This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
July 16th, 2008
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M
Total Running Time: 56:02
This Week's Topics:
--Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research at the Pew Research Center joins us to talk about the latest 2008 election polls, how much July polls means, and what might swing polls towards either candidate.
--The Jesse Jackson - Barack Obama controversy.
--The controversial New Yorker Barack Obama cover, and G. Gordon Liddy's reaction to it.
--South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford goes hilariously blank when asked about the differences between John McCain and George W. Bush.
--Carly Fiorina, who supports McCain, claims McCain didn't always support President Bush on the war.
--John McCain has basically no answer to a question about insurance coverage of Viagra, but not birth control.
--On The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck gets involved in another political discussion about Barack Obama with Whoopi Goldberg.
--ABC asks John McCain to comment on Barack Obama's changes of position, but doesn't even ask him about his own.
--False ideas from Sean Hannity about Barack Obama's tax plans.
--John McLaughlin calls Barack Obama an Oreo.
--President Bush lifts the offshore drilling ban. Why, will anything change, and what was the point?
--General Motors confirms they're cutting jobs and car models.
--Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talks about the bad state of the economy, and what the Fed might do.
--We follow up on a project to get a viable solar car built and available.
--One pundit says that withdrawal of troops in Iraq would help John McCain in the 2008 election.
--Much more...
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