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Senator Clinton’s former communications director, Howard Wolfson, gives his take on each of the campaigns. And 30 Issues in Thirty Days continues with a look at the war in Iraq and what the next president should do for returning veterans. Plus, how will the credit crunch affect the City’s ability for basic upkeep?
This Friday is our next 30 Issues Wiki: Immigration Policy. Collaborate with others to produce the segment here!
Election 08
Howard Wolfson, former communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign, talks about the latest happenings in the presidential race.
How To Fill the Potholes on Wall Street?
New York Times reporter Vikas Bajaj talks about how the credit crunch affects municipalities' ability to operate.
30 Issues: Iraq
Andrés Martinez, director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation and writes the blog Stumped at the Washington Post, and Max Boot, the Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for National Security Studies at The Council on Foreign Relations and the author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today (Gotham, 2006), discuss the Iraq War and how the two candidates’ views differ from each other and from those of the current administration.
Then
Eric Hilleman, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Office for the Veterans of Foreign
Wars (VFW),
and Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America, talks about the candidates' records on veterans issues and what's most important going forward.
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