Comments on: Sunday Shows & Weekend Reads

By: Pamela Leavey

Pamela Leavey — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:28:28 +0000

Darrell

Kerry was very good in the interview. He handled questions about his choice with great diplomacy. I enjoyed watching it.

By: Darrell Prows

Darrell Prows — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:55:37 +0000

Pamela: What I heard Sen. Kerry say is that both Clinton and Obama are first rate candidates, but that Obama better fits the current circumstances. No one can get too upset over that approach.

(And I have to completely agree that lobbyists equal obscene amounts of money, and obscene amounts of money equals corruption.)

By: elmercreek

elmercreek — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:45:11 +0000

I like Obama , but I don’t see him as a healer, uniter and an agent for change as JK said. Get rid of the lobbyists like Edwards says and you’ll see real change as our elected officials may actually work for us the citizens. If there’s lobbyists in an Obama or Clinton Whitehouse, nothing will change. It’ll be business as usual!

By: Pamela Leavey

Pamela Leavey — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:50:59 +0000

Todd

Finally sat down and watched. Yes, JK didn't give Snuffy any quarter on the Edwards question. He also evaded answering on Obama's Senate record on Iraq. Smart move on JK's part, I guess because if he answered he would have had to affirm Clinton's point that Obama's record is the same as hers.

By: Pamela Leavey

Pamela Leavey — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:29:01 +0000

Darrell

To the point on JK.

As for the recession… I think it will get worse befre itgets better. How much worse, I dunno. And I don’t think the Republcans will do much about. I remember oh so well the mess Bush I left us in. Who got us out? Bill.

By: Pamela Leavey

Pamela Leavey — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:25:59 +0000

Leverne

I don’t think Obama would make the offer nor do I think JK would accept it.

By: Darrell Prows

Darrell Prows — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:06:25 +0000

Laverne: I think that after you’ve played for all of the marbles it gets kind of tough to lower your sights.

Does anyone believe that we will escape a serious recession this year? Does anyone believe that the people will trust any Republican to work us out of a recession started by a Republican? I think that we could run Kucinich and take it running away.

By: leverne

leverne — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:37:03 +0000

My thoughts …. nope, don’t think Kerry would do that, I think he has to much integrity for that … but the thought crossed my mind that he might be thinking Obama would ask him to be his VP … and he knows Clinton would never ask him.

By: Pamela Leavey

Pamela Leavey — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:17:37 +0000

Todd

I don’t think he would be that cynical either but politics is politics.

By: Todd Mitchell

Todd Mitchell — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:34:47 +0000

Darrell, Gingrich, of course, is a buffoon who has been wildly wrong regarding his political “predictions” (for example, in ’06 he predicted Republicans would gain seats for their majorities in Congress). I’m not saying he couldn’t be proven right eventually, but I think most Republicans are tired of the old thinking he represents.

Pamela, interesting quote about Kerry. My wife asked a similar question as well when I told her of the endorsement, “what, so he can run again in 2012?” It would be a monumental gamble on his part, given that whether it’s Clinton or Obama, the White House will almost certainly return to Democratic hands in the fall (meaning he’d have to run against an incumbent Clinton in ’12). I don’t think Kerry would be that cynical, but in politics, I guess you can never know for sure.