home
Obama Agrees With Policy, But Decries Clinton Language On Iran Attack On Israel | 75 comments (75 topical)

Readers Must Login or Create an Account to Comment

A political move by NBC and Obama (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by Saul on Sun May 04, 2008 at 08:56:34 AM EST
Talk about in the tank

As I watch Meet the Press today and This Week, it is hard not to believe that both NBC and ABC WANT Obama to win so bad.   Tim Russert has Obama for the only reason so he can get more positive exposure since he had a bad week and so his man can explain himself once again for  his bad week so he can do well on Tuesday.

On ABC Stenpanpoulus is doing everything to make Hilary look bad by constantly interrupting her before a group of people not letting her answer the question the audience gave him.  You can tell he hates her and wants her to mess up so she looks bad and Obama looks good.  His tone is like he is disgusted with Hilary.

I agree Russert... (5.00 / 1) (#6)
by jccamp on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:07:18 AM EST
was throwing softballs. Geez, it was like a paid hour-long advertisement.

Disappointing.

[ Parent ]

I didn't expect anything other... (none / 0) (#16)
by Shainzona on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:23:38 AM EST
than soft balls.

Hey, was MTP on at the same time as George's Town Hall with Hillary?  (Sorry, I don't watch TV!)

[ Parent ]

Yes (none / 0) (#71)
by DFLer on Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:19:58 PM EST
yes

MTO repeats on MSNBC, I think....don't know about the ABC deal.

[ Parent ]

Typical (none / 0) (#18)
by pie on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:25:59 AM EST
pumpkinhead interview.

Can't ask hard questions.  People might not like him any more.

[ Parent ]

I'm watching now (5.00 / 2) (#8)
by stillife on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:11:29 AM EST
Stephanopoulos just asked her why 60% of voters think she's dishonest.

[ Parent ]
Hillary called out Steph (5.00 / 3) (#42)
by gyrfalcon on Sun May 04, 2008 at 11:02:01 AM EST
apparently, on his history as a member of the Clinton administration.   I didn't see the ABC show itself, but Kurtz on CNN showed a clip of her roping George in on the question of NAFTA-- how she and George together argued against it inside the admin.  She totally blew his cover as an "objective journalist" while reminding him that he knows better than to pretend her opposition to it is new-found.  Interesting bit of psychodynamics there.  I bet he's furious.

[ Parent ]
Yep (5.00 / 1) (#47)
by Saul on Sun May 04, 2008 at 11:32:38 AM EST
I saw that I thought that was pretty cool.  Maybe he will learn to leave her alone for fear of revealing more on what they agreed on during the Clinton adminstration.

[ Parent ]
I have not watched it (none / 0) (#7)
by DJ on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:09:32 AM EST
Should I not?  Is it that bad?

[ Parent ]
Well, it shows off (none / 0) (#14)
by jccamp on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:18:39 AM EST
Obama's strong points. He's articulate and appears thoughtful and charming. However, Russert allows some whoppers to go by unchallenged: i.e. discussing HRC's comments about Iran & defending Isreal, Obama says something to the effect "I won't allow Iran to go nuclear." Huh? Good trick, but the details were a little lacking. Russert just nodded and moved on.

The interview appeared very friendly and non-challenging, at least to me.  

[ Parent ]

Exactly How Is Obama Going To Stop (5.00 / 4) (#22)
by MO Blue on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:31:53 AM EST
Iran from going nuclear if negotiations fail to do the trick? Talk about buying a pig in a polk. Is there going to be any time that we really know what Obama will do other than create "sound bites?"

Hillary's umbrella of deterrence is in many ways a less aggressive stance. This policy is saying that even if Iran got nuclear capability there are other ways to prevent them from using them rather than using first strike bombing to prevent Iran from acquiring them.

[ Parent ]

I thought Russert was pretty tame (none / 0) (#21)
by Big Tent Democrat on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:31:21 AM EST
But I did not find Obama very effective either.

[ Parent ]
I didn't mean to suggest (none / 0) (#35)
by jccamp on Sun May 04, 2008 at 10:22:56 AM EST
Obama was effective on MTP. I thought he was allowed to control the substance and pace of his replies. It demonstrated his strong points - his persona. I thought it also demonstrated his glaring weakness - his substance. For a guy who's all about change, he sounded suspiciously like a, well...a politician with glib-but-insubstantial content.

[ Parent ]
"I won't allow"?? (none / 0) (#25)
by FlaDemFem on Sun May 04, 2008 at 09:35:02 AM EST
What office does he think he is running for?? Sounds like he thinks he is going to be President of Iran, not the US. And FYI, Obama, Iran is already nuclear. They are enriching and building power plants. They just don't have a bomb yet. Someone should get Obama a briefing on Iran soon.

[ Parent ]

Obama Agrees With Policy, But Decries Clinton Language On Iran Attack On Israel | 75 comments (75 topical)

Readers Must Login or Create an Account to Comment

  • Premium Ads

  • Blog Ads

  • Contribute To TalkLeft

    donate to TalkLeft