Peggy Noonan would be a perfectl replacement for Barbara Walters!  She is intelligent, objective, respectful, and eloquent…she possesses all the qualities that Walters doesn’t have.  She would also add  some balance to this very liberal panel.

I agree, Queenie.  Elisabeth is the only one with an opposing political view; I give her a lot of credit for holding her own amongst the 4 liberals. When she is speaking, the others raise their eyebrows or make immature "faces." I welcome an opposing view…it opens the mind…that’s why this show is called, "The View." This show would not be half as intelligent and quite boring without Elisabeth. I used to have respect for the others but I’ve found that Whoopi has lost her credibility, Barbara has lost her objectivity, Joy has lost her judgment, and Sherri has lost her mind! The one woman who has an ounce of morality and provides thought provoking ideas is Elisabeth. If the other 4 cannot discuss politics or sensitive issues without screaming, being condescending or narrow minded then they should refrain from discussing them.

I read The Economist and in many of the articles they point out that the US is 1) the world’s main economic engine  2) unless the US solves its own problems the rest of the world won’t heal.  Yes, we must work together with other countries; however,our fiscal responsibility is key! We must balance our budget, we must have people gainfully employed, and we must reject "entitlement" (freebies, govt solving my problems, Obama’s going to pay my mortgage, etc.)

The relevance is we cannot afford to have large portions of our population or any of the G20 countries’ citizens "on the dole."  Wake up!  Basic economics dictate "there’s going to be NO demand for anyone’s products" unless everyone is gainfully and efficiently employed by private enterprise.  The govt. only REDISTRIBUTES wealth; it DOES NOT CREATE IT.  Hey, Diane, I’ve studied both macro and micro economics and all I see is this country going down the drain. With Obama-nomics, it means tax the hard working and give to the lazy! 

Diana, prove it???  How about the fall of the Soviet Union?!  And why are people swimming away from Cuba rather than to it?!  Also, it’s well known that the more socialistic countries of western Europe (Sweden, Denmark, France)  have chronic perennial 10% unemployment.  BUT if you ask the other 90% of their tax paying citizens, they’ll tell you that they’re sick of paying for those who choose to remain "entitled."

"Share the wealth" is only a euphemism for socialism.  Lady Gator, you called it right.  No one has mentioned the fact that this philosophy inhibits ambition and initiative and fosters "entitilement" and stagnation.  Wake up, people.

Well said, Robert! Everyone is culpable in this fiasco!

Roger, I’m going to refer to Hillary once again….the ONLY network that was “fair and balanced” with Senator Cliinton WAS Fox News and O’Reilly was a gentleman during the interview…quite refreshing coming from a conservative network! Keith Overbite and Chris Matthews of MSNBC (the most biased) were deplorable when they spoke of her mainly because they wanted “their GUY” to win! Hillary and Geraldine Farraro (who is a Dem and a regular on Fox) testified to that. President Obama was given a pass on a multitude of issues….whatever happened to objectivity and investigative reporting?! Will admit that the networks are slanted but let’s be honest, The NY Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CNN and CBS are all liberal; Fox, the Weekly Standard and The National Review, conservative. Isn’t it sad that we’re able to label them today?!

Chris Matthews isn’t destructive? Where were you when Hillary was running??? He blatantly mocked her, disrespected her, and belittled her during the entire campaign thus exemplifying his chauvanistic, sexist, inept and biased character! He was one of the worst media offenders during this campaign. Bernie called it right….can’t wait to read the book. The media used to have the responsibility of being the “watch dog” for the people; now, it’s objectivity is non-existent! It more than helped Obama get elected (and all for the wrong reasons). Have you seen the Stimulus Bill? This is NOT the change we had in mind! Someone once said, “Be careful what you wish for.” And it begins…

Excellent post, Frannie! And no one has mentioned that Obama totally supports the Bush propositon: Twenty percent of the money that should go to retire debt that will be created to solve this problem winds up in a housing organization called ACORN that is an absolute ill-run enterprise, money would be taken away from debt retirement to put it in a housing program that doesn’t work. BTW, that’s the same fiasco that Obama and Rezko were associated with in Illinois. It’s bad enough that taxpayers have to pay the price for Congress’ decade-long distortions of the lending and investment markets. If we realize a profit from the bailout, that money should go to pay down the debt or get returned to taxpayers as dividends from their investment — not to organizations committing voter fraud, and not to restarting the entire cycle of government meddling in lending markets. And John McCain is NOT going to let that happen.

