26 Oct 2008

Obama Campaign: Biden Interview “Unprofessional and Combative”

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Republican candidates like John McCain and Sarah Palin encounter hostile, adversarial questions based specifically on opposition talking points all the time. Joe Biden, of course, is not used to facing anything like that kind of questioning, so when he ran into tough questions from Barbara West of Central Florida’s WFTV-Channel 9, he was understandably thrown off-stride.

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Faced with West’s first question on ACORN’s pattern of voter registration fraud, Biden could only lie and deny the existence of a relationship between the Obama Campaign and ACORN.

West: “Aren’t you embarassed by the blatant attempts to register phony voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied to in the past?”

Biden: “We are not tied to it (ACORN). We’ve not paid them one single penny to register a single solitary voter.”

Pittsburgh Tribune Review (Aug 22):

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for services the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. — a subsidiary of ACORN — worked in “get-out-the-vote” projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.

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West: “You may recognize this famous quote: From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs. That’s from Karl Marx. How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends ‘to spread the wealth around?'”

Biden: “Are you joking?… Is this a joke?… Is that a real question?” (false laughter)

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As Fox News reports the Obama Campaign soon retaliated by canceling an interview with Mrs. Biden, and cutting off the station from further access to the democrat candidates.

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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Hal Boedecker of the Orlando-Sentinel quotes the Obama Campaign as complaining that Barbara West was “unprofessional and combative.”

The poor little democrats.

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Gary

So, what’s the surprise, it’s clear to me the Democrates don’t care for the 2nd amendment. Just have to look into the fairness doctrine. More of the same to me, reminds me of a bunch of 4 year olds.



Gary

Oh, did I forget to mention the poor guy who asked a question to BO infront of his house???



Pat

Well, the Obama people just gave all the press a good idea of what will happened if he is elected. Any press (radio, TV, newpapers, magazines) which asks a question or gives a report that questions, in any way, how our country is being run under his administration will be shut up and shut out! Freedom of the press? I don’t think so.



jasperjava

Gary obviously doesn’t know what the 2nd Amendment is.

It’s the provision to ensure the right to bear arms, not freedom of speech.

And it’s the ONLY part of the Constitution that conservatives care about.

As for Barbara West, she’s obviously a red-baiting McCarthyist John Birch Society member. I could see her on the House Un-American Activities Committee, asking Biden, “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”



Stop Smoking

this is priceless! the poor woman obviously had no clue what she was reading off the teleprompter there; marxism and all… but as a (non-partisan) european, my fav is her saying that “sweden is a socialist country”!!! — hilarious! this could run on SNL without any editing!



Deeter

Who knew Nancy Grace had a sister?



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