Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden faced off with Florida news anchor Barbara West in an interview that many view as being right out of McCain’s playbook.
West began the interview asking if Biden was “embarrassed” by Barack Obama’s association with ACORN and then moved on to the claim that Obama wants to “spread the wealth”. Biden, frustrated and angered by West’s insidious questions, asked who was writing them and if the interview was real.
West expressed her thoughts on the interview in a call with the Orlando Sentinel:
“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.”
OBAMA VISITS AILING GRANDMOTHER + ENDORSEMENTS
On Friday, Barack Obama spent some time with his ailing grandmother, 85 year-old Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him.
In his interview with Good Morning America, he noted the severity of her condition: “Without going through the details too much, she’s gravely ill. We weren’t sure, and I’m still not sure whether she makes it to Election Day. We’re all praying and we hope she does, but one of the things I want to make sure of is I had a chance to sit down with her and to talk to her. She’s still alert and she’s still got all her faculties. And I want to make sure that I don’t miss that opportunity.”
In related news, the New York Times endorsed Obama, saying “After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.”
Additionally, the Anchorage Daily News also endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate, stating he “brings far more promise to the office”.
AL-QAEDA ENDORSES MCCAIN
An Al-Qaeda website posted a message that they would offer a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. to usher in a McCain presidency, according to the Huffington Post.
If Al-Qaeda wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue warring in Iraq and Afghanistan. The message stated:
“This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier. Then, al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush. If al-Qaeda carries out a big operation against American interests, this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it.”
Shout out to CL Reader Dukesman2000 for the info.
Wow!
Seriously?!?!?!?
WOW @ Al-Qaeda. I’m speechless! They know what we’ve known all along – that McCain is clearly not good for this country. Obama ’08!
ANOTHER reason not to vote for McCain.
I***************is this true about the al-Quaeda endorsement? It sounds bogus…..
******************Well regardless I’m rooting for Obama. HE has been campaigning HARD in the face of adversity for 2 years I’m a witness to that. I remember wishing the election was over in Jan of 2008 because of the over exposure. Kudos to New york times and Anchorage Daily news. That’s big. My prayers go out to the Barak and Dunham families at this time. I know it’s not about photo ops but I love how regular Obama looks in that pic. It just shows he’s real and he’s a family man. Forget the dark suit and red or striped blue and white tie for a moment and focus on what’s important. And WTG joe biden for checking that reporter LOL!
Joe Biden – He is no joke. You gotta respect the man. He’s not afraid to express and I think the way he delivered his response was very tactful. Especially because of the question. My thing is that the socialist policy really isnt that bad…. I wish we cold all see that.
Barack – Mad props to see him putting family first. In his simplicity, he is amazing. I like the toned town look!!!! Congrats in advance yo!
Al-Qaeda – Not surprised but Im a bit of a conspiracy theorist so this seems part of a bigger plan to me.
Thats right Mr Biden tell her like ie is!!
Al Quadea endorsing MCCain?? They want the “war” to go on and on and on and on….SMH
I’m loving Senator Obama taking time out to visit his grandmother. Family first!! Even before country!!! I also love to see him laid back in jeans and flip flops!! 8 days to BARACK the vote!!
Gotta love Joe Biden that man dont joke, he always comes correct and speaks the truth!!
It says alot about you Americans when a post about beyonce or rihanna gets 300 comments +, whilst a post about your future president only gets 30 comments! What has this world come to?
I hope obamas grandma is alive to see him become president, but either way im sure she is very proud of him.
The stupid people voting for mccain are incredibly dumb, God forbid that he wins the election.
Joe Biden is gangsta! I like him….
WOW 3:52 till the end. HOW many times did she blink!!! JOE Biden aint playin huh? Thats what America needs now!
OBAMA 2008!!!!
****************I am ready I voted bring on Nov. 4th
Way to go Joe. I read on CNN that the anchor’s husband is a GOP strategist so it makes sense for her to ask such biased questions. Although from Journalism 101 the news is suppose to be unbiased and objective..
Of course Al-Qaeda will support McCain he is for war first questions later.
Man! Biden carried the mess out of that reporter! See I like him because he kept his cool he didn’t get all flabbergasted like McCain does and as ridiculous as the questions were he answered them thoroughly. Its so funny that the Anchorage Daily News, an ALASKAN paper, is endorsing Obama. That’s pretty telling if a leading paper in Palin’s home state won’t even endorse her and McCain.
any country/sect that wants the US to continue to go down financially would endorse McCain….
Obama 08
I love Biden! I hope Obama wins!! Hopefully his grandma watch him make history!!
