Chris Coons on Stuff Besides Jobs
I asked Mr. Coons what issues he hasn’t gotten to talk about this year because of the time spent discussing the economy and jobs.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_K-6inaAHA[/youtube]
Tags: Chris Coons, jobs, The Economy
Great clip LG. Coons clearly gets it, and the Valero refinery reopening is a great example of progress on the jobs front.
But if Christine had been in some elected role she would have told Valero they weren’t allowed to close and that G-d had told her that the company was supposed to remain open and preserve the jobs. Lots of praying would have greatly improved the financial situation for the company….
Here is my prayer–Please let Chris trounce her!!
Glad you thought to ask this. I’ve definitely been wondering what various candidates think on non-jobs issues (although I understand why they need to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs, obviously). The thing I really liked when I interviewed John Carney in May on my show was that we had 27 minutes to talk about really minute policy details on environmental and energy stuff. It would be cool if more candidates had time and were given the opportunity to really get down into the details, but a lot of campaigns are afraid to let them do that, which is understandable from their point of view.
I really wish Chris Coons had gotten more chances to talk about foreign policy especially in the course of the campaign. I know he knows a lot about foreign policy, but other than Afghanistan and Iraq, he hasn’t really had more chances to get far into that (other than the overarching question I asked him in May on my show, involving broadly how he viewed America’s role in the world in the beginning of the 21st century). This year the Senate races have almost all been about domestic issues because of the economy and the right-wing fake populists, but people have forgotten how important foreign policy is to the job of a Senator. You know, in 2008, Sarah Palin really kept getting tripped up over foreign policy outside the realm of Iraq and Afghanistan (and even there…), but this year we haven’t heard much on foreign policy asked of O’Donnell (excluding the China thing). I’m pretty sure she’d be even further over her head if she were pressed during the debates on foreign policy questions, and claiming her advisers would help her once elected wouldn’t paper over the fact that she’s (almost certainly) clueless on foreign policy.