Charlie Rose

moloko5  09/25/2012 04:26 AM Report

Lol, a massive new job training program... and increased taxes to boot. Yeah, the Senate Republicans won't filibuster that.

moloko5  09/25/2012 04:20 AM Report

Brokow's sentimental take on how America used to be is a bit over the top. We're not as bad off today and our politicians aren't worse than they used to be as he always makes it sound. The part where he claimed Bill Clinton had great ideas and the consensus of the American people compared to Obama was silly.

Bob3000  09/10/2012 11:08 PM Report

the DNC made a compelling argument. This is important for the country.

Gelles  09/10/2012 07:22 PM Report

Next to last line "logistical rules" NOT AS PRINTED WITH ERROR.

Gelles  09/10/2012 07:20 PM Report

The attack on

Gelles  09/10/2012 07:16 PM Report

What are the BIG IDEAS Americans want or need to consider -- as we vote for our president and our law-makers?

These big ideas may be the topic this conversation aims to present. Try these on for size:

Idea !. Of the three equal branches, executive, legislative, and judicial, the MOST equal is the executive and its leader is Chief Magistrate, Commander in Chief, and the only authority ELECTED by all the PEOPLE.

Idea 2. Avoidance of nuclear war or similarly avoidable destructive events is the number one global priority of the human animal in real time.

Idea 3. Achievement of "abundance" (highest minimum standard of living everywhere all the time) is the common material objective of every legitimate nation state --OR ELSE!

Idea 4. Adherence to the Golden Rule is spiritual enough doctrine until it is fully achieved. Thereafter, we have infinite time and space for artistic accomplishment by genius and lesser lights.

YET BOTH PARTIES (political and nominated individuals) flunk the simple test that requires them to state their material objectives and how they can pay for them with a replacement for profit an loss accounting THAT IS AN OBVIOUS GLOBAL FAILURE!!

This citizen suggests the President and the ex-Governor discuss the logistical ruled and Keynesian doctrines that always success in time of war -- even when used by winners and losers against each other.

rtb  09/10/2012 02:51 PM Report

"You Lie!"

I'm not sure what planet Tom & co. live on, but they haven't been reading online comments lately or listening to the Republican party.

A Marshall Plan for jobs is a "non-partisan issue"? My God, everything is a partisan issue.

I've made more money in the market under Obama than I lost under Bush. I'm better off.

REMant  09/10/2012 02:45 PM Report

I really don't think expense is the only liability of conventions. The networks delivered their verdict on the issue long ago.

Any country can afford big ideas it can pay for, just as any country can have unemployment, if it wants to pay for it. The problem is that this one thinks that such dreaming pays for itself. Obama may not have appreciated the extent of this depression, but, it seems, Americans haven't yet fully appreciated the apparent extent of the president's reveries.

The tenor of Obama's acceptance speech was that his opponents are selfish and he and his party are not, the implication being that the former are really the radicals and the impediment to progress. While there's certainly nothing new in this - one thinks of the vehemence against gold, for instance, as well as the populism and communism of the Depression era - the growth of entitlement is surely equally to blame, and progress is not just the "evolution of "cooperation," which has gone under many less commendable monickers, such as narcissism and other-direction.

It would help if ppl Rep Clyburn checked their facts. As Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler put it: "Meanwhile, Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), in a speech to the convention on Thursday evening, gave Democrats full credit for the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965, declaring that Republicans 'just cursed the darkness' and 'stood on the sidelines' when that legislation emerged from Congress. In fact, Social Security passed with significant Republican support, and Medicare was adopted with 'yes' votes by a majority of Republicans in the House and a significant minority in the Senate." He also notes that LBJ's Civil Rights Act would not have passed without "the decisive support of Republicans." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/two-conventions-in-parallel-narrative-and-phil osophical-universes/2012/09/07/ada51f58-f935-11e1-8b93-c4f4ab1c8d13_blog.html?hpid=z1) Perhaps Clyburn meant only those Southerners who later switched sides, but then he would have to contend with the fact that FDR won the South.

The Louisiana Purchase clearly furthered Jefferson's project of westward expansion to slow the progress of "civilization." So not out of character at all. And believe me Ike didn't like McCarthy, but in usual fashion sandbagged him behind the scenes.