Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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President Barack Obama suggested he will seek a grand fiscal bargain with Republicans if he’s reelected. Obama told The Des Moines Register this week he would also work to win congressional approval of immigration reform. Mitt Romney’s campaign said he disagrees with Richard Mourdock’s comments on rape, but he hasn't asked that an ad featuring him with the Indiana Senate candidate be withdrawn. New home sales rose to the highest level in two years. The Department of Justice said it will sue Bank of America over allegations it sold defective home loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And a look at the legacy of George McGovern. Diane and guests discuss the week’s top national stories: what happened and why.
Guests
Michael Scherer
White House correspondent for Time magazine.
Karen Tumulty
national political reporter, The Washington Post
Jonathan Allen
congressional reporter, Politico
Friday News Roundup Video
The panel discussed the political implications of Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's comment about rape in a debate earlier this week. Mourdouck said, "I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, it is something that God intended to happen."
Michael Scherer, White House correspondent for Time magazine, said the comment gave an opening to Democrats and liberals to label Republicans as "extremists." "The politics of this is that all [election] cycle, Republicans have really struggled on social issues that in past cycles have played to their advantage," Scherer said. Karen Tumulty, national political reporter for The Washington Post, said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney probably wouldn't pull his ad endorsing Mourdock because doing so would focus the story on Romney.
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Given some of the comments Patton made about Black soldiers, I am not surprised you are such a supporter of his. You have really shown your true colors today, Buster. Though his views may have moderated, initially he thought
On black soldiers: "Individually they were good soldiers, but I expressed my belief at the time, and have never found the necessity of changing it, that a colored soldier cannot think fast enough to fight in armor."
1dondraper wrote:
@ Phil A Buster
"Violence against Black people. You really showed who you are. Despicable."
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It's OK. Patton slapped two white enlisted men. Slapping a black general would make him an equal opportunity slapper.
@ecgberht
.....I'm guessing you didn't like that "don't buy into the conspiracy theory retoric" recap of the Benghazi situation....
Phil Col Wilkerson has written and had a great deal to say about the pre war false intelligence that they had received. A great article is also "A General's revenge" at Salon
@ Phil A Buster
His 1200 SAT score at Yale was 200 points BELOW the average of incoming students in his class. I don't care what Al Gore's scores were, he got into Yale as a legacy student and that you can not dispute. He then parlayed his C average (he said that when he gave a commencement address to the students) to get into Harvard Business School. Please tell us, oh wise sage, how many C average students get into Harvard Business School. Take your noise somewhere else.
Phil A. Buster wrote:
"Could you provide the liberal list of acceptable unflattering words that can be used to describe President Obama's term as President, his campaign style, and his handling of Benghazi?"
Hey Phil, luckily, I have that list right here. It is as follows:
1.
WWWyatt3 wrote:
"What race are clowns?"
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Behind that make up, who knows?
@Phil A. Buster
Lol. Too funny..
WWWyatt3 wrote:
@ecgberht
.....I'm guessing you didn't like that "don't buy into the conspiracy theory retoric" recap of the Benghazi situation....
You should have listened more closely to Yochi Dreazen.
@ Phil A Buster
Wow, you guys are something else. First legitimate rape and now slapping people around. You sound like a real gentleman and a great example for those around you. Somehow I don't think you would be this big and bold in the real world. A computer tough guy. What a joke
1dondraper wrote:
@ Phil A Buster
"Please tell us, oh wise sage, how many C average students get into Harvard Business School. Take your noise somewhere else."
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Now that you admit Bush 43 was not a Harvard legacy admission, do you have anything other than your hatred of conservatives to support your contention that Bush 43 got into Harvard Business School using methods that other Harvard Business School applicants didn't use?
@ecgberht
Still listening to Yochi?
Take Moises' advise - don't buy into the conspiracy theory rhetoric...
ecgberht wrote:
Phil A. Buster wrote:
"Could you provide the liberal list of acceptable unflattering words that can be used to describe President Obama's term as President, his campaign style, and his handling of Benghazi?"
Hey Phil, luckily, I have that list right here. It is as follows:
1.
