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*Main Topics* McVeep, Bush talks Cuba, Hagee and Hitler, McCain courts
'black vote,' Lieberman vs YouTube, Cindy McCain in Vogue
*Summary of Shift:* Sen. Kennedy's illness continued to receive coverage as
he returned home from the hospital. Panelist pondered the meaning of last
night's democratic primaries results. Syria and Israel's peace talks
garnered coverage of international news, as did the ongoing fight to deliver
aid to Myanmar.
Highlights:
1) McCain Looks At Possible VP Picks
a. Panel Discussion on Three Governors to Meet With McCain as Possible
VP Choices
b. John Thune Claims McCain Sets the Bar on Lobbyists, McCain To Speak
to Possible VP Picks
2) President Bush Discusses Cuba, Marks Day of Solidarity
3) Hagee Claims God Sent Hitler, Hagel says Obama Right on Diplomacy
4) McCain Courts Black Voters
5) Obama-McCain Iran Foreign Policy Spat
a. Brzezinski Grills Pfotenhauer on McCain's Foreign Policy Feud With
Obama
b. Local DC News Coverage of Barak-McCain Foreign Diplomacy Spat
c. King: McCain's Strength is not in Economy
6) Lieberman Pushes to Restrict Free Speech On-Line
7) Cindy McCain Attempts to Re-Brand Herself in Vogue
Clips:
Highlight #1
*Panal Discussion on Three Governors to Meet With McCain as Possible VP
Choices *(MSNBC 05/21/08 6:55pm)
DAVID GREGORY: NBC news has confirmed that McCain will be meeting with three
governors over the weekend. Charlie Crist of Florida, Bobby Jindal of
Louisiana and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. We want to look at
each one and what each one would bring to McCain's campaign. First up
Governor Charlie Crist, popular moderate governor of a key swing state he
won there in 06 a political year that vastly favored the democrats and Crist
endorsement of McCain likely helped him edge out Mitt Romney in that Florida
primary
TONY BLANKLEY: I don't think he brings much, I think that if McCain' can't
carry Florida on his own he is not going to carry it. He needs to carry
something else. I don't think he brings much to the ticket. He is a very
attractive guy , very popular in Florida but I think this is such a weird
election season that McCain needs to do something different maybe go with
someone like a Governor Ridge or even a Liebermann rather then try and do
sort of a classic kind
JAY CARNEY: I think he is enormously popular in Florida but I don't think
McCain, he has more, other more disparate needs it is not a surprise it is
clear that, you know, he is looking outside of Washington his running mate
will be governor or former governor I think that that is safe to say. I am
surprised that Tim Plenty of Minnesota is not on this list … The youth thing
is important but he doesn't want to go to young and that is why I think that
Jindal is a problem …
RACHEL MADDOW: The obvious is that he needs someone that is young and
vigorous, he needs someone who is not going to show him up. Someone that is
not going to be a preferred choice someone that is not going to over shadow
him on the stump that may be part of the risk with Mitt Romney… He has to
balance out the fact that he has been in Washington for so long. As Jay
rightly points out the age thing and I think he still needs to be the star.
[…]
GENE ROBINSON: Look he [Gov. Jindal] is an amazing guy. He would bring to
the ticket diversity, he would bring a ferocious set of brains he is really,
really smart and I think has a bright future in Politics. But he is awfully
young and I think that it takes McCain needs somebody who is younger and
vigorous but he also needs somebody who, to quote Hillary Clinton, could
become, you know, is ready to become president on day one…
BLANKLEY: I think McCain needs to play to his strength he is playing as the
experienced man he should have an experienced ticket. Like Clinton picked
Gore. Similar kind of a person to emphasize his strength
[…]
CARNEY: McCain has made it explicit that he will not pick somebody who is
not sort of aggressively anti-abortion, pro-life and I think that McCain
still has enough, there is enough concern among social conservatives about
McCain and rather or not he will true to their causes that he can not risk
alienating them by picking someone who is not very firm on abortion.
[…]
MADDOW: Romney is more appropriate in terms of the age balance and I think
the experience balance also the outside of Washington balance.
