The Brian Lehrer Show

Please ask the Governor what if anything Hilary should do about Bush's expansion of executive powers. What powers should remain and why? Why wouldn't she remove all epanded powers?

Paul Krugman's NYT op ed column today says that:

"Mr. Obama claims that people will buy insurance if it becomes affordable. Unfortunately, the evidence says otherwise....

If Mr. Obama gets to the White House and tries to achieve universal coverage, he’ll find that it can’t be done without mandates — but if he tries to institute mandates, the enemies of reform will use his own words against him."

I am really on the fence, but this might be, for me, the deciding factor.

The Dems will need the Clinton-Machine to beat McCain in November.

Ask Ms. Granholm when is she going to resign.

The polls are supposedly saying that Obama would do better against McCain than Clinton.....

But unfortunately polls aren't always terribly reliable

Brian

why are you interrupting her and putting your ideas on the air to explain Hillary's choices your way? She's the governor, let her make the substantive statements about Hillary's choices in Michigan.

I agree with Gov. Granholm that the old system of Iowa and New Hampshire always being first and disproportionately important needs to be scrapped. The regional idea has much merit.

i thought this segment was going to be about Clinton?

I'm still confused by your guest's suggestion that Hillary did the right thing by keeping her name on the Michigan ballot. Does that mean she did the wrong thing by not also campaigning in Michigan, or should she have done that too? Everybody wants to have it both ways.

David,

I actually agree with that as well. I don't see any reason why those states should be more important than anyone else.

Let's be realistic. There is no way you can get a majority vote to pass healthcare reform with a mandate. They're healthcare plans will wind up being exactly the same once a concession is reached in Washington.

Wow, what a strange interview that was. I thought she was going to stump for Clinton not for the state of Michigan. In such a politically charged atmosphere, I would have thought Brian would be more sensitive to issues of equal time and have asked Granholm the same sort of questions he had asked Bradley. Seems awfully unfair to me. Could he be an Obama supporter?

give me a break! hispanics voting according to what the kennedys say?. We hispanics know that carolyn is just a privileged,white rich woman who probably employs hispanics to clean ger kitchen. This in Kiplins's "white man burden"

what a brow beating brian!

Gov. Granholm was supposed to be advocating for Hillary Clinton. Brian allowed Bill Bradley to use his whole portion of the segment to advocate for Obama. But Brian asked Granholm mostly about Michigan's situation; at least half if not more of her time was spent on that--not on making the case for Clinton. Review the tape!

Outrageously unfair on the day before the primary!!!