Sunday Show Roundup: RFK Gaffe-termath
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: On a slow news weekend, the Sunday show pundits look at Sen. Clinton's comments from every angle.
Last week, Clinton got kicked around for her comments on Bosnia. She grossly embellished the danger involved when she visited the country when she was first lady. Now, there are reports that Obama, too, inflated the Kennedys' role in helping his father come to America. Washington Post:
"Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United...
Apparently I was born into the wrong family. My whole life, I've dreamed of being President, and just when I thought that my big problem was that I'm not 35 yet, I learn that my future has nothing to do with age: there are just no Smiths in the White House. Clintons, sure. Bushes, of course. Kennedy, Cabot, Hodge, Roosevelt, even someone called Frelinghuysens... just no Smiths. That's not even because they know us and therefore know better, but rather, my parents did a lousy job of marrying into the...
Sunday Show Roundup: Enter Petraeus
Today is the day. No longer can a politician evade a question about the quagmire in Iraq with, "Let's wait until September." Today we hear from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker about exactly where we stand in Iraq with the both the military and political components of the troop surge implemented by President Bush at the start of 2007. We took a look through the Sunday morning talk shows to see what we might expect from the Iraq progress report.
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