This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
January 21st, 2009
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 50:50
This Week's Topics:
--Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the United States.
--Obama's oath of office and inaugural speech, plus all the criticism of it circuilating within minutes.
--Past inaugural Presidential speeches.
--The invocation by Lowery and the unbelievable criticism of it.
--Polls showing amazing optimism across America about the Obama presidency, but will he live up to it?
--What Barack Obama did during his first full day as President, including ordering a pause to Guantanamo Bay trials, freezing the salaries of top earning White House staff, and asking for a plan to get out of Iraq.
--George W. Bush's final press conference as President of the US.
--Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearings and confirmation as Secretary of State.
--Eric Holder's confirmation hearings for Attorney General.
--Martin Luther King Day.
--Environmental talk, including about the recent cold spell in the US.
--Stories from Cancun, Mexico.
--Much more.
Midweek Politics with David Pakman 01-21-2009