March 20, 2007
Hotline After Dark: Blue's News
Lots of Dems on TV last night:
Barack Obama was on "LKL":
On Iraq: "The precondition for any continuing involvement by the United States in Iraq has to be a willingness on the part of Iraqi leadership and the heads of various Iraqi factions to come together and want to make Iraqi work as a unified country."
On Gen. Peter Pace's comments: "I don't think that homosexuals are immoral any more than I think heterosexuals are immoral. I think that people are people and to categorize one group of folks based on their sexual orientation that way I think is wrong. I disagreed with General Pace. More importantly, I think, traditionally, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff tries to stick to military issues precisely because of the kind of hot water that he got himself into this time out. And hopefully he's learned his lesson."
On "don't ask, don't tell": "I think that is a policy that has to be absolutely re-examined."
On the HRC ad on the internet: "We knew nothing about it. I just saw it for the first time. And, you know, one of the things about the Internet is that people generate all kinds of stuff. In some ways, it's the democratization of the campaign process. But it's not something that we had anything to do with or were aware of and that frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like that. It's pretty extraordinary."
On the primary calendar: "I think democracy would be better served if we spread out these primaries a little bit more so we could actively campaign state by state. I still think that Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, the four early states, are going to be, you know, very intense. There's going to be a lot of competition, a lot of eyes focused there. February 5th you could see primaries in half the country. And nobody can campaign in half the country. You don't even do that during a general election."
On AG Gonzales: "It's time for him to step down and for another attorney general who can exercise some independence to be put for the reminder of this president's term" (CNN, 3/19).
DNC Chair Howard Dean, asked why Dems can't agree on a war policy: "We do agree on a war policy. We believe we ought be out."
On the fired U.S. attys: "The year of accountability is here. Now that the American have elected us to make sure the president doesn't have a rubber stamp Republican Congress and doesn't get away with stuff like that anymore" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 3/19).
House Maj. Leader Steny Hoyer: "We now see the president proposing a fourth surge. This is not the first. This is not a change in policy, the fourth surge. And whether or not it is successful, we hope it is, but what we are going to be saying in our legislation is, there need to be timelines and there need to be requirements for the safety of our troops and the equipping of our troops" ("Situation Room," CNN, 3/19).
And from Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, on Pres. Bush: "I think if impeachment were ever justified, this certainly is the time" ("Situation Room," CNN, 3/19). [EMILY GOODIN]
Posted at 07:20 AM
Comments
Obama was good on LKL. He knew what he was talking about. He is suh a contrast to Romney who does not know what he is talking about.
Romney bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami. According to Miami Herald, "when he mistakenly associated Fidel Castro's trademark speech-ending slogan -- Patria o muerte, venceremos! -- with a free Cuba, listeners didn't laugh. They winced."
Romney tries to be slick but his real self always comes out. He just does not know what he is talking about, no wonder he has taken every position on every issue.
Kelly | 03.20.07 09:36 AM
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