My question for Obama for Meet the Press tomorrow

[journalist3072]

You can use this link to email your question(s) to Obama for MTP tomorrow:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6913788/

Here's the question I just sent for Obama:

How can your campaign honestly assert that it has run a hopeful, positive campaign, while Sen. Clinton has run a negative, "kitchen sink" strategy one?

It was your campaign that:

- Referred to Sen. Clinton as "Senator Punjab."

- It was one of your surrogates who said that unlike Senator Clinton,you don't "go on television and have crying fits" and that you "haven't waited until 60 to find your voice."

- It was one of your surrogates who said we needed to "analyze the tears that melted the Granite State" and has gone to African-American superdelegates saying "It's the last day and you're the only delegate. Do you want to be the one to go down in history as preventing a Black from winning the White House."

- It was you, Senator Obama, who told Senator Clinton "You're likeable enough."

- It has been your campaign asserting that Senator Clinton will do and say anything to get elected.

- It it you, Senator Obama, who constantly says that if you are the nominee, you will get all of Sen. Clinton's voters, but you are not sure your supporters will back her if she is the nominee.

In light of these comments and more, how can you honestly try to assert that you have run the more hopeful, positive campaign?

[bigbrother05]

1. What a silly question

Everything going on in the world, and your worried about he said, she said.

[WinkyDink]

3. It goes to the essence of Obama's message.

[bigbrother05]

6. What is Hillay's message?

[journalist3072]

21. I'll tell you what her message is

- She wants to bring the troops hope starting in the first 60 days of her presidency

- She wants Congress to send her the stem cell research bill that Congress approved, but Bush vetoed.

- She wants to do away with NCLB

- She wants us to once again have an Administration that doesn't muzzle government scientists and edit their work

- She wants to implement universal health care and open up the Federal Employee Health Benefits program (which is the same program that Congress and all federal employees have) to all Americans

- She wants increase the pell grant and create a new college tax credit

- Ensure that veterans get the health care they need; that we fulfill our promise to our nation's veterans. She also wants to increase the number of veterans who are homeowners.

And so much more.

That's what her message is.

[bigbrother05]

24. Thanks, for answering my question

But again, I will have to ask, why would a Dem. resort to the tactics, that Hillary has displayed, against another Dem. It appears that you are paying attention, at least to Hillary's campaign, but how do you justify, playing ignorant, to her tactics. Not you personally, but Hillary supporters.

[Lady-Damai]

35. You forgot another message by warmongering Hillary Clinton.....

She would TOTALLY OBLITERATE Iran. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u1nmGmtD18&feature=related

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/04/iran-hillarys-t.html


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/22/clinton_says_us_could_totally_obliterate_iran/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/30/iran-condemns-clinton-for_n_99538.html

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

7. I see. So it's fine for Hillary to throw 10 times as much dirt at Obama as he has thrown at her

because it doesn't go against her "message".

[bigbrother05]

9. I guess they won't share what Hillary's message is.

[journalist3072]

18. Precisely my point here. This goes directly against his assertion that he's run this uplifting,

hopeful campaign.

No, he hasn't.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

20. We know. You prefer Hillary's mud-slinging tactics. It is evident in the vitriol you exhibit.

[bigbrother05]

23. His campaign is about change, and your question is

stuck on stupid, Why not ask about the debt that america is in to China, that Bush, Clinton, Bush got us into.
About the Wounded Veterans, homeless veterans, or the starving people, the genocide, about the failed policy's that take away our rights, about the housing crisis.
Are all of the Obama's supporters on ignore.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. It is a telling sign of what type of "journalist" the OP portends to be.

[Forkboy]

30. This is a telling sign as to what type of Democrat the OP purports to be.

"I'll vote for McCain just to do anything I can to try to keep Obama out of the WH."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Bensthename]

2. LOL.. I love all of those. And so true of Hillary and Co.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Are you seriously trying to say Obama beats Clinton in the

dirty campaign category? Nice try - but I would look elsewhere if I were you.

[hokies4ever]

8. signing statements

While you propose stupid questions, I'll give a very good question:

In light of the ever-increasing use of signing statements, especially starting with Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, finally exponentially used by George W. Bush, what is your view on the purpose of signing statements, how often do you plan to use them, and what would you try to accomplish by using them?

For some background to those unaware of what signing statements are, George Bush has essentially turned them into a line-item veto, exempting the Executive Branch from having to follow any laws that Bush signs into power just by putting a little statement at the end of them. An abuse of executive power at its worse.

Funny thing is, a while back Congress passed a bill of legislation that would limit the President's use of signing statements. Bush signed the bill and then added a signing statement to it pretty much saying that he'll follow it at his discretion. :rofl:

[John Q. Citizen]

10. Well for one thing the "kitchen sink" meme was from the Clinton campaign.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-assess-finalmar05,1,3681844.story

Her campaign vowed to throw everything and the kitchen sink at Obama.