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Odd. That is the same list that 1dondraper has submitted.
So Powell is endorsing Obama because Romney is too inexperienced... I guess Powell endorsed Obama in 2008 because of his vast experience of 2 years in the Senate... right...
Romney is a neophyte coming into office?!
Does anyone remember 2008?!
@bwstrauss
More to the point, Powell knows the crew who's advising Romney --- has had personal interaction with them and it didn't end well.
Now you admit he got into Yale as a legacy entrant and you tried to use Al Gore as a useless sideshow. Thanks for confirming that info, Mr. Equal Opportunity Slapper
1dondraper wrote:
"Given some of the comments Patton made about Black soldiers, I am not surprised you are such a supporter of his. You have really shown your true colors today, Buster. Though his views may have moderated, initially he thought
On black soldiers: "Individually they were good soldiers, but I expressed my belief at the time, and have never found the necessity of changing it, that a colored soldier cannot think fast enough to fight in armor."
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FDR, the liberal icon for all times, shared these same sentiments that were predominate at that time. The proof is FDR left desegregating the armed forces to Truman.
1dondraper wrote:
"Now you admit he got into Yale as a legacy entrant..."
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Duh. So did all other Yale (or any Ivy League school) applicants whose mother and, or, father went there, hence the term legacy. But you do not have any evidence that Bush 43 didn't get into Harvard Business School on his own.
It absolutely amazes and downright angers me how the RELIGIOUS RIGHT can pick and choose how GOD decides issues of morality – ACCORDING TO THEIR INTERPATATION!!
Yet, they have no problem leaving the church on Sunday and on Monday seeing how much they can screw the common man and how they can further their racist, bigoted and privileged agenda on the rest of us.
I see very little space between the RIGHTWING EVANGELICALS and the EXSTREAMEST TALIBAN!
AND THAT’S WHO YOU WOULD ELECT TO RUN THIS COUNTRY…
Obviously it is good that we have "objective" sources to disprove your drivel. Everyone knows efforts were made before Truman integrated the military. Even you may have heard about the Blacks who flew planes during WWII, before the army was integrated. Who was President then, Mr Fabricator. This may help jog your narrow-minded view of Roosevelt...
Perhaps her biggest triumphs in the struggle for racial justice were in the military. Early in her time as First Lady, Eleanor challenged the Navy's restrictions on African Americans to mess hall duty. She was one of several advocates for the Tuskegee Airmen's training and service as active fighter pilots. Their success, along with that of several other all-black units in World War II proved once again to the military and the nation that blacks were just as capable as their white counterparts. And when in 1948 President Truman ended segregation in the military, making it the first major institution to integrate, his decision was due in part to Eleanor's leadership within the Democratic Party. She applied political pressure allying herself with Generals James H. Doolittle and Follett Bradley who argued that integration was best for the military.
After leaving the White House, Mrs. Roosevelt found herself more free than ever to promote equal rights for African Americans. During her final years she continued fighting as hard and fearlessly as ever. On at least one occassion, the Secret Service warned her not to keep a speaking engagement on civil disobedience. The Ku Klux Klan had put a price on her head and the Secret Service said they could not guarantee her safety. Undeterred, she traveled with another lady and her revolver. Such was her determination, independence, and courage right up to the year she died.
Go sit around and bash the country with your like minded "americans". We know the Republicans will be a minority party post 2020 because the rest of us want to live together and move the country forward.
@ bwstrauss
Maybe math wasn't your strong suit. He was elected to the Senate in 2004 and was in office in 2005. Please tell us how that adds up to two years. Guess it was brain fart. Not your first.
@ecgberht-You are so right.
1dondraper wrote:
"Even you may have heard about the Blacks who flew planes during WWII, before the army was integrated. "
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Now that you have had time to Google this information, what does this have to do with FDR not integrating the armed forces? The Tuskegee pilots who flew P-51 Mustangs were a segregated group. How does this change the fact that FDR did not integrate the armed forces? You make the case that it was indeed not President Roosevelt who believed blacks could be in combat, rather it was his wife who believed otherwise.
