Our political Quote of the Day comes from CBS’s Bob Schieffer, who, as I’ve said before, was really person who should have succeeded Walter Cronkite:
“But you know, I tell you something, Imus — what I find really interesting. What’s going on here, frankly, is you know, Mitt Romney, is not the robber baron that the Obama folks would have you believe any more than Obama is a European socialist as the Romney folks would have you believe.”
Schieffer went on to explain that there has been a positive coming out of this, which he said was the rise of the center.
“But, we’re in this age of these negative ads now and both sides will try you know, to appeal to the extremes of both sides and that’s where we are,” he continued. “And you know, excuse me for, you know looking for a bright side, but maybe some of the centrists in both parties now are saying, ‘Hey, let’s kind of get serious about this and get these campaigns back to appealing to the folks in the middle and not to just the folks on either side.”
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.