The Morning Meeting: Obama To Montana Town Hall…Vick’s Second Chance…Outrage In Afghanistan?…Person Of The Week
EmailThe President wades into the town-hall debate today — this time to the decidedly red state of Montana. We'll be watching to see whether the President receives anything like the polite reception he found in New Hampshire earlier this week. In the meantime, we've learned this morning that several members of Congress are opting out of the town-hall meetings, and that more than three thousand lobbyists have registered to work on the health care debate.
Should Michael Vick have a second career? That's the debate raging in the sports world this morning, following the news that the Philadelphia Eagles are giving the disgraced quarterback (he of dog-fighting infamy) a fat new contract. Seems to us that when it comes to the world of sport, almost nothing you do is a career-ender.
News overseas today: an outrage against women on the campaign trail in Afghanistan — our Jim Sciutto is on that story; an American lawmaker visits Myanmar for the first time in more than a decade; Taiwan's President now says 500 people have died in the aftermath of Typhoon Morokot; and there are more indications today that the Lockerbie bomber will get out of jail.
And it's Friday, so we'll have our Person of the Week — a man trying a bipartisan, debate-free way to get health care to people who need it. Stay tuned…
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Obama…..back to the drawing board, please. This plan isn’t going to fly.
Michael Vick deserves no second chance, in professional sports…he is a HORRENDOUS, role model, who should not be a part of sports, in any way.
Afghanistan….you cannot survive, as a country, without providing women equal rights. Persecution on religious basis is wrong, whether for gender or another religion.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | August 14, 2009, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm
I thought the nature of organized sports was to play fair.
Vick was not playing fair with those poor dogs. The dogs became bloody gladiators all for personal gain.
I was always under the impression that players could be kicked off the team (for a little while or forever) if they show unsportsman-like behavior. Just because he served time does not change the fact that he was terribly unsportsman-like.
He may have changed, but it does not bring those poor animals back. It was a terrible thing to do.
Vick should give a whole lot of money for the care of animals. It would be a start.
Posted by: ddg | August 14, 2009, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm