What’s going on - Friday Night News Roundup
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by ecthompson
Friday Night News Roundup
- Tomorrow on the Errington Thompson Show (9 am EST - streaming here), I’ll have as my special guests best-selling author and Air America radio host, Thom Hartmann and from the popular news website, Buzz Flash, its editor Mark Karlin.
- Minnesota Republican Michelle Bachmann cannot take her foot out of her mouth.
- As the McCain Campaign continues to try to paint Sarah Palin as the girl next door, we find out that the girl next door has a hairstylist that gets paid more in two weeks than the average American gets paid in six months ($22,800).
- Barack Obama is in Hawaii visiting his ailing grandmother.
- It seems that talking to dictators is okay if you’re John McCain, but not if you’re Barack Obama. Senator John McCain flew to Chile in 1985 to talk to notorious Augusto Pinochet, who killed thousand of his countrymen. This little tidbit dovetails back on a post that I wrote yesterday which suggested long-term senators have a long track record and it’s therefore near impossible to wipe it all clean.
- The blog 538 breaks down the latest CBS/NYT poll, finding that registered voters believe Barack Obama’s policies will help the middle class and the poor, 60-14 compared to John McCain’s. 59% thought that John McCain’s policies would help the rich. Now what is confounding in these figures is the number of people that believe helping the rich will eventually help them (trickle-down economics).
- Finally, I believe it is laughable (and should be of great concern to the American electorate) that a 72-year-old man who has had multiple melanomas resected has not released his medical records for all of us to see. It is possible that all of his melanomas were superficial but it is also possible that some of them were more invasive than we’ve been led to believe. We’ve been told that he is healthy and yet have no idea if he’s undergone a stress test for his heart. Again, the man is 72 years old. It is outrageous to believe that he has that much greater a life expectancy than everyone else. Karl Rove last night suggested that John McCain has been a “open book” with regards to his health.