BTW: Can you explain FDR's antiemetic comments at Casablanca with French general Auguste Noguès.
" .. the Vichy government had released most of the Jews from their concentration camps, and Noguès wanted to know how much of the Jews’ civil liberties must be restored. The record (page 608) relates Roosevelt’s response:"
FDR:
"It was also stated that the Jews, especially those in Algeria, had raised the point that they wish restored to them at once the right of suffrage. The President stated that the answer to that was very simple, namely, that there weren’t going to be any elections, so the Jews need not worry about the privilege of voting.
Mr. Murphy remarked that the Jews in North Africa were very much disappointed that “the war for liberation” had not immediately resulted in their being given their complete freedom. The President stated that he felt the whole Jewish problem should be studied very carefully and that progress should be definitely planned.
In other words, the number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions (law, medicine, etc.) should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African population. Such a plan would therefore permit the Jews to engage in the professions, and would present an unanswerable argument that they were being given their full rights."
Hey Buster, are you calling me from math class. If someone enters office in 2005 and becomes President in 2009. How many years of foreign policy experience did he he get while Senator? Somebody said it was two years. Who was that?
I am always amazed at the number of people who lump all Christians and a knowledge of God into one small minded derogatory commentary.
If one actually knows God, they will know the difference between personal opinion, church doctrine, and interpretation of scripture.
So all comments about God and Christianity are cancelled out by the ignorance and animosity with which they are expressed.
Re: Senator Obama. He spent most of his two years in office campaigning for the 2008 presidency. Even his record on senate votes proves his lack of engagement. As an Illinois state senator he was disrespected by many other Black leaders in Chicago. Do the research.
The entire race argument is promoted by left-wing liberals who have been given a public platform by the mainstream media, NPR, and at times PBS. For example, ABC's "Access: allowed left wing celebrity Sarah Jessica Parker to campaign for Obama for about 15 minutes on their show yesterday. If Obama were all white instead of half white, Collin Powell would not be endorsing Obama. If anyone really wants to know what intelligent thinking people say about Obama, look at the views of Dr. Thomas Sowell, Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Condoleeza Rice, Retired General Frances Rice, Representative Rick Scott, Herman Cain, Allan West, and any number of other prominent Black people who publicly oppose President Obama. Are these Black people racist because they don't agree with Obama? Of course not. The race argument against Republicans is based on a few isolated remarks by people who do not represent Mitt Romney nor the entire GOP.
I am disgusted with those who use their public platform to promote such lies.
@ Claudette Robertson
You are aware that John Sununu is Co-Chair of the Mitt Romney campaign. You may want to edit the second to last sentence in your diatribe. He is and will always be a racist. Just look at his comments from yesterday if you have any doubt. As to the rest of your rant, please offer proof. Herman Cain, Allen West (he of the communist comments) and Thomas Sowell (who has no following, least of all among African-Americans). This is comical at best.
As to FDR's desegregation plan: He had none. We can't remember his policy on equality because he had none. Eleanor had to badger him into agreeing to any sort of equality. Marian Anderson was only allowed to sing at the Lincoln Memorial because of Eleanor. And all of FDR's alphabet soup programs were segregated in every way. Even his favorite CCC put Blacks in tents out in the field rather than in the dorms with white kids.
And his so-called "Black Cabinet" ? Blacks were appointed to lower level management positions rather than upper level management. That was the extent of FDR's equality policy.
@1dondraper,
I commend you on your ability to argue on a high school level. Your opinions do not establish truth or facts. Your take on Sununu's comments are based on your false premise about Republicans and racism. Your opinion about the rest is just that...an uninformed opinion. Have a great day!
Claudette, you were the one who said the following:
The race argument against Republicans is based on a few isolated remarks by people who do not represent Mitt Romney nor the entire GOP.
The co-chair of his committee is John Sununu. Therefore as a Romney surrogate, he represents Mitt Romney. If you don't want to stand behind your statements, that is fine. But it is a fact that he represents Romney and he has made plenty of racist statements. Denial is a terrible thing. Oh, good day.