This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
May 27th, 2009
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 57:02
This Week's Topics:
--Ron Miller, technology writer and social networking expert is live in studio.
--Sonia Sotomayor is nominated to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court by President Obama.
--Sotomayor's controversial cases, her experience, her qualifications, and her controversial statement that policy is made in courts.
--Mike Huckabee was so quick to put out his criticism of the Sotomayor nomination that he released a statement with her first name incorrect.
--Rush Limbaugh no only still wants President Obama to fail, he wants Sonia Sotomayor to fail, while Karl Rove says she may not be strong intellectually.
--Sotomayor's positions on abortion, free speech, the right to bear arms, and more.
--Barack Obama forgets Defense Secretary Robert Gates' first name, calling him William.
--More on waterboarding and torture.
--Will there be a live waterboarding on the show?
--The Minority Report and pre-crime are discussed in relation to Barack Obama's recent support for indefinite holding of detainees without charges.
--Barack Obama and Dick Cheney's dueling speeches on the same day.
--The California Supreme Court upholds the gay marraige ban voted on last November.
--Which states currently allow gay marriage, which will be next, and more.
--Growing food in indoor greenhouses at twenty times the efficiency as outdoors on completely renewable energy.
--Follow us on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/dpakman
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