Comments for "First Challenging Interview for Obama Camp of Entire Campaign"

Check out what happened after the interview:
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Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife.

"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."
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This is scary stuff. Punishing the news media when they ask hard questions. You people who shrug this stuff off really aren't thinking this through.

@Litebets27 & NBey6: If you think that you won't have your taxes raised by Obama, you're going to be in for a surprise!

Do you actually think that someone who calls a cash handout a "tax cut" is going to actually cut your taxes? Once your handout of $1,000 (or whatever it will be) is consumed, what then? Your taxes will still be whatever they are now, but then will be raised in following years. Bill Clinton did precisely the same thing, do you not recall? He promised tax cuts, but rasied them after becoming president.

He WILL raise your taxes, whether it's on the front end or the back end. In other words, a common tactic of Democrats is to trumpet a income tax cut, while RAISING your other taxes. What taxes? How about the death tax, interest income tax, taxes on companies that end up raising prices in order to pay them, reduced income tax deductions, increased real estate taxes, and every other type of tax.

All of the other taxes affects you and affects the entire economy. Remember what happened under Carter? I do. His tax and spend policies ("spreading the wealth around"), plus his cuts of the military (something else that will happen under Obama) near sunk this country. Thank God he was ousted after a single term!

If I put my blinders on and ignore all of these things, I'm sure I would go through life a lot happier, but it's not in my character to put the blinders on. All of these things are what Obama has already promised, so it's not like I'm making this stuff up. The economy WILL suffer, and so will everyone voting for him.

Obama sure does tug at my heartstrings. (*sniff*)

He has time for that B.S., but hasn't had the time to do a press conference in the PAST MONTH. What a stand-up guy. What nerves of steel.

@Piaceri: Don't worry, he won't wait until 2010 to raise taxes. He obviously knows he can fool a very large group of Americans into believing that his $1,000 hand-out is a "tax cut". It is no such thing, and the taxes of the recipients of the hand-outs (I'll be one of them myself) will go on paying the same taxes, and will see all their other taxes go up. Income tax is one of dozens of taxes that people get charged every day, and Obama sees dollar signs in his eyes.

Um, no, I'm not the one who is full of s**t. Obama is the one who has done nothing but lie to the American public. Obama is full of it, and everything he is doing is wrecking this country for future generations. He is a classic tyrant, imposing his will on everyone -- exactly what liberalism does NOT stand for. He is not a liberal, he is a statist.

I didn't realize that all those people voted for Barack Obama because they want universal health care. Are you really under that illusion? I'd say a good quarter of the people who voted for him did so because of one of his lies -- like the middle class tax break that he lied about.

All the things liberals said they hated about George Bush are the things they are giving Barack Obama a pass on -- lying (big-time), having corrupt people in the administration, sending more troops overseas, out-of-control spending, etc., etc.

Many people obviously don't have the ability to see all the problems Obama is creating until they have literally ripped apart the fabric of society as we know it. If it because you are so heavily personally invested in Obama, or because you're just ignoring the warning signs?

Enjoy your facist police state -- because you'll be silenced if you don't.

What do you mean "you people"? What exactly are you calling me?

It's not ME who is silencing you. In fact, I welcome a good debate. It is Obama and his administration of statists who are silencing open debate.

I will most certainly NOT get off his back. I believe it was the anti-war liberals who made a big point of saying that dissent is true patriotism. So why are you trying to shut me up? Should you not be welcoming the points I am making about Obama ripping apart the fabric of this country?

You will never agree with me because you have obviously tied yourself personally to that guy. Just remember, he's just a guy, nothing special. Not the chosen one, not the next coming, just a guy. Nobody should be elevated to "perfect" as you seem to have done.

Yes, I said it: he is perfect in your eyes. How else could you mount such an impassioned defense and state that I should not criticize him? A President who is not open to criticism must in fact be perfect, because American Presidents are among the most criticized people in the world.

