Barack Obama's campaign killed all interviews with a Florida TV station after Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, faced tough and critical questions from a reporter at the Orlando station, the Orlando Sentinel reported .
Later in the interview West questioned Biden about his comments that if Obama wins the election next month, he would be tested early on as president and wanted to know if Biden was implying America was no longer the world's leading power.
"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden asked her.
The Obama camp then killed a WFTV interview with Biden's wife Jill, according to an Orlando Sentinel blog.
"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, according to the Sentinel.
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Is it me or has all this rhetoric gotten out of hand? Rally after rally McCain supporters are calling Obama a socialist and/or a communist. Now quotes by Carl Marx? The funny thing is that most of those people have no clue what these terms mean, sort of like when you were in a kid and were afraid of the boogyman. To this day I am still not sure who or what the boogyman was.
Joe did shut her down though. Had anyone gone at Palin that hard she would have looked even clueless than in the Couric interview.
The questions asked in that interview are the exact questions that need to be asked of the Obama campaign. Someone dared to ask and pretty much got excommunicated. Whatever. No big surprise there.
If it is derived from Karl Marx's theories, if it is socialism, if it is redistribution of wealth, then so be it. Why not just own it? Why champion a philosophy, but deny it and rather call it other names - "liberalism", "progressivism"?
The Barack Obama campaign called Barbara West's interview with Sen. Joe Biden unprofessional and combative.
The veteran WFTV-Channel 9 anchor-reporter says she asked pointed questions and respects Sen. Biden, who is Sen. Obama's running mate.
In a call to me Friday evening, West (pictured) said of Biden: "I have a great deal of respect for him. I have a great deal of respect for Sen. Obama. We are given four minutes of a satellite window for these interviews. Four precious minutes. I got right down to it and, yes, I think I asked him some pointed questions. These are questions that are rolling about right now and questions that need to be asked. I don't think I was rude or inconsiderate to him. I think I was probing and maybe tough. I can't believe that in all of his years in politics, and all of his campaigning and such, that he hasn't run into some tough questions before. He's certainly up to it in giving good answers."
Has anyone considered that maybe redistribution of wealth is not such a bad thing? Look at the present American system of capitalism. What has capitalism brought America? Perhaps it is possible to have socialism in a democratic way. I'm getting into unknown terrain here but I do know that countries like Germany have a government sponsored health care system and everyone there is predominately middle class. At least, that's what a German friend of mother stated. If this looks like socialism, I say bring it on!
Has anyone considered that maybe redistribution of wealth is not such a bad thing? Look at the present American system of capitalism. What has capitalism brought America? Perhaps it is possible to have socialism in a democratic way. I'm getting into unknown terrain here but I do know that countries like Germany have a government sponsored health care system and everyone there is predominately middle class. At least, that's what a German friend of mother stated. If this looks like socialism, I say bring it on!
There are Americans who openly welcome this system. Others, like myself, do not want more socialism in the U.S. We already have too much! But, if you (especially as a Presidential candidate) are for it and you sing its praises, then why lie and say it isn't socialism when it is? If it walks like a duck...
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If any wealth redistribution is marxism, I guess we had better get rid of public schools, public transportation, law enforcement, firefighters, emts, public parks, and so on, and so on. The rich can hire private companies to do all this for them, and the poor, well they don't deserve any of this, because they must be lazy or stupid. That's why they're poor, right?
This from the people whose president just orchestrated a government buy-out of our banks. This from a party who has spent years redistributing the wealth of all the taxpayers to private contractors while claiming to be reducing the size of government. Never mind that private security personnel in a war zone get paid 5 to 6 times what a US solder does to do exactly the same job. Support the troops my a**.
And now they are concerned about wealth distribution. They have been redistributing the wealth to their friends for the past eight years.
Give me a break. Good job Joe Biden. He may spout off at the mouth too much, but he knows how to put a hack reporter attempting a hit job their place.
But, if you (especially as a Presidential candidate) are for it and you sing its praises, then why lie and say it isn't socialism when it is? If it walks like a duck...[/quote]
First, I can't say that the redistribution of wealth is socialism because I don't know enough about that type of government. All I'm saying is that the present system in the USA where the rich get all the breaks and the poor get all the benefits leaves the middle class picking up the tab!
If any wealth redistribution is marxism, I guess we had better get rid of public schools, public transportation, law enforcement, firefighters, emts, public parks, and so on, and so on. The rich can hire private companies to do all this for them, and the poor, well they don't deserve any of this, because they must be lazy or stupid. That's why they're poor, right?
This from the people whose president just orchestrated a government buy-out of our banks. This from a party who has spent years redistributing the wealth of all the taxpayers to private contractors while claiming to be reducing the size of government. Never mind that private security personnel in a war zone get paid 5 to 6 times what a US solder does to do exactly the same job. Support the troops my a**.
And now they are concerned about wealth distribution. They have been redistributing the wealth to their friends for the past eight years.
Give me a break. Good job Joe Biden. He may spout off at the mouth too much, but he knows how to put a hack reporter attempting a hit job their place.
That reporter could have asked the same question in a respectful, non-partisan way and would have probably received an answer to her question. I don't blame Biden at all for not taking her seriously. I wonder if there is any truth to the allegation that her husband is a Republican strategist? If so she should take a page from Campbell Brown's book and kill the nonsense.
"They" () are very concerned about wealth redistribution and always have been, it's, as you said, to whom that is the issue. If human history provides any indication of the social unrest that extreme and protracted wealth disparity brings about, we are in for serious problems.
What I find amazing is that some folks apparently believe in this magical "infrastructure" escape clause from socialist tenets. Why should I pay for public roads? Why should I pay for a standing army? At some point there is an argument against anyone handing over a red cent to support a social program that they do not need, want or believe in. The only people, however, who can effectively make this argument and handle the consequences are supremely wealthy people who can finance their own infrastructure or just take their money to another country. Yet many people whose lives would otherwise very quickly fall to pieces without a little "socialism" make this argument with a straight face.
People who were educated in public schools, people who arguably owe some of their success to "socialist" programs like the SBA, GI Bill, FHA, tax deductions, and the like, railing against "socialism???"
Where is the evidence that a society of the magnitude of the United States could effectively operate, with STABILITY, without socialism? This nation has transformed itself from an agrarian white supremacist oligarchy precisely because of the humanistic, Enlightenment principles that underly socialism. The same goes for capitalism.
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Whatever. No big surprise there.