BLANKLEY: I think McCain is going to put everything in getting someone who
will help him get elected, worry about governing if he is lucky enough to
get elected. And Romney's problem is that he is seen as inauthentic and that
is inconsistent with the theme of McCain, which is the straight shooter and
also his Mormonism isn't going to help him among
conservatives.<http://www.box.net/shared/ogo9h0uasw>
*John Thune Claims McCain Sets the Bar on Lobbyists* (FNC 05/21/08 5:13pm)
JOHN THUNE: Everybody who's been around Washington or been around John
McCain at all knows no one has fought the influence of special interests
more in the political process than has Senator McCain. I think he has set
the highest standards and threshold in terms of people who are affiliated
and working on behalf of his campaign and I would like to see Senator Obama
offer that same sort of transparency because I think Senator McCain is going
to set the standard when it comes to getting rid of the special interests'
influence when it comes to politics.
[...]
THUNE: I just think that this is a great issue for Senator McCain. No one
who has been associated with him over the long course of his public career
knows better that there is anybody better in politics today who will work to
root out special interests in our political process. So I think that's a
great debate to have and it's one that I know Senator McCain welcomes [...].
Highlight #2
*President Bush Discusses Cuba, Marks Day of Solidarity* (CNN 05/21/08
10:30am)
GEORGE W BUSH: Bienvenidos. Thanks for coming to mark this Day of Solidarity
with the Cuban People. This is a day of pride, as we honor the culture and
history of a noble nation. It is a day of sorrow, as we reflect on the
continued oppression of the Cuban people. Most of all, this is a day of
hope. We have hope because we see a day coming when Cubans will have the
freedom of which they have dreamed for centuries -- the freedom that is the
eternal birthright of all mankind. And many of you here are working to
hasten this day -- and I thank you for your efforts.
[…]
This time of year holds great significance for the Cuban people. One hundred
and 13 years ago this week, Cuba lost its great poet and patriot, José
Martí. And 106 years ago this week, Cuba achieved the independence for which
Martí gave his life. José Martí knew that true liberty would come to Cuba
only with a just government of it's people's choosing. He warned: "A regime
of personal despotism would be even more shameful and calamitous than the
political despotism [Cuba] now endures."
Martí's warning proved truer than anyone could have imagined. Today, after
nearly a half-century of repression, Cuba still suffers under the personal
despotism of Fidel and Raul Castro. On the dictators' watch, Cuba's
political freedoms have been denied. Families have been torn apart. The
island's economy has been reduced to shambles. Cuba's culture has been
drained of artists and scholars and musicians and athletes. And like the
once-grand buildings of Havana, Cuba's society is crumbling after decades of
neglect under the Castros.
A few months ago, when Fidel handed over many of his titles to his brother
Raul, the Cuban regime announced a series of so-called "reforms." For
example, Cubans are now allowed to purchase mobile phones and DVD players
and computers. And they've been told that they will be able to purchase
toasters and other basic appliances in 2010.
If the Cuban regime is serious about improving life for the Cuban people, it
will take steps necessary to make these changes meaningful. Now that the
Cuban people can be trusted with mobile phones, they should also be trusted
to speak freely in public. (Applause.) Now that the Cuban people are allowed
to purchase DVD players, they should also be allowed to watch movies and
documentaries produced by Cuban artists who are free to express themselves.
(Applause.) Now that the Cuban people have open access to computers, they
should also have open access to the Internet. (Applause.) And now that the
Cuban people will be allowed to have toasters in two years, they should stop
needing to worry about whether they will have bread today. (Applause.)
There is another problem with the regime's recent announcements: It is the
height of hypocrisy to claim credit for permitting Cubans to own products
that virtually none of them can afford. For the regime's actions to have any
impact, they must be accompanied by major economic reforms that open up
Cuba's inefficient state-run markets, to give families real choices about
what they buy, and institute a free enterprise system that allows ordinary
people to benefit from their talents and their hard work. Only when Cubans
have an economy that makes prosperity possible will these announcements lead
to any real improvements in their daily lives.
Real change in Cuba also requires political freedom. In this area too, the
regime has made grand commitments. One of Raul's first acts after receiving
his new titles was to sign a major United Nations treaty on human rights.
Yet when it comes to respecting human rights on the island, the regime has
not attempted even cosmetic changes. For example, political dissidents
continue to be harassed, detained, and beaten, and more than 200 prisoners
of conscience still languish in Castro's tropical gulag.
Recently, I received a letter from a man who spent 17 years in these
dungeons. He described them as "dens of torture and pain and death." This is
an undeniable violation of the U.N. treaty that Cuba just signed. If the
regime views this document as anything more than a worthless piece of paper,
it must immediately stop its abuse of political dissidents and release all
political prisoners. (Applause.)
