I watched all the news shows that we get today. Of everything that I saw, the most interesting and amazing segment was how irritated Bonnie Erbe, host of "To the Contrary" got at one of her guests. I wasn't watching - I was doing something else and listening. But it was a very amazing exchange. Erbe, who had been absent from the show for quite a few weeks, only to come back recently and inform her viewers that she had been in a horse back riding accident which had almost killed her and left her badly injured, was hosting a spot on the show about the recently reported event of the earth passing the 7 billion mark in human population.

You have to give Erbe credit that, although she seems to be take a somewhat liberal stance on issues, she suppresses her views in order to make sure that her panelists, which are split between conservative and liberal, all get a chance to talk. But in this case, one of her guests, and because I wasn't watching I don't know who it was, started talking about how people were worried about population control. Erbe said that no one was talking about population control, just having a discussion about the population.

Then the panelist, instead of giving it up, persisted, and said that it was discussions like this that were the first step to population control. Erbe got mad, and said that wasn't true, but the woman wouldn't give it up. Erbe barked, "shut up" and basically cut off the conversation. It was very interesting. Honestly, I don't blame Erbe, but she did kinda lose her cool, which is unusual for her.

David Plouffe, campaign advisor to President Obama, was on Meet the Press. He is truly a fast talker. I'll just leave it at that. What got the play in the media throughout the day was his statements about Romney's flip flops on issues, such as once being pro-choice and now being pro-life. But geez, it isn't news that Romney is flip flopping. He has to because the republican party has moved so far to the right. I didn't think Plouffe's statement was that newsworthy. Shows both what a slow news day it was and how the press doesn't really like Romney.

There was a lot of talk about Cain. His ad with one of his campaign advisors smoking a cigarette got a lot of talk - more than it should. The real talk should be about his policies. The republican pundit establishment still doesn't want to believe that he will be the nominee. In fact, more than once today such pundits still were saying that Cain would not be the nominee. That says something to me.

I kinda doubt that Cain will end up being the republican nominee also, but then again, we are in uncharted territory here. It would be interesting to have a black on black election...it would take race out of it. I think in the end, Cain is going to come off as the candidate of the rich, which he is. But that isn't a majority position that will win him the election. Of course, I think, short of something really tragic happening, that the republicans don't have much of a chance with their current field of defeating Obama.