Episode #384: America First! Iowa, Maybe Not.
Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Ken Rudin
4.7 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Mo Elleithee, a longtime Democratic Party insider and member of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, talks about plans to rewrite the presidential primary calendar for 2024 — a calendar that may dislodge Iowa from its long held leadoff spot.
Randy Krehbiel, a political reporter with the Tulsa World, discusses the upcoming resignation of Sen. James Inhofe (R) and who may succeed him. And no, it won’t be a Democrat.
Plus, we discuss the war in Ukraine and the Republican Party’s evolving attitude towards Vladimir Putin.
Music in this week’s episode:
The Unknown Soldier by the Doors
Breaking Up is Hard to Do by Neil Sedaka
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| 0:00.0 | Zelensky pleads for help, a Supreme Court nominee pleads for fairness, and Iowa pleads for the status quo. |
| 0:07.9 | It's March Madness on the political junkie. |
| 0:11.3 | You like Ike, I like I, everybody likes I for president. |
| 0:15.4 | Add light to you and lead to me. I don't care how you quoted. |
| 0:19.5 | Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come on top. |
| 0:26.6 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Loss, because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
| 0:37.4 | Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 384 of the political junkie. I'm Ken Rudin. |
| 0:45.4 | The carnage continues day after horrific day. |
| 0:50.2 | Scenes of bombs and missiles hitting Ukrainian apartment buildings and hospitals, war crimes all, |
| 0:56.9 | and a sense of impotence over what the U.S. can and will do. The Ukrainian people are putting up |
| 1:02.8 | a courageous battle more impressive than anyone thought possible. But the death toll mounts. |
| 1:09.2 | On Wednesday, there were reports of a Russian bomb hitting a theater where hundreds of civilians were taking shelter. |
| 1:16.8 | Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Zelensky made an emotional appeal to Congress, |
| 1:22.6 | invoking the attack on Pearl Harbor at 9-11 and Dr. Martin Luther King. The address via video link was translated |
| 1:30.7 | into English, and it was followed by a heart-wrenchingly graphic video about the destruction |
| 1:36.1 | Moscow has caused in his country. And then he ended his appeal in English. Today, the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine. |
| 1:47.4 | We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world, |
| 1:51.8 | sacrificing our lives in the name of the future. |
| 1:56.2 | That's why today the American people are helping not just Ukraine, but Europe and the world to keep |
| 2:04.9 | the planet alive, to keep justice in history. |
| 2:10.9 | And at the leader of my niche, I am addressing the President Biden. |
| 2:23.1 | You are the leader of the nation, of your great nation. |
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