This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:22

This Week's Topics:

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--The Barack Obama controversy over his pastor Jeremiah Wright, including Wright's comments, how this might hurt Obama, and more.

--Obama's much-discussed "race speech."

--Chris Wallace's apparent obsession over Obama's pastor, as well as Michael Savage's comments about Wright.

--Strange comments about McCain's attachment to far right individuals.

--One TV pundit seems to be suggested that the issues he liked to talk about most are the ones most important to voters, but that doesn't seem to be true.

--The five year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, and what has changed since the start of the war.

--Commentary from John McCain on the state of the surge, Dick Cheney's upbeat assessment of what's going on now that we're five years into the war, George W. Bush's comment on the topic.

--Paul Bremer, who headed up operations in Iraq previously, says he would do it all again the same way in Iraq if given the chance.

--The Bear Stearns/JP Morgan buyout controversy where Bear Sterns was trading for $30 per share and sold for about $2 per share.

--What is a recession, are we in one, and how does the Bear Stearns buyout play into it?

--Follow-up on the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal, including the revelations that both David Paterson, the new Governor of New York, and his wife, both had multiple affairs during their marriage.

--Much more.

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