Midweek Politics 1.24.07 - SOTU, Iraq, Cracked Egg, homosexual mafia, more...

[dpakman91]

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

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

Total Running Time: 54:35

This Week's Topics:

--Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research at the Pew Research Center, joins us to discuss overnight polling on the State of the Union address, opinion on the proposed increase in troops in Iraq, and other topics.

--The State of the Union address, including analysis and discussion of attendees and the speech itself.

--Bush's bizarre "broken egg" discussion with Jim Lehrer.

--Republican Senator John Warner's opposition to the proposed Iraq troop increase.

--Republican Senators John McCain and Chuck Hagel's differing opinions on Iraq.

--Senator Hillary Clinton is in for the 2008 presidential campaign, while Senator John Kerry is out.

--Some think that having a Muslim father and/or smoking cigarettes will present a problem for Barack Obama.

--Senator Pat Leahy's agitated questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez on the topic of torture.

--Yet another reference to the supposed "homosexual mafia."

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[DosEquis]

Look toward ww2 as an extreme example of sacrifice. I think we should have a tax or fund to specifically pay for Iraq and we need it to affect everyone to have everyone support it. And we should have done that from the start to make sure that people truly supported it.

War bonds, higher taxes to pay for it, rationing fuel, rubber, etc is what sacrifice included in ww2. Women went to work because men went to war.

[DosEquis]

Baghdad = LA and the civil war is crips vs. bloods.
Thats like saying a tsunami is just a high tide.

<mccain> gives me a little more confidenSSSCHHHH

[Nonphixion]

It seemed to me like you were being very short and/or cross with the director of poll research

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by Nonphixion

It seemed to me like you were being very short and/or cross with the director of poll research

really? not at all, at least not intentionally. in fact this is the third time he's been on our show, and we even exchanged a few "nice words" after the interview.