Bill Cosby was on Meet the Press this weekend along with Alvin Poussaint M.D.. promoting and discussing the book they co-wrote called, "Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors." The book notes the highest cause of death for young black men is homicide. Seventy percent of black babies are born out of wedlock. Ninety-four percent of blacks who are murdered are murdered by another black. Blacks make up 12 percent of the population but are 44 percent of the prison population.

And so a book was written for a population which dropped out of school and can't read!

And on Face the Nation we had Senator John McCain trying to ressurect his "straight talk express." Unfortunately for John he couldn't seem to ever answer a yes or no question in less than seven rambling paragraphs, until Bob Schieffer became so frustrated he began interrupting John hoping John could get to the end of an answer.

Just for fun (???) here is an excerpt showing John's clarity and decisiveness:

Sen. McCAIN: First of all, I--and I emphasize again, that's not the time to call in the lawyers as
Governor Romney stated. I meant that there are many experts, as is well known, believe that Iran is within about two years of reaching a tipping point. In other words, they have achieved enough technical capability and enough material that inexorably they would acquire a nuclear weapon or weapons. That's a tipping point in the view of many experts and in the view of some that if we didn't take action before that time, then we would be placing--then Iran would be on the path that is...

SCHIEFFER: So...

Sen. McCAIN: ...would lead them to the acquisition of nuclear weapons.

SCHIEFFER: ...let me--let me just--let me just interrupt you here.
Sen. McCAIN: Yeah.

SCHIEFFER: So what you're saying is...

Sen. McCAIN: Yeah, sure.

SCHIEFFER: ...if we determine that they are pretty close to having a nuclear weapon, you would recommend going in and taking some sort of military action at that point?

Sen. McCAIN: No, I would not make that decision until that point. But I would say that the Iranians can't have a nuclear weapon, in my view. But I also believe that we've got a lot of things to do--that we could do, including getting other nations together to impose meaningful sanctions, painful sanctions on the Iranians, which I think could have a beneficial effect.

How did "wandering" John ever get associated with "straight" talk?