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  Texas Governor's Primary had some surprises, but not really- Five-term Governor Rick Perry won the nomination, positioning himself as a Washington outsider against Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison who had President Bush endorsing her, but it did not help, as she barely made second place over tea-bagger challenger Debra Medina. Former Houston Mayor Bill White polled 78 percent of the vote with six opponents in the race giving many pundits saying White will be the winner in November. In California Jerry Brown is going to run for Governor again. CLICK HERE to listen to this show from blogtalk radio. |
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 Tiger Woods, Ron Paul
and Dick Cheney
government business
practices are the subjects
of Cpac and it appears there
is a growing divide in the
Republican Party. Bostonred
and Jerry talk about the
stark differences in the Ron
Paul speech of today
compared with the "in your
face" concepts stressed by
many speakers at the
conservative organization's
annual convention.
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Conservative Think
Tank and Organization Cpac held its
convention in DC over the weekend
(02-17-20) and
in this program Bostonred features the new
voice of the far right, a Florida Politician
who is pushing the new concept called "exceptionalism."
Then Jerry joins the show with some bitter comments about President Dick Cheney and his surprise appearance at the convention which got a huge round of applause and a standing ovation. The conversation then tends toward the emotional as the political discussion centers on hopes and dreams of the right wing of the Republican party for 2010 is discussed. CLICK HERE for the archive of this show which was broadcast live at Midnight, Feb 19, 2010. |
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J.D. Hayworth, Patriot or Bully?
Hayworth,
a Republican member of the
United States House of Representatives
from 1995 to 2007 from the 5th District of
Arizona, is running against Senator John
McCain, the party's
presidential candidate in 2008, for
the US senate. |
 This
Week In the News- Bostonred and Jerry Pippin
discuss politics- raw and uncensored-
(February 14, 2010)Differences abound on
several issues but the question is where are
the American People? Obama called for
all-out war in Afghanistan and hints that
FBI and other lsaw enforcement
agencies must ask the Terror Agency's
permission before reading the Miranda rights
and other civil liberties are being
short-cut in the name of fighting terror.
Could Obama be slipping into a new position
on civil liberties and giving up on health
care?
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This Week in Politics-
A look at the
week in Politics- Feb 1 thru
6- |
 First State of the Union
Speech by Obama Has Some Firsts
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President Barack Obama is the
first President to take on the
Supreme Court eye-ball
to eye-ball in a speech, since
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The
recent ruling by the
Supreme Court that
corporations are people and are
protected under free speech
protection that applies to
campaign funding was a target of
the Presidential address before
the joint session of Congress.
He vowed to continue his fight for health care and for the first time referred to it as insurance reform. Jobs were his main topic and polling after the speech indicated he did pick up some ground in support from the general population that he was concerned about job loss and was planning on doing something about it. He also attacked the major bankers and Wall Street in which not a single Republican applauded his efforts to give 30 billion dollars of bank funds being repaid by major banks to community bankers where most small business loans are made. CLICK HERE to listen to Jerry and Bostonred's preview to the speech and CLICK HERE for their wrap-up after the speech and the Republican Response plus a spirited discussion about the politics of it all. Note: Due to technical difficulties the Bostonred show replay of the State of the Union address is incomplete. Obama State of the Union Speech in its entirety: Part 1  MP3
Running time: 32 minutes, 17
seconds
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Part 2
MP3
Running time: 36 minutes, 39
seconds -  Windows
Media Version Part 1 -
Windows
Media Version Part 2 |
President Barack Obama
presented to a joint session
of Congress, the details of his health Care plan,
including a possible Public Option. Bostonred
talks with Jerry about what will happen next and even
though both were optimistic, they admitted in the
interview, that the Right-Wing talk-show hosts would
have a picnic trying to destroy the plan. Already,
many of the opponents are chaffing at the idea that the
President would dare call them liars in public.
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Over the Labor Day weekend, Van Jones was fired after weeks of heavy attention from right wing talk show hosts. He was in charge of "green jobs" at the White House. In this program Bostonred on his Blog Talk radio show features Jerry along with Emma Young, a strong supporter of President Barack Obama. Emma expresses some doubts about her support for Obama as she feels he is giving the right wing critics far too much power. Jerry and Bostonred seem to think that Jones was a casualty of the war over health care and was necessary to shift the discussion back to the issues. Jerry has some strong words about the roles that right wing talk radio is playing in the political discourse. CLICK HERE to listen to this show. |
In
other words, heated
discussion plus segments
of speeches by President
Obama and
(Broadcast just before
Midnight, Election Eve,
March 1, 2010)-
Tuesday is Primary Day
in
Former
Houston Mayor Bill White
seems to have an easy
victory on the
Democratic side of the
slate. In this broadcast
Jerry
and Bostonred also discuss Evan Bayh
who dropped out of the
Senate race for 2010 today. It appears that
that 2010 will bring lots of changes to the
political landscape. 
IN
THE NEWS,