The world is watching the Cuban regime. If it follows its recent public
gestures by opening up access to information, and implementing meaningful
economic reform, respecting political freedom and human rights, then it can
credibly say it has delivered the beginnings of change. But experience tells
us this regime has no intention of taking these steps. Instead, its recent
gestures appear to be nothing more than a cruel joke perpetrated on a
long-suffering people.
America refuses to be deceived, and so do the Cuban people. (Applause.)
While the regime embarrasses and isolates itself, the Cuban people will
continue to act with dignity and honor and courage. In Cuba, advocates of
liberty use this week to honor the political prisoners who have sacrificed
for the cause of freedom -- like a brave writer named Pedro Luis Boitel.
(Applause.) On May 17, 1972, while on a hunger strike in prison, Boitel
said: "They can kill and destroy my body, but never my spirit. This [they]
can never bend." Eight days later, Boitel died. He was 41 years old.
We see the same unbending courage in Cuba's political prisoners today. We
see it in a man named Luis Enrique Ferrer García. Luis Enrique is a peaceful
pro-democracy advocate who was rounded up during the 2003 Black Spring. Luis
Enrique received the longest sentence of all those arrested during the
crackdown, condemned to 28 years in the Castros' prisons. At times, this
brave man has been trapped in a dark cell too small for him to stand. He
suffers from high blood pressure, and severe gastrointestinal illnesses. As
his health obviously deteriorates, he has little access to his family.
We see this courage in a doctor named Oscar Elias Biscet. Dr. Biscet is a
healer, a man of peace, and a determined activist for human rights. For all
this, Dr. Biscet serves a 25-year sentence under the worst conditions. He
was once put into solitary confinement for nearly eight months, trapped in a
small, dark, underground cell. He lost nearly 50 pounds and has lost almost
all of his teeth. He is in poor health. He is allowed very few visitors.
We see this courage in Cuba's Damas de blanco. Every Sunday, these "Ladies
in White" march in silent protest, demanding the release of their loved
ones. A few weeks ago, when about a dozen of these women held a peaceful
sit-in at a public park, they were dragged from the area by a large
pro-regime mob. One of the women was Berta Soler, whose husband, Juan Angel
Moya Acosta, is serving a 20-year sentence. Earlier this month, Berta told
me personally: "Despite the torture, Cuba's political prisoners will not
give in."
Recently, a former political prisoner asked me to remember his brothers
languishing in Castro's jails. Through this Day of Solidarity with the Cuban
People, we honor that request by speaking the names of Cuba's prisoners of
conscience. They include the men I have just mentioned. They include others
such as: Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso, Jose Luis Garcia Paneque, Normando
Hernandez, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Tanquero, and Ariel and Guido Sigler Amaya.
They include other names that many of you keep in your hearts and in your
prayers.
These names are being whispered in Cuban cities from Pinar del Rio to
Santiago de Cuba. These names are being echoed at Solidarity events around
the world, as people from South America to Eastern Europe demand the release
of all Cuban prisoners -- political prisoners. Today these names are being
recognized by the nation that will always be a friend of Cuban freedom --
los Estados Unidos. (Applause.)
This is the first Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People -- and the United
States must keep observing such days until Cuba's freedom. We'll continue to
support the Cubans who work to make their nation democratic and prosperous
and just. Since 2001, the United States has dramatically stepped up our
efforts to promote freedom and democracy in Cuba. This includes our
increased efforts to get uncensored information to the Cuban people,
primarily through Radio y TV Marti.
Today, I also repeat my offer to license U.S. NGOs and faith-based groups to
provide computers and Internet to the Cuban people -- if Cuban rulers will
end their restrictions on Internet access. And since Raul is allowing Cubans
to own mobile phones for the first time, we're going to change our
regulations to allow Americans to send mobile phones to family members in
Cuba. If Raul is serious about his so-called reforms, he will allow these
phones to reach the Cuban people. (Applause.)
Through these measures, the United States is reaching out to the Cuban
people. Yet we know that life will not fundamentally change for Cubans until
their form of government changes. For those who've suffered for decades,
such change may seem impossible. But the truth is, it is inevitable.
The day will come when Cubans freely receive information from many sources.
The day will come when popular blogs are no longer blocked, and broadcasts
from the United States are no longer jammed. The day will come when Cuban
leaders live up to the international human rights documents they have signed
-- instead of making a mockery of them. The day will come when Cubans can
speak their dissent and change their jobs and leave their country and return
to it. And the day will come when they can worship the God Almighty without
fear. (Applause.) The day will come when all political prisoners are offered
unconditional release. And these developments will bring another great day
-- the day when Cubans choose their own leaders by voting in free and fair
elections. (Applause.)
