CaliticsTV: Chris Dodd talks with California Bloggers

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics: Soapblox California - Front Page]

Senator Chris Dodd sat down with several California bloggers to talk about the issues. In an extended interview he talked about the attention gap between the "first tier" and others. The media's limited focus seems to be ignoring the impressive Democratic Senator from Connecticut, but Sen. Dodd seems to be taking it in stride and working to get his name out there.

The interview then continues on to Iraq, where he believes that we cannot send any bill to W that does not have restrictions on time. His bill to restore habeus corpus seems to be meeting tough resistance in the Senate despite its strong support from citizen co-sponsors.

Later, Senator Dodd discusses why people are falling behind. He notes the decreasing number of union households and the failure of health care system to properly treat everybody in the country. He also addressed something that is important to me, the predatory lending and usury fees of check-cashers and payday loan operations.

You know, Senator Dodd gave a solid speech in the general assembly floor. Nothing spectacular, but good. He says the right things and understands the issues. He would be a very good president. You want experience? This man has it. You want good positions on the issues? Look up and down Dodd's issue checklist and tell me there are candidates that you agree with more. Heck, Tom Friedman aside, this man has proposed a carbon tax and has addressed the great challenges of our time. He would be a solid workaday president.  That the media persists in its praying to the idol of celebrity while ignoring the actual issues. Listed David Geffen has no nukes, isn't a major source of carbon, and does not imprison people without telling them why.  So why does the media report the garbage about that?  Hey media, check this guy out.

Oh, and yeah, he addressed the whole Senator (CfL-CT) Lieberman thing.

I'm certainly not the greatest cameraman in the world, so this is basically just a shot of the Senator mug-shot style.  This is the raw feed of the video, but the quality on Google Video is quite good. So, feel free to click through to see a larger version.