Comments on: Reporter Grills Joe Biden: How Is Obama not Being a Marxist?

By: John

John — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:46:18 +0000

I applaud Barbara West. This is what journalism should be. I think folks get so used to seeing the softball interviews and free passes given to the Obama campaign that when they see a real interview with hard hitting perfectly reasonable questions they don’t recognize it and don’t know how to react and call it unfair. You saw Biden do this himself in the interview, where he was shocked the questions were not the status quo softball variety. The hard hitting questions (no matter what side of the aisle) must be asked and must be answered and then let the folks decide. That’s how it supposed to work. But instead the vast majority is liberal bias journalism and we should be very concerned about that.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:14:25 +0000

Is Obama a Martian?

Why is this not being discussed?

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:37:28 +0000

I’m sure, at least my Democratic Freinds don’t send me all sort of Anti-Obama Hate mail or jokes that poke fun at Obama, or fund comercails they tell me Obama is a Terrorists.

In a way I wish they could silences all the crap republicans are trying to send me. But I ’spose thats all been said before.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:04:00 +0000

the democrats want to shut down, and silence anyone that questions them, or differs from their agenda

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:38:48 +0000

Whats wrong with Sweden?

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:21:11 +0000

I thought Biden handled each question great. I don’t see the big deal with him asking her if that question was a joke. The only one who came out looking bad was Barbara. Then again Palin is a complete fool too and the demise of McCain’s campaign.

By: ken benobi

ken benobi — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:05:52 +0000

Socialism?

* How about that $1,000,000,000,000+ ($1 Trillion for you poor boys) McBush and the GOP are transferring from YOU, the American Taxpayer, to Wall Street’s fat pockets?

* How ’bout that $500,000,000,000 ($500B) YOU the American Taxpayers have transferred to the “government” of ours in IRAQ?!?!?

* How ’bout that $1-billion/year McBushCorporate CEO’s were allowed to transfer from mutual funds, pension holders and the millions of laid off workers right into their pay packages?

Painting OBAMA as socialist (not to mention calling him a terrorist and worse)

* won’t build any new bridges, pave our streets or pay cops and firefighers

* WON’T get our $10B/week back from IRAQ and it

* SURE THE HELL WON’T get that low-paying dead end job of yours back…. now will it?!?!?

Good luck with that!

By: hans

hans — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:15:13 +0000

that was not a “tough” question at ALL, lol! It was preposterous and insulting, and Senator Biden answered it perfectly.

The upper castes and corporations have had their hands in the communal cookie jar WAY too much during the last eight years and YES, it’s MORE than time to correct the problem and make things equitable and fair again.

By: Om santi

Om santi — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:15:21 +0000

Socialism is NOT the same as communism of Karl Marx (no. 1 US enemy 20 years ago).
Socialism is a way of life in the WESTERN EUROPE (Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain etc) governed by Socialist-…. (something) parties (Socialist-Democrats, Socialist-Liberals, Socialist-Christian-Democrats alliances etc).

It is USUAL IN WEST EUROPEAN (NATO)COUNTRIES TO SPREAD THE WEALTH BY TAXING THE TOP RICH FAR GREATER THAN THE MIDDLE (the poor ones don’t get taxed but get govt help instead, money, food etc).

I read in Yahoo USA IS THE ONLY ONE INDUSTRIAL COUNTRY NOT PRACTICING FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: the GAP from the top 10% USA RICHEST compared to the bottom 90% is wide in 2008 compared to 1998.
It is the same as developed (or backward) countries’ system:
In Indonesia THE RICH CAN EVADE TAXES BY BRIBING TAX OFFICERS,THE RICH BECOME RICHER,the poor will always be poor, and THE STATE HAS NOT ENOUGH INCOME (FROM TAXES) of course.

Does anti-socialism Americans like ASIAN system (UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTION- UNSOCIALISM)?
Is Barbara West among the top 10% Americans such as she opposes rising the richest taxes? (or lowering the middle class’ taxes)

om santi, Indonesia

By: David

David — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:13:34 +0000

Hmm… not sure what you all were watching, but Joe handled that interview very well. Don’t worry, the Obama/Biden presidency is close, and you can all sit back and reap the benefits… just be sure to thank the rest of us when you do.