McFarland on Hardwick

KT starts out saying that she started out her campaign in Buffalo, which is an irrelevant point. My point was that upstate voters didn’t get to see her face off against Spencer.

The next question had to do with foreign affairs and how much easier it was during the bipolar cold war. KT brings up how the Senate was originally intended (according to Federalist No. 62) to give advice viz. foreign affairs. She says we don’t yet know what the new paradigm is in terms of military power being asymmetrical; all the weight of the US military versus a couple of guys with bottles of explosives made up to look like Lucozade.

She moves on to upstate and mentions the exodus of jobs and people. Hillary promised 200,000 jobs to upstate, but we’ve instead lost 40,000 because we missed the technology revolution. She brings up Massachusetts’ Route 128 (but omits the fact that Mass. is also a net loser of population). We need to get off the addiction to mideast oil, and we need renewable energy sources. (She’s kind of all over the place). Upstate is ideally suited to be the Texas of the 21st century – we have an educated, underemployed population, great colleges, and natural resources (wind, water, farmland that can grow corn and woodchips for Ethanol). We can do this through tax incentives and rebates.

McFarland would be thrilled to do debates upstate, and Hardwick asks her to come on his program to debate Spencer. Abortion: pro-choice, with restrictions. Guns: 2nd Amendment supporter. Stem cells: Bush veto was a mistake. Gay marriage: between a man and woman, but favor civil rights for gays. Passports for WNYers: we need a secure drivers’ license.