energy grids?
I'll have a review up, here, Sunday after noon.
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watch TW but it was just too painful to listen to Bill Richardson try to be coherent.
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...he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.
When Wallace backed him into a corner about his outdated demand that we withdraw ASAP despite significant recent progress, Richardson started bleating "Quagmire" and "Sanchez" like he had Tourette's.
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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox
is that he's not a good liar. And to be a leader in the dem party is to lie. And to run for president in that party, one has to be a master liar to get elected, and you still need a perot.
One of the greatest things that I noticed when I switched to the GOP in 2000, was how liberating it was to simply be able to speak on issues and say what I thought without having to do the PC calculations.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
www.fred08.com
He is running for VP? Every time he speaks you realize you hadn't noticed what a moron he is.
He wants to pull all US troops out within a year.
1) That will give us "leverage" with Iran and Syria so that they'll behave and be helpful in Iraq. (Do they drug test the guests on this show?)
2) He won't leave any US troops there for any purpose, but he expects UN forces to move in. I can't believe Wallace didn't ask him a) why that would be more acceptable to anyone there, b) why he thinks they could do a better job, and c) whether he'd supply US troops as part of that force.
Wallace couldn't hide his incredulity over this and over Richardson's repeated insistence that the surge was a complete failure.
calculate every word so as not to offend Moveon and kos and not to tell any secrets on Bill and Hill lest they...
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by major league baseball
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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He doesn't like to give straight answers either. On making social security solvent, his response was along these lines: "My first choice isn't to cut benefits or to raise eligibility age. I'd prefer to raise the cap so that people like me pay a small amount more. I'd convene experts who can figure out how to solve this problem."
He tried to have it every possible way.
- His "expert panel" sounds like what was so successful for Governor Blanco after Katrina - not exactly the decisive sort of stance you want from a President.
- Benefit cuts based on age or amount are kinda sorta almost like nearly off the table, but maybe kinda sorta not.
- The cap increase apparently means that he thinks he can raise enough extra $$$ from 10M upper earners to cover the coming 78M baby boomers. Uh, hello?!?!?
- The cap increase won't be a "small" increase to some people, especially after he would also implement some Rangel sort of income tax increase on "the rich".
- "People like him" wouldn't pay any more regardless of the cap, because he's not covered by SS is he?
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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www.theminorityreportblog.com
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to Khomenie because he felt he could deal with a religious man, thus giving jihadists an oil rich state to fund terror rather than accept the lib's premise that we backed the Shah too long.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
www.fred08.com