Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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President Obama defended his campaign's attacks on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital, after Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker called the ads "nauseating." The U.S. housing market showed signs of strengthening as sales of both new and existing homes rose. Four Secret Service agents implicated in the Colombian prostitution scandal said they would fight their dismissals. Ron Elving of NPR, Susan Davis of USA Today and David Leonhardt of The New York Times join Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
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Ron Elving
Washington editor for NPR.
Susan Davis
chief congressional reporter, USA Today.
David Leonhardt
Washington bureau chief, The New York Times.
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The biggest lie I have heard is he will cut unemployment immediate. He will get up his brain child the Affordable Health Act because it did not make sense to browwow money from China to pay for it. i can go on on and on. The president borrows nothing. Congress does and it will not pay for this legislation. There are tons of half truths and lies and by my reckoning, the Obama camp isn't yelling loud enough. I would and I do every chance i get.
pisces62 wrote:
"Gas prices NEVER doubled under President Obama. Tell that lie to someone else. They never reached as high as they did under G. W, Bus"
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"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." -- Steven Chu, POTUS Obama's Energy Secretary
"Last week, the average gas price was $3.83 a gallon, the previous record according to data going back to 1990"
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/03/highest-gas-price-recorded-...
The interactive database offers a variety of measurements, so we’ll cite a few of them here. We’ll use the third week of January 2009 as a stand-in for Jan. 20, the day Obama was sworn in.
Here are the average prices in several categories that week, rounded to the nearest cent:
• Conventional retail gasoline, regular unleaded, national average: $1.83 per gallon
• Reformulated retail gasoline, regular unleaded, national average: $1.88 per gallon
• Gasoline retail prices, regular unleaded, national city average: $1.79
That was from March and this is almost June and prices here, in Cleveland, are running under $3.50. My point is, I do not blame a president, any president. they do not control a free market. Maybe if we stopped subsidizing them for bad behavior, here, in the state, THAT might help. Any one who knows anything, Knows prices are not set in America. Those speaking of the keystone thingy, is going to produce diesel and sold to China by Canada. The governor of the state does not like it without further study but the right blames this President just because he wants to make sure of the environmental impact. Another thing, if we tapped into every bit of oil reserves in Akerican, we STILL would need to import. We don't have as much as people would like to think.
pisces62 wrote: "Those speaking of the keystone thingy"
Suggest more contemplation of the facts rather than partisan emotionalism.
During G. W. Bush's second term it went up to $4.14. I STILL do no blame him or any president. Just as i do not blame any president for banks issuing sub-prime loans because they wanted people to get homes per the president. Spare me, it was a way to make a buck and if you run a business and are so woefully incompetent to let any out sider stray you from common sense, they blame is the entities, alone. THEY say yea or nay to a loan or mortgage. I lendee cannot approve their own and neither can the government.
pisces62 wrote:
"That was from March and this is almost June and prices here, in Cleveland, are running under $3.50. My point is, I do not blame a president, any president. they do not control a free market"
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Right. According to ABC News, gas prices reached their all time average high since 1990 in March, 2012. I believe in March Obama was still POTUS. But how can you say that this administration ideologically supports low gas prices when Energy Secretary Chu wants to see prices reach $8 a gallon?
They are the facts, from keystone people, themselves. As for job creation, as with the Alaskan pipeline, MAYBE, 4 thousand at best not the thousands and thousands and we will not benefit one bit from the oil. WE cannot use it because of the very low grade. It is ear marked for China and it is not emotionalism. They are the facts and the governor, completely ignored in all of this and the ranchers, etc, of the area are against it. THEY are republicans, too. A lot of the residents don't want it. Why don't you fact check that and i do not mean Washington non-residents.
pisces62 wrote:
"During G. W. Bush's second term it went up to $4.14. I STILL do no blame him or any president"
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Obama's Energy Secretary was cheering the spike in prices.
From March, 2012:
"During the first twenty-six months of President Bush’s first term in office, the price of gasoline increased by 7%. At the end of his second term, the price had decreased by 9% from the time he took office (adjusted for inflation). During the first twenty-six months of Obama’s term in office, the price of gasoline has spiked over 67% with no relief in site."
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/04/in-pictures-bush-vs-obama-on-gas-pri...
Chu said it as a private citizen but Secretary Chu did not and i said no such thing. I wrote I blame no president, no matter the president. I do not blame any for the horrors of the oil embargo. Some things government can possibly control but OIL, no, just as they did not and cannot control the way sugar spiked years ago and beef spiked because of a bogus shortage. Not the government but they both had major impacts on prices and inflation. I'm supporting or not supporting anything, I thought i was being neutral and giving all presidents the benefit of the doubt. I still say, March was March and now, it is almost June. With the rampant speculating going on when prices were ramping up, you blame a president.
pisces62 wrote:
"Chu said it as a private citizen but Secretary Chu did not.."
