Charlie Rose

doodah  05/26/2011 05:45 AM Report

Dear MotherLode,

Who's this 'Huntsman' character? Never heard of him until this CR episode. Where's he stand on abortion? I don't care about anything else. I'm not Pro-BabyDeath, I just think a woman's right to choose is the MOST Important Thing in the World. The foundation of society depends on it. The slaughtering of womans rights all around us MUST STOP! For man and Woman kind Forever and into eternity. I don't care about anything else, most of that is just sensationalism; Nonsense. So, does 'Huntsman' support a woman's Right to Choose? My vote depends on it.

doodah  05/25/2011 08:13 PM Report

Just to play it safe, citizens should emulate the Lobbyists by 'giving' the extra money they stole to candidates of BOTH partys. That's the smart thing to do. That way, no matter what party candidates wins, they can keep on stealing. It's called Karma.

JohnGelles  05/25/2011 06:03 AM Report

America needs and deserves at this turning point in history an intelligence rich election to carry on the rescue of our economy and the global political economy from the capital asset disaster of 2008 that has raised worldwide unemployment and lowered expectations for all of us -- for truly no good reason!

We are at the beginning of revolutions in every hard science -- as we carry the burden of counter-revolutions in common sense application of science to law and economics.

At a time when we should be producing clean air and water (including our oceans,) as a byproduct of all we do, we are doing the opposite.

At a time when full employment national budgets should have replaced all budget systems which shun purpose in favor of pursuing illogical casino-capitalist goals of getting something for nothing just because property law has not caught up with logistical science (where hard work produces needs and corporate corruption of the law is prevented from stealing their employee's lunch.

Debates between Huntsman and Obama might reach the important issues of (a) free education (because our educated children can make the whole nation rich), (b) rational taxes and money systems (because our presently high taxes and unsystematic money operations are burdening all the good work we try to do), and (c) the high tech industrial revolution called for by Huntsman (because peace and our national security demands that we, (not China alone) be the high-tech workshop of the world.

Obama was elected to return America to its role as the arsenal for peace as well as wartime needs of this world that would be democratic if it could, and his Ambassador to China, will, if we are lucky, mix it up this year and elect what amounts to a united American administration that employs all of us at our highest skills to do our best work to make this planet an example to all others of the best the human race is capable of -- not the worst. If there are no other planets to thank us for such favor we can always look in a mirror and thank God for our conduct as it improves every day.

laupan  05/25/2011 05:31 AM Report

The politics we have in our country today is patronage politics. We usually vote into office those who can act as our patrons and give us some kind of clout for our personal purposes. The low self-esteem and lack of power of the masses are such that they are psychologically in need of political crutches -- leaders on whom they can lean on and provide them with whatever they need in the short term. There are pockets of organizations in our society that have done very well developing a constituency based on entitlements and government funding to keep this constituency segment into growing in numbers and increasingly more dependent on this system.

We need to reach out to a better leadership for our country. Leaders who have merit, talent, integrity and willingness to serve, that will take the necessary steps in putting our country back in order, getting our financial house in order. This requires us to examine track record rather than mere name recall, appearance, the proper family name, the connected, the chosen ones who are paid for, funded and financially backed by special interest groups.

When we look at the comparison with our leadership with other world leaders it is at times frightening. To listen and watch the likes of Mr. Netanyahu sitting across from President Obama or VP Biden being so much more on top of his game, it is scary. To look at “Little Timmy” sitting across from Mr. Wang and being clueless about the issues, it is scary. We look at Newt, or John Edwards or any number of the long list of people from both sides of the political spectrum it is scary.

For our President and VP to be so disengaged from reality of what is going on in the Middle East is scary. For our government leadership to develop this health care program when the existing one is such a disaster case is scary.

Where are the capable leaders in our country when we need them, what are they doing? Why are they not coming to the aid of our country?

Charlie, your panel seems to be oblivious to the real issues at hand, why do they not address them?

MotherLodeBeth  05/25/2011 03:11 AM Report

Just because some of us live here in the rural west, doesn't mean we don't read numerous publications, have excellent educations, yet still have old fashioned values that are still in vogue outside the DC beltway.

And I love Jon Huntsman who is respected here in the west. The fact he served his country when asked per Obama wanting him as Ambassador to China will speak well for him, since it shows he put the country first even if he wasn't from Obamas party. He also thinks before he speaks and understands the average American.

His awesome wife and family will appeal to a majority of Americans. The fact that as Governor his state became known as one of the top three states to do business in will speak volumes to anyone concerned about jobs jobs jobs! As will being an executive for his families billion dollar Huntsman Corporation. As for him being LDS/Mormon. As a Christian I have yet to meet a conservative Christian who doesn't like him and want him to run for President.

Maybe Charlie, Al and others in their elitist circle should get out more....

doodah  05/24/2011 07:32 PM Report

The Republicans are as pathetic as the Democrats. Has anybody LISTENED to what 'Buddy Roemer' says?. These knuckleheads didn't even mention his name. They're probably afraid of pissing off their bosses. Why are 'they' (repugnanticans and demogogcrats in the funny-money) all afraid of 'Buddy Roemer'?.???

