Tim Russert interviews Barack Obama (Part 1)

[maxpowers74]

Tim's honesty and pointed questions are missed. We are losing all the lions, leaving nothing but jackals.

[kimcliftrn]

These thugs had him killed.

[gregorioc1]

Social Justice, you know, stealing (taxes) from the working class to give to the lazy. Providing shelter, you know, breaking into foreclosed homes to let a welfare recipient live there for free. Dealing with poverty= creating a fraud crisis like global warming to steal more money (taxes) to provide for those who refuse to work. Only in America!!

[bpcippant]

R.I.P Tim your the best!!!

[jolmstea]

stupid birthers need to get a life. i personally love his immediacy and sincerity to the race issue as inflamed by Rev. wright. seriously, you establishmentistas need to find more serious grounds to criticize. you make me laugh heartily.

[stevek037]

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[bapyou]

McCain-Failin' 2008!

McCain Failed 2008!

President Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Forty-fourth President of the United States of America.

John McCain, killer of thousands of Vietnamese for a paranoid nationalist ideology, Senator from Arizona.

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[BlackFunday]

and now hes dead

[WildBluebonnet]

Tim Russert asked the tough questions, without regard to political affiliation, he asked the questions we wanted asked. This is the only time that Obama has never answered a sticky question with "We're getting away from the issues".

When you're running for the highest office in the land, we want you to answer EVERY question, thoroughly and fully.

[bapyou]

"When you're running for the highest office in the land, we want you to answer EVERY question, thoroughly and fully."

Yes ... and how is it that George Bush got a pass from most of the press with his idiotic responses to most every question that he was asked for eight years? That is the more important question to be asked.

[Marcinjan1]

what does bush had to with last campaign

[bapyou]

Please write in proper English expressing yourself in complete sentences containing both a subject and an object. George Bush is no longer in office. Therefore, stupidity is no longer in vogue amongst Americans. I reply only to persons willing to express themselves with good grammar, proper punctuation, and full statements, not fragments of statements. What you wrote to me is a fragment of a sentence. Therefore, I cannot reply to you.

[Marcinjan1]

why dont use proper english when you hike so you dont bother me. one more thing this is youtube not some profesional blog for english teachers like yourself

[nidhogge]

Oh, OK folks, apparently writing properly vs. writing like a 2-year old is only appropriate for blogs and newspapers.

You're a perfect example of why America is in the gutter.

[Marcinjan1]

thank you, than I must be a terrorist because I was not born in America and I am sobataging America by living here. You are so funny .

[nidhogge]

How is it that Obama hasn't had to produce a birth certificate after so many people have asked him to procure one? Tell me, if you were running for office, would you just show your birth certificate and end the hoopla, or would you hire lawyers and spend a good chunk of change to make sure none of these cases get off the ground?

Bush, Obama, they're both crooks. We haven't had an honest president since JFK, and we all know how that ended.

[bapyou]

First, procure means to buy.

Second, this birth certificate bullshit was ettled by the Supreme Court, It's a non-issue.

[nidhogge]

Produce instead of procure, whatever. Fact of the matter is, you pointing out my grammatical fallacy doesn't disguise the fact that you're flat-out wrong.

The Supreme Court NEVER even accepted the case, and I'm sure that if they had, they wouldn't have lived a whole hell of a lot longer. No hearings were had on the birth certificate, and Obama was never ordered to produce it as he should have.

[bapyou]

"Produce instead of procure, whatever."

Yeah. That pesky language. The definition of words ... they should just be changed whenever we feel like changing them. Shouldn't we?

Kid? You'll make a good politician some day.

"The Supreme Court NEVER even accepted the case"

Yes. They never did. Which suggests the level of merit the case had to begin with. Which is, no merit whatsoever.

[nidhogge]

Lol, sir, I'm a writer by trade and if I cared I could pick apart your supposedly grammatically superior comments, but I'd rather focus on the issue at hand.

You still haven't defended your point adequately. The fact that the case wasn't accepted suggests corruption. This country would be torn asunder if the Supreme Court heard the case as we'd be without a president and vice president (Biden couldn't succeed him as Obama's pick for VP as he would have been picked by the alien).

[bapyou]

"if I cared I could pick apart your supposedly grammatically superior comments"

Pick away if you want. You're a writer "by trade" and you don't know the difference between the term produce and procure? What fucking publication do you write for? Numbskull Weekly?

"You still haven't defended your point adequately"

Defend what? The fact that the conservative activist Supreme Court refused to hear the case? What the fuck else do you need, junior?

Go back to "writing", you mental slob.

[nidhogge]

Lol, you are a dumbass of epic proportions. Number one, procure does not mean "to buy". I was hoping to put that one behind us so we can focus on the issue, but let me give you the textbook definition:

"to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence."

K? K, you halfwit.

#2, the idea that those are actual Conservatives that respect the Constitution on the Supreme Court is complete bullshit as they have shown through COUNTLESS rulings.

[bapyou]

I like language and I'll concede the definition for procure. My big-ass Webster's has a definition nearly identical to the one you provided.