Today, 113 years after José Martí left us, a new poet-patriot expresses the
hopes of the Cuban people. With us this morning is songwriter Willy Chirino.
Willy will perform a song that is on the Cuban people's lips and in their
hearts. And here are some of its lyrics: Nuestro día ya viene llegando.
As I mentioned, today my words are being broadcast directly to the Cuban
people. I say to all those listening on the island today: Your day is
coming. As surely as the waves beat against the Malecón, the tide of freedom
will reach Cuba's shores. Until it does, know that you are in our prayers.
And know that the Author of liberty hears those prayers, y que, con su
ayuda, veremos a Cuba libre. Gracias, y que Díos los bendiga. (Applause.)
Highlight #3
*Hagee Claims God Sent Hitler, Hagel says Obama Right on Diplomacy* (MSNBC
05/21/08 8:40pm)
KEITH OLBERMANN: One of his biggest endorsers knows the will of God… this
God says the endorser sent Hitler to kill the Jews to force them to move to
Israel. That is apparently one of the lesser-known planks of the McCain
platform….
OLBERMANN: Last night Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hegel reportedly
told a private gathering organized by a non-proliferation group that not
only is Barak Obama right about engaging with America's enemies but the John
McCain is wrong. Hagel declined to address speculation about serving in an
Obama cabinet. But did say quote I can't get into the psycho analysis of it
but I believe that John is smarter then some of the things he is
saying. Perhaps,
but is he smarter then things that have been said by the influential pastor
who endorsement he sought and refuses to denounce to this day…. Now an
online journalist has found audio from a Christian website. Of a sermon
dated 2006 in which Hagee says that the bible's book of Jeremiah quotes god
talking about sending Hitler to force the Jews to Israel.
[Audio clip of Hagee played]
BOOK OF JEREMIAH: Behold I will send for many fishers and after will I send
for many hunters; and they the hunters shall hunt them
JOHN HAGEE: that will be the Jews
BOOK OF JEREMIAH: From every mountain and from every hill and from out of
the holes of the rocks
HAGEE: If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust, you can't
see that. And that will be offensive to some people. Well, dear heart, be
offended.
RYAN LIZZA: I don't know if McCain knew about these comments or not but
Hagee's remark there that some people will be offended by these comments is
the understatement of the year certainly. Um, look arguably his uh, McCain
seeking out an endorsement from Hagee is worse in some ways then Obama's
relationship with Wright… McCain actually sought this guys endorsement and
up to this point has repudiated him… it seems unconceivable to me that
McCain can have any further relationship with this guy and continue to sort
of um, have his active endorsement in any way. I would be shocked if he
didn't denounce him after this.
[…]
LIZZA: On the offensive scale of 1 to 10, claiming that God sent Hitler to
hunt down the Jews and force them to Israel is about a 20. A politician
running for president can't be associated with someone who says something
like that. <http://www.box.net/shared/u0u9zjaucs>
Highlight #4
*McCain Courts Black Voters* (CNN 05/21/08 4:28pm)
MARY SNOW: In April, on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's
assassination, McCain admitted he made a mistake in voting against making
the King remembrance a federal holiday.
Highlight #5
*Brzezinski Grills Pfotenhauer on McCain's Foreign Policy Feud With
Obama*(MSNBC 05/21/08 11:00am)
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Now assuming Obama becomes the democratic nominee, let's
talk about this, because the strategy that McCain seems to be taking at this
point is to attack Obama hard on foreign policy. A lot of this without
precondition, kind of, I don't know, is it bending, bending Obama's position
a little bit to try to make it look incredibly weak or is John McCain
attacking something legit here?
NANCY PFOTENHAUER: Obviously we believe it's legitimate. As far as Obama's
position on Cuba goes, you can go back and see in writing what he said about
his own position in 2003 because he filled out a voter survey in Illinois.
But he also spoke about it again in a Democratic Presidential debate when
Senator Hillary American diplomatic history and, in fact, dangerous in the
world that we're in right now.
BRZEZINSKI: Ok but you know what? You know what also might be dangerous in
the world we live in now is continuing the course that we're on right now.
This president for eight years, some would argue has destroyed our
reputation and destroyed our relationships with some countries that perhaps
we might need to be talking to. While Obama's position could be painted as
nursery school because it could be harmful to be talking with countries like
Iran, isn't it something we need to do rebuild our reputation around the
world number one and number two, try and perhaps renegotiate with some of
these countries that are increasingly becoming incredibly dangerous, perhaps
because of the foreign policy we have put in place?
