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Bob Beckel

American Journalist

Born: Nov 15, 1948

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Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well. Bob Beckel

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Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results. Bob Beckel

Purity Results Ideological Does Nor Produced Now Ever

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures. Bob Beckel

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Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is. Bob Beckel

Life God Life Is A Chapters Leads Knows Another Series

In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit. Bob Beckel

Racism Lie Ego Positions Suited Willingness Sexism Perfect Perfect Fit Coupled Him His Trump Fit Disguised Whenever Barely Near

Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions. Bob Beckel

Problem Political Power Solutions Find Seem Both Both Parties Entrenched Points Never Parties Ideologies Score Hold Much Less Agree Desire

Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes. Bob Beckel

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Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday. Bob Beckel

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I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously. Bob Beckel

Seriously President Say Running Take Always Office Anybody Them

Trump is going to be around a while. Bob Beckel

Around Trump Going While

The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing. Bob Beckel

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Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them. Bob Beckel

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What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell. Bob Beckel

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Trump has predicated his whole campaign on the unfairness of the playing field. Big corporations, rich donors, big media, and trade deals that punish the little guy. Bob Beckel

Big Field Rich Corporations Punish Guy Trade Deals Big Corporations His Trump Campaign Unfairness Donors Little Whole Media Playing Playing Field

In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks. Bob Beckel

Great Money Enemies Party Recession Took Relaxed Until Democratic Democratic Party Forced Dodd-Frank Democrats Began Up Cozy Wall Wall Street Via Bankers Banks Regulations Street

Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable. Bob Beckel

Anger Black Community Black Community Immutable Towards Established Republicans

Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions. Bob Beckel

Economically Iranians Sanctions Suffered

I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans. Bob Beckel

Oppose Obamacare Because Repealing American Working Uninsured Growing Numbers

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