John Dickerson

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A discussion about foreign policy in the Presidential race with John Dickerson, political correspondent for Slate magazine and political director of CBS News

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    1. Ricardo_Amaral  09/17/2012 06:02 PM Report

      Benjamin Nethanyahu is trying very hard to interfere with the current presidential election in the United States and during the weekend...

      http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67053&perpage=6&pagenumber=72

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    2. Gelles  09/16/2012 05:51 AM Report

      The potential for anti-American political action to take over the Arab Spring threatens a vision by Obama that he can re-connect an alliance with Europe, Russia and Asia against nuclear proliferation and senseless economic rivalry where cooperation in trade and marketing is called for.

      This weekend more will unfold in the Middle East and North Africa. What is Romney's role in all this? He gives no evidence of talent for top leadership. His party, if anything, appears even more conflicted than himself.

      Not that Obama is a hands-down winner in all this. He has been given a blank check by Bernanke. But has he the guts and brains to use it?

      We cannot muddle through years of unemployment and loss of manufacturing skills and superior performance. We cannot lose our middle class and embrace oligarchy (rule by the rich and powerful for the rich and powerful alone).

      Has Charlie Rose lost it? Is he now a clone of commercial TV reporters? Not yet.

    3. richard-lipscombe  09/15/2012 11:19 PM Report

      so now viewers of Charlie Rose have to listen to all the CBS light-weights we refuse to watch in real time?

      this guy, whomever he is, has nothing to say...why should you give this guy airtime...further signs that the famous Charlie Rose round table is cracked right through the middle - further evidence to support my argument that this table will/can not last another 5 years...

      the Charlie Rose table is cracked because this video of 5 minutes can be summed up by who care??? what has this video contributed to discussion of the issues in America - answer absolutely nothing....

      perhaps we are being shown this type of 'fairy floss' by Charlie Rose because he now has to 'suck' up to his colleague at CBS News but surely we don't have to see him doing that ....

      oh well, we all have to earn our daily bread and it seems that this is what Charlie Rose feels he now has to do to earn his... good luck with that approach to life Charlie....

      cheers, richard.

    4. blank  09/15/2012 07:27 PM Report

      http://wtrns.fr/OZCK3ReH3rrxkY5

    5. SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/15/2012 03:03 AM Report

      You could see Romney stumble.

      He just fell back on campaign rhetoric.

      So forgiven for his misstep.

      However, liar-liar-pants-on-fire (all right four Pinocchios) that Obama is the apologizer.

      REPUBLICANS, TIME TO TRUTH IT UP!

      http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2011/02/obamas_apology_tour.html

    6. Ellen_Dibble  09/14/2012 01:20 PM Report

      Sorry to combine a comment about Ghosh/Logan and Brooks into this one, but it fits. I think the more "forwarding-leaning" foreign policy of the Republicans, posing as so strong that no one dares challenge you (I call that bullying), versus the Obama stance that more entertains dialogue -- diplomacy and negotiation, I think that stand-off is prefigured in the era of the late 1960s, and I think the Arab Spring has parallels to the laissez-faire hippie generation David Brooks describes as "drugs and sleeping around," which led to social deterioration that is reversing itself in the last 20 years, he says, and also led to the laissez-faire (greed and take-what-you-can) business practices that stem from the same era.

      It happens there were protests all over in the 1960s, organized to be nonviolent -- for civil rights, against the War in Vietnam, later for women's rights. For all these things, the positions of the protesters pretty much set them against their families, and the ethos of World War II, which seems to me somewhat Salafi, or Wahabi, a style of conformity and unquestioning obedience, with social fabric (family) seriously hurt if anyone strayed. We all strayed. In order to do that, some people felt they needed the drugs, and/or they needed the additional intimacy among their cohort. And with the draft in effect, people out of college couldn't "settle down" once they fell in love. Who would support a government (pay taxes or serve in the military) under such a situation? So many people, as I recall, fell hook, line, and sinker into small communities that I'll call cults, living off the land, and bound with emotional bonds that defied reason. There was "the system," which was evil, and there was the new "family," whatever it was. Remember the Moonies? Remember the Beatles going to visit ashrams? The religion a lot of people had inherited was inadequate. Eastern religions had big pull. (Islam, not so much!) The sense of rupture with the past was extreme, but people who didn't go to college probably didn't experience that. But the new groupings incubated new ways of being together that are still in play, apparently in the Obama/Romney campaign. I doubt Islam can avoid this kind of major multi-decade adaptation, and apparently violent opposition to any outliers makes it more difficult. Much more difficult.