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That makes it worse. Candidate Obama knew that Chu said this in September, 2008, and thought him qualified to be his Energy Secretary not in spite of this view, but because he agreed with it.
I want to thank today's commentators for providing analysis rather than talking points and elevating the discussion to the level of the International Hour.
After reading the running commentary of postings by Arkus and Marcus I'm struck by the vitriol consistently coming from the right. The level of intolerance for opposing opinions and dissmisive tone says much about the degree to which polticial discourse in this country has devolved thanks to right wing extremist rhetoric. The comment about "big breats" is offensive and sophmoric.
I want to thank today's commentators for providing analysis rather than talking points and elevating the discussion to the level of the International Hour.
After reading the running commentary of postings by Arkus and Marcus I'm struck by the vitriol consistently coming from the right. The level of intolerance for opposing opinions and dissmisive tone says much about the degree to which polticial discourse in this country has devolved thanks to right wing extremist rhetoric. The comment about "big breats" is offensive and sophmoric.
Michele Davis wrote:
"After reading the running commentary of postings by Arkus and Marcus I'm struck by the vitriol consistently coming from the right. "
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True. I am a conservative. But Arkus shares the foreign policy of the far left.
I couldn't possibly keep up with the vitriol coming from the left. Have you never seen Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, David Corn, Katrina Van Den Heuval, Al Sharpton, Eleanor Clift, Terry Gross, Hilary Rosen, etc in action? How is it you were never "struck" by the choleric and callow comments emanating from their yaps?
Michele Davis wrote: "vit·ri·ol/ˈvitrēəl/Noun: 1.Sulfuric acid.
2.Cruel and bitter criticism."The comment about "big breats" is offensive and sophmoric."
I made an honest effort to bring to light the CBO's current statements on the ongoing debt and deficit crisis. Someone disparaged my efforts personally, I was merely making the point that what passes for serious topics is not serious at all. The "big Breast" comment is current and quite frankly is just as serious as say the Sandra Fluke controversy that occupied hours of air time on this NPR show. Having said that it is strange you overlooked the personal and truly vitriolic posts that followed from Teece Bowman and Pisces62. May I suggest your only upset because the content of the posts you point out disagree with your political view. If you have a problem with freedom of speech and the articulation of opinions you disagree with and want them silenced, I say welcome to the 2012 liberal democrat party.
i listen to no one. i get more information listening to the various programs on this channel at work. From Cleveland local programming at 9AM through Michelle Martin at 3:00 and the latter has a voice from all sides. I love her barbershop on Fridays which includes all males from all political bents, usually about 4 or 5 and the woman have one, too on Thursdays. I consider it the most diverse and respectful bunch that do not agree on the vast majority of things. I like people like that. Some things you do not blame on a president. I never blamed President Bush for the economic melt down, it just happened on his watch and even that is misleading. I doubt if he ever thought the banks and financial institutes would be so shady with the complicit help of congress and no over sight and no disclosure of toxic debt bundles sold. Most of what is going on in Europe's financial problems can be laid at the feet of American Financial institutions and that melt down. A German bank was one of the first to go under. It is patheticallty sad when the only person the right comes up with is non-entity like Al Sharpton. You won't find any blown up churches on his watch with little girls inside, will you? You really don't want to go there, now, do you?
You forgot your meds. Sorry. What did I say vitriolic and where? Right wing paranoia of a black woman who speaks well and can articulate a position. i guess i will my 6 yr old granddaughter is still a better conversation partner than most right wing people. She is about to be published and copy written.
pisces62 wrote: 'You forgot your meds. Sorry. What did I say vitriolic and where? Right wing paranoia of a black woman who speaks well and can articulate a position."
pisces62 wrote:
"Gas prices NEVER doubled under President Obama. Tell that lie to someone else."
Calling me a liar is vitriolic, now telling me I am on meds is vitriolic, you cannot stand to be disagreed with and you resort to name calling or calling into question my mental state.
I proved my point and you could have easily checked into it before the bombast. By the way what's with the constant race baiting? Why do so many of your posts start with "I'm a black women" or "as a black woman", what is that?
I do not care what you write, have at it. I was responding to Mr.Censorship. Good day madam.
"There are an awful lot of people who feel that this case should not have gone to a jury trial to begin with." Diane Rehm
What? Who are these people? It sounds as if Rehm is still an Edwards fan.
As far as the Edwards jury being out six days indicating a probable "not guilty" verdict, after ten days of deliberating, the jury in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial declared him guilty on 17 counts. Rehm and her panel are clueless.