Sunday, August 3, 2008

PREFACE:

On FNS, Lindsey Graham said that the Obama attempt to imply that McCain was somehow racist was a lie and should be retracted. Tom Daschle claimed that Obama was not a ditz and never uses the word “I” in his speeches. Host Chris Wallace offered to play some clips of Obama doing just that in Berlin, and Daschle changed the subject. Graham admitted: “I can’t translate an Obama speech. I don’t know what he’s saying.”

On TW, Nancy Pelosi said that she might be willing to have a vote on offshore drilling “as part of a larger package,” but she blamed the Bush Administration for there having been no such vote so far.

On TW, Tom Ridge said that he does not think McCain has an abortion litmus test for his veep selection, and that if he is chosen, he will talk to McCain then report back to Steph [begin the campaign].”

On MTP, Joe Lieberman dismissed Barack Obama as a “gifted, eloquent young man.” John Kerry talked about himself, saying that he’s an expert on the GOP trying to scare people.

On FTN, host Bob Schieffer asked former Clinton Treasury Secretary if we were in a recession or headed toward a depression. Rubin didn’t answer, but he said that there was a slight possibility that things could get worse. His next guest, Carly Fiorina, argued that things would get worse if we raised taxes, increased spending, and become isolationist, all things which would result from Obama’s schemes.

On LE, Obama economic Laura Tyson declared that Obama liked the Gang of Ten compromise legislation on energy, which includes offshore drilling, but only because it makes demands of the automotive industry and other such things. McCain economic advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer attacked Obama for supporting tax increases.

Next on LE, Major General Mark Hertling said that we were transitioning our funding of the Sons of Iraq in northern Iraq towards other reconstruction efforts and we hoped to do even more by October and November. He pointed out that the Iraqi people were just sick and tired of al Qaeda, which had relocated mostly to the Diyala province where a push to exterminate them is ongoing.

On LE, Ron Kirk and Ken Blackwell discussed the race card. Kirk, an Obama supporter, said that he didn’t think Obama’s accusation that McCain was a racist campaigner was very serious and that Obama had retracted the charge. Blitzer mentioned the charge that McCain was, with the Britney/Paris ad, trying to scare white men into believing that Obama was coming for their daughters. Blackwell called it, in an interesting example of good word choice, “ludicrous.”

The show-by-show review is over at RedState.com.