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Posted at 1:05pm on May 18, 2008 The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review
No one mentioned Plouffe by name.
By Mark Kilmer
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Preface
On FOX News Sunday, Chris Dodd averred that John McCain had thrown away "years of principle" to become a Bush clone, Senator Jon Kyl asked about just what would Barack Obama talk to Ahmadinejad? Seriously, what do you say to the guy in negotiations?
Next up for host Chris Wallace, Karl Rove said that Obama trying to link McCain to Bush was good strategy in the short term, as it wipes a broke Hillary Clinton campaign out of the news in Oregon and Kentucky, but it won't work in the long term. It will match Barry against McCain in a foreign policy debate, which is not a good idea for the Obama team.
On ABC's This Week, Joe Biden said that Hillary is "the most powerful woman in American politics," Nancy be damned. Next up, House Republican leader John Boehner promised that neither he nor Tom Davis RCCC Chairman Tom Cole is going anywhere. [(Davis, not in the GOP leadership, is quitting Congress after this term.)]
On NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert referred to Jim Webb's latest novel as: "The Bible." Webb threatened that if President Bush does not sign his politically-penned GI Bill, it will come back to haunt John McCain with veterans in the election this fall.
On CBS' Face the Nation, Florida Governor Charlie Crist and former Ross Perot campaign manager Ed Rollins agreed that Republicans had to get back to their roots. Rollins insisted that it was a mistake for Republicans to campaign against Obama in local races where local issues were what is important, excepting that Democrats should campaign against the unpopular George Bush. Crist said that Bush's remarks on appeasement before the Israeli Knesset, though he doesn't how they affect the politics, were straight from the President's Heart.
Then Mario Cuomo pushed the Dem "dream ticket," Obama and Hillary, calling it "poetry and prose coming together." Next up for host Bob Schieffer, former Colorado Governor Roy Romer said that Hillary was not Barry's only option. He suggested Kansas Governor Kathy Sebelius and John Edwards.
Finally, on CNN's Late Edition, Hillary giggled about the "nice picture of Barack" on the cover of Time magazine and agreed that Obama should not meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions. She and Wolf agreed that daughter Chelsea loves her.
Read the rest of what happened in the show-by-show review beneath the fold:
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