Charlie Rose

NeilMacCallister  08/25/2010 10:59 PM Report

doodah, ..you're right.

Ken Duberstein should have known better than to vote for a United States Presidential candidate who, while he was also an in-office United States Senator, publically refused to place his hand over his heart while the United States National Anthem was being played and he stood upon a public stage, with the American flag flying beside him.

How absolutely incomprehensible was that vote choice!!!

Ken Duberstein has no one but himself to blame.

doodah  08/24/2010 09:18 AM Report

speaking of whores, is 'Dick Morris' still available? :) He's got some really swell ideas! Look what he did for the cat food industry.

Funny, I don't remember the 'press' pressing for financial reform over healthcare 'saving'. Who or what would be behind that? Who or what owns EVERYTHING?. AND (by default) EVERYBODY. . The man of the year?. Oh really?! 1938 ring a bell ... like it's 1938... doo dah doo dah

doodah  08/24/2010 09:06 AM Report

I think the fat in ken's face & chin is encroaching on his brain.

He voted for Obama, but he's bitching about him like a two-bit whore.

NeilMacCallister  08/23/2010 12:07 AM Report

CHARLIE ROSE: Gentlemen, unemployment is hovering at 10 percent.

JOHN PODESTA: Well, I think President Obama has done better than any president in recent history.

JOE THE PLUMBER: Is there anything to eat here, Charlie?

CHARLIE ROSE: Ken?

KEN DUBERSTEIN: Two-thirds of the American people think that the economy has gotten worse during the 18 months of Barack Obama.

CHARLIE ROSE: What do you think of that, John?

JOHN PODESTA: Well, you know, I think, ..what President Obama has been able to accomplish, ..it’s very, very substantial. He will look like a genius.

JOE THE PLUMBER: Is there anything to drink here, Charlie?

CHARLIE ROSE: What do we know? ..go ahead, Ken

KEN DUBERSTEIN: From day one on the stimulus, this was a genuflect to the Democratic barons and baronesses who waited eight years for a bunch of spending programs that they couldn’t get past George Bush. They put the word "stimulus" on them, and passed them.

JOE THE PLUMBER: Mr. Rose? ..didn't you promise us a sandwich or something?

JohnGelles  08/21/2010 11:23 PM Report

Furtive thinks -- Podesta "obviously concurs with the floor plan: REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH..."

Obama has not tried to or indicated any intention to move toward a radical leveling of individual income or wealth.

Some redistribution of income via the progressive income tax? YES. But that tax is so full of loopholes, its effect is not predictable.

Obama is guilty of "slow going" toward the change we need to protect the American Dream. But the Republicans have been worse.

Their dream is to crush wage-earners and make the corporations our bosses and owners-- to make us more wage slaves than we are.

Unless General Petraeus runs for president, or his equal, I will vote for Obama over Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich in 2012.

In November 2010 I will vote the straight Democratic ticket-- unless Republicans offer zero taxes and high investment by Uncle Sam in his citizens-- my neighbors.

They would also have to promise high investment in the Obama list of energy, education, and necessary change to bring our nations objectives in line with the aforesaid American Dream.

furtive  08/21/2010 09:09 PM Report

i'll be 10x more coherent & succinct than podesta's usual & customary boilerplate rant:

BHO (POTUS) is following the blueprint of his dad & grandad's legacy "DREAMS OF MY FATHER". Since I am told Podesta who is Soros' poodle, drives the agenda pass GO! directly into the Oval Orafice, he obviously concurs with the floor plan: REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH, except of course, for the imperialists, like SOROS, who are exempted.

All Duberstein should have done was read BHO's book to prep for the appearance; it's obvious Charlie never has....

Precise enough?

ArchieMac  08/20/2010 11:03 PM Report

Duberstein's contradictions difficult to reconcile with any meaningful insight. One minute he is saying Obama did not incorporate ideas from GOP, then next he says he is too much of a legislator "aquiescing" in the opinions of others. Agree this has been a disappointing presidency so far but largely because Obama has not often bypassed the DC gridlock by simply talking directly to American people.

robdverity  08/20/2010 06:03 PM Report

The biggest purchases Uncle Sam makes are preemptive wars, death and mayhem. The gift that keeps on giving.

JohnGelles  08/20/2010 02:18 PM Report

REMant does not see that only government, who saved the banks, could and should have saved the Obama list of necessary investments for immediate recovery of jobs and income. The list was perfect.

But certain idiots here and at the top expect shopping by consumers without money to make the economy whole.

Uncle Sam is the buyer. What he must buy is for our benefit. He must put us to work. The rest is all nonsense.

After we have all the material improvements we MUST have, including revival of manufacturing, and Buffet import certificates, we can work with large and small business to fine tune an economic democracy worthy of Lincoln's vision.

The IRS and IR Code must go. Taxes cannot do the job. Only sovereign money and individual work output and resulting economic security can build the material things we are missing. In place of the IRS, an ESA (economic security agency, with General Petraeus in charge) must have the job of contracting with the public and private sectors to do jobs as big as bringing in the hydrogen economy NOW, and saving Pakistan from going rogue sopping wet.

JohnGelles  08/20/2010 01:58 PM Report

Charlie Rose, Ken Duberstein, John Podesta~

Thank you for your takes on where we are with the President's party facing a November election without having broken the back of near universal acceptance of slow recovery of jobs and middle class incomes.

Far above the neglected middle class, guilty gamblers in banking have had their champions at Treasury and our Federal Reserve feed them cash for parking in bonds where the spread in their favor has made them rich again (at a risk as close to zero as only those two angels could imagine and pull off.) Is it larceny or common business sense?

The Duberstein attack took words right out of my mouth: the President promised millennial change--poverty would be eradicated. Rational investment and budgeting would put everyone to work and their wages would be union wages or just as high without the Union-- because they had a friend at the top.

It never happened, Podesta and Rose explained why. They explained how "just say NO" may not stop drugs-- but it can certainly stop the Senate from protecting the middle class from the crooks.

I'll try to say more later. But I watched the show twice (using a recorder). It is worth watching again. But, indeed, it was missing a hint of the actual details to be compromised for conservatives to sign on for a race to recover in time for America to perform all the miracles in infrastructure, energy, education and defense of democracy we must accomplish if this century is not be worse than the past.

REMant  08/20/2010 01:46 PM Report

I think these guys have put their fingers on it pretty well. The problem was that either he couldn't control his own party, or that he tried too hard to make them happy, or worse, depended on them too much due to a lack of experience, which did not allow him to reach out to the opposition, assuming he wanted to. But it is not clear the admin was unfearful of the political consequences of its agenda from the start. The result, in any case, was not only lack of consensus, but also the passage of half-assed measures to cope with full-figured problems. And the tactics used in healthcare, and threatened in financial reform, seem to have destroyed any bridges that may have been there.

Some years ago I raised some eyebrows by saying the founding fathers made a mistake in the election of the president, and should have required him to be elected from the governors, in order both to increase executive experience and ensure weight was given to their offices. I still feel the same way.

I wrote about divisiveness yesterday. Our usual approach to this is the same as our approach to other problems, from welfare to financial crises - to throw money at them - and I have a feeling that if Keynesians and monetarists alike would consult their consciences, they would discover that their prescriptions are really motivated by this idea. It can't go on, it does no good, and undermines responsibility.

mcsconsult  08/20/2010 12:06 PM Report

Charlie, how many times must we endure appearances by Mr. Podesta blathering on with false claims and excuses? 3 times? 4 times?

And, how about getting some guests from the other side who maybe didn't vote for Obama? Nothing against Mr. Duberstein, who was quite generous I thought..