Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 02.11.2009

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This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

February 11th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 53:36

This Week's Topics:

--Ira Rubenzahl, President of Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, Massachusetts joins us live in studio to discuss access to higher education, changes to education under President Obama, and more.

--Last week's rant about a strange stimulus related earmark.

--The stimulus package is basically passed, and President Obama does two town halls and a prime time press conference.

--Analysis of Barack Obama in his town halls and press conference, how he compares to President George W Bush in terms of screening the audience and questions, and more.

--Discussion of the pay scale limits in the stimulus bill for recipients of stimulus money.

--Questions from Helen Thomas, about baseball, and more for President Obama during his first prime time press conference.

--Accusations of fear mongering by President Obama by the same individuals that created fear about a terrorist attack if Obama were to be elected.

--Fox News passes off Republican press releases as their own reporting, even including the typos.

--Comments from incoming CIA Director Leon Panetta about waterboarding and extraordinary rendition.

--Black History Month and Morgan Freeman's interesting comments about it from a few years back.

--Much more...

Listen to Midweek Politics with David Pakman 02-11-2009

[GeneW]

Hello all. I just became aware of this site by accident. In view of what is happening in America today there is no shortage of things to talk about.

I am an old geezer, 73 y.o. and very distressed about current events. I am an American of African descent. I served one enlistment in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict. I have been involved in politics my entire adult life and was a staunch liberal Democrat during the late fifties, the sixties and early 1970s.

At that time I realized that the Democratic Party was controlled by people whose views and values I could not abide. That is a long story, but I became a Republican in 1972. I guess I have evolved into becoming a conservative Republican because the Republican Party has not adhered to the principles that attracted me to become Republican. I'm the same guy, with the same beliefs, but the Party seems filled with people who appear to me to be liberals. Those people have damaged the Party and are, in my view, responsible for a putting radical leftist in the Oval Office.

I am happy to see that America has changed so dramatically in matters of race since the bad old days of racist, Jim Crow mandated segregation and the routine humiliation of being black in the America of my birth. I am profoundly disappointed that America's first black president is Barack Obama.

I view him as a threat to the survival of the America that I have been privileged to live in. I fear that I have lived through the best days of the greatest nation the world has ever seen.