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This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

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

Total Running Time: 56:19

This Week's Topics:

--Leave us voicemail for the show at our new number, 1-877-363-0947, open 24 hours a day!

--Jonathan Cohn, author of the book SICK:The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis - And the People Who Pay the Price, and a senior editor at the New Republic and senior fellow at the think-tank Demos joins us live to discuss his book, and the 2008 presidential candidates' health care plans.

--Primary results from North Carolina and Indiana, as we as a look at whether there is still any questions as to who will be the Democratic nominee for President.

--Discussion on Fox News equating the working class with lower class.

--Barack Obama's comments about War on Terror vocabulary like "obliterate."

--Ann Coulter asks whether Barack Obama is a Manchurian candidate to American who love their country.

--Congressman Charlie Rangel brings up the strange beliefs of Falwell and Robertson when discussing the Reverend Wright situation.

--Hillary Clinton's much-publicized interview with Bill O'Reilly, and her comments on health care from that interview.

--Howard Dean's direct comments to Chris Wallace about race-baiting and Fox News' bias.

--The controversial statement by John McCain that is being called an admission by McCain that the war in Iraq was simply for oil.

--More talk of McCain being a "maverick."

--A strange discussion about whether illegal immigrants have "rights" of any kind, and another instance of mislabeling a Republican as a Democrat when they've done something wrong.

--John Murtha's recent comments on the war in Iraq, John McCain's 100 years statement, comparisons to Vietnam, and more.

--Much more.

http://www.midweekpolitics.com/midwe...008-05-07.html

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 30th, 2008

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:21

This Week's Topics:

--Leave us voicemail for the show at our new number, 1-877-363-0947, open 24 hours a day!

--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia comments about the 2000 Bush/Gore election controversy and says he thinks the Supreme Court made the right decision.

--Howard Dean wants superdelegates to decide who they will support at the Democratic National Convention by June.

--The Reverend Wright controversy reaches new levels, with Wright lashing out against Barack Obama, and Obama more directly denouncing Wright.

--Which pundit suggested Obama pick a Jewish running mate simply for "ethnic balance?"

--Could the Democrats stand to lose more than they would gain if they can't fix the Bush administration's problems by the end of the next Presidential term and then everything could be blamed on them?

--John McCain's recent speech about health care, where he seemed to pick out the problems just fine, but doesn't seem to have realistic solutions.

--Elizabeth Edwards' response to the McCain health care speech.

--Craig Ferguson commenting on the "liberal media" at the White House correspondents' dinner.

--Tom Tancredo suggests putting up a fence between Texas and Mexico, but he wants to leave an American town on the south side of that fence.

--A candidate for Congress in 2008 stumps at an Adolf Hitler birthday ceremony.

--George W. Bush's recent comments on the environment, drilling at ANWR, and more, including bringing up making the tax cuts permanent in almost any context, and not needing to use the word "recession."

--President Bush gets agitated with Martha Raddatz during a press conference.

--Helen Thomas' recent run-in with White House Press Secretary Dana Perino on the issue of torture.

--Much more...

http://www.midweekpolitics.com/midwe...008-04-30.html

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 2nd, 2008

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 58:02

This Week's Topics:

--Leave us voicemail for the show at our new number, 1-877-363-0947, open 24 hours a day!

--Bill Scher of LiberalOasis.com and Campaign for America's Future and Isaac Mass, Republican State Committeeman for Franklin & Hampshire County, Massachusetts, join us live in-studio.

--Do Hillary or Obama have the advantage in a national election against Senator John McCain?

--Do Republicans really think liberal blogs really comparable to Hitler and fascists?

--Is Bill Clinton hurting Hillary Clinton's campaign for president much more than he's helping it at this point?

--Which party is better at using the internet to raise money and campaign?

--Lou Dobbs and Chris Matthews both make what might be racist comments, and we discuss the effect that having a woman and an African-American running for president has had on the demeanor of members of the media.

--Could John McCain's opposition to Martin Luther King Day being a national holiday during the 1980's resurface if Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination?

--Will the accusations that Barack Obama has no experience maintain throughout the campaign?

--Lots of strange comments from Rush Limbaugh.

--Joe Lieberman as John McCain's Vice-President?

--More discussion of whether John McCain has attached himself to religious extremists or not.

--Discussion of the McCain 100 years in Iraq comments, as well as his recent admission about there being hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties during the Iraq war.

--More on Senator Lindsey Graham's comments about the surge going well.

--Al Gore says not believing humans are causing global warming is like believing that the earth is flat.

--George W. Bush booed throwing out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ first game at their new stadium

--Is our children really learning?

--Much more...

http://www.midweekpolitics.com/midwe...008-04-02.html