President Obama, 4 more years for you my friend. 8 Total. Congratulations, for you, for you are a jolly good fellow. And let all the jealous FOOLS cry in their little pissy milk, THEY DESERVE IT. LOL

tabs  05/24/2011 06:41 PM Report

"Mitt Romney has less personality and character than Robbie the Robot on the 1960's television program Lost In Space. What Romney Robot is, is a slick opportunist whose only core value is his ambition to be President of the United States. The only question is would he sell his Mother to be President or would he just stop at the wife and kids." TABS 3/11/11

Mitt from his recent comments about his MA HC program seems to be suffering from the same affliction his father suffered from in 1967. Who remembers the infamous George Romney "I was brainwashed" by the MIC as his reason for changing his position from being for the war in Vietnam to being against? If one is to consider Mitt and George statements one can see that the statements are more oportunistic "to get over" than what they actualy believe. This smacks of the same Nixonian cynicism of not believing that the American people would accept what they really stand for. Or maybe they are trying to cover their own ambition only agenda by trying to be "slick"?

Michelle Bachman stands to be a good VP canidate, and can act as a driver of agenda and "King Maker" by whoever she throws her support to.

The ambitious Newt for his own recent faux pau has an impressive economic plan as expressed on CNBC on 3/24/11. However Newt has the smell of the old guard Washington insider can tied to his tail. Again Newt like Bachman and Palin can be a driver of setting the tone of the Republican agenda.

Pawlenty and Huntsman are still unkown quanities at this time for one to comment.

With regards to the President, one can say that he has distinct problems within his own base. Which are the reality of the exingenicies of the job require that one can not just willy nilly go out and fulfill the hearts desires of his Leftist base. Second Obama seems very adapt at alienating a major stalwart of the Democrat base by making his Jewish comments abut returning to the 67 borders. Third the Obama running of the economy has proven to be naive in its ideological driven living better through bigger and better government, whose major accomplishment was HC. In other words the Federal government under the Obama tutledge has proven to be inept and ruinious for America. This all reflects on the disenchantment of the Independant voters with Obama and his agenda. Taken all together Obama's biggest enemy is himself and his policies.

robdverity  05/24/2011 05:36 PM Report

Any GOP charlatan will do (and they abound). Obama deserves defeat for sustaining all of Bush's most repugnant moves from finance to wars.

charlizecourriers  05/24/2011 03:26 PM Report

Huntsman easily defeats Obama, if Obama is the nominee.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/24/2011 02:38 PM Report

Last week we saw the Republican party attack Newt. Newt was trying to talk sense--moderation--but they would have none of it. Obama has the economy but Newt showed us that the Republicans have become the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" party.

CarolJ  05/24/2011 12:12 PM Report

Charlie Rose, I believe you are an intelligent person, but your tongue got twisted around your teeth. I wonder if Mitch Daniels and the residents of the Hoosier State of Indiana known that Mr. Daniels is the Former Governor of Indiana. From a born and bred Hoosier. This was an excellent conversation.

REMant  05/24/2011 11:17 AM Report

In this country, the president runs all the way through his first term as well, and ours is presently wooing potential voters over in Ireland and Poland. I suspect Daniels may believe the GOP can't win, and probably also that the voters wouldn't forgive him for forgiving his wife, tho I think he'd be wrong about both. Romney may have scared him off. But there's no way that Romney can win, period, and I think every non-Democrat feels that. Daniels, however, like Romney and Pawlenty is a big govt Bush-Brooks-type Republican.

No one knows much about him, but I'd have to agree that Buntsman appears the strongest candidate at the moment, tho I don't agree with Hunt about his time in China, which I think will appear even to the blue collar vote as a strength. Nor do I agree about Palin or Bachmann, who is far too bigoted. No one really takes them seriously. Saying Gingrich has assumed Trump's place in the public imagination may be an exaggeration. I doubt even the Republican faithful remember him, and I think Pat Buchanan would do better with the Tea Party. But Ron Paul is running again, and I would not leave him out of the equation. He is articulate, not crazy and his economics is better than the Council of Economic Advisers and the Federal Reserve put together. If I recall correctly he's placed better than any of the above in straw polls the past year. Aside from him I doubt any of 2008's candidates stand a chance.

What I would worry about is that the voters still do not care to hear the facts of life from ppl like Paul. It hasn't happened overseas. Those kids from Spain to Syria are blaming everything on "fascists" just the way Keynes, et al, did, and Obama, like FDR, is going to pander to them, and I think the worse the economy is, and the more noise sensible ppl make about it, the more it will actually help him. Part of it no doubt will be cognitive dissonance, but most ppl still feel sorry for him, and "his struggle," and I'm sure he will play on that. If unemployment remains the same and inflation begins to run rampant there might be a glimmer of hope, but history doesn't offer much hope of that either and such circumstances have usually ended only in war, because it is the only thing it seems Bolsheviks and fascists seem to agree on. I expect tho Obama will face a Republican Congress, because it appears ppl look for different qualities in a leader and a representative.