Showing posts with label Weekly Commentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weekly Commentary. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Monday, 12 January 2009
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Bob Schieffer: A political year of the unexpected.
On Sunday's Face The Nation on CBS, Bob Schieffer looked back at where they were 1 year ago, and what had happened since then.
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I don't think anybody predicted what happened this year just gone. It was an historic year, and January 20th will be a day to remember, not just for Barack Obama, and America, but for the world at large.
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I don't think anybody predicted what happened this year just gone. It was an historic year, and January 20th will be a day to remember, not just for Barack Obama, and America, but for the world at large.
Friday, 2 January 2009
One of the benefits of the Internet.
One of the great things that I find about the internet these days is that it allows you to look back in time to a degree and see just how right or wrong we have been.
Back on December 17th 2006, at the end of another edition of Face The Nation on CBS, Bob Schieffer talked about Evan Bayh, a senator from Indiana. Unfortunately, there's no video, but we do have a complete transcript.
Evan Bayh is a well-regarded, two-term Senator from Indiana but he is not exactly a household name. So when he announced two weeks ago that he was thinking about running for the Democratic presidential nomination, even he knew it was a long shot.
He acknowledged it was a David-versus-Goliath kind of thing, but he remembered that David did pretty well.
True enough, but yesterday Bayh realized why the smart money is usually on the giants — because they are giants — and he quit the race as quickly as he had entered.
"Whether there were too many Goliaths or whether I'm just not the right David, I concluded the odds were longer than I felt I could possibly pursue," he said.
In other words, he took a look, realized he had no chance and decided not to waste his time or the country's.
How refreshing! None of this "I decided I wanted to spend more time with my family," or the catalogue of excuses we've come to expect from usual wanna-bes — or even worse, one of those ego trip campaigns that all involved know is headed nowhere except to get some TV time for the candidate.
Bayh just concluded it wasn't to be and said so.
The one downside is, that is just the kind of straight talk we need more of in politics.
A man so candid about himself and his chances might have had some interesting thoughts on other subjects. In a way, I'm sorry we won't get to hear them.
In a way, what Bob wanted to happen has happened, because Barack Obama has been refreshingly straight when it comes to politics during this 2008 campaign. Now as we approach the time of his inauguration as President, we as citizens of the world, would like to see more politicians be this refeshingly honest and candid.
We haven't seen too much of it from the Republican Party, and something tells me we won't see much honesty from them.
Back on December 17th 2006, at the end of another edition of Face The Nation on CBS, Bob Schieffer talked about Evan Bayh, a senator from Indiana. Unfortunately, there's no video, but we do have a complete transcript.
Evan Bayh is a well-regarded, two-term Senator from Indiana but he is not exactly a household name. So when he announced two weeks ago that he was thinking about running for the Democratic presidential nomination, even he knew it was a long shot.
He acknowledged it was a David-versus-Goliath kind of thing, but he remembered that David did pretty well.
True enough, but yesterday Bayh realized why the smart money is usually on the giants — because they are giants — and he quit the race as quickly as he had entered.
"Whether there were too many Goliaths or whether I'm just not the right David, I concluded the odds were longer than I felt I could possibly pursue," he said.
In other words, he took a look, realized he had no chance and decided not to waste his time or the country's.
How refreshing! None of this "I decided I wanted to spend more time with my family," or the catalogue of excuses we've come to expect from usual wanna-bes — or even worse, one of those ego trip campaigns that all involved know is headed nowhere except to get some TV time for the candidate.
Bayh just concluded it wasn't to be and said so.
The one downside is, that is just the kind of straight talk we need more of in politics.
A man so candid about himself and his chances might have had some interesting thoughts on other subjects. In a way, I'm sorry we won't get to hear them.
In a way, what Bob wanted to happen has happened, because Barack Obama has been refreshingly straight when it comes to politics during this 2008 campaign. Now as we approach the time of his inauguration as President, we as citizens of the world, would like to see more politicians be this refeshingly honest and candid.
We haven't seen too much of it from the Republican Party, and something tells me we won't see much honesty from them.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Bob Schieffer's Weekly Commentary: James Jones for National Security
Whilst Hillary Clinton may have stolen the headlines and the focus last week as the possible Secretary Of State, Bob Schieffer highlights another possible appointee, this time for National Security Adviser, James L Jones.
Bob Schieffer is usually the commentator of reason in a punditry that seems to be more about noise than accuracy. This is why I continue to highlight his weekly commentaries on Face The Nation, and I will continue to do so.
Bob Schieffer is usually the commentator of reason in a punditry that seems to be more about noise than accuracy. This is why I continue to highlight his weekly commentaries on Face The Nation, and I will continue to do so.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Bob Schieffer's Weekly Commentary: Remembering a fighter.
Bob Schieffer remembers a friend and an advocate for cancer awareness, who fought some tough battles as Chief Of Staff for President Jimmy Carter, but his toughest battles were fought outside Washington and were his most personal.
Read it here.
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Bob Schieffer's Weekly Commentary: What a week!
Today on CBS News's Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer reviewed the myriad of political upstaging and weirdness that we had seen in just the past week, even though it felt like a year's worth!
Sunday, 18 November 2007
Democratic Majority + Stubborn Republicans = Nothing Doing
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent and Host of Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer, makes a great point in his weekly commentary on the programme, which is also available to read online. The following excerpt though sums up the whole point nicely...
"...Who says there's nothing that two sides can't accomplish together? Of course there is - doing nothing."
Perhaps the Democrats need some backbone, and the Republicans a little humility and common sense, not that I am expecting any progress on those fronts from either side here.
"...Who says there's nothing that two sides can't accomplish together? Of course there is - doing nothing."
Perhaps the Democrats need some backbone, and the Republicans a little humility and common sense, not that I am expecting any progress on those fronts from either side here.
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