Well, now that you see how it feels to have "your guy" criticized, hopefully you can see how what the liberals and the media did to George Bush for 8 years was scandalous. Obama is getting only a tiny sliver of what GWB got for his stretch of 8 years. Constant, daily pounding in the newspapers (led by the NY Times), on TV, in Congress, and on the Internet. It was relentless, and it is easy to see how the public slowly began to change its perception of the man over time as they had this negative message drummed into their heads.

George Bush did not get one single day where they laid off of him -- right from the start. If you recall, for practically the entire first year we all heard nothing but "he stole the presidency" (which obviously he did not), and then after 9/11 we had to listen to the Democrats and the media pounding day after day that "the war is lost" (which it obviously was not).

If anything, there should be universal praise that the guy accomplished what most people thought was impossible -- he won the war against Al Queda in Iraq. It is now safer to walk the streets of Baghdad than it is to drive a car in California. The world no longer has the murderous dictator to contend with (Saddam Hussein). We can now deal with the Iran nuclear threat without having Saddam breathing down our necks and distracting us. (Although we'll probably see that Obama will not deal with Iran with enough force, and they will end up with nukes.)

George Bush single-handedly accomplished all of that, despite the incredible level of vitriol directed at him. It's almost unthinkable that he was able to do it.

Methinks Obama has some big shoes to fill, and right now he's looking like the Junior Varsity team.

You obviously have no clue as to what you're talking about. No clue at all. Saddam Hessein was not "assasinated" as you say. Not even close. As a matter of fact, we showed tremendous restraint and trust in the new Iraqi government. We captured him alive and turned him over for a proper trial, where he had an overly-fair trial, especially considering how he raped and murdered hi citizens for years.

Stop getting your opinions from TV and such. It has warped your judgment. I'd love to hear your sources of information.

Well, you are just plain wrong.

You are far gone -- either paranoia or such deep-seeded resentment that you are willing to believe the lies of the most radical fringe elements of society. That you would believe the rantings of terrorists over those people in your country charged with protecting us speaks volumes about your character.

Are you really that ignorant that you think anyone said anything about "Al Queda taking over Iraq" while Saddam Hussein was in power? It is not worthy to have a debate with someone who cares so little about current events and facts that they get all their information from a friend or something, rather than picking up a newspaper to learn about something first-hand. Because nobody ever said Al Queda was "taking over" Iraq. They said that Saddam Hussein was meeting with representative from Al Queda, becuase they had a shared interest in seeing Americans (like you and me) suffer.

This is a waste of time, because I am debating with someone who will not loet the facts get in the way of their hatred and/or resentment.

I guess when you sense that you're losing the debate you start lying about things that I've said. The amusing thing is that anyone can easily look up on this page and see that you're making it up.

Also, typing in ALL CAPS makes your text very hard to read. It does not make it more effective or emphatic.

Taking out Saddam Hussein was exactly the right thing to do. It liberated an entire country and mad the world safer -- at the expense of our young men and women. This country pays the ultimate sacrifice time and time again, so that other, less fortunate people around the world can prosper.

You see our action from the perspective of those who want to maintain the status quo, not through the eyes of the people whom we have liberated.

Do you not recall that it was because of countries like France doing the same for us more than 200 years ago that we are able to exist today as a free nation? Maybe I assume too much. You don't exactly sound like a history buff.

Boy oh boy, it's very hard to read that text in ALL CAPS. It's possible that you're saying something coherent, but I can't get through it to tell.

If you want to type something in normal text, I'll try to read it, but with all those capital letters, it might as well be Egyptian hieroglyphics.

It also helps to break up your thoughts into paragraphs, but I don't want to ask too much.

Anyway, I hope that someday you grow up and start to maturely evaluate the world around you. Do not evaluate people on the basis of their skin color or political party, but rather what effect they will have on you and your friends and loved ones.

Try to understand that when you view the world through the lens of hatred and bitterness, you are only hurting yourself and those around you.