Reply #97: I would add that by openly addressing a lot of the criticisms that have been

[gkhouston]

circling throughout the blogosphere (and elsewhere, no doubt), Stewart is giving Obama a platform to address those issues. There are a lot of people who won't watch a speech (assuming the networks would even televise one in full) that will see this interview.

Doing this less than a week before the election is a gift to the country, IMO. Stewart asks some tough but fair questions. Obama gets to actually answer them. People are encouraged to vote, but how they vote and what they make of the President's answers is up to them. Isn't this the way we'd like our real journalists to behave?