OBAMA -BIDEN NOV 04,2008
THAT INTERVIEW WAS TOO FUNNY…JOE DON’T PLAY!! I’M GLAD HE DIDN’T INSERT HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH AGAIN…DUDE CAN BE WRECKLESS!! LOL
______ I am praying right along with the Obama family that his grandmother makes _____it at least until election day!! I know that will mean so much to President _____Obama!!!! AND …those flip flops are soooooooo Hawaii LOL!! I mean er’body ____be wearing flip flops like that in Hawaii..wearing them with things that you dare
_____not wear on the main land!!!! GO OBAMA!!!!
That doggone McCain!
Hahahahaha @ #11…. i didnt notice her blinking when i first looked at it. I was in awe of Biden’s level of experience. Love it…. but you’re right that chick blinked almost rythmically for like a minute and a half once he got into her ass!!
EVERYONE PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!!!! hahaha…..
We can’t stop death but I really hope his Granny at least gets to see her son become the next president of the USA!
Way to go Joe! See that is what I want in a Vice President, not Bible Spice!
I hope Obama got to spend that personal time with his Grandma, cause once you leave this world there is no coming back!
Thats cool for the NYT!!!!
McCain….you could not pay me to vote for this man!!! He is so backwards its sad!
Obama 08!
Biden handled that like a ‘G.
This country is already part socialist in certain ways. Hell we just gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the banks!
I didn’t hear anyone complaining when the government handing out those stimulus checks. BTW they’re talking about handing out a second round of checks. I betcha my stimulus check you won’t hear not one damn McCain reporter refuse another check due to they’re so-called beliefs.
When I read the endorsement from Al-Qeuda all I could do was shake my head. Even though that anchor was hitting hard with those questions, Biden was standing his ground! Obama-Biden 08!!!
Glad Obama and grandma were able to see one another….
Wow @ NYT that is another kick in the face to Republicans’..lol.. I’m sure that hurt almost as much as Colin Powell backing Obama..lol.
Al-Qaeda is mocking America….. taunting and warning…..
Biden handled that biased interview like the pro he is. The Obama/Biden ticket continues to demonstrate exactly why them belong in the White House.
AT #9 SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!
Everyone is not going to be into politics, following up every sigle thing these people say is the interest of the mass majority in the black community, so of course these kinds of post will not have 300 comments like Beyonce. You are so dumb and ignorant to make that comment. Of course our people are going to go out and vote,but right after that they have to go back on their jobs bust their ass working and struggle to their bills. Beyonce and celebs are an entertainment to young people where as polictic can be boring and pointless watching if you havent been following up on it constantly. Dammit, I hate when people make stupid comments like that. How can you compare beyonce to politics on a site that is for entertaining young people.
Anyway…..back to the video. WOW, love it love it love it love it. I love how Biden was quick on this tongue. He was very affective and real. You can tell these democrats candidates are real people. As rediculous as those questions were, he was able to answer them and make that lady look bad. lol
Oops…why “they” belong in the White House.
Thank you. I knew there was a reason I have such admiration and love for Senator Biden and this is why. Who cares about ACORN? Not the average John and Jane Doe. We care about the economy, the WAR, healthcare, and etc. And why not ask McCain the same question about “spreading the wealth”. He is the one that has umpteen cars at his disposal to Obama’s one car (which is a hybrid by the way) If you ask one candidate such questions, ask it to all
PWNED!!
JESUS!!!! They say they done found the body of a black boy in an SUV.. LORD…
The Al-Qaeda thing is suspicious.
Apparently they know how tough John McCain would be on international affairs if he were elected President. He said it himself that he would “not be tested” because he’s been tested before, and he wants to hold it down in the war in the Middle East.
So how strange is it that Al-Qaeda is endorsing McCain, with the reason being “to exhaust America”, fully knowing that the majority of Americans are opposed to the war. They are further influencing voters towards Barack Obama … someone who wants to pull out.
Al-Qaeda wants us to pull out … and in a recent article, they’ve stated that when we do, they will “follow us home.”
… Highly suspect. Too strange.
@ #32
I know my heart is hurting right now, hopefully Angel will do a post about it later on today
This is one of the reasons I like Joe Biden. Yes, he’s known sometimes to have verbal diarrhea and he can be politically correct and give nuance answers but when time calls for it, he keeps it real. He speaks in common people tongue and he will let an interviewer know that he or she is full of shit.
I wish Obama’s granny lives to see him sworn in as president of the United States. I hope she sees her hard work and influences she’s instilled in Obama actually paid off in this historic way.
Hahaha…Do you think Al Qaeda doesn’t know that the hell they are doing? This is so funny. If they had come out and supported Obama, John McCain’s campaign would have a field day on this…”Oh, Obama pals around with terrorist now he has their support.” Good thing the Democrats aren’t that petty and won’t make this an issue.
I hate to say go Al-Qaeda.
But they do make a point. however who knows if this is just a “scare tactic”
On the interview w/ Joe Biden.
