Lou Dobbs "Seriously Contemplating" Presidential Bid

Lou Dobbs for President? Don't laugh. After months of telling reporters that he "absolutely" would not consider leaving his highly-rated CNN show in which he crusades against free trade and illegal immigration, Mr. Dobbs posted a commentary on his Web site last week predicting a surprise new presidential candidate in 2008. The mystery candidate is an "independent populist . . . who understands the genius of this country lies in the hearts and minds of its people and not in the prerogatives and power of its elites."

Friends of Mr. Dobbs say he is seriously contemplating a race for the first time, although it's still unlikely. They spin a scenario under which the acerbic commentator would parachute into the race if Michael Bloomberg, the New York billionaire and favorite of East Coast elites, enters the field as an independent. With Hillary Clinton continuing to score badly in polls in the categories of honesty and integrity, and with the public's many doubts about Rudy Giuliani and other GOP contenders, Mr. Bloomberg may well see an opportunity to roil the political waters by entering the race late. If so, Mr. Dobbs then sees a niche for a "fourth-party" candidate who could paint the three other contenders as completely out of touch.

Keep reading.

Comments

[Freedoms Friend]

Lou Bobbs is right about everything, Lou knows his topics intimately, Lou has the right solutions to trade and immigration, Lou is extremely smart on all subjects, Lou is handsome and debonair, Who says this so why LOU DOBBS of course.
This man only brings experts on to his show so that he can tell them they do not know what they are talking about!

[EspressoAtNoon]

For those of you who throw the word "Racist" around so frivolously to anyone who disagrees with you and has the facts on their side, I'd like to remind you that Lou Dobbs is happily married to a Mexican.

Nice try! Back to the chalkboard to try and drum up some other false charges since you have NO facts on your side.

[scottarino]

I can see there are no union employees on this thread. Just a bunch of folks who owe their soul to the company store. It is indeed a Wal-Mart kind of crowd.........cheap and in uber quantities for the glutton in you.

[peacepipe]

Let's see...He's not a Republican, he's not a Democrat, so he's a --- Know Nothing? Are the good old days of ethnic bigotry and isolationism coming back? Tune in tomorrow and see!

[Postroad]

Lou bores me. He is Always discussing the exact same two issues. That said: why is he a racist if he dislikes the fact that millins of people are coming into this nation illegally and he is married to a Mexican lady. Now explain how that makes him racist, please.

[FrogontheLake]

Dobbs/Cafferty 08!

[kardwell]

Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed
By Frances Harrison
BBC News

An appeal court in Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of lashes and added a jail sentence as punishment for a woman who was gang-raped.

The victim was initially punished for violating laws on segregation of the sexes - she was in an unrelated man's car at the time of the attack.

When she appealed, the judges said she had been attempting to use the media to influence them.

The attackers' sentences - originally of up to five years - were doubled.

Extra penalties

According to the Arab News newspaper, the 19-year-old woman, who is from Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago.

Seven men from the majority Sunni community were found guilty of the rape and sentenced to prison terms ranging from just under a year to five years.

But the victim was also punished for violating Saudi Arabia's laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man.

On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to 200 lashes and a six-month prison sentence.

The rapists also had their prison terms doubled. But the sentences are still low considering they could have faced the death penalty.

The Arab News quoted an official as saying the judges had decided to punish the girl for trying to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.

The victim's lawyer was suspended from the case, has had his licence to work confiscated, and faces a disciplinary session.

[ipitombi]

Lou-natic & Tancrazydo for Prez. All non-whites will be summarily rounded up and kicked out of the good ol'USA. Peace.

[starboymikey]

" ... understands the genius of this country lies in the hearts and minds of its people and not in the prerogatives and power of its elites."
____________________________________
A sentnce carefully crafted by a shrewd olitical hack, " ... full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing." In short, a sure ticket to the white house for someone as vapid as the words themselves.

[ipitombi]

Oh Shit!!! All Mexicans head for the border. A Lou-natic is coming!!!

[peterg76]

Dobbs / Colbert '08!

[MufsMom]

Cool, he can peel off more of the racist Rethug base.

[AnotherHuddy]

Oh my gentle Jesus

[LittleBrother]

Lou Dobbs is the Pissant's Pissant.

[Ginzaman]

Dobbs, Blitzer and all the rest of them should be f*****g fired for a joke "debate." Maybe at the pre-production meeting they all sat around and thought, how can we shut out Dodd, Richardson, Biden and Kucinich and make it look ok (when we really have to destroy Kucinich)?