Countdown: Barack Obama Interview Sept. 8, 2008 Part 1

[rcgus1]

You liberal tools are scarred to death and you should be. I'll bet the house this race is over. Obama is a fraud just like Bathtub boy. This is a joke .. No wonder no one watches this guy.

[LoserDarrell]

Is it true that the reason Olbermann did not interview him in person is due to the fact that Obama's people were afraid of Olbermann droping to his knees and trying to blow Obama??

[driubi]

but obama is being interviewed. Palin is not. She's a liability because she's an idiot. Mccain camp won't let her be interviewed unless its on their terms. This is propaganda that you'd expect from the likes of hitler.

[LoserDarrell]

I wonder why that is dumbfuck??? Are you going to try and sell me the bullshit that she is getting a fair shake from the media compared to Obama??? The only person to ever ask Obama a tough question was Oreilly and that was just this week...what the fuck are you talking about??? What would you do if you were running the campaign...anyone hammering Biden on interviews??? and you call me a kool aid drinker...dumbfuck

[driubi]

A fair shake from the media?! are you kidding me? The media goes nuts at everything obama does. Does his campaign prevent him from being interviewed? I've heard biden hammered a few times - but here is why the situation is different. No one knows who palin is. She comes out of no where, and huge chunks of her first speeches are easily verifiable lies. Her campaign has done nothing to address these claims but call everyone sexist.

[LoserDarrell]

Lies?? I have read articles stating that She killed the bridge to nowhere (that Obama and Biden voted for), She reduced earmarks in her 1st term 50% and down to 30% in the 2nd term...there is no question that she went after corruption and pissed off members of both parties...She did put the plane on ebay...are we down to the chef??...What Lies??

[driubi]

no, she didn't kill the bridge to nowhere. The republican congress was against it - she was for it. The republican congress refused to fund it - then finally in 2007 (well over a year after the money for the bridge had been forked over) she decided to be against it. Alaska still has that money. She hired lobbyists when she was in Wasilla that secured 27 million in earmarks. Thats over 4k per resident. She increased government spending by 33% there, and raised taxes by 38%. (tax and spend?)

[LoserDarrell]

That's not what I read...getting your info from MoveON or Media Matters??

[driubi]

no, it comes from the fringe news organization known as the.. new york times. She also put the town in debt 22 million dollars (up from no debt). She got the city sued for 1.3 million by seizing private properties under eminent domain to build a sports arena.

[illuminatioracle]

Mysteriously any time Olbermann has interviewed Obama, he has some excuse for not having him in person.

Could it be that if Obama is somewhere off set, he could easily be reading from a teleprompter with the questions and responses?

Why, whenever Obama is interviewing in person and not from some room does he seem to lack any composure? Because there is no corrupt news network trying to salvage whatever's left of his campaign.

[sfmasseuse]

IS this why Keith was fired? SHAME ON YOU NBC & MSNBC!!!

[brawnymike]

Keith wasn't fired. After the on-air friction between Keith & Chris Matthews, and Keith's on-air disgust with the RNC coopting Sept. 11 footage for political gain, MSNBC decided to use David Gregory (rather than Olbermann and Matthews) for remaining Election '08 coverage--which is basically only the debates.

Olbermann and Matthews are still doing their usual jobs (Countdown & Hardball, respectively).

[LoserDarrell]

You have to be way way on the Left to piss off Matthews...Olbermann is nothing but a hack tool and nothing more...he has nothing to offer anyone that wants to be honestly informed about anything

[driubi]

If your complaining about olbermann being waay to the left and think oreilly is the only one doing objective reporting then you have some kind of brain deficiency.

[LoserDarrell]

I actually clicked over to Olbermann and heard him refer to himself as a "journalist" Fucking hysterical!!! What is really scary is that he probably believes his own bullshit...I never said Oreilly is objective but he is the only one that has ever challenged Obama..that says something in itself about the coverage Obama receives..if I were a Hillary fan,I would be fucking pissed!!I got absolutely nothing from Olbermann's love fest with obama other than a strong urge to throw a brick through my TV

[arch3type]

America was retarded and gave him shit for Reverend Wright, Obama wouldn't have had to do that if America wasn't ignorant.

[poopstreek]

Obama changed his mind about drilling for political gain, he changed his mind about our troops for political gain, he changed his mind about HIS CHURCH of 20 YEARS for political gain. The only thing he can "Change" is his mind-for political gain. Barack Obama=politicial from hell.

