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Howard Zinn On the Election: Candidates Not Addressing "Fundamental
Issues of American Policy in the World"
Million Worker March to Address Labor Issues Ignored By Both
Major Candidates
Immigrant Nation, Divided Country: Candidates Debate Immigration
Issues
Howard Zinn On the Election: Candidates Not Addressing
"Fundamental Issues of American Policy in the World"
Howards Zinn, author of A People's History of the United
States, joins as George W Bush and John Kerry wrap up their
third and final debate of the campaign. We speak with the
legendary historian about the election, U.S. foreign policy,
Ralph Nader's candidacy, the importance of citizen involvement
before and after elections, and much more.
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry battled over health care,
jobs, taxes, immigration and many other domestic issues in
their third and final debate last night. It was the last chance
for the two major party candidates - who are locked in a dead-heat
- to address a mass audience before the Nov. 2nd election
in three weeks.
The debate was held in the key swing state of Arizona at
Arizona State University in Tempe. Along with health care,
jobs and taxes, Kerry and Bush outlined differences on other
domestic issues including immigration, abortion, gay marriage,
the minimum wage as well as addressing their different faiths.
While the 90-minute face-off was focused on domestic issues,
both candidates took advantage of several chances to weave
the Iraq war into the discussion.
Last night's debate was moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS
News. In January 2003, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post
penned a profile of Scheiffer - who happens to hail from Bush's
own Texas. Kurtz included this bit of family history:
"During the '90s, [Bob] Schieffer also struck up a friendship
with George W. Bush when his brother Tom-now the U.S. ambassador
to Australia - became partners with the future president in
the Texas Rangers.
"Bob and W. went to ball games together, played golf,
attended spring training. 'He's a great guy-that doesn't mean
I agree with him,' says Schieffer, adding that the situation
became 'a little awkward' when Bush ran for the White House
but that he's never gotten favorable treatment."
- Excerpt of third presidential debate at Arizona State
University in Tempe, Arizona.
An excerpt of last night's debate. In that last exchange
between the two candidates, Kerry quotes Bush as saying he
does not think much about Osama bin Laden and is not all that
concerned about him. The president replies "I just don't
think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's
kind of one of those exaggerations."
But at a press conference on March 13th 2002, just as the
build-up for the Iraq war was getting underway, Bush did say
about bin Laden "I truly am not that concerned about
him. I know he is on the run." He described bin Laden
as "marginalized," and said, "I just don't
spend that much time on him."
Today spend the hour taking a look at the third and final
presidential debate looking at domestic issues like health
care, immigration, labor and much more. But first to get perspective
on the debate we are joined by the legendary historian Howards
Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States.
His latest book with Anthony Arnove is "Voices
of A People's History of the United States."
Million Worker March to Address Labor Issues Ignored
By Both Major Candidates
We speak with Brenda Stokely, president of AFSCME District
Council 1707 and an organizer of this weekend's Million Worker
March in Washington DC about the grassroots labor movement,
the election, unions and much more. [includes rush
transcript]
- Excerpt of third presidential debate at Arizona State
University in Tempe, Arizona.
- Brenda Stokely, president of AFSCME District Council
1707 in New York City. She's an organizer of the Million
Worker March and a Co-Convener of New York Labor Against
the War.
Immigrant Nation, Divided Country: Candidates Debate
Immigration Issues
We speak with award-winning CNN correspondent Maria Hinojosa
about George W Bush and John Kerry's comments on immigration
in the third presidential debate. Hinojosa has an hour-long
special airing this weekend titled "Immigrant Nation,
Divided Country." [includes rush
transcript]
- Excerpt of third presidential debate at Arizona State
University in Tempe, Arizona.
- Maria Hinojosa, award-winning correspondent for CNN.
This Saturday, she has an hour-long special called "Immigrant
Nation," which chronicles the story of 4 families
living in the US: two have US citizenship, while the other
two crossed the border illegally.
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
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