state of the union address
Thom's Take on the State of the Union: Big Picture 1/25/12
Thom and his panel discuss last night's State of the Union Address, specifically the "party of no's" lack of enthusiasm for the President's speech. Also discussed: why we have a capital(ist) gains tax and Thom's Daily Take on economic austerity.
Email this pageDemocracy Now! Thursday, January 26, 2012
President Obama took his State of the Union call for tackling income inequality on the road Wednesday with a speech at an assembly plant in Iowa. Obama repeated his proposal for the so-called Buffett tax to ensure millionaires pay at least 30 percent. Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are trying to court Florida’s Latino voters ahead of next week’s primary. Romney has launched ads highlighting Gingrich’s remarks in a 2007 speech in which he called Spanish a "language of the ghetto." Gingrich, meanwhile, has been forced to pull a Romney attack ad that compared the former Massachusetts governor to Fidel Castro after Hispanic leaders signed a letter of protest. For his part, Castro published an editorial in Cuba on Wednesday calling the Republican race "the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been." Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour
FSTV: Benjamin Jealous on State of the Union Pt. 2
FSTV: Benjamin Jealous on State of the Union Pt. 1
In the first of a three-part interview, reporter Herb Boyd talks with NAACP head Benjamin Jealous Wednesday night after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.
Democracy Now!: Thurs., Jan. 28, 2010
Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein respond to President Barack Obama's State of the Union message, two-thirds of which was devoted to the economy; and a tribute to the legendary historian Howard Zinn, who died Wednesday at age 87 with Chomsky, Alice Walker, Klein and Anthony Arnove "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