That woman just screams “I’m a republican ignorant”
How many times does the obama campaign have to talk about acorn.
I dont remember obama, walking w/ these Acorn employees telling them to pick up telephone books and go to he library and make up fakes names to fill up voting registrations. And they assume these “fake” people will actually show up w/ “fake” IDs to actually vote. Are you kidding me?
They need to drop it.
All these conservative television stations are scared and desperate.
I dont want to say Obama has won, even though the polls lean that way. It really depends on if people are actually going out and acting on their belief, but the mccain campaign are afraid. John is evening claimin himself an underdog, and that usually underdogs win.
Get over it.
Obama 08.
That was too funny, ” I don’t know whose writing your questions”
I agree with the NYT, Barack has proved that he is the right choice for president!!! And that interview was a joke. I bet Palin is not to pleased with the Anchorage Daily News endorsing Obama but hey, they did the right thing!
Obama/Biden ’08
Sen Biden knocked that reporter back in her place “clook” that’s what she gets. Joe Biden is not an insipid, superficial bimbo like some other Vice presidential candidates who shall remain nameless, he has an informed, clear free thinking mind that allowed him to show her for the fraudulent card carrying republican she is!! There is a way to ask questions and she got the shock of her life when he shut her down!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08 Get um Joe!!!
Also Al Queda supports McCain, wow!! They want him as President to be able to shut his tail down!! WOW!!! is all I can say to that!
I recognize the anchor woman, she’s from a news station her in Orlando. Everyone (reporters, radio and tv personalities) all wait for their time to make their mark when it comes to this election. There were lots of other important questions that she could have asked Joe Biden but chose not to. I respect Joe Biden the more for calling her out on her bad choice of questions. The media has been beating this “spread the wealth” quote around, and I’m sure she’s heard both Obama’s campaign’s response to this quoute..so why still pursue it? Especially if your gonna get the same answer?
I wish “journalists” would do their research, thoroughly before going into an interview with anyone. She might be a republican, or might be in pursuit of a big network job…either way I was very disappointed with her.
On this Al-Qaeda deal, isn’t interesting how McCain gets this endorsement and its overlooked or swept under the rug and we (the media) move on. But if someone with some kind of muslim ties or rumored ties endorses Barack Obama they scrutinize it to the last drop, and when someone respectable and credible as Gen. Colin Powell endorses Obama “endorsements are just endorsements they aren’t that affective at this stage in the election”….It bothers me, I could scream
Get on out and VOTE people! Spread the word…do whatever you can, help your neighbors, friends, co-workers get to the polls and VOTE!!!!! We’re almost there
T^%(*&^K FLORDIA
Wow! Barbara West is an embarassment to news journalism. If I was a republican, I’d be embarassed! Where were the serious political questions? Palin has never been attacked with propoganda and even with intelligent questions, Palin continues to sounds like less intelligent that a 5th grader. Biden buried West!
Obama-Biden ’08! Vote today if can, Nov 4th for sure!!!
Yeah he real…. Lol
Obama 08′
http://www.myspace.com/citi2006
WHAAAAAAT!? that interview was WITHOUT QUESTION fixed!!!!!!!!
omg, mccain will stop at nothing! and now al-queda is backing him… what does that tell us!! this election just needs to be over already… im tired of this man’s (and his party’s) blatant BS!!!
good thing biden was able to handle his own and do as good of a job as he could answering those ridiculous questions.
obama/biden NOV 4th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we need to be praying up until election day,i fear that some bad things will occur NOV.4th,especially being from the south…some racist people have already been calling people’s phones threaten to burn down houses if they go out and vote…
smh@Al Qaeda endorsing McCain,wow
i heard 100+ newspapers had endorsed barack while only a handful is behind McCain
Wow CL that AL-QAEDA post is a trip.
LOL to anyone who takes that seriously. Either McCain is like Bush or he is not. You guys have to make up your mind. I’m so sure that Bin Laden wont play with McCain. Now if some of you would take a look at what Bin laden is trying to do. They believe that all nation should fall under islam. No some, not just were they live, but ALL. America is seen as a Christian Nation ( no matter what you believe in Fact is Fact) because we support Isreal. Now Obama already has said he believes in talking. Yea Al- Qaeda whats a president that will fight with them, they would much rather fight with folks that like to talk. The foe of my foe is ny friend.
Like I have been saying When you are the president you have to look out for all Americans. Not just the poor one or the Middle class. They asked tough question. They question were not really answered but hey it Biden, and he been like that for 20 years and that is part of the reason he never makes pass the primaries when running for president. Every year Obama has been in the US Senate he has earmarked funds for ACORN. And that find if the people of Chi town are fine with that. These are questions that have come up on both side and they arent being answered.