Now what's all this about the conservative Supreme Court? I didn't understand that part of your comment at all. Still mad Obama won the election? Democracy is a bitch, ain't it?

In what publication(s) does your writing appear? I'd love to read what sort of drivel you foist on the American public.

[nidhogge]

Whether Obama or Mccain won, we'd still be in a ridiculous war that is racking up money for the corporations that influence American politics via special interest money, we'd still be spending way beyond our means, and we'd still be on the way to a massive inflationary depression. I voted for neither one of those jackasses.

Fact remains, Obama will not show his birth certification because he doesn't have one. Check out the townhall meeting where citizens objected to his citizenship.

[bapyou]

Pal, I'm not going to spend my time "checking out a town meeting" about Obama's citizenship. It's a dead issue. Why the hell are you obsessed about it?

In what publication(s) does your writing appear? I'd love to read what sort of drivel you foist on the American public.

[nidhogge]

Lou Dobbs and a few other political commentators recently discussed the massive amount of faxes, e-mails, calls, etc. that they've been getting from their viewers OUTRAGED that Obama hasn't displayed his birth citizenship. He has spent well over a million dollars in attorneys to throw out the many cases brought against him. Just like one of the commentators said "If I was being accused of simply not being a citizen, then I would show my certificate!"

I read & follow the Constitution.

[bapyou]

Non-issue. Case-closed.

His certificate is on file in the state of Hawaii. You nutcases will grasp at anything to bring Obama down.

Is this a case of ... you just don't want a black guy to be in office? You still haven't got to the point where you see blacks as Americans? Is that what this is all about? Still obssessed with racial shit? Because that's what it smells like. "He can't be one of us ... The white guys who are SUPPOSED to rule this land! He's an outsider!" Get a grip.

[nidhogge]

Prove it. I'm not taking anyone's word that it's on file. Please don't tell me that you actually trust our government. How many times have they lied to us?

I love how you're playing the race card, really showing your IQ here. Do you think I'd rather have McCain in office? You dumb shit, I voted for neither one. I want a president in office that's a natural-born citizen, and overwhelming evidence demonstrates that Obama is not. Even his own fucking grandmother.

[bapyou]

"Prove it. I'm not taking anyone's word that it's on file."

I don't have to prove anything. The Republican governor of Hawaii has vouched for Obama's birth. Again: The state of Hawaii does not issue copies of certificates of birth. This is why Obama himself cannot obtain one. Don't you get it idiot?

Race card? So, in other words, the issue of race cannot be discussed without someone screaming "race card"? What I wrote previously is a legitimate concern. What? No one in America is racist?

[nidhogge]

You are a fucking whack job. I don't give a shit if you want to discuss racism in a race-relevant discussion, but you are bringing it into a conversation out of nowhere just because you're grasping for straws.

Obama is an illegal alien, and according to Hawaiian law, Obama and ONLY Obama can unlock the vault where his original birth certificate is stored in Hawaii and display it to the public. He would have done this in an instant if he could.

Keep drinking the kool-aid, sport.

[bapyou]

The case is closed. Don't have an anuerism, dude. You sound like a raving lunatic. And you're wrong about Hawaiin law. The Republican governer of Hawaii has vouched for Obama's birth. S'matter? Got a problem with Republicans? They love nutfucks like you.

[nidhogge]

So is Obama's Grandmother a nutfuck for saying she witnessed his birth in Kenya? How about the forensics experts that put their careers on the line to prove the certificate of live birth was a forgery? I could go on here. The Republican Governor did what he was told to, and that is that.

Got a problem with the Constitution? Communists love dumbasses like you.

[bapyou]

"So is Obama's Grandmother a nutfuck for saying she witnessed his birth in Kenya?"

Maybe. But not as much of a nutfuck as you. What's the source for this "statement"? Billy-Bob's Conservoquack One-Stop Hillbilly Website?

And, hell, telling me communists love me is no insult. Communists led the resistance against Mussolini during WW2. The U.S. since WW2--either covertly or overtly--has had a hand in destabilizing any government with even a whiff of socialist tendencies. Back at you.

[mike50333]

I hadn't watched him while he was living (didn't even know he had a segment until the other day), but from what I've seen so far, I respect him. He asks the tough questions that people would otherwise not be asked, and yet he is respectful throughout, unlike BILL o'REILY!

I'll certainly miss him. Also, I think Obama did a good job with Tim. ^_^

[Marcinjan1]

yeah ok on the last part

[ghettorose2]

May God Bless you Tim Russert, we will all miss you. This is a very sad time.

Rest in Peace Tim

[Shocccker]

The world is truly now, a much sadder place -

R.I.P. Tim

[dogstar7]

One of the greatest political commentators of our time. A journalistic giant among his peers. Much loved and much respected. He will be truly missed.

We could all see how much he relished this Presidential campaign years more that any he had ever worked. You could see in his face and hear in his voice the excitement that he felt...this year in particular. He was an old war horse who died in harness doing what he loved.

Godspeed, Tim Russert!

[lbpeacemaker]

Thank you for this video.