This is what I came away with...
Posted By: sam on 2008-09-13
In Reply to: Obama Interview.........sm - ms
Your #1...I agree He is very charismatic. He is a good orator.
Your #2...I thought he answered some questions pretty well. But it was the same stuff I had heard him say before. I did not buy his explanation about William Ayers. That was the time he looked most uncomfortable to me.
Your #3: No, it wasn't a free ride. O'Reilly was pretty tough...but not as tough as I thought he could have been. I don't know what concessions were made so that Obama would agree to come on...O'reilly says there were not any...I'm just not sure.
Your #4: Yes, there were some of those, as Charlie Gibson called, "sea of words" moments. He just did not want to be moved off his message, so when he did not want to answer a question directly he did the beat around the bush dance. In his defense, tho, most politicans who have the gift of gab do that. And when you keep smiling that charming smile people who are already on your side really don't care what you're saying.
The biggest thing I got from it is that O'Reilly finally got him to admit that the surge worked, and not only that, worked beyond everyone's wildest dreams. Of course, once he said that, he immediately started trying to do damage control talking about the Iraqi gvt still not doing their part, and O'Reilly got him on that one with his "14 of 16 benchmarks have been met." Just one of those things you float out there hoping the interviewer has not done his homework. Didn't work that time.
On the last paragraph, I agree with the premise of why they follow him. How many people have you heard describe him as thoughtful, speaks beautifully, etc. And he is, and he does....
That being said...there is substance there. Marxist socialist substance. It is not just that he believes it...he has woven it into his policies. He wants to turn America into a socialist state and has put the plan in place to accomplish that. That is the substance he doesn't want people to see. That is the one area where he really stonewalled O'Reilly and just finally refused to answer so O'Reilly had to move on.
That is what I took from it...but of course I have studied this man, read up on him, his career from the beginning, and Marxist socialist policy and people who support it have been influential in his life from the beginning and he kept seeking those people. That tells me all I need to know about who I want in the white house...and it is not him.
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