Talking Point; War, Elections, and Race

Talking Point is a local production of WILL TV, Channel 12. Right now you have a change in policy, you have a change in opinion about the leaders in the Middle East, and it becomes paradoxical at one point they can support a leader and then instantly he's an enemy. So they make you think that all along the press was an enemy when actually they help the US in certain ways. And the clear displeasure was certain things like Saddam Hussein trying to build more scuds and that, leave it alone, try not to get involved with what could get us in trouble if we don't have to. And I think that we need to examine very closely our actions in the Gulf War, I think what we did was wrong in the Gulf War and I don't think we needed to be there. Intervention for human rights is probably a positive thing but it should be done on more of a economic level in using our policies to help them not going over and blowing them up.

And if they give us any more, you know, BS, let's go over and do it again. Talking point is a local production of WILL TV, Channel 12. I think there's a slightly more interesting choice of candidates than there have been for me personally in the last couple of actions. It seems like, you know, you have to be a huge television exposure, that sort of thing would be a big pop star in order to become elected, but I think that's not strange. It seems like everybody that's running doesn't make a statement that says anything. What they say and what they do are two different things, I think. My concern is basically with the deficit and it's not being addressed at all and so I'm looking for someone to split address that issue. I saw a couple polls saying it was very close, things like 35 and 35 for Bush and Clinton and Ray Tressborough had like 30%, which just got a lot seen as he hasn't even been

a dime of. I think Clinton's definitely going to win a Democratic nomination and Bush of course, but it's a very single hand way I think will win the Republican. More and more things are coming out, especially in the Democratic side, so I don't know. Right now I just don't have my mind made out, so it should be interesting to see what happens. One point is a local production of WILL TV, Channel 12. All of a sudden, race relations around the president's agenda. They always should have been, and I don't think it's a matter of race relations. I just think it's a matter of equality and equanimity across the nation as a whole. It's no longer simply a class situation, we have to address race issues, we have to address gender issues in the country. We are becoming polarized along these lines. We've neglected the inner cities, we've neglected minorities, and we're going to have

to put so many in the cities, because there's too many people get hurt, too many people get killed, too many properties and be able to destroy it, so what's the purpose of it? It's shock therapy if you ask, I mean, it's the same shock you feel when you saw it. It's very short of look, it's the same shock you saw when you felt when you watched JFK get assassinated, it's the same thing in people react different ways, and this instance people reacted and it was a mob action. The cultural diversity, the racial diversity of the population, makes this an issue that could explode anywhere, could happen here on this campus, could happen in Chicago, could happen in the UK, could happen in New York, anywhere.