Belinda, Hillary did not lose, WE did! And our thanks can go to Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean…the fix was in. The DNC told us that “if we have ovaries, we don’t count!”

Hobo, please read the following: “One rap on Sarah Palin’s qualifications to be Vice President is that she governs one of our least populated states, with a budget of “only” $12 billion and 16,000 full-time state employees. On the other hand, it turns out that the Governor’s office in Alaska is one of the country’s most powerful. For more than two decades Thad Beyle, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina, has maintained an index of “institutional powers” in state offices. He rates governorships on potential length of service, budgetary and appointment authority, veto power and other factors. Mr. Beyle’s findings for 2008 rate Alaska at 4.1 on a scale of 5. The national average is 3.5. Only four other states — Maryland, New Jersey, New York and West Virginia — concentrate as much power in the Governor’s office as Alaska does, and only one state (Massachusetts) concentrates more. California may be the nation’s most populous state, but its Governor rates as below-average (3.2) in executive authority. This may account in part for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s poor legislative track record. The lowest rating goes to Vermont (2.5), where the Governor (remember Howard Dean) is a figurehead compared to Mrs. Palin. In Alaska, the Governor has line-item veto power over the budget and can only be overridden by a three-quarters majority of the Legislature. In 1992, the year Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was elected President, his state budget was $2 billion and among the smallest in the country. Compared to that, Sarah Palin is an executive giant.” Without preconditions Paliin took on a company that has a market cap of $205 billion and annual revenues of $291 billion in worldwide operations. Its budget is larger than that those of most sovereign countries, yet she won on her terms. Then to follow up that act, she got the Alaskan Legislature to approve development of the TransCanada gas pipeline, a $40 billion deal that will go 1,715 miles from the treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to the Alberta hub in Canada, from which it will be transferred to the United States. This project had been sitting around for 30 years on hold because the big energy companies didn’t think it would be profitable, and their corrupt cronies in the legislature obediently kept it on the shelf. Crusading against corruption and negotiating across the aisle, Palin not only got it passed in record time, but opened up the bidding when the U.S. companies were reluctant to jump in. So she went ahead and awarded the contract to low-bidder TransCanada Alaska, a firm that has already built 36,000 miles of pipelines in North America. As a final fillip, the Governor signed the bill at the Alaska AFL-CIO biennial convention. While Barack Obama’s solution to the energy problem is to urge us to check the air in our tires, Palin’s solution is to start building a $40 billion gas pipeline, without Federal government assistance. As to her investigation, the jury is out on that one. But if my brother-in-law had tasered my nephew and threatened to kill my family, I’d have fed “his family jewels” to a moose for Thanksgiving dinner!

Marjorie, Sarah Palin has executive experience as mayor and governor. She is the 5th most important governor in the US who has an excellent record; to her credit, she went after corruption in her own party! How many politicians do that? Once again, she is an executive running for the executive branch of govt. And you are so right, she brings a lot more experience to that office. As Hillary stated,” I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House and Senator Obama has a speech.” I agree that Hillary was deserted by her own party…Howard Dean ALLOWED the sexism to continue. What bothers me the most is that very few of us women were outraged about it. It boggles the mind.

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And Maurine, who were the top 2 recipients of Fanny Mae? #1,Dodd, and #2, Obama. McCain has proved to be bipartisan and called for a correction of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac 2 years ago! Yes, I concede, Obama did not take a stand on the economy this week…but isn’t that a little scary to you? No action taken, just like his voting record… voting “present” to sidestep the issues. BTW, Gov. Palin must be doing something right with an 80% approval rating! Congress’ rating is even lower than POTUS! Bipartisanship is extremely important, not only in the crisis we face today, but always.