Programming notes

*** Monday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: RNC Chair Reince Priebus; Matt Welch and Erin McPike; Jeffrey Goldberg; Fmr. Sen. Byron Gordon and John Feehery; and WashPo’s Aaron Blake.

*** Monday’s “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up:  MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts talks with RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Diane DeGette (D-CO), MSNBC Host Melissa Harris Perry, veteran journalist Carole Simpson, and Presidential Historian Alan Shroeder.  Today’s Power Panel includes TheGrio’s Joy-Ann Reid, Washington Post Columnist Matt Miller, and Fmr. Amb. Dennis Ross.

*** Monday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: Andrea anchors from Boca Raton, FL. Joining her:

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, NBC’s Chuck Todd and Richard Engel, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), The New York Times Elisabeth Bumiller, The Brookings Institution’s Bruce Riedel, “The Real Romney” author Michael Kranish and “Barack Obama: The Story” author David Maraniss.

*** Monday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: MSNBC’s Tamron Hall interviews MSNBC contributor Michael Smerconish, Fmr. State Dept Officer Joel Rubin, Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis, The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut, Republican strategist Chip Saltsman, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Politico’s James Hohmann and Daily Beast contributor Zachary Karabell

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    Reply#1 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:32 AM EDT

    If Obama is prepared, he holds the better cards tonight - in fact he holds a royal flush. America was despised in Europe and around the world when Obama took power. French and German cabinet ministers were being caught off mike stating that W. was a complete idiot and that Americans were idiots to elect him. American foreign policy was viewed as unrealistic and completely dominated by corporate interests. Now, Obama is an icon abroad, and the United States is viewed once again as a moral force for good. We are ending Bush's wars. A peace dividend is at hand - which Romney would take away - and give to the military contractors (Lord knows they have paid him for it.) And the Arab Spring is troubling, but nothing we should try to stop. We cannot stop it, and attempting to do so will only spill the blood of our soldiers and the blood of many children in the Arab world. The Arab Spring is the lancing of a wound that has festered for generations. This is a delicate time. If we can convey to the Arabs that we may not like their choices, but that we respect their sovereignty, then they will begin to view us as a nation that actually cares more about human souls than for oil. Believe me, if you look at the various manipulations by both the British and the US over the Arab world during the past century, there are reasons for their mistrust of us. If you cannot see that, you should study world history. However, Americans as a whole don't study world history. As a nation, we aren't really interested. But we do like to bluster that we are the greatest nation in the world, the greatest nation of all time - even if we have never seen a foreign country or read a foreign magazine.

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    Reply#2 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:54 AM EDT

    Yeh obama's a world leader, here's the following endorsements that praise obama : Iran= Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezula= Hugo Chavez, Cuba=The Castro family, Russia= Valdimir Putin, all upstanding for the people, world leaders. They all like obama so much that they are willing to sit down and negotiate with obama on how to better dictate to the U S Government. With these dictaters all chopping at the bit to get a piece of the U S in their pocket, it's a very telling example of what obama is and what he represents to the world, which is a weak, inexperienced, gullible person who has bitten off more that he can chew.

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    Reply#3 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:54 PM EDT

    Of course Chavez, Castros & Putin like Obama. He is not likely to drop bombs on them. He will work WITH them to achieve world peace. We don't have to have the entire world JUST LIKE US.

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    #3.1 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:16 PM EDT

    Well all of Europe thought W. was a complete fool. And you know that it true. Polls were taken in Europe (even before the financial crisis) that showed that the US was at an all time low in public approval all over Europe in the mid 00's. That was the truth then, and W. is still viewed as a sort of a puritanical, naive - almost stupid - foreign leader all throughout the world. But the teabaggers love him, because he seemed like their barber or a checkout clerk at Kroger - somebody with a folksiness that radiated a lack of concern for minutiae. He was not studious and he didn't care to be. And he wanted to kick ass like an action hero.

    The problem is that the same foreign policy advisers that advised Bush will advise Romney. And Romney, while smarter than Bush, has a personality much like Nixon's, and the same disregard for the truth as Nixon. And he loves to stir up a hornet's nest with any hint of scandal - just like Nixon.

      #3.2 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:47 PM EDT
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      Any president who refuses to meet with his cabnet members, whom are paid to keep the president informed on national and world issues, and would rather go golfing or spend time on a talk show like the view, has the nations best interests put aside for his own private wants ! Obama is only interested in creating a socialist society, like communism out of our country. He and his admnistration has hurt America with their green regulations, and only helped public union workers get a pay check. His lack of knowledge on creating a budget will doom america if allowed to spend without responsibility.

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      Reply#4 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:29 PM EDT

      I would have thought that the FR libs and MSNBC would be out today talking up the Obama debate. I further wanted to read the liberal remarks that Obama had already won.

      So what humor is on FR regarding this - not much. It's alright liberals, you can say it: Obama is down by 2 in the debates, Biden down 1 and done. If Obama has issues, it is all over.

      All MYTH needs to do is be focused and talk with authority and vision. Let the Obama go into a Biden act, showing him for what he is, unqualified.

      Tomorrow will be an interesting day for the funnys when the liberals push Obama as the winner, no matter how badly he does.

      Help Obama move forward with his statement that if he couldn't get in done in one term, then vote him out.

      Say Good Bye Barry.

        Reply#5 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:29 PM EDT

        Just as we go into final debate, more are given the final pink slip at Sensatia. And 47% of the country being polled, are complete idiots.

          Reply#6 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:30 PM EDT

          Where is the pampered Red Headed Polish Princess today? Getting the press releases ready to annoint the Obama as the winner of the debate?

            Reply#7 - Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:23 PM EDT
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