[driubi]

in 2000 mccain called the evangelical movement "agents of intolerance". in 2008 he selected one fore his VP. In 2006 mccain said that interogation procedures should be determined by the army field manual. 2008 he voted against a bill that would make it just that. In 2006 mccain was a advocate in the fight against global warming. In 2008 he picked a VP that doesn't believe in it. In 2008 mccain said he wouldn't run a negative campaign. In 2008 he ran a negative campaign. I could go on..

[poopstreek]

I don't support McCain, good guess though. I am just sick of people saying Obama is somehow above politics, because he is not.

[driubi]

unfortunately thats not a reality that any candidate could win on. The electorate asks to be lied to, by not voting based on rational thought and research.

[baronmorris]

I'm sure you've read his books, right?

Right?!?

bc you speak so authoritatively.

What you and others don't get, is Obama is a COLLABORATOR. Not a partisan career hack.

Read his books.

[poopstreek]

McCain has more "COLLABORATING" between party lines. That argument is not going to win.

[baronmorris]

ur dodging the ?.

HAVE YOU READ HIS BOOKS??

[poopstreek]

Why would I? I think the guy is a quack. You (just like every other blind "hope" supporter)have still not given me any reason to vote for him.

[LoserDarrell]

Wecome to politics dipshit...do whatever possible to avoid talking about real issues such as Obama's tax and spend class warfare message and McCain and Palin's (who actually have reformed things) message of reform and reaching across the aisle without daggars...Obama wouldn't know an aisle if bit him in the ass

[driubi]

Keep drinking the kool-aide. Mccain has backtracked on every issue he's ever reached across the isle on.

If you are citing economic issues as your reason for voting republican you are delusional. Reagan and the Bush's are responsible for put america in a debt 10 times what it was before they came to office. If you want to call someone like bill clinton a "tax and spender" fine, but tax and spend is a lot better than don't tax and spend.

[LoserDarrell]

I am a Libertarian...rather than waste my vote I have to go with the lesser of 2 evils. Of the 2 evils, Obama's ability to deliver scripted speeches doesn't impress me much...add to the mix that his tax and spend policies will wreck the economy and the fact that it is not the govt's responsibility to create jobs and the fact that he has never even run a McDonalds makes me pretty goddamn uncomfortable with a slick Chicago politician trying to sell me change...

[driubi]

I warned you about the cliff - but you run straight towards it. LOOK AT HISTORY. clinton is the only president in the last 28 years that didn't drastically increase our debt.  He's the only candidate to end his term with a surplus. Voting for repulicans because they are good for the economy is as stupid as voting for osama bin laden because he's a christian.

[LoserDarrell]

Wow! That's interesting! Clinton did that all by himself with no help from the 1st Republican House and Senate in 30 years...thanks for the History lesson! You need to google libertarian...To your shock and dismay I would vote for whatever candidate would reduce the size and scope of govt...Obama is tax and spend to the core

[driubi]

yeah sure - yet a republican president, a republican house, and republican senate continued right along the lines of reagan and bush the 1st. Reagan could have veto'd all those bills coming through his office, as could have bush 1. Each one of them rallied against tax and spend policies - and each one didn't tax - and spent and put us in debt over 10 times what we'd be without them.

[LoserDarrell]

So let me get this straight...all the tax and spend entitlements and pork that the Dems tie to legislation is the Presidents fault??? Democrats = 30 years of entitlement and pork programs and counting...Presidents don't propose or fuck up good legislation and with no line item veto how is it their fault...that is the problem with DC...are you telling me Obama is going to change all that as president after proposing $750million in earmarks in 100 weeks in the Senate

[driubi]

No, thats not what i'm saying. I'm saying that if its a choice between taxing and spending and not taxing and spending - its more fiscally responsible to tax and spend. So after 30 years of pork programs proposed and not vetoed by republican presidents, all a sudden mccain is going to do it? When there was republican controlled house, senate and presidency the programs went away right? Remember that W ran on small government, just like mccain.

[driubi]

Mccain has flopped on taxes, he's flopped on torture, he's flopped on his statements about the evangelical movement. His campaign is running adverts with more lies in them than truth. Now he picks a VP who he criticized on 3 separate occasions for wasteful earmarks in 2001 while she was mayor of wasilla (source LA TIMES).