So by her own admission she went negative on Obama.

Or was she lying? She vowed to go negative but didn't?

Which is it?

[ericgtr]

11. You are exactly what's wrong with this country - Thank you for a prime example

Absolutely zero interest in issues what so ever. It's all about attacks and it's obvious that you see no hypocrisy in your questions.

I will submit a couple of questions myself:

Why is the gas tax break a bad idea?

Detail your plan on the Iraq exit strategy thus far?

How does your health care plan really differ from Senator Clinton's and what's your projected timeline for implementation.

What, if any, will be your case to the super delegates?

[dana_b]

12. When will "journalists" become REAL journalists again??

They focus on smearing people and not focusing on real issues. It's the kind of tabloid journalism that our culture has become used to and is rather sickening. Why don't you ask him about his votes to fund the war (if you're so hot to ask him something that could be connatated as an attack)? At least that would have to do with issues.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. Clinton brought up the "senator from Punjab" stuff.

She joked about it. I don't think she was offended.

"I can certainly run for the Senate seat in Punjab and win easily."

[Jack Bone]

14. I'd like to ask him about the other DU, depleted uranium..

Veterans Health Care issues...

Truman Commission for Waste Fraud & Abuse...

:patriot:

My head's spinning with questions that the M$M has woefully ignored.

[RazBerryBeret]

15. You should research that Sen. Punjab comment

The reference in the headline is an allusion to an article found in the Nexis news database from the the March 17, 2006 issue of India Abroad. Writer Aziz Haniffa was reporting from a fundraiser in which "over 80 prominent Sikh professionals and entrepreneurs from the Washington metropolitan area paid $500 to $2,000 apiece" to boost Clinton's political warchest:

At the fundraiser hosted by Dr Rajwant Singh at his Potomac, Maryland, home, and which raised nearly $50,000 for her re-election campaign, Clinton began by joking that, 'I can certainly run for the Senate seat in Punjab and win easily,' after being introduced by Singh as the Senator not only from New York but also Punjab.


and your other points are all debatable as well.

[grantcart]

16. For a person who seems to relish the heat of the kitchen this doesn't even rate

as the warmth of a boiled egg


BTW I think that Obama regretted the snarky comment 'you're likeable enough' and in his North Carolina speech he criticised himself.

[Larkspur]

17. Hillary does want to be Sen. Punjab

She gets thousands of dollars from Indian companies that favor outsourcing good paying jobs, like mine, to India. that's why I can not vote fore Hillary period.

[Vinca]

19. I sent in a question for Timmy asking whether he planned to cover

the issues or continue the Reverend Wright hit job.

[blm]

22. How can YOU support closed government Democrats to continue the protection of BushInc into

the next decade?

What do YOU have against open government? Is honest and accountable government too much of a responsibility for you?

[peoli]

25. Your question sucks.

[Skip Intro]

26. K&R! He called her bush-cheney lite and said that she was untrustworthy too, attacking her character

Nothing hopeful about that.

[blm]

27. Clintons earned the trust of other Democrats? Can you give us examples?

Because we sure didn't see it in the last election did we?
http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13354

Not with the last Dem president repeatedly defending Bush in his many high profile interviews in the summer of 2004 on the very issues Kerry was attacking Bush.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/

Clinton loyalist Carville sabotages Ohio Dem voters on election night and we're supposed to TRUST these people?
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/oct/07/did_carville_tip_bush_off_to_kerry_strategy_woodward


THIS is your idea of a TRUSTWORTHY Dem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1k0nUWEQg

[Forkboy]

28. How can someone like you who will readily "vote for McCain to keep Obama out of the WH"....

...claim to give a shit about Democrats?

[democrattotheend]

29. Thanks for the link. Sent my question.

My question was: your campaign has been very successful at using technology to get people involved. If you are elected president, what are your plans to keep people engaged using technology?

I picked that question because he has some great ideas on his website about utilizing the Internet to make the government more transparent and open for citizen input and participation. I have not heard him mention them much on the stump, probably because he is afraid it will sound elitist. But he has some great ideas and I would love to see him talk about them.

[rug]

31. Are you still saying in your campaign speech you'll end the war in 2009?

If so, why?

If not, why not?

[Forkboy]

34. Good question.

I fear that at best either candidate can only start a process of winding it down, despite what they tell us. I have no problem with anyone holding their feet to the fire on this. In fact, I encourage it. :thumbsup:

[blogslut]

32. What will you do if Timmy uses your question?

Will you demand royalties?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

33. Review:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/18/politics/fromtheroad/entry4028759.shtml