This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

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

Total Running Time: 56:04

This Week's Topics:

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--After last week's 5 year anniversary of the Iraq war, another milestone is reached with the 4000th US military casualty.

--More commentary from President Bush about Iraq.

--Vice-President Dick Cheney's crazy response to questions about polling in Iraq.

--Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says the surge has worked on all fronts, while Chuck Hagel, another Republican senator says that the surge simply isn't working.

--The passport leak story, and the follow-up from Condoleezza Rice.

--One pundit thinks the passport story was just something Barack Obama created to distract from the Jeremiah Wright story.

--Rush Limbaugh continues to campaign for Hillary Clinton.

--Chelsea Clinton is asked about Monica Lewinsky at a stump speech.

--Chris Matthews says maybe we should elect a Republican to end the war, and then says decisions made by politicians like the Clintons have led to 4000 dead in Iraq.

--Lou Dobbs makes more strange comments, wondering if simply accepting Bill Richardson's endorsement is a sign that Barack Obama is pandering to ethnocentric special interests, while a whole Fox News panel discusses Bill Richardson's beard.

--One radio host says that Barack Obama has disowned his white half, while another predicts African-Americans will riot in the streets of Obama loses.

--America: #22 In Prosperity And Stability

--Joe Klein embarrasses himself with a tasteless remark.

--Much more...

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