c-span 3 Thurs am - SFRC on Afghan. - maybe Joe sightings?

[Muttocracy]

from c-span home page:

Afghanistan: Turning the Tide
Thursday

Asst. Sec. of State Richard Boucher discusses the security situation in Afghanistan at a Senate Foreign Relations Cmte. hearing. The members are looking at reports from Afghanistan Study Group on the urgency of the Afghan military situation.

Thursday on C-SPAN3 at 9:30am (ET)


Also Kerry on CO2 capture technology on c-span

[gateley]

1. Joe is one of the VERY few people I will drag my ass out of bed for at that

ungodly hour.

Just in case -- will they repeat it later, do you think? :7

[Muttocracy]

2. repeat or tape it seems - this newfound cspan junkiehood

is cutting into my productivity and housework! I'll just listen for most of it but may have to watch our boy genius live.

[gateley]

3. But it'll be live at 9:30? nt

[Muttocracy]

4. I think so - links

http://c-span.org/ homepage, says it'll be on c-span 3 - probably archived for later too if you can't catch it live?

http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2008/hrg080131a.html

[gateley]

5. Thanks!! nt

[malta blue]

6. Joe is up right now....

I miss Joe :cry:

[Muttocracy]

7. me too

just got tuned in so I'll have to watch the start on rerun later

He just takes no crap and cuts straight to the heart of things - "give me one specific example", etc.

[Muttocracy]

8. Joe connects the dots so well

On Afghanistan, Joe gets the relations with neighbors, the narcotics trade, the U.S. military, knows the leaders and key players in all those countries, knows all the people testifying.

Damn. Could Hillary or Barack greet Richard Holbrooke as an old friend? Sigh. Hope they get some damn good advisors.

[jillan]

9. shit - missed it.

I'll have to look for a link.

[gateley]

10. I missed it, too. Let me know if you find it somewhere, P, and I'll do the same. nt

[Muttocracy]

11. on c-span home page now or try this link

think it's a real player link:

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/ter/ter013108_afghanistan.rm

[Muttocracy]

12. now listening to Biden's intro that I missed this a.m.

"security is at its lowest ebb since 2001"
:(

[gateley]

13. Thanks! Perfect timing -- Joe is just saying 'hi' -

[jillan]

14. Thanks! I'll watch it later when I have more time.

[jillan]

15. I watched it last nite - well most of it - it was on C-Span.

Richard Holbrooke really seems to have alot of respect for Biden.

And that comment from Lugar when he was comparing Afghanistan to a failed run for the presidency - wtf was that???

ok - I have to say it.
Biden looks terrible! I know he had a bad cold - but he has this brown spot on his forehead and there is definitely something with one of his eyes. He looked like he aged - alot. Maybe losing was harder on him than anyone realizes? I just hope he is okay, and that he takes time to take care of himself.

He did mention that he was going to Afghanistan soon.

[gateley]

16. He's had something off about that eye for as long as I've been a Bidenite.

I'm thinking it is exaggerated when he's tired.

I think Joe just looked like I feel when I have a bad cold.

He looked good when he gave his statement after the SOTU, I thought.

[jillan]

17. That was some pretty scary stuff they were talking about.

Things in Afghanistan are not going so well, and it sounded like we need to have a 'surge' there.

I hope that all the people that are so anti-war realize that - both Obama and Hillary have talked about getting out of Iraq and sending our troops where they can really make a difference.