This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

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

Total Running Time: 55:07

This Week's Topics:

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--More follow up on General David Petraeus' testimony before Congress, including President Bush's speech following the event.

--Colin Powell says that regardless of who the next president is, there will be 140,000 troops in Iraq well beyond January of 2009.

--Wolf Blitzer casually says Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are not political appointees, but it seems they are.

--Talk of air-striking Iran within the next six months.

--The Pentagon's latest anti-terror device, a portable lie detector.

--Senator Barack Obama's statements that led to a week of talk about whether he is elitist.

--A news segment about Pennsylvania voters disgruntled by Obama's comments shows just one man saying he thinks Obama was right on.

--The man who brought us the War on Christmas starts telling callers to his radio show that they are voting for Obama simply because they are black.

--During an Obama event, a man reading questions refers of Osama bin Laden as Obama bin Laden.

--Talk of Michelle Obama being a cross between Kim Jong-Il and Oprah, while others say Hillary Clinton is being called a bitch simply because she acts like one.

--Another accusation that various terrorists are campaigning for Democrats to win in 2008.

--One pundit lets John McCain off the hook for his Sunni-Shiite confusion, while another tells him he's a maverick and prefaces a softball question with "we've had enough softball."

--Pat Robertson's latest comments about Islam being a political system bent on world domination.

--More funny talk about a possible global cooling problem.

--Much more.

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