| Fritzpw_Admin says, Hello everyone! Thank you for joining us tonight for our Chat with syndicated Christian columnist, Cal Thomas. Cal has most recently written about the Enron happenings and the part that Jesse Jackson has had in them. Please feel free to begin asking your questions! |
| Fritzpw_Admin says, Helping me on stage tonight I have our Entertainment Editor and our News Editor as well as SpikeHost and GeHost |
| Fritzpw_Admin says, Clare_host, Daisyhost and Applehost are holding down the fort in the Auditorium. |
| Fritzpw_Admin says, And now... Cal Thomas! |
| News_Editor asks, What are your thoughts on the President's State of the Union Address? |
| Cal_Thomas says, I wrote a column on it that can be found here. I thought it was an excellent speech. He said what needed to be said about the war and he got in a few plugs about the economy. Well delivered, too. More details in the column |
| clare_host asks, Mr. Thomas, what do you think of the HHSA move today to declare it a states right to call a fetus and unborn baby, so that they would qualify for CHIP benefits? |
| Cal_Thomas says, I thought it was a brilliant move. I debated it on Fox this afternoon with NARAL's general consul. I had her defending their position that poor pregnant women should not get help for babies they choose to have. This law was pushed through in the Clinton Administration. I congratulate the Bush people on taking full advantage of it and putting pro-choicers in the position of having to be against the choice of poor women to care for their unborn children! |
| maxfaith asks, Where do you see Rudy Giuliani in years to come? |
| Cal_Thomas says, I think he may run for Governor of New York. He surely will make a lot of money in the meantime on the lecture circuit and doing a book. |
| initnotofit asks, What do you think the USA's next move should be concerning Bin Laden, because it seems we as a country will be hunting him forever? |
| Cal_Thomas says, Bin Laden is only a symbol. As the President said in his SOU speech, terrorism is a worldwide problem. I think he's named the targets. The difficulty will be how to deal with them and keeping Americans on the alert when the tendency is to relax. |
| maxfaith asks, How do you think the standoff between the White House and the GAO will end? |
| Cal_Thomas says, I can't see the courts upholding the GAO. They're a branch of Congress and therefore the separation of powers should apply. It's amazing to me that the GAO never sued the Clinton WH for Hillary’s secret meetings. |
| madchatter asks, Do you have an opinion on the NRB/Wayne Pederson controversy? |
| Cal_Thomas says, Yes I do but I'm not going to go public about it... Wayne is a good man. |
| nukeglow asks, Mr. Thomas, there has been much warning from Secretary Rumsfeld regarding possibility of further terrorist attacks equal or worse than that of 9/11, do you think there is intelligence to support this fear? |
| Cal_Thomas says, Yes I do or I don't believe they would be saying it. We are paying a price for our inattention to intelligence gathering during the Clinton years. |
| vandoor asks, How do you gauge the state of affairs in Pakistan and Afghanistan? |
| Cal_Thomas says, I don't have access to the latest intelligence, but... It would appear that President Mushariff of Pakistan is on board helping U.S. Interests and that Afghanistan is moving in our direction. Tribalism, though, continues to be a problem. |
| clare_host asks, Regarding Enron, do you believe that the White House should willingly turn over information to show good will, or are they right to withhold information based on privacy? |
| Cal_Thomas says, At first I thought they should for political reasons, but I think VP Cheney was persuasive on the Sunday talk shows. People have a right to see their leaders and to give them their best advice without worrying whether it will make the newspapers. |
| initnotofit asks, What do you think the Congressman Conditt situation after the media has kind of let it lye for a while now? |
| Cal_Thomas says, I think he's going to lose. Even leading Democrats are embarrassed by him. Too bad the police haven't found a body. |
| madchatter asks, The President named the 3 evil axis... N. Korea is a tad bit upset at being included. Do you think the President is considering taking further action in these countries in the near future? |
| Cal_Thomas says, I don't know, but he certainly has put them on notice. After what we are doing in Afghanistan I would think they'd be at least a little nervous and that's good. Tyrants only understand power. |
| clare_host asks, since we know as Christians evil exists in this world...and will exist until Christ comes again...what can we really hope to expect from this war on terrorism? |
| Cal_Thomas says, Scripture teaches the world is winding down. Our role is to introduce people to Christ and not to "save America" or "reform culture." I addressed this in the book I co-authored with Ed Dobson called "Blinded By Might," which I sincerely hope you'll read. By the way, that doesn't mean we should withdraw, but rather not expect that princes and kings will save us. Our problems are moral and spiritual, not economic and political. |
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