Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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White House sources say Vice President Biden apologized for declaring his support of same-sex unions ahead of President Obama. The president's announcement spurred a major spike in donations to his re-election campaign. J.P. Morgan Chase disclosed a $2 billion trading loss, giving supporters of tighter banking regulation new ammunition. Six-term U.S. Senator Dick Lugar's defeat to a Tea Party favorite could give Democrats a chance to hold onto a Senate majority. And the U.S. Postal Service dropped plans to close thousands of rural post offices. Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune, Jeanne Cummings of Bloomberg News and syndicated columnist Steve Roberts join Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
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Clarence Page
syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Jeanne Cummings
deputy government editor, Bloomberg News.
Steve Roberts
syndicated columnist and journalism professor at George Washington University.
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The panelists discuss the social and political implications of President Obama's announcement of his support for same-sex marriage earlier this week, and explore the political calculations and risks for the president. Jeanne Cummings said that the announcement could possibly knock at least one important swing state out of play for Obama in the presidential election, but that ultimately the issue will likely be secondary to the state of the economy and job creation:
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These Obama/democrat/media set ups to divide the country are getting real old and are starting to look comical. "Evolving views" yea right, this latest non issue plays well to the far left but the sensible see through it. How many times can the Obama administration wave a red flag in front certain voting blocks and have them charge like mindless bulls into cynical debates?
We all have seen the poles about the acceptance of gay marriage, you really got to wonder how much actual support there is for it when it fails in referendums in 32 states including the very liberal California. Personally I'm OK with it, would not go out of my way to vote for it but many will go out of their way to vote against it and their not all conservatives or republicans in fact many are democrats.
"THE 10 COMMANDMENTS"
ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
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If a gay or lesbian partner doesnt rank in God`s top 10,it`s not in mine either. By the way,the Hebrew text prohibitions include divorce.No divorced person shall ever re-marry.In the U.S.that makes 50% of us sinners.
Interview with GOD!
no liberal bias here!!!
ABC's Robin Roberts On Interviewing Obama: "I'm Getting Chills Again"
"Whatever people think about this issue, we know it's controversial, there's no denying when a president speaks out for the first time like that, it is history," co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America" George Stephanopoulos said to Robin Roberts.
And let me tell you, George, I'm getting chills again," "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts said about her interview with Obama.
"When you sit in that room and you hear him say those historic words. It was not lost on anyone in there right there. You never know what he's going to say until you ask him," she added.
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This week, presumed Republican Nominee for president Mitt Romney declared that the successful rescue of the US Auto industry was primarily due to his heroic efforts. In light of this pronouncement we decided to search through the history of the world to find more of his amazing accomplishments that may have been missed.
221 BC Mitt Romney single handedly builds the Great Wall of China
1492 Mitt Romney sails the ocean blue and discovers America
July 5 1687 Mitt Romney discovers gravity and publishes the Principia
1895 Mitt Romney invents the first radio
September 23 1903 Mitt Romney flies the first powered aero plane at Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk N.C.
October 1915 Mitt Romney publishes his theory of Relativity
1957 Mitt Romney invents the Frisbee
September 1969 Mitt Romney replaces Dirk York as Darrin on Bewitched
AND
Just in case some unscrupulous character tries to preemptively claim credit.........
April 1, 2013 Mitt Romney discovers the Higgs Boson field
April 20 2016 Mitt Romney discovers life on the planet Mars
phil me in on May 10, 2012 @ 8:04 pm wrote: “These Obama/democrat/media set ups to divide the country are getting real old and are starting to look comical.”
Let’s see now, Republi-Cons denounce anyone who doesn’t agree with them as Socialists!, Communists!, Ungodly!, Unpatriotic!, Anti-American!, Treasonous!, and (if a member of their own party, like Senator Lugar) a RINO! (all for being willing to compromise for the good of the nation). They constantly pass laws to deny or restrict rights of Women, Hispanics, Blacks, the Poor, Gays, Unions, etc., etc., etc. And yet you say it’s the Democrats who divide the country?
You’d be comical, if you weren’t so pathetic.
As for the success of anti-gay amendments, so what? In many cases they were passed by a minority of the registered voters. (In North Carolina, for example, only 34% of the registered voters went to the polls. That means Amendment 1 was passed by an “overwhelming” 20%.)
After the Brown v. Board of Education decision there were loud cries in the South to “impeach Earl Warren” (the Chief Justice) and Southern politicians made careers out of promising “segregation now and forever”. All we are seeing is that same dismal pattern repeated. One day posterity will look back on this with the same scorn we reserve for religious persecution, slavery, and segregation.
Dear uselesseater:
You forgot to mention his most important achievement.
1960: Romney inspires the invention of the Etch-A-Sketch!
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Ciao.
Dear Mr. Duntov:
Speaking of inane flattery from members of the media, nothing can top conservative Peggy Noonan's memoirs, in which she gushed that, while working at the White House, she got such a feeling of power whenever Reagan walked by. The poor dear practically declared she wanted to bear his baby!
Diane,
Please discuss Colin Powell's revelation that there was never any discussion in the White House under George W. Bush about whether or not we should go to war with Iraq- the entire matter had been decided before 911 and the Vice President used lies and propaganda to justify an unprovoked attack. Is this treason? A more pressing concern is whether or not it could happen again if Romney wins, this time with Iran. It certainly seems as if some people never learn.
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: "Speaking of inane flattery from members of the media, nothing can top conservative Peggy Noonan's memoirs, in which she gushed that, while working at the White House, she got such a feeling of power whenever Reagan walked by. The poor dear practically declared she wanted to bear his baby!"
So your comparing "memoirs" to news coverage, sorry that doesn't work. It makes no difference were you come from politically Robin Roberts comments were nauseating. It would give me the creeps if my candidate of choice was treated this way.
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: You’d be comical, if you weren’t so pathetic.
Your frustration is misplaced, Phil said he was OK with it, your beef is with the voters who do not agree with you and apparently that's most of them.
Top of the Morning wrote: "Please discuss Colin Powell's revelation that there was never any discussion in the White House under George W. Bush about whether or not we should go to war with Iraq- the entire matter had been decided before 911 and the Vice President used lies and propaganda to justify an unprovoked attack. Is this treason? A more pressing concern is whether or not it could happen again if Romney wins, this time with Iran"
I thought you were talking about Libya for a second. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a thread of desperation runs through the above liberal commentary.
I just hope that none of the panelists refer to Richard Lugar as a moderate.
Its the ECONOMY!
I can't even imagine ever voting for Mr. Romney, but in his defense high school is not necessarily the defining moment in his life. There are many other events to look at and form an opinion from. Let's not stretch events to make a point about his character.
Ann in Baltimore
Too much time is being used to cover the Romney bully and Obama gay-marriage stories: the bullying incident was decades ago & we all have some things we did as teenagers that we wish we could change and the president stated that his gay-marriage opinion is personal & his political opinion puts it back to the states (not a federal issue). These issues won't change the base of the oppositions, anyway! Please, let us move on...
As a North Carolina voter, I see three factors that indicate that the recent passing of the anti-gay amendment and Pres. Obama's statements will NOT be as detrimental to the Obama campaign as many think. First, had this been a General Election, more Democrats and Independents would have voted. Unless one is a true political animal, this election was considered to be a primary for the Republicans. Second, the ammendment on the ballot was written as "marriage would only be recognized between a man and a woman" If the voters had not pre-read the ENTIRE ammendment, the ballot did not make the voter aware of the fact that this ammendment also excluded the rights of heterosexual civil unions. Third, and most importantly, in the end, it will still come down to the economy and who has the best ideas to restore living wage jobs.
The General Election will stll be about the ECONOMY. One of these candidates will need to convice the Independents which of them has the better plan to restore living wage jobs. While the economy is still bad, it is trending in the right direction. Mitt Romney is going to need to get more specific about what he will implement to make the recovery occur more quickly. The question of "Are you better off now than 4yrs ago"? Is slowly turning into an answer of "No, but better than 2yrs ago and looking better for 2yrs from now. Do I want to keep the slow and steady course or try a new course"? If that is the answer, Mitt Romney is going to have to sell his ideas in a big way to convince Independents to vote for him.
The family of John Lauber is contesting the story about the Romney "hair cut."
The Mitt Romney "Bullying" in high school is the biggest waste of time and is completely useless in determining if the man is capable of running the country. If anyone running for President is the exactly the same person they were in high school, then we as a country have MUCH larger problems than the economy.
I am glad that the President has given his symbolic support to gay marraige, and happy that gay and lesbian people will eventually share the same rights has heterosexuals.