Now what I think is funny is the fact that biden hasnt read the platform. The tax breaks will help the lower class. That is how it is designed. His target is not the Middle Class. Obama has never been asked what his plan will not do nor was biden asked what the VP does.. Now that we are comming closer to the end it’s time out for the baby questions. People like Obama (not Biden so much) but they want to know about the shadows. Dont be surprise if his birth, books, Rev Right, and few other things ( there are a host of issues starting from Harvard on up It’s not gong to make a difference to me because I voted)
I feel so proud I did my early vote last Thursday.
BaROCK the vote peeps!
I just love Biden!! He simply speaks his mind.
a socialist country much like Sweden?!! HALLO! This woman must be stupid! How did she get that job in the first place? I think she should google what “socialist” actually means, because Sweden is definitely not a socialist country! However, unlike the USA it has a good social system! I can agree that Sweden, like many european countries is a social-democracy, but that is something slightly different. Ahh these igonorant and phony bitches (including the men) are ruining our world! I mean why can`t these people just say, hey I am not voting for Obama cause he is black, instead of beating around the bush and digging out far fetched stories and arguments!
@14 Exactly! If the newspaper in her own state endorsed Obama, then clearly there must be a problem with Palin. Anyone voting for McCain is either selfish or confused. The choice should be clear. Do you want Obama, an intellectual or McCain, an ignorant man whose clearly out of touch with what the people want? You’ve seen how far ignorance has gotten us for the past 8 years.
This reporter is delirious. She told the paper Biden must have thought the questions were too tough. Ummm no he thought the answers to your questions were obvious. Anyone with common sense hearing the quotes she mentioned would know the intended meanings. The fact that she tried to push interpretations of the meanings any other way made her look incompetent. I would have asked, “Who wrote these questions?” too!
And what is up with people harping on Obama for previously working for ACORN? Innocent people used to work for Enron. Should they be blacklisted in their next job search because of Ken Lay’s actions? Nike got caught up for operating overseas sweatshops. Should unknowing employees have to suffer? SMH
@ 9, HUGE CO-SIGN!!!!!
@ 53 shut the fuck up
——-Lmao! I don’t know what is funnier: 1) The way Biden spoke to that “newscaster”
——-2) The people who think that this was an actual “interview” and that they BOTH
——-were not in on it 3) This nonsense about “Al Qaeda” endorsing any presidential
——-candidate whatsoever 4) The idiot/s who think that if “Al Qaeda” really existed,
——-which it doesn’t, that it would endorse a candidate for president 5) That any
——-person that will be anointed to head the corporation known as America will not
——-continue to bring war worldwide. Bricks of idiocy, mortar or stupidity, and a
——-foundation of falsehood makes a house of cards. You black people will not save
——-the white man’s New Rome from falling. I don’t give a damn if you buy a fake
——-moustache and vote multiple times.
@#28. The 2008 election is 10x more important than making 500+ comments, and under different usernames, obsessing over a wealthy, overhyped bitch who in reality probably doesn’t give a rats ass about her stans. Maybe if you guys didn’t spend so much time obsessing over Beyawnce, you’d actually notice how important this election truly is, and start paying more attention. The same goes for Rihanna stans.
Hmmm. For some reason I thought NYT already endorsed a candidate. It’s great that they endorsed Senator Obama. Hahaha @ an Alaska paper endorsing him as well. I guess that’s a slap in the face for Palin.
Obama’s grandmother is obviously a very strong woman. Lets just all hope that she not only live to see her grandson make history, but live on afterwards, as well.
That news anchor is a complete joke. Biden made a good point. Was her answers straight from the McCain campaign? The bitch is a straight up ditz.
Al Queda endorsed McCain? I don’t buy that story, but it’s a good thing that this news didn’t come out about Obama. It’s already bad enough that fools in the country actually believe the man is a terrorist.
@ 54, get a life!
I live in Orlando and haved watched Barbara West for years.
The local news here, especially her station, is such a joke.
Most of the big lead stories are about pet rescues, the weather, shopping,
or the “local” angle on national news.
She’s definitely a “softball” reporter on every scale so I was suspect
when I heard those kinds of questions coming out of her mouth.
Since I used to work for a GOP organization, I said to my wife, “it sounds
like (the guys I used to work for) wrote her questions. Turns out I was right.
That, and the fact that her husband is a Republican political consultant (that’s another name for lobbyist). Biden was so on point! And still a gentleman.
I;’m so proud of teh Obama Biden campaign. No matter how people try and drag them through the mud, they brush it off and move on.
Ignorance speaks volumes. Dignity speaks truth.
I LOVE JOE BIDEN!!!! He brought it to that ole Republican thing any???? WHEW, I’m loving that!!! I voted absentee about 2 weeks ago and I feel great!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08 Baby!!!