PFOTENHAUER: Well, Mika, you raise an interesting point because when you
talk about undermining diplomatic relations, Obama's position on direct
presidential level unconditioned talks with Iran is at complete odds with no
less than three resolutions passed by the UN Security Council. So he's at
odds not just with current American policy, if you will, he's at odds with
the policy of all our European allies, Germany and China. He's thumbed his
nose at the entire diplomatic community. So one could call him a cowboy in
this regard. And I think that's one of the reasons why you see both
Democrats and Republicans kind of putting their hands in the air saying does
this man know what he's saying he's going to do. And you have people that
are as respected as Senator Lieberman questioning what this means for the
Democratic party when they step so far away from some of the strong and
positive diplomatic efforts done by Democratic presidents in the past.
BRZEZINSKI: I saw Senator Lieberman's piece in the "Wall Street Journal"
this morning and he talks about Barack Obama's approach and he uses without
precondition and the Obama campaign says "it's not like we're sitting town
with tea and cookies with these folks and this is being mischaracterized."
PFOTENHAUER: You know, well Mika and I understand that that's what they have
to say that at this juncture. But you can roll tape from September, November
and December of last year and again, the most dramatic moment came during a
democratic presidential debate and Hillary Clinton correctly landed on him
on this one and basically said what are you nuts? You can't possibly be
talking about sitting down with North Korea, with Chavez and Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.
BRZEZINSKI: Well but you could roll tape of John McCain getting Sunni and
Shi'ite mixed up. You can roll tape of John McCain talking about 100 years
in Iraq. I mean if you want to parse about words this could get ugly. I mean
when you talk about Barack Obama it seems to me that President Bush gave him
a present on a silver platter by addressing him directly in his comments
from the Knesset from Jerusalem last week.
PFOTEHNHAUER: Well Senator Obama certainly interpreted those comments as
being directed towards him. Again, the president of the United States has
said repeatedly they were not. The issue that it highlights, though, with
Senator Obama's weak, in my opinion weak and dangerous foreign policy
judgment is completely legitimate and we believe it's exactly what the
American voter should be looking at between now and
November.<http://www.box.net/shared/z4jr44jy80>
*Local DC News Coverage of Barak-McCain Foreign Diplomacy Spat* (NBC-WRC-DC
05/21/08 6:05pm)
KRISTIN DORAN: ... His [Barack Obama] sights now squarely set on a new
opponent, John McCain
BARACK OBAMA: I am happy to have a debate with John McCain about the Bush
McCain foreign policy because there foreign policy has not worked
DORAN: McCain was in Florida yesterday criticizing Obama's foreign policy
especially when it comes to Cuba.
JOHN MCCAIN: It's dangerous, its dangerous to America's national
security<http://www.box.net/shared/lej0uhg08k>
*King: McCain's Strength is not in Economy* (CNN 05/21/08 6:33pm)
JOHN KING: He's not gonna let up. He believes even if you don't agree with
him on all the specifics, like meeting with foreign leaders, which is—McCain
says helps him, but let's just say people out there disagree with him—if
you're debating foreign policy, national security, you're, at least,
debating on his turf. People disagree with the war on Iraq. He would take
that debate over a debate over a debate about the economy any day of the
week. <http://www.box.net/shared/3trebznqc4>
Highlight #6
*Lieberman Pushes to Restrict Free Speech On-Line* (CNN 05/21/08 4:30pm)
ABBI TATTON: […] Senator Joe Lieberman is saying take this [content from
terrorist organizations] all down off the site, writing a letter to Google,
asking them to remove this content. Well Google is saying we respectfully
disagree; YouTube posting this [response] on a blog post on their website,
saying, 'We have removed some of this content that violates our own
standards.'
Gratuitous violence or hate speech, but it says the other material on there
is *free* speech.
<http://www.box.net/shared/jd8yw21wkw>
Highlight #7
*Cindy McCain Attempts to Re-Brand Herself in **Vogue *(CNN 05/21/08 6:37pm)
CAROL COSTELLO: […] most of us don't know much about Cindy McCain except
that she's really, really rich. [Cindy McCain plays] a role critics say
makes Mrs. McCain look like Glenn Close in the movie, *The Stepford Wives*.
[…]
COSTELLO: What voters do know about her: she's enormously wealthy and she
says she won't release her tax returns ever, which says to voters, 'You're
not one of us.' Hence *Vogue* and the
jeans.<http://www.box.net/shared/lbeu5t3wg4>
--
Jacob Roberts
(c) 208.420.3470
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