Meanwhile, the Fukushima reactors continue to leak lethal amounts of radioactivity and, if the 1500+ used fuel rods stored at Reactor 4 fall 100 feet when the structure holding them up collapses, we face what has been described as an "extinction level event." When will our leaders and the media start to pay attention to this story? It should be a top story every day! I guess denial isn't just a river...
I live in Wisconsin,"I Stand With Scott Walker" signs are everywhere not a democrat sign can be found. Republican turnout in the primary was almost double that of democrat turn out. It bodes well for next month. GO SCOTT WALKER.
What's this about "as long as both sides keep electing extremists"? Yes, we hear from the extremes of both parties, but I think the Democrats who have been elected have been fairly moderate - including Obama - and you can tell this by the dissatisfaction of the various left wing constituencies. When did wanting to defend programs for the poor and elderly become "extremist"? Please stop this political correctness of saying "both sides" all the time.
Democrats have repeatedly offered to both cut spending and raise income and have been repeatedly rebuffed by a "No tax increase" policy where even closing loopholes like deductions for corporate jets are considered a tax increase!
Please tell me which recently elected Democrats have moved closer to Bernie Sanders in political positions, or even closer to Dennis Kucinich.
While I am supportive of gays, I want to government to look into the rights of other citizens. These are citizens Romney has a great affinity for; persons I call super citizens. These super citizens increasingly have rights without personal responsibility and these super citizen rights have been growing since the founding of this nation. Now the super citizens have international rights, they do not even need to be bound by land or the borders or laws of this country or any country.
Recently I received a letter from one of these super citizens titled “Customer Agreement” that states “service is subject to arbitration... if you do not agree to these terms please notify us immediately and we will cancel your service”. This is not a customer agreement it is customer coercion. I not only give up my legal rights I will be charged to terminate service if I do not agree. Since this service is essentially a utility and I have no other choices of service, I am stuck. Other examples of the coercion and super rights of these super citizens are bank bail outs with no strings attached and Citizens United.
Conservatives are so fricking concerned about morality and an oppressive government yet are blind to the coercion these by these super citizens. Gay rights and reproductive issues are a distraction from the real issues of our times.
The NC community attend church. They were many churches who were very vocal about voting to pass this ammendment. However, when I questioned many of my friends, they were not aware that this ammendment also restricted rights to heterosexual civil uinions. Would they have voted differently? I don't know, but they definitely appeared to be surprised about what the entire ammendment restricted.
Hear Hear
The guests say that moderate voters stay home and only the extreme candidates run because of it.
Can they specify extreme candidates on the left? Obama?Pelosi?Biden?
This looks like they are trying to be fair and balanced when in fact most of the extremism is coming from the right, so much so that the above named people are the extreme left.
On Monday Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein pointed out that in recent years it's been the Republican party that has been intransigent and extremists.
Lugar was defeated because he was too moderate, because he tried to do what he thought was best for his state and his country even when that involved voting with Democrats. The Tea Party wants to elect people who will not compromise regardless of what is in the proposal. If President Obama and the Democrats want something or agree to something then the Republicans have to oppose it.
I see nothing but stalemate for the next 4 years.
I find the praise of two male homosexuals saving $100K for a surrogate mother, to have a child for them, disturbing. One should not praise, glorify, and/or promote behavior that is deviant from the way The Creator has instituted for human beings. Parents have always been and will always be the union of a man and woman from the marriage of a man and woman. People stop lying and confusing children of the world by teaching deviance from The Creator’s Laws is acceptable.
Where in the Constitution does it say the laws of this country are to be based on the Bible or by "The Creator's Laws"? I think you have us confused with some middle eastern country.
It might be useful to remind one of your callers that the Germans are in Germany and the Dutch are in Holland. Dutch is not Deutsch.
Arkus Duntov on May 11, 2012 @ 9:27 am wrote: “So your comparing ‘memoirs’ to news coverage, sorry that doesn't work. It makes no difference were you come from politically Robin Roberts comments were nauseating. It would give me the creeps if my candidate of choice was treated this way.”
Sorry, but you wrote that these were comments made after the interview, so they fall in much the same category as Noonan’s memoir. Actually, Noonan is worse, since she was describing her attitude while working at the White House. Forgive me if I think running the country is more important than reporting about it. (Besides, she’s made her remarks in other places, including in her current role as a news commentator.)
I agree the comments you denounce are silly (“nauseating” is a bit extreme), but (like Noonan’s remark) all they really demonstrate is how full of themselves members of the media are.